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Social justice activist. Non-profit executive director (@newhourNY) @galaxy_gives fellow. Proud Boricua. All opinions my own.

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Serena#FreeHer @serena5.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Commentary: Pass the CARE Act to protect incarcerated mothers and their infants www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti... Legislation would standardize care for parents-to-be and their babies
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Commentary: Pass the CARE Act to protect incarcerated mothers and their infants
Commentary: Legislation would standardize care for parents-to-be and their babies, prioritizing their health and well-being.
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Times Union @timesunion.com · 01/04/2025
A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked because of his campus activism said he decided to leave the United States.
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Cornell student protester facing deportation leaves the US on his 'own terms' after losing faith
A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked over campus...
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Times Union @timesunion.com · 04/04/2025
“I’m not in any rush. I’m truly not in any rush,” Hochul said. “You won’t have to wait forever but summers are nice here, too.” (📝 @danclarkreports.bsky.social )
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New York's state budget has stalled over criminal justice policy
But lawmakers have largely agreed to a proposal from Hochul that would ban students from using their cellphones during the school day.
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Times Union @timesunion.com · 04/04/2025
The union representing thousands of state correction officers issued a searing statement Friday saying that unsafe working conditions are persisting in New York’s prisons and that their concerns have been “largely ignored” by the governor’s office and the corrections department.
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Correction officers union says prison conditions remain unsafe
The union representing thousands of state correction officers issued a searing statement Friday saying that unsafe working conditions are persisting in New York
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
They want to imprison anyone for burning down a Tesla. For 20 years. How much for burning down the stock market?
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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It's not too late! Find a March near you, and tell these Robber Barons: Hands Off Our Schools! Hands Off Our Libraries! Hands Off Our Med Science! Hands Off Our Soc Sec! Hands Off Our Health Care! Hands Off Our Vaccines! Hands Off Our Jobs! Hands Off Our DEMOCRACY! #HANDSOFF 🛑 handsoff2025.com
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/04/2025
I should have made more AOCs.
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God @thegodshow.com · 05/04/2025
The White House admits they sent an innocent father of three to the prison in El Salvador but they are still fighting to make sure he doesn’t come home. The definition of evil.
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Listen to @serena5.bsky.social of NewHour NY and @profwolff.bsky.social on a recent #EconomicUpdate discussing mass #incarceration in the US and moving beyond #prisons and the necessity of supporting communities #abolition #justice #educate #agitate #organize #capitalism #economics
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Shakira dedicates her Grammy to immigrants: “I want to dedicate this award to all my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country. You are loved. You are worth it and will always fight with you.” 🥹 Thank you, Shakira, for standing with our Hispanic community! thehill.com/blogs/in-the...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Nobody wins a trade war. The costs fall on the consumers- us! What is this for? It solves nothing. Trump is stupid, petty and cruel. No wonder all his businesses failed
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 02/02/2025
The Department of Justice’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to January 6th appears to be illegal. We're pushing for action.
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Deletion of Jan 6 charges database appears to violate the law - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to the January 6th attack from its website appears to be illegal. The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal ...
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Global Capitalism: What Trump 2.0 Means: The Conversation Continues: Recap from the panel discussion hosted by Women Building Up featuring @profwolff.bsky.social , Dr. Harriet Fraad, Dr. Wilmer Leon, @serena5.bsky.social & Rob Robinson www.patreon.com/posts/global...
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Global Capitalism: What Trump 2.0 Means: The Conversation Continues | Democracy at Work
Get more from Democracy at Work on Patreon
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congratulations Beyoncé!! Country Album Of The Year!!! Black History Month and DEI is great! They BIG MAD ON THAT BIRD SITE !!! 🤣
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#SaveTheDate! Global #Capitalism with @profwolff.bsky.social returns in person this Saturday January 18th to Brooklyn with Dr Wilmer Leon, Dr Harriet Fraad @serena5.bsky.social #capitalism #economics #politics #democracyatwork Register here: tinyurl.com/amsbnska
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Wolff Responds: "The Lesson California's Fires Should Teach Us" Dated January 15, 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxh...
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Wolff Responds: "The Lesson California's Fires Should Teach Us" Dated January 15, 2025
YouTube video by RichardDWolff
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Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
As news spreads about the wildfires in Los Angeles know this: We depend on incarcerated people to risk their lives to fight wildfires. They get paid mere pennies to do so bc slavery is still legal in prison. And once released, their records bar them from becoming firefighters.
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Serena#FreeHer @serena5.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Looking forward, who’s joining me?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
The people that supposedly care about women's rights when it comes to trans people openly mock women for their appearance when they're in positions of power. These are the people that actually hate women.
"Three members of the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department stand together in formal uniforms. They are posing in front of a red backdrop, smiling confidently"
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Not only does Trump/GOP celebrate the Jan 6 terrorists, the House GOP blocked a plaque from being installed on Capitol Hill to honor the police officers injured in the attack. This plaque by law was required to be installed more than a year ago but GOP won't allow it rollcall.com/2025/01/02/i...
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Injured officers, Democrats still waiting for Jan. 6 plaque
Ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Capitol attack, some are again calling for the dedication of an overdue plaque to honor police.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Keep your hands off Social Security and Medicare.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/01/2025
For many formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, the scene of a handcuffed Robert Brooks, 43, being beaten by a team of state prison correction officers while in a medical bed on Dec. 10 was not shocking at all. "It’s been going on forever.”
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Former Prisoners Say Deadly Robert Brooks Beating Is Sadly Routine
Those that have been in the state pen and their lawyers say “what is most unusual about the beatdown of Mr. Brooks is that it was captured on video.”
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Serena#FreeHer @serena5.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This is not an isolated incident. While completely tragic, I used to work at the Correctional Association of New York and we reported on findings of rampant brutality and high rates of abuse at Marcy all the time.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The murder of Robert Brooks is part of a systemic problem.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
His name was Robert Brooks.
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Azulitasola @azulitasola.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I've mentioned that I began my college teaching career in men's medium security correctional facilities. One was Marcy State Prison outside of Utica, NY, site of the recent murder of prisoner Robert Brooks. Yes, I did have trouble with some of the CO's there.
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Serena#FreeHer @serena5.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This is where I used to work, visiting prisons and writing reports that always get overlooked. Maybe until now?
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Serena#FreeHer @serena5.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Good and it’s not enough
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kavid @kavid.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It'll be good when more government accounts join Bluesky, so we can ask them things like, why aren't the murderers of #RobertBrooks under arrest right now? And how many tens of millions will these criminals cost taxpayers when his family (rightfully) sues Marcy Prison officials?
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Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
White prison guards at Marcy Prison in upstate NY killed Robert Brooks (incarcerated in a nearby prison) while other guards & a nurse looked on on December 10. Video released today shows them kicking, punching & choking him while he is cuffed & shackled, blooded & unresponsive.
Robert Brooks with his son in an undated photo.
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natureone.bsky.social @natureone.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Looks like the NY Marcy correction/prison guards are up to no good. Hold the corrections officers, and anyone responsible for the harm, to account.
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Bob Jackson @bobjackson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
FBI reviewing Marcy prison beating death of Robert L. Brooks as charges considered The N.Y. attorney general's office and U.S. Justice Department are reviewing evidence in Dec. 9 beating of Robert L. Brooks; he died hours later www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti... #RobertBrooks
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FBI reviewing Marcy prison beating death of Robert L. Brooks as charges considered
The N.Y. attorney general's office and U.S. Justice Department are reviewing evidence in Dec. 9 beating of Robert L. Brooks; he died hours later.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Newly released body-camera video shows guards at an upstate New York prison beating a handcuffed prisoner to death. Forty-three-year-old Robert Brooks was pronounced dead after guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility punched and kicked him. www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/h...
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Video Reveals NY Prison Guards Beat Prisoner Robert Brooks to Death While Handcuffed
Newly released body-camera video shows guards at an upstate New York prison beating a handcuffed prisoner to death. Forty-three-year-old Robert Brooks was pronounced dead on December 10, a day after g...
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Chris Gelardi @chrisgelardi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New York's attorney general will soon release video of state prison guards' "use of force" in the case of 43-year-old Robert Brooks's December 10 death at Marcy prison near Utica. Yesterday, Governor Hochul ordered the firing of 14 state employees who were involved.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The only solution is abolition
A Google search for "COs beat inmate death"



