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@forward_create

We design experiences that advance equity and justice. Founded by @piperanderson1

 New York, NY
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Joined September 2019
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@FPWA15 Nov 2022
Join us on December 8 to learn how you can actively promote staff well-being and improve your organization’s response to the experience of compassion fatigue, burnout, and/or vicarious trauma. Register today at bit.ly/3WYEVI9
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Our colleagues at @forward_create have openings for a Communications Manager and Administrative Assistant, apply below! Communications Manager - ideali.st/NroCdu Administrative Assistant ideali.st/k76PSG
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I’m elbow deep in my first DOCUMENTARY(!), called Help This Garden Grow. It tells the story of Hazel Johnson, a Chicagoan from Altgeld Gardens on the far South Side who helped birth the modern Environmental Justice movement. It’ll be a limited podcast series dropping this fall.
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Accountability can be healing @PiperAnderson1 @forward_create @BriBriPo @doloresdidit #accountability #healing xitter.cf/i/spaces/1OwxWzorLpZJQ
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Our @FreedomAgendaNY Project is hiring a Communications and Digital Organizing Manager! Please share the posting with your networks: fa.urbanjustice.org/2021/07/…
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St. Louis made history tonight by electing its first African American Female Mayor, Tishaura Jones – at St Louis, MO
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NEW: NY prison data obtained by NYCLU shows that racial disparities in who’s sent to solitary confinement have gotten WORSE in the last year. Black & Latinx people now make up 82% of people in solitary. @NYGovCuomo must sign the #HALTsolitary bill now. timesunion.com/news/article/…

Advocates point to racial disparities as further reason to ban solitary confinement

As a bill to end prolonged solitary confinement in New York prisons awaits action by Gov....

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“Between 1985-2005, IL built more than 25 new prisons or detention facilities. Over the same span, no new public colleges or universities were established.” - @prisonculture & Erica Meiners Now - the state plans to spend $21 million on a NEW youth prison. truthout.org/articles/illino…
Illinois Must End Youth Incarceration, Not “Transform” It

Illinois Must End Youth Incarceration, Not “Transform” It

Incarceration, even in facilities closer to home, is traumatizing for every child who is forced to experience it.

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The Cultural Solidarity Fund will award $500 relief microgrants to individual artists and cultural workers. Priority will be given to BIPOC, immigrant, and disabled artists and cultural workers. Application Deadline: Friday, March 5 @ 9pm Visit culturalsolidarityfund.org to apply!
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NYC arts and entertainment groups: #OpenCulture applications open TODAY! Permits for safe, outdoor, ticketed events are available for 100+ street locations around the five boroughs. Visit nyc.gov/openculture to learn more.
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@revolttv1 Mar 2021
Happy Women History Month 👑✊🏿
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Black women should be supported, protected, & invested in. In #NYC this should start with the immediate closure of the Rose M Singer Center on #RikersIsland. Listen to the oral histories from women who survived Rosies’s: womenscja.org/herstories-2/ #WhatAboutHer #BEYONDrosies
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Building Resilience! Join this important conversation on economic development investment and building economic parity in persistent poverty counties in the South featuring our Co-Founder and Executive Director, @cliff_notes on February 10th. Register Now: federalcommissionsbuildresil…
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What a beautiful way to kick-off #BlackHistoryMonth! Join us in congratulating the incredible @staceyabrams on her Nobel Peace Prize nomination. 👏🏿 Abrams' vision in strengthening democracy and equity through a multiracial coalition saved this country. reuters.com/article/us-nobel…
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Here's why we still need #BlackHistoryMonth in 2021

Why We Still Need Black History Month

Here's why we still need #BlackHistoryMonth in 2020

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I'll be presenting the project that I have been working on over the last year at this evening of remembrance. Please share and/or support our efforts to close Rikers Island. #healingjusticeandtruth #equity #rememberingrikers
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African Americans have served the U.S. military in every war the U.S has fought, but this did not come without racism. This soldier was one of the many Black soldiers who faced discrimination after returning home. ow.ly/qghQ50ChNcm
Returning From War, Returning to Racism (Published 2020)

Returning From War, Returning to Racism (Published 2020)

After fighting overseas, Black soldiers faced violence and segregation at home. Many, like Lewis W. Matthews, were forced to take menial jobs. Although he managed to push through racism, that wasn’t...

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CiCi🌸@CiCiAdams_9 Nov 2020
"The path to Walter Wallace Jr.’s murder is paved with decades of violence, million-dollar settlements, lawsuits, no police accountability, and reforms that have only provided more power to the Philadelphia Police Department" Philadelphia is Fed Up momentum.medium.com/philadel…
Philadelphia Is Fed Up

Philadelphia Is Fed Up

Walter Wallace Jr.’s death points to Philadelphia’s long history of police violence

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Early voting begins Saturday in New York. But voters in New York City can't vote at any poll site like voters in the rest of NY and many other states. They can only vote at their *assigned* location, which they can look up here: findmypollsite.vote.nyc/ nytimes.com/2020/10/22/nyreg…
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