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Feb 8 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
For #BlackHistoryMonth I have been highlighting folks who are part of Black History being made today. Listening to the #StateOfTheUnionAddress, we all saw some of the work of Elyse Crawford-Hicks & her colleagues at Americans for Financial Reform @RealBankReform
@RealBankReform She has been researching, writing, and testifying to advocate for reduced or eliminated "junk fees"
Here she is testifying before Congress.
govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CH…
@RealBankReform She was recently recognized for her work by the Consumer Federation of America
I am going to suggest you go to Americans For Financial Reform because this broken twitter is too annoying for words.
This is where she works
ourfinancialsecurity.org
Here is an article quoting her on Payday loans and car repairs.
theskanner.com/opinion/skanne…
Here she is talking about overdraft fees. Note how she talks about an economic justice issue through a racial justice framing...This is effective
mystateline.com/news/washingto…

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Feb 7
Continuing with the history makers of today who will be part of #BlackHistoryMonth of the future. Makani Themba @Makani_Themba is an important organizing genius who promotes one of the most basic principles of organizing, don't get in your own way.
I'm not sure she ever phrased it that way, but her basic idea is that don't use messages and ideas for a win today that creates barriers to victory in the future. So, say you want a more just criminal justice system with fewer people in prison
Then for all that is holy, don't fight a tax cut by talking about how that might cut funding for police and prisons. You want more money for social spending and less for defense spending, don't fight a tax cut by talking about less money for defense.
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Feb 6
Tomorrow's #BlackHistoryMonth history is being written today. So to highlight the history-makers, I want to recognize Cherie Buckner-Webb. She is a Black activist and good-troublemaker in Idaho. Yes, that Idaho.
@BucknerWebb
Buckner-Webb was elected to the ID House in 2010 and served one term before running for the Senate seat Cole LeFavour @nicolelefavour retired from to run for Congress.
Buckner-Webb was the first Black legislator and, of course, the first Black woman elected to legislature.
She is also the first and only Black Senator in Idaho's history. She got her fighting spirit from her mother. When a cross was burned on their lawn when Cherie Buckner-Webb was a child, her mother left that burnt cross out there on the lawn as a rebuke/protest.
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Feb 6
The second concert I ever went to was Bonnie Raitt at The Orpheum in Minneapolis. Freebo played a tuba solo that changed tuba forever in my mind. The third concert I ever went to was Bonnie Raitt at a protest/fundraiser against Prairie Island Nuclear Power plant
But back then, being a Bonnie Raitt fan was like having insider trading knowledge.

Her 10th album finally broke her into being a big name. Think about that kind of persistence.
Trying to find Freebo playing tuba - found this.
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Feb 5
#BlackHistoryMonth Tomorrow's history is happening today. One of those who should be Hop Hopkins of the Sierra Club
sierraclub.org/other/authors/…
Hopkins worked on environmental justice issues in the Pacific Northwest. In the late 90s and early 00s, anti-immigrant activists tried to take over the Sierra Club. They were following the advice of John Tanton who advised taking over a liberal group to push their agenda The issues we're tough on here must be broached by liberals.
To give you an idea of what Tanton was like...

splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
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Feb 5
Here is the video Oregon State Police released about pulling @IamTravisNelson over. I want you to notice the two cars the OSP are following. They are traveling the same speed. The speed of traffic is the safest speed. Driving slower than traffic is not.

They speed up and get close enough to see his license plate, they fall back a bit, long enough to run his plate, check his license, and see he is driving while Black. Then they turn on their lights. During that time, he did not get closer to the car in front of him.
The OSP video does not prove OSP acted properly. It proves he was treated disparately. Why didn't they stop the car in front?
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Feb 5
Today's leaders will be the people of tomorrow's #BlackHistoryMonth so let's acknowledge them now. As a Portlander, I have to lift up @joannhardesty who as commissioner @JoAnnPDX accomplished a lot in her short four-year-term, but also her loss should be a warning for reformers
First, her accomplishments are incredible given the short four years she had in office.

Most significantly, she took the police at their word that one of the biggest reasons for police shootings is that police are asked to do too much and are not social workers.
In every city where a cop shoots an unarmed man who is mentally ill, you will hear the defense that cops should not be asked to deal with these problems.

So she pushed for an created Portland Street Response. It is a huge success.
portland.gov/streetresponse
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