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Jan 1, 2022 • 16 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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NOW PRESENTING: A *short film festival* right here on Twitter for New Year. A collection of some short films & other story-telling projects my team & I produced in support of our local allies. Range of justice issues. All over country. First hand accounts. Thread w/ selections:
Still in Prison: On how a law passed by the KKK 80+ years ago to maintain white supremacy keeps disproportionately Black people locked up in Oregon. How a jailhouse lawyer got the case to the Supreme Court. And how to topple this monument to racism. Watch:
More on the ongoing fight for fairness in Oregon and what you can do to help in this thread and on the campaign site: stillinprison.org.
“In Louisiana”: After every natural disaster another disaster for justice awaits: people lose their right to public defense. Louisiana funds defense near entirely off fines/traffic tickets of those who cant afford a lawyer. Disasters dry up those funds.
For more on how to help the ongoing fight to fund public defense & end the racist & outrageous “user pay” system forcing people who can’t afford a lawyer to pay for their public defender w/ unaffordable fines read this thread and visit the campaign site: forthesixth.org.
“Need to Talk”: Put up a billboard in the heart of Times Square. Across from NYPD station. Message: “Hey NYPD. It’s us. NYC residents. The ones who pay your salary. We paid $300 million to settle your lawsuits. You paid nothing. We need to talk.” Watch:
For more on the project and how to promote the limitless better investments we could make that could actually improve public health & safety instead of policing, read this thread and visit the site: need-to-talk.com.
“Silenced”: 100 people caged in Michigan solitary confinement wrote letters to share their experiences. Allies in Michigan collected them. Artists interpreted them. Coders organized & filtered them. The result: A digital archive of first-hand accounts. Overview video:
For more on the horrors and torture of solitary and what you can do abolish it, please read this thread, bear witness to the stories, and visit the site: silenced.in.
“Gasping.”: “I have a disease. But it’s not like I volunteered for this.”

Fiona Apple is one of over 60 advocates, artists, academics who got the courageous, painful words of dozens suffering in PG County, MD jail to be heard. GaspingForJustice.org
For more on how you can volunteer to CourtWatch in PG County, MD to hold power to account and more from people in pretrial cages who risked retaliation to share their stories read this thread and visit: GaspingForJustice.org.
“132 Calls”: Thats how many times Cassandra called a Chicago jail to try to save her husband. No masks. Soap. Crowded. Others coughing on food. He got sick. She was ignored. He died. “Morning never came for my husband.” More: 132Calls.com.
“To me ya'll the same in this jailhouse." What a guard told Willie while assaulting him. Caged pretrial in Texas for *over 3 years.* Tortured. Denied medication. Just 1 of 90 audio accounts w/ @TxJailProject in digital archive: sheddinglight.in.
“Witness”: Charles Hobbs was suffocating in a cell infected w/ COVID in a Miami jail. Other men tried saving his life. Guards ignored them. He died. Those men spoke out. “I went to sleep w/ tears in my eyes. Grabbing my bible.” These are their voices:
So many people & so many organizations put so much into these films. Artists. Social justice organizations. Defenders. Teachers. Civil rights lawyers. Organizers. Currently & formerly incarcerated people. Here’s a running & ongoing list of organizations you need to follow:
@TxJailProject
@theRAMOSproject
@CivRightsCorps
@Dreamdefenders
@releasemd
@courtwatchpg
@BwayAdvocacyCo
@endmoneybond
@AFSCMICJProgram
@ACLU_OR
@ColorOfChange
@svdebug
@MediaTankFilm
@VariantStrateg1
@Cactus_Is
@OpenMIDoor
@UnlockTheBoxNow
@ChiBondFund

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For all learning of disgraced Gov. Cuomo's narcissistic return to politics w/ a run for NYC Mayor, this this thread is for you.