NDTV, 9 hours ago

Bodycam Footage Shows New York Prisoner Beaten By Officers Before Death



Law.com, 15 hours ago

Legal Advocates in Uproar Upon Release of Footage Showing CO's Beat Black Inmate Before His Death




Corrections1, 4 days ago
N.Y. correction officers union condemns fatal attack on inmate at prison



WWNY, 1 day ago

Court documents detail fatal assault on inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility




Rome Sentinel, 
20 hours ago
VIDEO: Footage released of attack on inmate Robert Brooks in Marcy



Google search results for "COs beat inmate death"

WV MetroNews, 1 month ago

Another former CO at Southern Regional Jail pleads guilty to inmate's death



Chicago Sun-Times, Jun 28, 2024

Cook County Jail detainee died after being struck by guards while handcuffed, records show



ABC News, Apr 29, 2022

4 Florida correctional officers charged with murder in alleged beating of inmate



CBS News, Nov 30, 2023

5 former correctional officers in West Virginia indicted after death of man in jail
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 30/12/2024
MARCY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison where a handcuffed man died after officers beat him earlier this month will get a new superintendent, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday after visiting the facility.
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New York prison where a handcuffed man died after being beaten will get a new leader
MARCY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York prison where a handcuffed man died after officers beat him earlier this month will get a new superintendent, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday after visiting the facility.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/12/2024
Breaking News: Officers punched and kicked a restrained man in a fatal attack in a New York prison this month, video footage recorded by body cameras show.
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Video Shows Prison Officers’ Fatal Assault of Inmate in ‘Shocking’ Detail
Robert Brooks died after a savage attack at a New York prison this month that was captured by several officers’ body-worn cameras.
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TheRealMrFive @therealmrfive.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Please support my battle for life against cancer. Please share or donate of you can any amount matters 🙏🏽 gofund.me/05da1807
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Serena#FreeHer @serena5.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
See y’all there! Join me!
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Just out of curiosity: How many of you were vaccinated as kids in school, and do not regret it one bit? ✋
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 14/12/2024
Not a drag queen. Not a transgender person. A white male, as per usual. 🤬🤬🤬
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TheRealMrFive @therealmrfive.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
#FF @jailsaction-jac.bsky.social @icarszoey.bsky.social @serena5.bsky.social @freedomagendany.bsky.social @maya4rights.bsky.social @davidleegarlock.bsky.social @incarceratednation.bsky.social @joshuabhoe.bsky.social @kassandrafred.bsky.social @drugpolicy.org @solitarywatch.bsky.social
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