Attorney. Chief Program Officer—@ACLUVA. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, @AliceJamesBooks. Teaching Law & Lit—@UVALaw. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. Tweets—mine.
Apr 20, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
what you might want to do is talk to/listen to activists & organizers from that state, who know exactly the context of particular state legislation & what might be best course of action. Sometimes early attention is a good strategy. Sometimes taking oxygen away is better.
Whether a bill will go anywhere or not, it takes up capacity for those who do this work. We had to fight off drug-testing-for-TANF bills for 6 years, & did so successfully, but it was bc few ppl took it srsly right away in year one. We might’ve known we’d win but took capacity.
Aug 21, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
One of the biggest crises we are in: property is still valued—by law, by policy, by power—far above people, exacerbated by every corner of dual pandemics of COVID & racism.
Evictions, poor wages & unsafe workplaces, police violence—all protecting property at expense of lives.
Property owners—in a pandemic—are fighting tooth & nail to preserve the right to evict those who have ppl staying w/them who aren’t listed on the lease. IN A PANDEMIC. When the safest action rn is to keep ppl housed, inside, & able to quarantine if need be.
