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THIS FRIDAY!
October 23rd @ 12pm - 1pm

Show up at the El Cajon Courthouse for the monthly CARE NOT CAGES rally led by Treat MI Don’t Mistreat MI

Bring your voice and stories of loved ones who are locked up and struggling with mental illness.

@treatmidontmistreatmi raises awareness to the crimes against humanity happening in our prison system and teaches families how to advocate for our community and the care they deserve.

Does showing up make a difference?

YES! Every month people passing by stop and connect because they are living the same nightmare and are happy to have found support!

Show up if you are able - your presence is power!

El Cajon Courthouse
250 East Main St.
El Cajon, CA 92020

Will you be there?

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More than 50 incarcerated, and formerly incarcerated, youth and their families wrote the HUG Act with us and now California is the first state in the country to make physical contact with their parents a right for all incarcerated children.

I’m very proud of them.

#HugAct #AB1646

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❤️ Every child deserves to be loved, nurtured, protected, and given the opportunity to thrive. Our children deserve schools that see their brilliance, honor their humanity, and respond to their needs with care, not punishment.

But what happens when normal childhood behavior is treated like a crime?

🎬 Join us for our next Conscious Cinema screening, as we show: PRESCHOOL TO PRISON, an Emmy Award-winning documentary directed by Dr. Karen Baptiste and produced by Empress Films. @preschooltoprisondoc

The film exposes how the school-to-prison pipeline can begin with children as young as two years old, disproportionately harming Black and Brown children, especially those with disabilities. Through powerful personal stories and expert insights, we examine how systemic racism, implicit bias, and harsh disciplinary policies turn opportunities for learning and growth into punishment, exclusion, and criminalization.

📅 Saturday, October 24 | 5:30–8:30 PM

📍 BLU Art & Wellness Gallery | 580 Pine Ave., Downtown Long Beach

🎟️ FREE & OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY

Following the film, we'll come together for a community conversation about how parents, caregivers, educators, advocates, and neighbors can challenge harmful practices and build schools rooted in dignity, healing, belonging, and care.

Our children are not problems to be punished. They are full of potential, worthy of protection, and deserving of every opportunity to flourish.

Bring your family, friends, educators, and anyone who believes in a better future for our children.

RSVP blmlongbeach.org/rsvp
🎥 link in bio

Learn more: verbcommunity.org/consciouscinema

Stories that move us to act.

#ConsciousCinema #PreschoolToPrison #SchoolToPrisonPipeline #EducationJustice #BlackChildrenMatter #LongBeach #RestorativeJustice

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End pretextual stops 🚫

We call for the end of discriminatory stops that give law enforcement an excuse to pull people over based purely on assumptions.

“That is not law enforcement. That is harassment with a badge.”

#StopTheStops #SDPD #SanDiego

Slides are excerpts from the recent San Diego Union Tribune article written by our Legal Director, Mitchelle Woodson.

🔗 full article link in bio.

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In response to renewed threats and misrepresentations by Trump “Border Czar” Tom Homan, the ICE Out Of California coalition released the following statement.

“Trump’s latest ICE surge is a naked attempt at intimidating Californians from exercising our most basic rights, while tearing families apart. To cover up their abuses, they are trying to gaslight the public and are attacking our local and state policies that limit collaboration with ICE and uphold basic due process.

“Californians know the truth. Sanctuary policies keep families together and ensure we use our local resources for local needs - not to help ICE abduct our neighbors.”

Background.

Data shows sanctuary state laws have kept thousands of families together and slowed down Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Despite the rhetoric, they have served as an essential bulwark against mass deportations and are being targeted because they are effective.

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Working to prevent domestic violence and advance health equity in California? The right data can make your case stronger. 📊

Last year, we funded a statewide survey on Californians’ experiences with domestic violence, equity and safety. Now we’re making sure that data is easy to reach so advocates, grantees and decision makers can put it to work.

With our new data dashboard, you can quickly search for and pull the findings you need, whether for a grant report, a presentation or your next domestic violence awareness campaign.

Also, it’s important to mention that tools like this take a team. 💜 Thank you to @varickhasim for building the dashboard, and to our key partners in its development, @tamoore32 and Andy Krackov, founder of Hillcrest Advisory.

Explore the data at the link in our bio 🔗

#DVAM #LetsEndDV #DataForGood

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One of the greatest joys in my life has been working with you all!

@liv_biv , Look what we did! WTH! I still can’t believe the universe brought us together. We walked into rooms like… how did we even get here..but passion, determination and an unwillingness to stop fighting for the kids carried us though. Through the hard times that felt impossible to some of the most joyful moments of my life, we were really just living off instinct and sprinting to the finish line. Did we even come up for air? Who do we even think we are 😂😂😂😂

The @hoops4justice team..we are the little engine that could. Because of who we are and what this work means to all of us Hoops’ impact is so much bigger than Hoops. We really survived and thrived. When it felt like we wouldn’t make it, against the wall of resistance that we were up against at times, we held each other together.

We care for the kids we serve with our whole hearts and through all the chaos, we care for each other.

@hoe.swey @showatanabe @lamberthiguera @desmar123456 @jayare_hb_ @thejungle_alligator I love you all so much I can’t describe what it feels like.

