Law Prof @OhioState. Radical Imagination. Social Movements. Policing.
Jan 25, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I'm not sure who needs to read this but for public interest lawyers doing public defense (crim, imm, family) or eviction defense -- one of the most important things you do is build relationships of care, solidarity even, with your clients. 1/x
I haven't been doing much lawyering of late but for the many years I did, I'd go thru cycles of questioning it all. I often did not win much of what that my clients were seeking. Even when I did win something, it often didn't translate to much concrete for the client. 2/x
Jan 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I finally read @abbye_atkinson@nyulawreview: an ode to Philando Castile's life & his work in a school cafeteria, a documentation of vile practices of schools loading up children w debt for their very lunches & using coercive means to induce payment.
nyulawreview.org/online-feature…
A model for legal scholarly work moved by a dedication to justice, documenting things as they are, without allowing the false divides between public/private, state/market to obscure our accountings or our sense of what/who to hold accountable.
Jan 23, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
an ongoing problem in LPE discourse is the idea that LPE already exists as a discrete body of thought, that it "does" things, and it "has" critiques and methods or not. yes, there is a manifesto at the blog, & the YLJ piece that Amy and others wrote, which i'll link below
personally, i'm really grateful for the space, and the ongoing work. but we are standing on the tip of an iceberg, and it will take years of excavation and community building to build something coherent, legible, debatable, or resilient.
Jan 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
within the many gorgeous currents of Abolition. Feminism. Now. is an archive of abolitionist feminist activism over several decades. here are 4 of my favorite images.
this because its from INCITE! (@incitenews), an org at the center of it all
this one for its internationalism, its militancy, and that its from 1971!
Jan 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
adrienne marie brown said on her podcast that she's feeling species-level grief. i think that's it. what i have been avoiding.
but maybe there's a way to turn into the grief. to move through and with it, to ground the work in a commitment to others.
to prepare for ongoing waves of loss and grief, as things fall apart, and we organize to survive, mend, build.
grief sometimes feels like a rock you are carrying alone. but could we carry it together, like hope? could it bind us to one another & struggles past present future?
Dec 29, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: when you live in a society where policing, prisons, and the capitalist class are better organized and provided for than anything or anyone else, you have to question whether you live in a democracy.
of course many people don't think we do, as many studies show, which is why so many people don't vote. other formal forms of participation are pay to play -- lobbying, litigation, etc. -- and also exclude most people. & millions don't participate because of criminalization.
Dec 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
And here are some other tools and reports on problems with CVE and efforts to organize against CVE/counter-radicalization frameworks which are just excuses to criminalize Muslim communities:
Stop CVE toolkit by @MuslimJustice
One of CAIR's core functions, like any Muslim American civil rights group in the last 20 yrs, is to protect Muslims against state surveillance. That the legal director was working as an informant for an antiMuslim hate group with ties to Israeli intelligence scrambles everything.
