June 23, 2021 by V Leigh

Policy and Protest

Lake Highlands High School valedictorian Paxton Smith used her 3-minute speech to attack Texas’ new restrictive abortion law after making a last-minute speech switch.
It’s now gone viral. Tonight on @wfaa, you’ll get to hear from her about everything that’s happened since. pic.twitter.com/ShRwHZjDbZ
— William Joy (@WilliamJoy) June 2, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Now that we’ve celebrated Juneteenth, it’s time to:

– Pass reparations
– End the War on Drugs
– End voter suppression
– End police violence
– Fund housing
– Fund education
– Fund health care
– Teach the truth about our history

We need full liberation along with celebration.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) June 21, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The same week Congress passed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, conservatives across the country are trying to pass legislation banning education about race in schools. @MTVNEWS’ @Dometi_ has what you #NeedToKnow. pic.twitter.com/7czIkAMG1r
— MTV (@MTV) June 19, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

After Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a sweeping voting rights bill to counter a wave of state-level ballot restrictions, Democrats reaffirmed their resolve to fight in Congress for voting protections. https://t.co/BC0RITbxQy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 23, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

June 13, 2021 by V Leigh

Five years ago, we lost 49 loved ones and witnessed 53 others be injured in the horrifying Pulse shooting.

5 years ago today we saw one of the biggest mass shootings in American history.

It was the largest hate crime against the LGBTQ community. Today we don’t just remember the tragedy but we honor those taken too soon.

Let us never forget these 49 beautiful souls taken too soon. pic.twitter.com/FJZg8pZgSE
— Daniel Hernandez Jr (@danielforaz) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Five years ago today, 49 were killed and 53 wounded at the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando.

Today, we woke up to three more mass shootings and 32 shot: on Austin’s 6th street; in a Savannah, Georgia, neighborhood; on the south side of Chicago.https://t.co/SeO38bIDZD
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Five years ago, 49 LGBTQ+ lives were lost in the #Pulse Nightclub shooting. Today, we honor their lives and stand behind the LGBTQ+ community & all communities impacted by discrimination and bigotry. #Pride #OrlandoUnited pic.twitter.com/3BN7HMBFk8
— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

I’m grateful for @BJoeWolf and everybody who’s stayed in this fight to honor the memory of the Pulse victims with action—to ensure full equality, end gun violence, and make sure we don’t forget what happened five years ago.https://t.co/r6iHsjwBhq
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Five years ago today, we lost 49 loved ones and witnessed 53 others be injured in the horrifying Pulse shooting.

Let’s honor their memory today and every day by continuing the fight for gun safety reform. https://t.co/3kQnOTZAov
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

5 Years After Pulse Shooting Killed 49, Nightclub Owner Says, ‘It Does Not Get Any Easier’ https://t.co/SEXcuoOcsw
— People (@people) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

June 13, 2021 by V Leigh

he @nytimes prints faces of 67 Palestinian children killed by Israeli aerial missiles & tank projectiles (paid for by US taxpayers)

At today’s Justice For Palestine demonstration in London, I also called for a halt to arms sales. UK-made weapons are killing civilians – including children – in conflicts abroad. This must stop. pic.twitter.com/Sf2tEGjtkX
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Young Jewish Americans rocked by new hate fueled by Israel-Palestinian conflict https://t.co/2efNDQYbHZ
— Fund the people – Divest from policing (@glncv) May 26, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

It shouldn’t be such a big deal, but it is. The @nytimes prints faces of 67 Palestinian children killed by Israeli aerial missiles & tank projectiles (paid for by US taxpayers). This is the cost of Israeli impunity. This is a fraction of Palestinian pain & loss. #NoHate pic.twitter.com/8FdygM2kvn
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) May 28, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

June 8, 2021 by V Leigh

Behold what the $100 BILLION that our nation spends annually on policing has wrought

Behold what the $100 BILLION that our nation spends annually on policing has wrought (cw) pic.twitter.com/rrVirj50BM
— Kumar Rao (@KumarRaoNYC) May 31, 2020

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Report Documents 32,542 Police Killings in U.S. Since 2000 with Vast Undercount of People of Color https://t.co/gvap7ZIxtb via @democracynow
— Fund the people – Divest from policing (@glncv) June 1, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

NBC News says Alabama law enforcement gave a violent abuser (and former police officer) his gun back – simply because he texted and asked for it. There was an active a protective order against him.

