Back in 2014 when me and my best friend Kris Henderson created Amistad Law Project, there's no way we could have imagined where we are today.
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I am the luckiest to work with Amistad Law Project.

Over 200,000 people are sentenced to die in U.S. prisons. Amistad is intervening to end Life Without Parole and building alternatives to our systems of perpetual punishment.

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You are about to see in real time over the next 4 days how the media can choose who it humanizes and who it villainizes, who is a child and who is a minor, who is a mother and who is an accomplice. Who is a hostage and who is a prisoner. In short who is innocent and who is not.

“There’s no Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There’s only a brutal Israeli occupation.”

-The editor in chief of Israel’s largest English language newspaper.

Wow...

'There was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to #Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.'

politico.com/news/2023/11/2…

“It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.”

Anne Boyer resigned as poetry editor of New York Times magazine.

As Columbia suspends Jewish Voice for Peace, it’s clear the crackdown is not about combatting anti-semitism—it’s about protecting zionism.

“This building is not listening,” said one Democratic aide. “I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is.”

80% of Dem voters support a ceasefire. 18 out of 535 members of Congress have called for one.

huffpost.com/entry/calls-fo…

They are going to blame us when Biden loses the election but we know the blame lies with him alone.

Aerial view of Nov. 4th National Protest for Palestine in Washington D.C.

Activists say the crowd is 100,000 people and growing.

Biden admin officials admitting that the pressure on them to call for a ceasefire is becoming undeniable. All the calling, emailing, and protesting is working.