2/3rds of Colorado schools are in denial and think they can just-say-no their way through fentanyl www.denverpost.com/2023/10/06/n...

🙏Thank you community! City Council has voted, & everything that we were pushing to have included in the 2024 budget will be sent in council's recommendation letter to Mayor Johnston. 🎉 He must submit his revised budget by Oct 16th, before the Oct 23rd public hearing. Don't let the pressure up!

“The movement for defending life on earth is always a movement against the police. If you’re fighting to defend a forest, if you’re fighting to defend your home against eviction, your land against a pipeline, you’re always fighting against the police.” indyweek.com/news/durham/...

Tell Mayor Johnston & Denver City Council that Denver has much better things to invest in than already-bloated systems that don't keep us safe and actively harm our communities. #copolitics 💵 Fund stability. Fund community. Fund health. Fund REAL public safety. 🧰🛠 bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

🚨ACTION ALERT!🚨 Tell City Council & Mayor Johnston to take the $8.2M earmarked for more police & correctional beds & use that money to fund things that strengthen our communities & make them safer! 🧰 Our toolkit makes it easy!🛠 bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities

🎙 ***tap tap*** Is this thing on? It's budget season in Denver! Did you know that Denver already spends ✨37% of the city budget✨ on the Department of Public Safety?? Bloated police budgets defund our communities, and throwing more money at policing doesn't make us any safer.

I plead with the officer who is driving to turn back and let me go home. "If you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have called a crisis hotline. You did this to yourself. This is your fault", he said as he looked at me in his rear-view mirror. 23/

Are you a new activist/organizer interested in building your skills and knowledge? Apply to be part of this cohort with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social with a couple workshops facilitated by my comrade Adaku Utah! 💜 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On paper, Colorado did something big in 2018, becoming the 1st state to vote to abolish slavery. But in reality, CO prisoners are still being forced to work, under threat of punishment. Important new story from @bolts.bsky.social: boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...

“Studies have shown that communities with greater resource accessibility tend to have lower rates of gun violence.” @prisonculture.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2023/09/libr...

Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Clients 6 years ago, the MS Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans showing how they meet their obligations to poor defendants. This summer, amid increased scrutiny, the first one was filed.

"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."

Amazing example of local journalism producing state-level changes. As a result of Josh’s investigation into overpriced phone calls for ppl who are locked up in one county’s jail, there are now bills seeking to make all calls free STATE-wide in PA.

Yesterday marks eight years since Sandra Bland, who lived in Naperville, Il was found dead in a Texas jail cell, two days after a police officer stopped her for alleged failure to signal. https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/sandra-bland-was-right-an-nbc-5-investigation/3064953/?amp=1