Archive - TL;DR Newsletter

Ceasefire Resolution Public Comment West Orange Town Council 2/13/24

But right now in Gaza, kids aren’t the future, because they’re dead.

Feb 14 •

January 2024

Palestinian Lives Matter

But what do we do when our elected officials and a minority of our neighbors refuse to acknowledge that?

Jan 9 •

December 2023

My written testimony to the Assembly Community Development and Affairs Committee on Strong Civilian Complaint Review Boards

A1515 is finally getting a committee hearing, almost 2 years after it was introduced and assigned to committee

Dec 9, 2023 •

My Op-Ed on my journey on police violence and how it applies to occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine

Our world has been consumed by atrocity, slaughter, and decimation many times before, but what’s changed in the last few years is the ability for…

Dec 6, 2023 •

My Op-Ed on the County Line as a voter suppression tool

Every single Democratic voter who cast a vote in the primary election would have been disenfranchised if the Essex County Democrats leadership had…

Dec 4, 2023 •

June 2023

#Justice4Bernard - Englewood Council Public Comment 06/13/2023

My public comment on obtaining justice for Bernard Placide, Jr. at the Englewood Council Meeting

Jun 17, 2023 •

May 2023

Open Letter to Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin

When your State Attorney General quotes Letter from Birmingham Jail you'd probably expect good results. New Jersey's AG seems to be on a different path.

May 25, 2023 •

Testimony on Community Crisis Response - A5326

I wrote this to be submitted as written testimony from Our Revolution NJ to the New Jersey Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee as they considered…

May 20, 2023 •

Policing, Whiteness, and My Journey of Understanding

A racist system will always produce racist outcomes. We need to break down that racist system.

May 6, 2023 •

April 2023

New Jersey is governed by white moderates

Those people who are quoting Dr. King's Letters are the same people he was talking about, and they either don't see that, or they don't want to see…

Apr 19, 2023 •

March 2023

Public Comment - Englewood Council Meeting - 03/30/2023

Six months after an Englewood Police Officer murdered Bernard Placide, Jr by shooting him while he was incapacitated by a taser, the Council isn't…

Mar 31, 2023 •

#JusticeForNajee 3/7/23

Living into my own theory that sharing pictures of protest is important to spreading the change we hope to accomplish

Mar 9, 2023 •

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