🧵 I want to share more about what I witnessed at Rikers Island yesterday. We broke into groups to inspect different parts of the sprawling facility. I spent several hours at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center.
OBCC is where people are taken to be processed and wait for a hearing. People are supposed to be in and out within 24 hours.
I met people who had been there for 3 months. No contact with family. Overcrowded. No air conditioning.
Feb 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There's a lot of talk about how the rich will flee if we end preferential tax treatment for accrued wealth, super high incomes and record corporate profits.
This is wrong, on the facts and its moral vision. It's working class folks who get forced out the city, not the wealthy.
There are exhaustive studies on this. Federal tax returns reveal that only 2.4% of US-based millionaires change their state of residence in any given year.
The poor, meanwhile, are nearly twice as likely to move to a new state than the rich. sup.org/books/title/?i…
Apr 27, 2020 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: During a deadly pandemic and the worst economic shock since the Depression, New York's party machine is doing what we’ve long come to expect: protecting their own from democracy.
Cancelling the presidential primary and booting Bernie from the ballot is part of it.
But it's not the only part.
At hearings last week, the Board of Elections “saw challenge after challenge from party-linked filers looking to boot candidates off ballots."
