Last Night's Measure U meeting discussion with the Mayor. Mayor Steinberg committed to divesting funds from the police budget into a community focused response team. I highlighted that we already have people in the community who do that work and would to increase their capacity with more funding.
Inclusive Economic Development not only means investing in the environment that colonized people live in, but also directly investing in the material conditions of the people who are affected by neoliberalism and neocolonialism, both domestically and internationally.
After spending all day at the Board of Supervisors meeting and after almost 3 hours of criminal justice agency testimony as to why they deserve more funding, the Board of Supervisors only gave us two minutes to speak on not funding the prison expansion project. We all had a lot to say so excuse the extremely fast dialogue. #decarceratesacramento
So it makes sense for the sheriff to interview who he wants to oversee him right ? After he was the one to block the previous Inspector General from investigating sheriff deputies killing of Mikel McIntyre, essentially firing him.
Assembly Member Rob Bonta mentioned something about California’s Green New deal and the tech sector’s involvement, but what was not mentioned was that the growth of the tech field in California is a result of the exploited child labor occurring in the cobalt and coltan mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I’d be lying if I said I was surprised Dr. Vubal express the need for international worker solidarity to combat racialized capitalism; what I consider colonialism.