Stacey Abrams
@staceyabrams
Author of #RogueJustice (Out Now). Senior Counsel @RewiringAmerica. Other areas of focus: democracy + voting, public policy, small business & film+tv.
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Joined ConsultYourCommunity a few weeks ago for their 10th anniversary conference! Inspiring to see small business clients & nonprofit volunteers, many from Georgia colleges, celebrating a decade of impact. Let's support initiatives like these this #NationalSmallBusinessWeek .
Thank you, Acting Secretary Julie Su, for visiting Atlanta -- it was my pleasure to welcome you back. The work of the U.S. Department of Labor is rightfully ambitious, and carries the potential to lift us all higher.
Great book alert: Understand how the Supreme Court actively undermines democracy and learn to spot the broader anti-democratic tactics that impact us at the national & local level. Get Ari Berman’s timely, smart new book “Minority Rule.”
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I echo Rep. Hank Johnson. Having been a student protestor in the 1990s, I staunchly support the right to free speech + vocal opposition. We knew we might face repercussions, but nonviolent civil disobedience should not strip you of constitutional protections or invite…
Worth a read: a recent essay by Bryan Garsten, 'The Liberalism of Refuge' in the new issue of the Journal of Democracy.
He writes: 'Liberal societies, I want to suggest, are those that offer refuge from the very people they empower.'
Read it and more here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
Across the nation, we face a maternal health crisis that disproportionately impacts Black women.
Attacks on reproductive justice + DEI at medical schools put more Black women at risk & seek to undo generations of progress. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek
cnn.com/2024/04/17/us/…