@ib2_real and @cacapitol916 ! You made dreams come true and gave a whole generation of youth in the halls the belief that together they can, in the words of Caleb “move mountains”. @ib2_real …you didn’t even flinch!! You said yes without hesitation when most people in power would have paused. You trusted the kids to be right when so many would have stopped to analyze and theorize …you just believed.

@reallyjohnjohn and @get2_it00 you spoke to the public safety committees like you were speaking to each of their souls from your own. It’s hard to ignore something honest when you hear it and you’re two of the most brilliant and courageously honest people I know. I love you both so much.

To the coalition, you are the best coalition anyone could ever have. You put the kids first at every step, gave their votes more power than your own and let them lead the efforts. You played the support role to them and their families and empowered them with the tools and knowledge to win. You worked so hard and put your whole hearts in it.

@dafna_gozani and Laura I want to

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AB 1886 has been signed into law by @cagovernor! 🎉👏 Thank you to our bill author @asmsadeelhawary for championing this important legislation that prioritizes supporting young people and ending endless probation! This bill is a testament to youth power, and an important step towards a more equitable system. We are grateful for our strong coalition and community ❤️

#CYC #CaliforniaYouthConnection #fostercareadvocacy

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🔊 LEGACIES OF RESISTANCE IN CA PRISONS
𝘈 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥-𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺.

✊🏾 California’s prisons have always been sites of resistance. For our second post of this series (check out the first here: bit.ly/prisonlor1), we focus on Ironwood State Prison, located in Blythe, CA.

⛓️‍💥 We feature the work of CURB member organization Democracy Beyond Bars (DBB) — an incarcerated-led abolitionist organization whose mission is to contribute to the decarceration and closure of US prisons and the self-agency of incarcerated people. DBB has chapters in Ironwood and various other state prisons.

💬 Comment “DBB” if you are interested in ways to support their work!

Ironwood State Prison is a site of climate hazards, one of eight prisons most vulnerable to extreme heat according to @ellabakercenter’s Hidden Hazards report. In collaboration with inside advocates, this report uplifts key recommendations to effectively mitigate climate hazards inside California prisons such as…
1️⃣ Prioritizing prisons vulnerable to climate hazards for closure
2️⃣ Reducing the size of the incarcerated population
3️⃣ Creating and implementing rapid release policies

📈 Blythe is one of the many towns in California impacted by a false promise during California’s prison construction boom. In many rural communities, prisons were sold as a solution to economic decline and instead created dependence on a single, unsustainable economy which failed to lift the town out of poverty.

🌱 Our communities must demand better than economic dependence on incarceration and human suffering. Prison closures can generate $150 million annually in savings. Imagine what these funds could do if invested in community needs.

🗯️ What have you heard about Ironwood Prison? Comment your experiences or stories of resistance below! ⤵️

#LegaciesOfResistance #PrisonLOR #CareNotCages #CloseCAPrisons

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AB 1886 is the promise we made to foster youth last year:we were not going to leave them behind in the movement to end endless probation. Huge gratitude to our fearless champion @asmsadeelhawary & entire community of supporters.✊🏽✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿

@allianceforbmoc
@burnsinstitute
@cayouthdefenders
@cayouthday
@calyouthconn
@curyj510
@ellabakercenter
@flyprogram
@NCYLNews
@sisterwarriorsfreedom
@smartjusticeca
@young_women_free

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California just became the first State in the Country to give the RIGHT to physical contact with their families to youth in juvenile facilities.

This right (The Hug Act) was fought for and won by incarcerated youth in Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall who had been denied it for far too long. Tonight, we celebrated with their families.

#HugAct

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VICTORY: AB 1932 — THE CRISES ACT 2.0 — HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW!

This is what years of organizing, advocacy, persistence, and community power can make possible.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1932 (Elhawary) into law on Sunday, September 27, renewing California’s C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program 2.0.

We thank Assemblymember Sade Elhawary for carrying this legislation and every impacted family, organizer, advocate, and community organization that fought to move it forward.

This victory matters because people in crisis deserve care, connection, resources, and support — not an armed response.

For too long, people experiencing mental health crises, substance use, homelessness, intimate partner or community violence, and other emergencies have been met by systems that can escalate crisis instead of resolving it. Communities have been building another way: responses rooted in healing, dignity, de-escalation, and community leadership.

AB 1932 represents another step toward making those alternatives real and sustainable across California.

But we also know legislation alone is not enough.

Now we fight for the funding. Now we fight for implementation. Now we make sure community-based organizations and people most impacted are at the center of what comes next.

And we honor the families whose loved ones were taken by state violence. Their organizing, grief, courage, and refusal to stop fighting have pushed California toward something different.

This victory belongs to the movement. And the work continues.

Thank you to our co-sponsors and partners:

@asmelhawary
@allianceforbmoc
@allofusornone
@bambdcdc
@blmgrassrootsca
@curyj510
@justiceteamsnetwork
@lspcmovement
@youthjusticela
@reimaginerichmond
@blacksolutionslab

We organized. We fought. We won. Now we make sure California funds it.

#CRISESAct #AB1932 #CommunityCare #CareNotCops #MentalHealthCrisisResponse #CommunitySafety #APTP #AntiPoliceTerrorProject #California #CommunityPower #CareNotCages

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