.brotherjones_e on becoming the youngest lawmaker in the Tennessee State Capitol and getting into good trouble. ⬇️
tells us about becoming the youngest lawmaker in the Tennessee State Capitol and getting into good trouble.In the summer of 2020, I faced 14 charges for organizing protests for racial justice and police accountability during a 62-day sit-in outside the state capitol. I experienced firsthand how calls for ending police violence are met with more police violence, mass arrests, and state surveillance. This system needs to be radically changed.
More policing does not lead to community safety. We need to create and fund emergency services that are not driven by police response, and we need to recognize the roots of policing in this nation. That is what I heard in the grassroots call to “defund the police” — a parallel mandate to allocate more funding to social workers, public education, ending poverty, and true policies of community safety.
4. If you could snap your fingers and change two things about politics in the United States, what would they be?tax loopholes that protect the wealth of oligarchs like Jeff Bezos, who has built and hoarded an empire on the backs of poverty wages and worker exploitation. Most of his corporate success has been subsidized by public money and taxpayers, which is obscene. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. so accurately stated, “This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
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