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Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition

@bonh.bsky.social
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We are building a coalition dedicated to ending mass incarceration, police violence, and cash bail in Colorado. bringourneighborshome.org

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Medicinal Colorado @medicolorado.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
2/3rds of Colorado schools are in denial and think they can just-say-no their way through fentanyl www.denverpost.com/2023/10/06/n...
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More Colorado schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma
Though more districts have signed on since last year, only about a third of Colorado districts had enrolled in the state’s giveaway program at the start of this school year.
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Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition @bonh.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
🙏Thank you community! City Council has voted, & everything that we were pushing to have included in the 2024 budget will be sent in council's recommendation letter to Mayor Johnston. 🎉 He must submit his revised budget by Oct 16th, before the Oct 23rd public hearing. Don't let the pressure up!
A Denver Budget for Real Public Safety:
 Increased funding for the STAR Program
 Fund Denver Health at the requested level
 Rental assistance & eviction defense
 Services for encampments
 Cancel medical debt
 Extend the Denver Basic Income Project

bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
“The movement for defending life on earth is always a movement against the police. If you’re fighting to defend a forest, if you’re fighting to defend your home against eviction, your land against a pipeline, you’re always fighting against the police.” indyweek.com/news/durham/...
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Durham Residents Prepare for "Stop Cop City" Weekend of Action - INDY Week
At an event at Durham's Main Library, organizers encouraged attendees to travel to Atlanta in November as part of an upcoming mass action to block the planned police training facility.
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Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition @bonh.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Tell Mayor Johnston & Denver City Council that Denver has much better things to invest in than already-bloated systems that don't keep us safe and actively harm our communities. #copolitics 💵 Fund stability. Fund community. Fund health. Fund REAL public safety. 🧰🛠 bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
Action Alert
Tell Mayor Johnston: Fund real public safety, not more cops.
167 more cops + 90 more correctional beds won't keep us safe. Keep your promises. Invest in community, not more police!
bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
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Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition @bonh.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
🚨ACTION ALERT!🚨 Tell City Council & Mayor Johnston to take the $8.2M earmarked for more police & correctional beds & use that money to fund things that strengthen our communities & make them safer! 🧰 Our toolkit makes it easy!🛠 bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
Action Alert 
Tell city council & Mayor Johnston: Invest in Community, not more police.
Bloated police budgets defund our communities. Let's fund supportive programs and create real public safety!
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Bring Our Neighbors Home Coalition @bonh.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
🎙 ***tap tap*** Is this thing on? It's budget season in Denver! Did you know that Denver already spends ✨37% of the city budget✨ on the Department of Public Safety?? Bloated police budgets defund our communities, and throwing more money at policing doesn't make us any safer.
Invest in community not more police.
Candidate Mike Johnston said he'd budget $3M for 200 additional "clinicians, EMTs and police". 

Mayor Mike Johnston proposes budgeting $8.2M for 167 additional cops + 90 extra correctional beds.
bit.ly/DenverBudgetPriorities
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 30/09/2023
I plead with the officer who is driving to turn back and let me go home. "If you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have called a crisis hotline. You did this to yourself. This is your fault", he said as he looked at me in his rear-view mirror. 23/
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
On paper, Colorado did something big in 2018, becoming the 1st state to vote to abolish slavery. But in reality, CO prisoners are still being forced to work, under threat of punishment. Important new story from @bolts.bsky.social: boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...
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Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery
Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.
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reftpt93 @reftpt93.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
“Studies have shown that communities with greater resource accessibility tend to have lower rates of gun violence.” @prisonculture.bsky.social www.thetrace.org/2023/09/libr...
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Public Libraries Can Play a Role in Gun Violence Prevention
Libraries have always sought to build stronger, more resilient communities. These days, they’re also furthering public safety.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2023
Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Clients 6 years ago, the MS Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans showing how they meet their obligations to poor defendants. This summer, amid increased scrutiny, the first one was filed.
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Mississippi Courts Won’t Say How They Provide Lawyers for Poor Clients
Six years ago, the Mississippi Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans showing how they meet their obligations to poor defendants. This summer, amid increased scrutiny of public defen...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."
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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters
A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in co...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14/07/2023
Amazing example of local journalism producing state-level changes. As a result of Josh’s investigation into overpriced phone calls for ppl who are locked up in one county’s jail, there are now bills seeking to make all calls free STATE-wide in PA.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/07/2023
Yesterday marks eight years since Sandra Bland, who lived in Naperville, Il was found dead in a Texas jail cell, two days after a police officer stopped her for alleged failure to signal. www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/s…
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Sandra Bland Was Right: An NBC 5 Investigation
In the wake of continuing questions of racial-profiling after Tyre Nichols’ death in Memphis, Illinois’ official data shows that several suburban Chicago police departments stopped minority driver...
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