Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec
founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (forthcoming 2024) civilrightscorps.org/alec-karakatsa… Washington, DC Joined February 2014-
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columbia university admin threatened immediate expulsion for students occupying hind hall but couldn’t expel the students who attacked us with chemical weapons, despite hospitalizing 15 people.
A new low for the New York Times. In the article about the ICC potentially preparing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, NYT includes an amazing paragraph. See if you can tell a difference in which claims NYT treats with skepticism and which it embraces, whatever the evidence.
Oh, ok. Our bad.
A large group of non-profits, op-ed writers, professors, and politicians got a lot of money to propose lucrative new training programs for police after the violent police misconduct in the 2014 and 2020 protests. This is what police are trained to do.
A large group of non-profits, op-ed writers, professors, and politicians got a lot of money to propose lucrative new training programs for police after the violent police misconduct in the 2014 and 2020 protests. This is what police are trained to do.
I haven’t seen more specific calls to action but the student organizers at George Washington University’s Gaza solidarity encampment are surrounded/barricaded by cops, being threatened w suspension, and asking people to show up to support. University Plaza.
Israeli Senior Military Official Colonel Oren Zini on TV calling to wipe out Gazans & strike them with the ten Plagues “We need to strike the enemy with TEN PLAGUES, WIPE OUT THE MEMORY OF AMALEK, to outstretch the arm with a mighty hand & give him one blow until it SCREAMS” ->
It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.
It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her. https://t.co/uYpXwKuc8D
One of the primary functions of police is to violently crush progressive social movements. It's one of the reasons expanding the size and power of police is always authoritarian and is never an answer to inequality. *It is a key part of preserving inequality, in all its forms.*
So many deliberate distraction operations at play: The leadership of the Democratic Party is pushing the narrative that the *real* problem with the Gaza war is Netanyahu. Pro-Israel charlatans have concocted a false narrative about rampant anti-semitism on US campuses and…
Thank u Alec! The Humphrey decision that you, the @CivRightsCorps team and @sfdefender and Mr. Humphrey won is what allowed for his pretrial freedom, so he was able to fight the charges at home instead of in jail for all those years.✊🏾🙏🏾
Thank u Alec! The Humphrey decision that you, the @CivRightsCorps team and @sfdefender and Mr. Humphrey won is what allowed for his pretrial freedom, so he was able to fight the charges at home instead of in jail for all those years.✊🏾🙏🏾
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@equalityAlec This is actually amazing. Right there, in the very next sentence, the immediate double standard.
@equalityAlec written by Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman, the latter an Israeli "journalist" who served in military intelligence. They do nothing but launder the most depraved genocidal atrocity propaganda hoaxes x.com/zei_squirrel/s…
on January 28 the NYT's Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman published a piece laundering an Israeli propaganda smear against UNRWA, explicitly lying about "a dozen" UNRWA-Hamas workers. The actual claimed figure was 4. Now it has emerged even that 4 was a lie with zero evidence
Protesting, to Serious Media Guys, is like a space capsule entering the atmosphere. It has to be at the exact speed and angle or the cause (which, they assure you, they vaguely care about) blows up. Somehow existing movement are never calibrated to their preferred inputs. Oh well
I haven’t seen more specific calls to action but the student organizers at George Washington University’s Gaza solidarity encampment are surrounded/barricaded by cops, being threatened w suspension, and asking people to show up to support. University Plaza.
@equalityAlec As a tile contractor in the Capitol of Florida, I was a little freaked when you posted my name - Chris Lewis… Small freaking world. I’m not that dude, for the record - I’m to the left of Karl Marx
Wtf? 3 Atlanta cops tazing a Black student while he is on the ground and already handcuffed? They hold prongs continuously against his body. Extremely dangerous. I'm going to be sick.
Thank u Alec! The Humphrey decision that you, the @CivRightsCorps team and @sfdefender and Mr. Humphrey won is what allowed for his pretrial freedom, so he was able to fight the charges at home instead of in jail for all those years.✊🏾🙏🏾
This is why we do the work that we do. He was the first person in San Jose released because of our case striking down California's bail practices years ago. And now look at the power of participatory defense and what happens when families are empowered to get involved.
@newrepublic @CivRightsCorps @equalityAlec “Karakatsanis is one of The New Republic's Political Influencers to Watch”. Great photographer (&glasses!) he looks a 1980s political science professor; sexy tired & wise 😆
A #participatorydefense story: -7 years ago he was detained on 2 million dollar bail for a crime he didn't commit, facing a life sentence. -We met his family at arraignment, they came to weekly participatory defense meetings. -They made a social bio packet for bail hearing. (1/4)
@newrepublic @equalityAlec Wow. That’s a surprise from The New Republic. Happy to see you shining this type of light.
.@equalityAlec, who founded the carceral reform nonprofit Civil Rights Corps, critiques media coverage “in service of a shared goal—to counter a lot of the propaganda around crime.” Karakatsanis is one of The New Republic's Political Influencers to Watch: trib.al/rkqCj29
A short, hopeful story. Starts 2 years ago, with a single mother named Terranisha in a Houston courtroom. Free pretrial because of bail reform. Ends w/ a dinner at John Legend’s house w/ other people who experienced freedom. But really it’s only the beginning. Watch & read on:
Prosecutorial misconduct occurs in courtrooms across the US. It is crucial for journalists to shine a light on this but it can be tricky to cover. Journalists are invited to our webinar TOMORROW with exoneree George Bell and reporter George Joseph. RSVP: bit.ly/pros-acct-4-23
@equalityAlec This is so well put I immediately screenshot it and I’m posting it to bluesky 💜 Thank you for sharing, Alec
@equalityAlec Stuart Hall is a gem. Been very much enjoying the various collections of his essays that have come out in past ten years or so.
@equalityAlec “range-riders of discipline” gonna be rattling around my brain for the next week, thank you
NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…
Thank you @thisishellradio for the deep dive about Accenture's illegal capture of jail reform in LA county with @equalityAlec and @stoplapdspying Check the conversation out below and tap-in by following @ExposeAccenture #ExposeAccenture soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/a…
It’s not a mistake that “law and order” folks want you to focus on shoplifters even as they benefit from law breaking that corrupts the core of our society in ways far more important than a petty theft from Walgreens. x.com/AshAgony/statu…
Billionaire Hui Qin made numerous illegal donations to political candidates, including Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign. Qin’s now-ex wife Emma Duo Liu got a cushy job in Adams’ administration. Adams also celebrated his 60th birthday at their luxury penthouse at The Plaza hotel.
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During one of my investigations early in my career, I met a Black teenager who was ticketed for sagging his pants (which was made illegal where he lived). He couldn't afford the ticket, so a judge and a prosecutor approved his arrest, and he was put in a cage.
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