Recovering athlete. Aspiring abolitionist. I play a lawyer on TV. @archcitydefense is my home.
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Police murder. Then lie. Then are exposed. We mourn. Protest. Demand change. Protests are demonized. Then co-opted. Then ignored.
Rinse, wash, repeat.
This is learned helplessness. Unlearn it. There are people organizing to defund and abolish policing near you. Find them.
Yesterday was a beautiful display of the community that emerged from tragedy in Ferguson a decade ago. My hope with this piece was to do justice to that community. All love to Mike Brown's family and thanks @BostonReview for publishing.
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Don't be fooled. We stand with @CoriBush like she has stood with us.
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Listen to the young people. They are usually right in these moments. Especially on matters of conscience. Their moral compasses haven't yet been manipulated or beaten down beyond all usefulness.
I didn't realize anyone was still taking this process seriously. Or pretending to.
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On this day in STL I want everybody to know that if you haven't experienced @InezBordeaux holding court at the board of aldermen and turning a hearing room into a movement meeting, then you haven't really lived.
Also there's an *actual* movement meeting tonight! You're invited!
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ICYMI we are up & running in season 5 of @underthearchpod. Please do yourself a favor & check out this amazing convo w/ Dara Eskridge from @Invest_STL!! She joins @iKaylaReed & I to talk community/economic development, neighborhood planning, NGA, Black joy & more! Such a treat
Dara Eskridge with @Invest_STL walks us through the good, the bad, and the ugly of community development in #STL. Hear how Invest STL works with residents to reflect the changes they want to see in their neighborhoods.
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STL, you spoke, and we heard you. What the people want to happen to the former Workhouse and land is OUT now. And, #ClosetheWorkhouse is back with these demands! It's not over until it's over. #closetheworkhouse #blacklivesmatter #forthepeople
Please read this beautiful report! So grateful for the care and intentionality that went into producing it.
Hey y'all. There's a report recommending what should become of the Workhouse & land around it. We're grateful for all of the public input that shapes this vision. We invite you to read, share and keep dreaming and demanding with us. #aftertheworkhouse closetheworkhouse.org
Wow. They should be embarrassed. But we should be even more embarrassed that we keep giving them more money and power anyway.
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James Baldwin on the student movement in his 1960 essay "They Can't Turn Back." Worth revisiting in light of the current panic about student activism.
"The question with which [the students] present the nation is whether or not we really want to be free."
Like many, I've struggled with precisely what to say & how to say it, but I know that love, peace & JUSTICE must be at the center. And I'm grateful to be part of an organization whose values & vision provide a powerful guide.
Grateful to those leading the calls for a ceasefire.
Beautiful breakdown @JakeLovesSTL_ . We've seen so much apathy and hostility to unhoused folks, and a lack of political courage.
If you're free tomorrow night, no better time to show your support!
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A letter from The People's Plan Coalition on Encampment Sweeps and the Unhoused Bill of Rights.
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“Justice is being served to people like me who really couldn’t get out because they couldn’t pay,” Donya Pierce told @stltoday.
Read more about our $3.125 million debtors' prison settlement with St. Ann here: stltoday.com/news/local/crim…
This saddens me. What I saw was ppl who showed up Monday out of care & concern for human beings.
And what I personally heard from DHS head @DrAPearson that night was that the city did NOT have beds for everyone. I appreciated his honesty. But this rewriting of history is not ok.
St. Louis Mayor @Tishaura Jones responded to pushback related to the clearing of an encampment in front of City Hall.
She claims some activists harassed city workers trying to connect those experiencing homelessness with services.
Audio credit: @stlpublicradio's @JonathanAhl.
In @hmcghee's book The Sum of Us, she uses an anecdote/analogy of white community leaders closing public pools for everyone just to keep Black folks from swimming in them.
Today, we close public parks just to keep unhoused folks from living in them.
Well, it’s not quite 8 p.m. and about half a dozen dumpster trucks led by @STLCityGov Streets, Forestry, and PD came in and cleared everything out.
New barricades are wrapped around City Hall and Poelker Park.
More soon at @stlpublicradio.