People seem to love him. I & people who know his policies have long despised him & his abject cruelty & injustice. Receipts in no particular order:
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"It's like they just sent us to just fade away and die."
In 2019, Governor Cuomo hired *500 more cops* to exact violence & mayhem on the subways. Here’s just one example as maskless NYPD cops pushing a man out of the subway after asking them to wear masks at the beginning of COVID.

One of so many examples:
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For all new to NYC Mayor Eric Adams & being appalled by him, his corruption, & general weirdness, this thread is for you.

I’ve been following his behavior since his run for office in 2021. Here’s some truth on the worst mayor in NYC History. Receipts in no particular order:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams lied about the fact that he carried around a photo of a fallen police officer. After he lied about it, he had his staff make him a fake, weathered looking photo for him to start carrying around. You cannot make this up! rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
In his *very first act as Mayor* Eric Adams expanded solitary confinement on Rikers. City Council condemned him. He shot back: "Unless you’ve been a cop your opinion doesn’t matter."

Pushed ahead. 2 years later, claimed he was “against solitary.”
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Feb 8
As Trump works to punish people he despises, NY prosecutors & @GovKathyHochul doing the same: fighting to kill “discovery reform.” A law simply requiring prosecutors to turn over evidence to defense. Their gripe: Too much work to collect, copy, & send it to the defense. Really.
Marvin spent 11 months on Rikers. For drug possession. Prosecutors withheld the most critical piece of evidence: drug lab. The pressure to plead got better of him. Today, prosecutors have to turn over evidence earlier. His case would have been dismissed.
Craig was charged w/ hindering prosecution. Then: NY "discovery" laws prevented him from learning the accusations. He was acquitted, but late disclosure of evidence kept him locked up for close to a year. Now: prosecutors want to return to this injustice.
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Jan 20
This may be the most important post you read today.

As Trump takes office & pledges mass deportations, below is a shareable film series written *by immigrants for immigrants* on how to safely defend against ICE.

Feeling helpless? Here’s something you can do to help. Read on:
Protect your neighbors from Trump. Share:

🚨If ICE is outside your door, don’t panic & remember: YOU HAVE RIGHTS. Don’t open the door. Ask to see a warrant. ICE can’t enter w/o one.

All 5 videos. 7 languages. At .

Watch and share:wehaverights.us
Protect your neighbors from Trump. Share:

🚨 Rights don’t just stop at the doorway. If ICE makes their way inside of your home remember: YOU HAVE RIGHTS.

All 5 videos. 7 languages. At .

Watch and share:wehaverights.us
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Oct 16, 2024
My new op-ed is now live. In it, I explain how it's *legal to execute an innocent person* in the U.S. How that's a feature, not bug of the system. And what we can do about it now. Hint: Robust public defense. Teen Vogue again leading the way with truth. teenvogue.com/story/robert-r…
It is legal in the U.S. to execute an innocent person. Indeed, the Supreme Court has twice ruled it is perfectly constitutional to do so bc the value of expediency & finality in the legal process is more important than truth, justice, & even human life.teenvogue.com/story/robert-r…
As a civil rights attorney who served as a public defender, I saw how killing an innocent person was the most extreme example of a legal process designed *not to achieve justice, fairness, or truth, but enable unjust outcomes & erect every obstacle toward redress.
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There is no evidence that police in the subways are lowering crime. What we do know: NYPD is swallowing up valuable resources, harassing New Yorkers, making needless arrests, & engaging in violent & reckless confrontations on the subway.

Some research and stats.
City records show a $151 million increase in 2023 for NYPD overtime pay for subway policing. NYC went from spending $4 million in 2022 on NYPD overtime pay for subway policing to $155 million in 2023.

That’s a staggering 3,775% increase. gothamist.com/news/nypd-over…
In addition to the $150mil+ extra spent on NYPD for subway policing in overtime alone in 2023,

NYC Eric Adams ordered NYPD in March 2024 to send an another “800 police officers specifically to keep watch on turnstiles." apnews.com/article/new-yo…
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