✊🏾 Fighting for a just, effective and equitable approach to criminal justice and drug policy reform.
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Joined March 2019
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The Equity Organization retweeted
Have you ever watched a bail hearing? I'm going to show you a few this week. Take a minute to watch how our society decides who is in a cage. This is what happens in over 3,000 courtrooms every day: a woman jailed because she can't pay $2,000 on a marijuana charge.
The Equity Organization retweeted
Latest film for @VICE
Want to know how the entire War on Drugs is built on racism....and how probably the most important act we can do to dismantle structural racism is to end it??
Want to know all that in about 11-minutes? Here you go.
youtube.com/watch?v=Xf5qFIpJ…
The Equity Organization retweeted
📝 We recently wrote @Transition46 to congratulate them & offer support as they work to dismantle our unjust & ineffective approach to cannabis policy. The evidence is overwhelming—marijuana prohibition only serves to animate & exacerbate the social inequities & racial injustices
The Equity Organization retweeted
With AZ, MS, MT, NJ & SD passing #cannabis ballot measures on November 3rd, over 111 million Americans live in states that reformed their adult-use laws (34% of the US pop.), and over 225 million Americans live in states that reformed their medical laws (69% of the US pop.)
The Equity Organization retweeted
Prohibition has had a hugely adverse impact on minority communities in the US for decades, so what has to be done to create real change & even reverse that impact?
At #PPLIVE we speak to the leaders & pioneers leading the charge for a paradigm shift.
prohibitionpartners.live/tic…
The Equity Organization retweeted
"Black people are arrested for marijuana possession at 3.7x the rate of White people, according to the ACLU. And it’s even higher in some of the states voting on legalization this coming Tuesday: In Montana, it’s 9.6 times; in South Dakota, it’s 5 times" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Equity Organization retweeted
NEW: Criminal justice & mass incarceration are on 2020 ballot in many states. We've covered local & state elections—DAs, sheriffs, referendums, & more—all year.
Now, rolling out a new interactive tool to explore criminal justice battlegrounds. Dig in! theappeal.org/political-repo…
The Equity Organization retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨 @DrugPolicyOrg Joins State & Municipal Cannabis Regulators in Calling on Congress to Prioritize Federal Marijuana Reform by Passing #MOREAct 📢 FULL QUOTE from @DPA_ONA Dir. @MaritzaCPerez IN THREAD 👇 drugpolicy.org/press-release…
The Equity Organization retweeted
We are asking cannabis companies to join us in an effort to make fair chance hiring practices a new norm and guiding principle for the industry, and to work alongside us in removing barriers to employment for justice-impacted candidates.
The Equity Organization retweeted
"Responsibility for [Breonna] Taylor’s death lies with a five-decade-long “War on Drugs” that didn’t just enable state violence," writes @npapillion of @equityorg, "but actively incentivized it… all while ensuring virtual impunity for its perpetrators."
filtermag.org/breonna-taylor…
The Equity Organization retweeted
We still have a long way to go but it shows just how far we’ve come that cannabis expungements are being covered in the #VPDebate ... onwards towards a fully legal, equitable industry and true restorative justice for impacted communities.
The Equity Organization retweeted
We're thrilled to announce that Natalie Papillion (@npapillion), a drug policy-focused writer & historian who currently sits on the Board of Directors for The Last Prisoner Project (@lastprisonerprj), will feature during #PPLIVE.
Secure tickets here:
prohibitionpartners.live/tic…
The Equity Organization retweeted
Using criminal law as an instrument of infection control isn't just ineffective, it's counterproductive
Pushes the problem underground, making infections harder to track and treat
Invariably weaponized to discipline and punish Black and Brown people
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The Equity Organization retweeted
"No number of “good cops” can counteract the devastation caused by a drug control strategy whose primary allegiance is to punishment, not the public’s health." Great piece by @equityorg's @npapillion in @Filtermag_org today. filtermag.org/breonna-taylor…
The Equity Organization retweeted
Jim has the history right. Cannabis Prohibition was instituted in the US as a method of racial control. Racial disparity in enforcement is not unintended—it was the whole point of passing these laws in the first place. #setthemfree
"You know, it’s never been about the plant. It’s always been about who’s using it."
Watch @lastprisonerprj board member @JimBelushi tell @BillMaher why it's time to address the injustices of the drug war:
The Equity Organization retweeted
Thank you @PeterTosh for sharing this critical piece of scholarship.
Read the full paper, get factsheets, and take action at:
criminal-injustice.org
CC: @equityorg @npapillion
@lastprisonerprj recently published 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦: 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘴 & 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, a report by Natalie Papillion that dives into the sordid history behind America's marijuana laws, and details the staggering...
The Equity Organization retweeted
Did you catch LPP board member @JimBelushi on Real Time with @billmaher Friday?
Check out the clip to see the discussion on LPP and why we need to free every last cannabis prisoner!
The Equity Organization retweeted
.@EvelynLaChapel5 knows firsthand how cannabis is unfairly criminalized in this country. Now, she spends her time working with @lastprisonerprj making sure others don’t face the same fate. You can check out our entire #UndertheCanopy interview w/ her tomorrow!
The Equity Organization retweeted
How out of touch are congressional leaders, Trump, & Biden on #cannabis issues? Less than a third of people even support arrests for *selling* cannabis, while our "leaders" can't let go of penalties for just *possessing* it.
marijuanamoment.net/majority…
