Having debt doesn’t mean you’re financially irresponsible. Sometimes it means you’ve already paid back what you borrowed and still owe more.

First the Coast Guard said no one contacted them until July 5. Now they admit they got a call the night of July 4. What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!

No amount of breathing exercises or journaling can fix the stress of living paycheck to paycheck.

Stop explaining racism to people who already know what they are doing. White supremacists do not want clarity, they gain pleasure from terrorizing people of color.

If your solution to homelessness is jail or clearing encampments, you’re not ending homelessness. You’re making homeless people disappear from public view.

Despite what police and right-wing politicians would have you believe, you cannot overdose from touching fentanyl.

Zionism is a political ideology built on creating an ethnostate through the removal of Palestinians. That removal happens through the destruction of Palestinian lives, the theft of their land, and the erasure of their history and right to exist. In other words. Genocide.

Telling people who are alarmed about the privacy implications of Meta glasses that the frames include a recording light, while knowing there are easy workarounds, is disingenuous.

White people only championing freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and the right to assemble when those freedoms reinforce their own power is how white supremacy reproduces itself. The rights don’t change. The people they’re extended to do.

🧊 GEO GROUP RAN OVER A YOUNG WOMAN OUTSIDE DELANEY This is what they do on FATHERS DAY. A PEACEFUL PROTESTOR. Come to Delaney. Or protect your block. No more shootings. Hit and runs. Kidnappings. ABOLISH 🧊 NOW. SUPPORT @cosechanj ON THE GROUND!

Stretch lightly. Write in your journal. Silence your phone. Get sleep.

Be real Black and beautiful today.

You deserve the love you keep giving to everybody else.

Israel is a terrorist state.

One of the projects we at BLM Paterson are working on is a non police crisis response team. It’s starting off as a pilot but one day hopefully, we and our partners will be responding to substance use and mental health crisis calls without police presence.

This summer I’m going to finish my book. It’s supposed to be a warning about the future but everything is coming true. 😩

From Ireland to the United States, anti-Blackness is global. White supremacy blames Black and brown people so nobody asks who’s really making life harder for working people.

Sometimes sitting in your car is way more comfortable than sitting in your own house.

The history of America is the history of white people justifying and rationalizing their violence and pathologizing the violence of others.

More than a quarter of those arrested as a result of wide spread anti-immigrant and anti-Black violence in Belfast last week were children aged 16 and under. Hatred starts at home.

When a police officer steps into the path of a moving vehicle, accelerating is framed as the driver’s fault. When protesters do the same, being there is framed as the protester’s fault. Convenient.

A one-year-old was shot by police. And the immediate response is “blame the driver.” The baby wasn’t driving.

Being accused of shoplifting is not a death sentence. Being the child of someone accused of shoplifting is not a death sentence. A one-year-old is dead because police decided to open fire into a vehicle knowing a Black child was inside.

The island of Puerto Rico is experiencing a water crisis. Nearly 100,000 people have had water services disrupted. Puerto Rico’s water outages are not caused by a lack of water. They are the result of decades of colonial neglect by the richest country on Earth.

Outside Delaney Hall. It’s quiet outside but inside it’s loud with speculation that a massive amount of detainees will be transferred in the dead of the night. Again. The conditions of the camp remain. So the demands remain, too.

A Bloomberg Law investigation recently revealed that 41 people across the country have died after police or jails used a full-body restraint called The Wrap to subdue people.

The crisis is not at the border, the crisis is the border. Borders are not only created through violence but also maintained through violence. Violence isn’t happening at the border, the border is violence.

We distributed 30 dinners last night in under 30 minutes, right as the rain started coming down. As I speed-walked to my car, I gave two women dinners. When I got to the driver’s side, someone came out of their house and asked if I had any left. I gave her the last one. Community.

When we talk about Delaney Hall, we talk about detainees, their families, and the communities impacted by detention. Stripped of nearly everything else, they continue fighting for their liberation with their bodies, voices, and agency. This is only the beginning.

The BLM Paterson team was out today canvassing stores with @njimmigrantjustice spreading the word about ICE presence ahead of the World Cup. Solidarity keeps us safe.

“The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.” -bell hooks

Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder. Rick Chow not guilty of murder. This isn’t surprising to anyone living in this Anti- Black country.

You can’t bootstrap your way out of a system designed to keep wages low and costs high.

This Saturday I had the honor of being invited to be on the panel AAPI Community Organizing In Response to Police Violence at Netroots Nation. We grounded the discussion always on anti-Blackness, white supremacy and anti Asian hate. Solidarity, not isolation is how we win.

The internalization of racism is so deep that some people of color will accuse you of racism for calling out racism.

The principles of civil disobedience and direct action at Delaney Hall are rooted in a paradox. People are willing to be detained to help free detainees. Willing to be harmed to help end the harm inflicted on others. Because inaction is not an option.

I can’t watch videos of Cyrus Belton. Not of him entering the store. Not of what happened after he left. I can’t even sit through the trial footage. But I don’t need to watch any of it to know the grave injustices Black people continue to experience in this country.

White people saying people should only get opportunities based on merit, not skin color, while establishing systems and cultures for themselves to gain opportunities based on their skin color, not merit, is peak gas lighting.

We marched to Delaney Hall. There are new barricades and a large Newark PD presence. The designated zones have supposedly been lifted but our movement is still restricted.

Those arrested on Sunday are still being released over 24 hours after their arrests. The treatment they experienced disgusting. The jailed women asked guards for toilet paper and were told to use their hands. And laughed about it.

As bad as State violence has been outside of Delaney Hall — and it’s been bad — it is in no comparison to the violence detainees have been subjected to since their incarceration. So if what you see on video horrifies you, imagine what you don’t see.

Almost 60 people were arrested outside of Delaney Hall, including journalists and well known local advocates. Not everyone has been released. This often happens when they haven’t agreed on what to actually charge them with.

46 people, including press, were arrested tonight at the Delaney Hall protest. The rationale was because they had helmets, masks and shields. That’s not justification. That’s fascism.

We are being kettled in at the Delaney Hall protests. That means they are staging at certain streets to prevent people from leaving after 9Pm even though the rally is not out front of the detention center. They are saying something on the loud speakers but it’s muffled.

This bus from Essex County Sheriff has arrived. It can fit almost 40 people. But the curfew was for when the rally was in front of Delaney Hall. We are currently a half a mile away from the detention center. Detaining us for no reason like those inside.

We’ve been standing outside the barricade on Wilson Ave for two hours now. There have been rumors to expect violence from the police soon. ICE agents are not here. We are half mile away from Delaney Hall. But that won’t stop police from still escalating.

The protests have been forced back so far today that you can’t even see Delaney Hall. Yet, the police presence is still here and still heavy. As long as people are inside, people will be outside.

Our elders and ancestors sacrificed so much in the hopes that their actions would bring equity and justice to their communities and descendants. Police violence and incarceration was not a deterrent to those who believe in freedom then, and it won’t be a deterrent now.

Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't from Selma. He wasn't from Birmingham either. Whenever you hear people attacking protesters as "out-of-towners," remember they used the exact same argument against King.

As someone who’s experienced curfews in Ferguson and Minneapolis, curfews make things worse not better.