Transforming Justice

Lisa has been a dedicated activist (including against PIC) for the LGBTQ+ community for decades. She is being denied public housing in Milwaukee. Please help her stay housed while she fights her legal battles. Any amount will help. This fund is being organized and supported by Black and Pink: Milwaukee.

Help Lisa Stay Housed! Lisa Mitchell is a Black trans activist in the Madison, WI area. She needs support to maintain her temporary housing while challenging a discriminatory legal decision that revoked the public housing unit that she had been approved for in Milwaukee.

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"Police departments commonly use tear gas as a weapon against protesters. During the past year’s movement for Black lives, at least 100 departments gassed demonstrators — the most widespread use since the 1960s and ‘70s, as The New York Times reported. But tear gas is so noxious that it’s not even allowed to be used in war per United Nations agreements, as the lawmakers point out in their letter. Yet, the U.S. permits its use on domestic protesters."

Cori Bush, AOC Launch Inquiry Into Health Effects of Tear Gas Used by Police Tear gas is disallowed in war, the lawmakers say, but police regularly use it on the people they’re supposed to protect.