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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻

@garrettsmithnys.bsky.social
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Abolitionist. Organizer. Reformer. Advocate. Proletarian. #FoundationalBlackAmerican #CleanSlateNY #CommunitiesNotCages #AbolishSlavery #ResQPeople **views are mine alone**

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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
233 New Yorkers registered to attend and counting!! Join #CommunitiesNotCages for a blow-out advocacy day on January 26. RSVP - www.bit.ly/CNCJan26 To begin 2026, we’ll have rallies, press conferences, meetings with lawmakers, music, and creative actions - and we need you there! 🩵🖤💛
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
www.thefreelancenews.org/home/religio...
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RELIGIOUS LEADER KILLS HIMSELF INSIDE PRISON WHERE GUARDS MURDERED ROBERT BROOKS — THE FREE LANCE
CIVILIAN MUSLIM IMAM AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHOT HIMSELF TO DEATH
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#CommunitiesNotCages Second Look Symposium, hosted by Chief Judge Rowan Wilson on Dec 3 from 12-2pm at the Yonkers Public Library. RSVP here: www.bit.ly/CNCDec3Yonkers
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#JusticeforRobertBrooks 🗞️🗞️🗞️: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Join #CommunitiesNotCages for our Statewide Day of Action on Nov. 18 at 12pm. Featuring families missing loved ones this holiday season, we'll have rallies and press conferences in New York City, Rochester, Albany, Westchester, Syracuse, Buffalo, Ithaca, and Long Island. RSVP: bit.ly/CNCNov182025
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Unlocking #SecondChance opportunities in Buffalo next month - Free Legal Clinic Resource Fair - Sept. 29! Scan the QR Code below to learn more about #CleanSlateNY and resources in the Buffalo Community.
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New York State’s DOCCS #HumanitarianCrisis has only gotten worse - NBC obtains new footage of violence against an incarcerated New Yorker: www.nbcnews.com/video/with-p...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#CleanSlateNewYork Town Hall in Hudson NY on August 23 at 1PM - no registration required. Help spread the word about this panel discussion on New York’s historic record sealing law!
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📢Join us for an informative #LunchandLearn webinar on August 6th at Noon to learn more about New York’s “One Day to Life” law - RSVP here: bit.ly/Aug6th12pm #ForensicRehabilitationAct
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#JusticeforRobertBrooks - New York State Prisons are still in a Humanitarian Crisis - the situation has not gotten better whatsoever. youtu.be/oThPeyxuLqE?...
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Bodycam video worn by Officer Trombly in Fatal beating of Robert Brooks
YouTube video by CBS6 Albany
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The 5 P’s: Proper - Preparation- Prevents - Poor - Performance! Sign up to join CCA’s Public Speaking & Storytelling Lab: www.bit.ly/CCASpeakingTruth
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
📣 Only a few more spots left - please apply by July 7 if you’d like to participate!! www.bit.ly/CCAsoi2025
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Shut up and dribble ☑️
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Knowledge is Power ~ apply now for CCA’s Summer Organizing Institute: www.bit.ly/CCAsoi2025 #EndPerpetualPunishment #endmassincarceration
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#CommunitiesNotCages ⚖️ #RestorativeJustice - contact your state legislators and governor to help the Earned Time Act (S.342/A.1085) and Second Look Act (S.158/A.1283) pass this month‼️www.bit.ly/CNCNY
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#CommunitiesNotCages ⚖️ #RestorativeJustice - contact your state legislators and governor to help the Earned Time Act (S.342/A.1085) and Second Look Act (S.158/A.1283) pass this month‼️www.bit.ly/CNCNY
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢Rally in Albany - Thursday June 5 at 11am #JusticeforRobertBrooks #RestorativeJustice
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
📍ALBANY - End Mass Incarceration Day - May 28. Scan QR code to join!
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Earned Time Act, which would give people in prison more chances to shave time off their sentences, didn’t make it into the final budget, but lawmakers plan to push for its passage during the remainder of session. #CommunitiesNotCages Read: www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
RSVP: ag.ny.gov/community-impact-hearing
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can you support Communities Not Cages? Fill out this poll from the BPRHA Caucus of State Legislators on post-budget priorities and include the CNC bills! You can use the bills’ titles, numbers and descriptions listed in the comment section. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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2025 People's Policy Agenda: Share Your Input
As we move into its post-budget phase, the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus is seeking input from external partners and advocacy organizations on policy priorities that advance...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." RSVP here: www.bit.ly/FreeOurMoms Will you stand up for #CommunitiesNotCages to demand justice? Transportation provided across the state.
