#DebtFreeJustice @BerkeleyLawPac | Alum @GoldmanSchool | Policy, advocacy, and organizing for the just & peaceful world we all deserve | Oregonian
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Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
On the 4th anniversary of the worst antisemitic massacre in US history, major Jewish orgs are outside the UN spouting racist incitement against Palestinians and accusing human rights organizations of causing antisemitic violence. A shocking and horrifying display. 🧵
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
Hey @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom, after yrs of exploitation at the hands of predatory prison telecoms, California families are depending on YOU to provide overdue financial relief. SIGN SB1008 TODAY! This policy has been successful in other states & counties.🧵
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
BREAKING: We sued the @CalCourts Judicial Council for running an illegal revenue scheme. @CalCourts have been using late fees known as civil assessments to fund the courts off the backs of low-income Californians who can't afford to pay a traffic ticket. 1/bit.ly/39QbOCC
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
WATCH: Why have Republican-funded groups like DMFI and AIPAC spent millions of dollars to try to beat progressives like @SummerForPA, @JCisnerosTX, @BernieSanders, @ninaturner, and @JamaalBowmanNY in primaries?
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State's ‘poverty penalty’ fee harder on poor, non-white people, report says a.msn.com/01/en-us/AAUwZkE?o…
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Dreams upended. Homes destroyed. Families shattered.
These are the true costs of war, and they must never be lost in the discussions of what is happening in Ukraine.
Every bullet fired and every missile launched is an assault on humanity.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
my fellow lecturers on #TeamUCAFT are going on strike over UC’s pattern of bad faith bargaining. Join us on the picket line Nov 17/18! #UCUnfair #WeTeachUC
so proud to be in solidarity with so many incredible teachers at uc!!!
ucaft.org/content/unfair-pra…
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
If you’re in favor of pouring $778 billion into the Pentagon budget this year, don’t try telling me we can’t afford the Build Back Better agenda to support working families and address the climate crisis.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
we're collectively joking about a year of quarantine ruining our social skills and ability to function in the regular world -- but we just can't understand how people come out of prison after 5 or 10 or 20 years maladapted / how incarceration only continues cycles of harm.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
11 states recently passed reforms to end or scale back court fines & fees imposed on children & their parents.
Oregon — which spent $866K collecting just $864K in juvenile court fees in 2019 — could be next to end this cruel, counterproductive practice.
vice.com/en/article/93yqq5/a…
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
You can do it Oregon! We were proud to play our part in the coalition, the testimony from affected families who led the work showed a powerful light on how fees trapped them in cycles of hunger and poverty.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
Big big big developments for young people in #Michigan. Thank you to the bipartisan group of legislators who are leading the way for #debtfreejustice #MIleg #juvenilejustice
📣#DebtFreeJustice Today, a group of bipartisan legislators introduced five bills to address the harmful impact of juv court debt. Each bill covers a different portion of fines & fees that affect youth. Thank you to Reps Hope, Lightner, Kahle, Tate & Calley for your leadership.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
There is absolutely no reason why America should subsidize this violence.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
In red, @pchrgaza data of Israeli attacks on public buildings in Gaza municipality. In blue @AlMezanCenter records of similar attacks in 2014. In 11-days the occupation forces have bombed the center of Gaza City harder than the 53-days military operation of 2014.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
NEW: California will eliminate debt owed for traffic fees and fines for low-income Californians. Tickets from 2015 - June 2021 will be forgiven.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
Most of the Jews I know organizing with Palestinians and with other Jews against apartheid were transformed from bystanders or Israel supporters during strikes on Gaza in 2014.
As Israel “mows the grass” again (their words), know that we’re here for new activists with open arms.
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
5 of the slain are from one family. Their eid is now a funeral. “Ahmad Muhammad al-Masri, 21, Rahaf Muhammad al-Masri, 10, Marwan Yusef al-Masri, 7, and Ibrahim Yusef al-Masri, 11.
The youngest victim was 2-year-old Yazan Sultan al-Masri.” #GazaUnderAttack #Jerusalem
32 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Monday, including 10 children, and more than 200 injuries
bit.ly/3tGsjFF
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
There's no such thing as "hands off" when you're giving one side $3.8 billion a year in military aid. There's just deciding that Palestinian lives don't matter. haaretz.com/us-news/.premium…
Maiya Zwerling🔥 retweeted
If you've never been to Gaza it's hard to grasp just how bleak it is. A whole generation now has grown up locked in a tiny enclave. They're coming of age in a place with no work, endless blackouts, barely any clean drinking water, and little prospect of getting out.
