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🧵The California Reparations Task Force meets this Friday and Saturday in San Diego!

Agenda: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…

Join virtually on oag.ca.gov/ab3121 or via @EtmMedia’s Youtube for a live chat option!

Public comment (9:10am-10:10am):
•844-291-5495
•Code: 3968101

Missed the December 2022 hearing in Oakland? Review the meeting minutes here: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…

#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow #Reparations

What’s on the agenda for Jan 2023? Well, for one: Tax Law Considerations!

The task force has invited three tax law experts to provide expert testimony on the intersection between reparations and tax.

Timely considering this latest article from @business: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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“Hampton, VA. Slab-town: After the Civil War, African Americans lived in large, segregated refugee camps like Slabtown because there was nowhere else for them to go. Hospitals, dispensaries, and military camps were unable to serve the masses of enslaved people…” #ReparationsNow

“Escaped and abandoned formerly enslaved people settled near or within the Union Army’s military camps and battle lines. The camps did not have adequate sanitation, nutrition, or medical care. One out of every four African Americans who lived in the camps died.(1864) #Reparations

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NotYourNegro 🇺🇸Freedmen

@Chad_Boogie

For past 4 yrs volunteer community organizers of @cjecofficial @NAASDLA put in thousands of hours of work to produce what you now know as #AB3121 & #SB189. We consulted legal, legislative and policy experts. We gathered input from dozens of listening sessions throughout CA.✊🏾💪🏾

We worked closely w/ Dr. Weber, Dr. Darity and a multitude of state and local elected officials. We even brought @icecube into the process.

We amended #AB3121, got it passed into law and, defeated an attempt to change the eligibility intent of the statute. #LineageVote ✊🏾💪🏾

We conducted surveys and produced countless pieces of marketing content directed at raising awareness in the CA #Freedmen community about #Reparations efforts in the state.

Everything we have done was to inform our people and bring them/ their input into the process. ✊🏾💪🏾

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🧵 Part 1:

Watch the end of the year recap on the first-in-the-nation California Reparations Task Force with @TheRevAl @PoliticsNation on @MSNBC!

#CRTF #AB3121 #ReparationsNow

🧵Part 2: #CRTF #AB3121 #PoliticsNation #MSNBC #ReparationsNow

🧵Part 3: #CRTF #AB3121 #PoliticsNation #MSNBC #ReparationsNow

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California has undertaken the nation’s most sweeping effort yet to explore some concrete restitution to Black citizens to address the enduring economic effects of slavery and racism. #CRTF #ReparationsNow
nytimes.com/2022/12/01/bus… via @nytimes @kurtisalee

A THREAD 🧵:

1. “A nine-member Reparations Task Force has spent months traveling across California to learn about the generational effects of racist policies and actions.”

#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow

2. “The group, formed by legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020, is scheduled to release a report to lawmakers in Sacramento to next year outlining recommendations for state-level reparations.”

#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow

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Happening now:

https://twitter.com/oandbinstitute/status/1571541309382328321

Starting with @DrWeber4CA:

"I am the great grand-daughter of those who were enslaved in the 1850s."

"Why have we never received reparations?"

"I have come to the conclusion: It is because people have never felt we deserved it."
— @DrWeber4CA

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Annelise Finney

@sharkfinney

🧵Threading the second day of #AB3121 notes here! 🧵

It's day 2 of the April CA #Reparations Task Force meeting in San Francisco.

The Task Force will discuss its first report📜and how they plan educate the public about their work 👨🏿‍🏫📢.

Here's the agenda:

And we're off!

Public comment is now beginning🎙️. In-person first, then they'll be taking comments by phone ☎️.

To call in, dial 877-226-8215 and enter this participant code: 5981272. An operator will tell you what to do from from there.

Community outreach, or the lack thereof, is a hot topic today in the public comments. Later this afternoon, the Task Force is expected to talk about its plan for public education.

Here is Cheryce Cryer on the topic:

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Annelise Finney

@sharkfinney

🧵 Threading today's #AB3121 notes here! 🧵

California's #reparations Task Force is meeting in ✨San Francisco✨ today and tomorrow at @ThirdBaptistSF.

This morning begins with public comment from 9:05-10:05.

Live Stream: oag.ca.gov/ab3121

Things are were off to a slow start at @ThirdBaptistSF this morning, but now roll call is getting started.

Rev. Dr. Amos Brown says he is "peacock proud and elephant elated" to have the first in-person reparations task force meeting here at @ThirdBaptistSF, where he is the Pastor.

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FridayJones

@IAMFridayJones

A thread Debunking Propoganda in #AB3121 - Top 10 reasons why lineage-based reparations is a bad plan thegrio.com/2022/04/11/top…

#AB3121 AB3121 “CA Task force declared they are not rooting for everybody Black.” – I do not even know what rooting for everybody Black means nor was a definition provided in the article …

10: - it is based on white history -He points to colonial era of 1526 predates the founding of America & reflects why a Federal Repair including HR40 should start at 1776 to allow for Black Americans to seek colonial reparations from Spain and the colony of San Miguel De Gualdape

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Grab your coffee ☕️ and your water (let's stay hydrated!).

California's Task Force on #Reparations #AB3121 is starting!

Beginning with public comment followed by a panel on mental health.

Tips on how to participate can be found here:
kqed.org/news/11898258/…

Here's the link to log in: primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event…

And here's today's agenda:
oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…

As per usual, we're beginning with public comment from now until 10:05

*If you want to participate in public comment login via BlueJeans and use the raise hand function.

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#AB3121 Starting the CA Reparations panel on public health now:

Dr. Carolyn Roberts
Dr. Tina Sacks @tinakim
Brett Andrews
Melissa Jones

[page 54 of the massive pdf doc]

Dr. Tina Sacks @tinakim is up next.

Some context on her work:
news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/18/inv…

Dr. Sacks will be going over health inequities among Black Californians, slavery and anti-Blackness and what repair might look like:

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#AB3121 CA Reparations Task Force is Back for the afternoon session.

Now:
Discussion Item — Community of Eligibility with Shirley Weber @DrWeber4CA, CA’s Secretary of State

1:30 panel on health w/
Carolyn Roberts
Tina Sacks
Cassondra Marshall
Brett Andrews
Melissa Jones

Chair @KamilahVMoore asks @DrWeber4CA to talk about her intent with the bill Weber authored (#AB3121)

"There was no hiding place from slavery in this nation... if slavery was pervasive here [in California], there needs to be a national effort."
— @DrWeber4CA

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New 🧵:
#AB3121 CA's Task Force on Reparations panel on Discrimination in Technology begins now.

Yeshimabeit Milner, ED of @Data4BlackLives

@VinhcentLe + Debra Gore-Mann, from @Greenlining

Dr. @safiyanoble, founder EquityEngine.org also a #MacFellow

First up:

Yeshimabeit Milner, ED of @Data4BlackLives

"The very first time I heard the term 'at-risk' was in fourth grade..."

Milner: When it comes to algorithms, history & values are what influence outputs.

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