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
HEMPSTEAD 📍- Join us on Wednesday, April 23, at 11 am for a rally and press conference to demand an end to systemic violence and fair pathways home for incarcerated loved ones. RSVP: www.bit.ly/CNCNassau
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Earned Time Act has passed the Senate Corrections Committee. Contact your legislators to keep the momentum going: bit.ly/CNCNY
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In honor and remembrance of our loved ones—Samuel Harrell, Robert Brooks, Messiah Nantwi, Edward Sholtz, and countless others—whose lives were taken by state violence, #CommunitiesNotCages will hold an interfaith vigil following the press conference. RSVP to join: www.bit.ly/April19Justice
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Join #CommunitiesNotCages to help make a difference - RSVP: www.bit.ly/FreeOurMoms
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Former DOCCS Commissioner Brian Fischer published a powerful op-ed in the Buffalo News calling on New York lawmakers to pass the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act, and Marvin Mayfield Act. buffalonews.com/opinion/arti...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Never Forget 🔺⚜️🔻
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
#BetterReentryNow - Join us in Albany to advocate for an increase in New York State’s Gate Money on March 4: ceolink.co/ReentryMar4
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
#JusticeforRobertBrooks ~ Important Update, Please Read: www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#JusticeforRobertBrooks ~ Justice for All of Us - continue to take action ⚖️: www.bit.ly/JusticeforRobertBrooks www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
timesunion.com
New York corrections commissioner gets vote of 'no confidence'
Leaders of the union representing thousands of N.Y. correction officers issued a vote of "no confidence" this week for Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III.
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact… always supersedes belief.” -Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan - #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Please join us on March 27 from 6-8pm at the Union Theological Seminary for a #CommunitiesNotCages Symposium on the Second Look Act. This symposium will focus on this vital legislation’s impact on excessive sentencing, reentry and recidivism. Scan the QR code to RSVP
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Justice for Robert Brooks - Justice for All of Us. Another man was killed while in “custody”. This time at Coxsackie CF. The lynchings are still happening in New York - www.bit.ly/SyracuseFeb1
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Together we can build communities, not cages - take action: www.bit.ly/CNCNY - and/or RSVP to join us in the Capitol on Feb 4: www.bit.ly/CNCFeb4
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📢#JusticeforRobertBrooks - Take action and make the demand for systemic accountability! www.bit.ly/JusticeforRobertBrooks
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
📢#Justice4RobertBrooks - Rally in Albany for the SOTS - Jan 14 - contact the brothers below for more info📍
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
📢#Justice4RobertBrooks - Rally at Marcy Correctional Facility - Jan 11 at NOON - sign up to join: WWW.CIT.AC/JUSTICE4BROOKS 📍
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Who are the Elders you listen to? I know who I do - Neely Fuller Jr. #EndMassIncarceration #EndSlavery #FoundationalBlackAmerican - Established in 1843 🔺⚜️🔻
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#JusticeforRobertBrooks Can you help spread the word? Sign the Petition to Demand Systemic Accountability from New York State - bit.ly/Justice4RobertBrooks - #EndMassIncarceration
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Marcy NYS CF Staff Responsible for the Death of Robert Brooks: Officers: Matthew Galliher, Nicholas Anzalone, David Kingsley, Nicholas Kietter, Robert Kessler, Michael Fisher, Christopher Walrath, Michael Along, Shea Schoff and David Walters. Nurse: Kyle Dashnaw #JusticeforRobertBrooks
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
#ReclaimMLK #JusticeforRobertBrooks RSVP Jan 20 - bit.ly/ReclaimMLK2025
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#JusticeforRobertBrooks - Rochester Rally and Vigil Dec 30 at 6pm. 130 S Plymouth Ave.
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#JusticeforRobertBrooks - NYC at 3pm. 633 3rd Ave.
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#JusticeforRobertBrooks
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Join #Right2RemainSilent in Albany on February 11th for a joint advocacy day with the Youth Justice and Opportunities campaign! This is once again a powerful collaboration with #YJOA! RSVP: bit.ly/R2RSYJOA
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#CleanSlate ONE Million views and counting!! #CleanSlateNY Unlocking #SecondChance opportunities for 2.3 Million New Yorkers. #keepupthegoodfight youtu.be/JupVKAGJ8hU?...
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Join #ParoleJustice Advocacy Day in Albany Jan. 2025! Urge the New York State Legislature to pass the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills. RSVP: bit.ly/ParoleJustice2025
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Garrett Smith 🔺⚜️🔻 @garrettsmithnys.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Join #CommunitiesNotCages for our FIRST 2025 advocacy day on February 4. To kick off 2025, we’ll have rallies, press conferences, meetings with lawmakers, music, and creative actions - and we need you there! RSVP here: bit.ly/CNCFeb4
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