Prisonculture: We’re living through an era when everything needs to be upended yet so many people are clinging tightly to the edge of the pool. I understand why this is: when things feel uncertain, the status quo is a mirage of ‘safety’. But we need people who are willing to swim in the deep end & offer new paths

We’re living through an era when everything needs to be upended yet so many people are clinging tightly to the edge of the pool. I understand why this is: when things feel uncertain, the status quo is a mirage of ‘safety’. But we need people who are willing to swim in the deep end & offer new paths

This is the perfect time to come up with innovative ideas for disempowering the courts in this country [we can start with the Supreme Court]. There have to be people out there who are thinking deeply and OUT OF THE BOX on this.

I see that the SC opened the door for MORE criminalization of the houseless. But many of us have been seeing how this has been happening locally for years. The SC can't criminalize the houseless, OUR LOCAL POLITICIANS & POLICY MAKERS have been and will. We need to FIGHT THEM.

I read this interesting toolkit a few weeks ago and there are many good ideas that might be pursued locally: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/publi...

Radical safeguarding toolkit - homelessness: Practice Tool (2024)www.researchinpractice.org.uk This practice tool shares information, ideas and inspiration for anti-oppressive approaches to safeguarding adults experiencing homelessness. It explores how social justice movements can shape the ser...

Just want to say that I remain grateful as ever for your wisdom (freely dispensed no less!). I do not use the word wisdom lightly, but it's the right word I think. Time and time again you help so many of us to better navigate this historical moment--no mean feat!

that's kind of you Geoff. thanks

Folks in New York (city and upstate) might want to check out VOCAL-NY.

Living in Phoenix where we treat our unhoused exceptionally bad according to the DOJ, I can confidently say it doesn't work

Every article written about a SCOTUS verdict should note they accept bribes. Period.

I saw someone call them the Supreme Corrupts and I thought it was catchy, ha.

I wish the media would stop manufacturing consent. I have to follow laws. Why are the media protecting the people who are supposed to represent us?

Congress has the power to determine the limit the appelate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, as well as eliminate judicial review of certain federal legislation or executive actions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdi...

Jurisdiction stripping - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

People's Parity Project and the LPE Project are two groups working on this (you may know this, so also sharing for others in your replies).

thank you. I definitely know of their work.

2 sessions in this course they did deal with court packing. No videos, but readings: lpeproject.org/events/open-...

Open Course: What To Do About the Courtslpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project and the People's Parity Project are teaming up to offer an open course/reading group on the urgent question of what to do about the courts in our current…

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