Two weeks later, he used the gun to kill his wife. https://t.co/UGLNhfXYX7
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 5, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

California is 1 of only 4 states that does not have a process to decertify abusive cops.@SenatorUmberg @SenHenryStern @BobWieckowskiCA will you VOTE YES on #SB2 & support communities impacted by police violence? #LetUsLive #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/QK7kNzIJbt
— Youth Justice Coalition (@YouthJusticeLA) April 27, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

“We’re not funding drug intervention.
We’re not funding violence interruption. We’re funding violence & oppression. And the FOP protects these MFs”@ReddIsAri w/facts and 🔥on why DC must #DefundMPD #DefundThePolice pic.twitter.com/VWeXt9kNCj
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) June 6, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

How tf y’all gonna reform this?#DefundThePolice https://t.co/HwPIOLhSCt
— Tinu, Empress of Twerk, Thirst of My Line. (@Tinu) June 7, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

A new report finds far more people of colour have died in police custody than previously known. The report also documented the deaths of 32,542 people who have been killed by police since 2000, 60% of whom were people of colour.https://t.co/wGdwc4yDMR #DefundThePolice
— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) June 2, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

June 2, 2021 by V Leigh

Texas House Democrats leave floor, effectively blocking passage of restrictive voting bill

#Georgia‘s new law, #SB202, broadly restricts when & how voters cast ballots –– And it would even criminalize orgs like @GAMVP for passing out refreshments to voters in line.

For Georgia’s Muslim community, the new law is painful, confusing & discouraging.https://t.co/zSkaR0K8zv
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 2, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The [#PalmBeach County school] district is acting as if its casual abuse of a tool for emergency mental health situations is nobody’s business but theirs.

They couldn’t be more wrong”––The Palm Beach Post wrote, citing our #CostlyAndCruel Baker Act report:https://t.co/zcAeAfaxei
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 12, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Thread, on how Louisiana pays for public defense via fines and fees imposed on the convicted—you read that (mind-blowing) sentence correctly—and the current rapid push to make things… even worse. https://t.co/bZJuF6STLU
— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) May 7, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

This is quite a sentence. https://t.co/ExPAkbYuKl pic.twitter.com/R94wlQGnQq
— adam harris (@AdamHSays) May 19, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

In our 2019 #WhoseHeritage? report, we identified 114 Confederate symbols that had been removed since the #Charleston attack — and 1,747 that still stood.

Many of these monuments are protected by state laws in the former Confederate states.

Read more:https://t.co/IVNHjcZdwt
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 23, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Teen students across the U.S are asking administrators to change school names that honor Confederate figures.

Confederate symbols honor a white supremacist system based upon the enslavement of Black people.

Learn about the campaigns to #ChangeTheNames:https://t.co/qA8oNJ0F9W
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) May 23, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Heavy day: In 2007 I proposed “a Legacy Project focused on recognizing the history of lynching in public spaces on the Eastern Shore.” Today a plaque was unveiled just off the courthouse lawn in Salisbury, MD where Matthew Williams was lynched in 1931. pic.twitter.com/Ue49ph2dff
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) May 22, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

NEWS: MEMBERS of the U.S. Capitol Police have issued a statement to members of Congress expressing “profound disappointment” with McConnell and McCarthy’s positions on the Jan. 6 commission, citing the “trauma” that officers endured that day. pic.twitter.com/CRweVhIAnD
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) May 19, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

For the life of me I’ll never understand how so many people hate immigrants who pay taxes, but admire billionaires who don’t.
— Robert Greenwald (@robertgreenwald) May 20, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Racists covered up Tulsa & now they are trying to cover up an insurrection. Cover up rather than pulling off the covers is how America has responded to racism far too often.
— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) May 28, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Today, Texas legislators advanced a bill attacking the right to vote. It’s yet another assault on our democracy. Congress needs to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

We need to make it easier for eligible voters to vote. Not harder.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) May 30, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

“The new Texas voter suppression bill violates both the constitutional rights of Texans and the Voting Rights Act. It places unnecessary burdens on people’s right to vote, without any reason other than adherence to the ‘big lie.’”https://t.co/BDq2tXFKTy
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) May 30, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Texas House Democrats leave floor, effectively blocking passage of restrictive voting bill ahead of midnight deadlinehttps://t.co/9Wy0WkyVwn
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 31, 2021

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Oppression Monitor Daily

A Community Village Site

Month: June 2021

Policy and Protest

Like this:

Five years ago, we lost 49 loved ones and witnessed 53 others be injured in the horrifying Pulse shooting.

Like this:

he @nytimes prints faces of 67 Palestinian children killed by Israeli aerial missiles & tank projectiles (paid for by US taxpayers)

Like this:

Behold what the $100 BILLION that our nation spends annually on policing has wrought

Like this:

Texas House Democrats leave floor, effectively blocking passage of restrictive voting bill

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this: