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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 2d

New #prisonart drop!
“The Death of Freedom” is a haunting new piece from incarcerated artist Scotty Scott—where power, punishment, and hypocrisy collide.
Prints now available at reimaginingtherevolu... 🎨🕊️
#ArtAsResistance #PrisonArt #ScottysVision

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 9d

As we mourn Assata’s passing, her words remain a call to action: freedom is won through struggle, not granted by oppressors. Her legacy challenges us to keep pushing for liberation on our own terms.

#WisdomWednesday #AssataShakur #Liberation

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 11d

✨ New in the store: Scotty’s Vision art prints ✨

Scotty's work as an incarcerated artist shines with resilience, creativity, and defiance against erasure. 100% of proceeds go to the artist for supplies.

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This is more than art. It’s resistance. It’s survival. It’s vision.

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 13d

The world has lost a revolutionary voice. Assata Shakur’s 78 years were marked by struggle, exile, and defiance. Her legacy continues to inspire movements for justice and freedom. Rest in power. 👑

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 16d

📅 #OTD – Sept 23, 1957
Two weeks after being turned away by the Arkansas National Guard, the Little Rock Nine returned to Central High School under federal protection.
They faced spitting mobs, death threats, and daily harassment just to walk through a school door.

#LittleRockNine #BlackHistory

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 22d

📅 #OTD – Sept 18, 1895
Booker T. Washington delivered his famous Atlanta Exposition speech—calling for Black economic uplift and racial cooperation.
The line “cast down your bucket where you are” would be celebrated by some, criticized by others, and debated for generations.

#Atlanta #BlackHistory

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 23d

Cabral was a revolutionary leader who organized anti-colonial liberation movements in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. His legacy is a blueprint for principled struggle—one rooted in truth, strategy, and collective power. #WisdomWednesday #AmilcarCabral #LiberationIsHonestWork

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 25d

Thousands of kids—disproportionately Black, Brown, and poor—are locked up for things that could be handled in schools or communities.

#YouthJustice #EndYouthPrisons #AbolitionNow #DidYouKnow

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · 28d

When soldiers patrol the nation’s capital, it raises a deeper question: who is being protected, and who is being policed? #DC #NationalGuard #Policing

Read the full blog:

All the President’s Pawns | Reimagining the Revolution

When the D.C. National Guard is used to shield a president who sees his own citizens as the enemy, its oath to defend the Constitution becomes a weapon in service of power, not democracy.

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Sep 10

Safety isn't about who shows up with badges and guns.
Elizabeth Hinton reminds us that real safety is clean water, decent housing, and a well-informed public.
#WisdomWednesday #PublicSafety #AbolitionNow #AmericaOnFire

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Sep 9

📅 On This Day – Sept 9, 2016
Incarcerated people in over 20 states launched the largest prison strike in U.S. history—refusing to work and demanding an end to prison slavery.
They chose this date to honor the 1971 Attica uprising.

#OTD #PrisonStrike #AtticaUprising #13thAmendment #BlackAugust

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎉 Happy Birthday, Claudette Colvin!
Born #OTD in 1939, she was just 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus—months before Rosa Parks.
Too often left out of the story, Claudette's courage helped launch a movement.

#ClaudetteColvin #BlackHistory #CivilRights #UnsungHeroes

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Sep 4

No one should be criminalized for seeking safety.
Borders divide.
Care connects.

#NoHumanIsIllegal #AbolishICE #ThisVsThat

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Sep 3

We’re not handed justice—we fight for it.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reminds us that every inch of progress has been won by movements, not mercy.

#WisdomWednesday #BlackLiberation #MovementHistory #KeeangaYamahttaTaylor

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re funding surveillance over support. That’s not safety. That’s criminalizing kids.

#DidYouKnow #CounselorsNotCops #EducationJustice #AbolitionNow

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 29

✊🏽 This Black August, stay in the struggle.
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Newsletter | Reimagining the Revolution

Welcome to the RTR NewsletterI’m kicking off this newsletter to keep you tapped in to the movement—updates on upcoming events, behind-the-scenes looks at projects in the works, recent media appearances, new blog posts, and more. This is about building power, telling the stories that need to be told, and staying connected as we imagine—and fight

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 28

Fear fuels budgets.
Facts demand accountability.

Let’s stop legislating based on headlines.

#DefundThePolice #ThisVsThat #PolicyNotPanic

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 27

Policing isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed—managing poverty, not protecting people.
Real safety means organizing for housing, healthcare, and dignity—not more cops.

#WisdomWednesday #EndOfPolicing #AbolitionNow #PublicSafety

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 26

📅 #OTD– Today marks the 10-year anniversary of a great loss. Amelia Boynton Robinson, a fearless organizer of the 1965 Selma March, died on August 26, 2015. Her legacy reminds us that access has always been fought for, not granted.

#VotingRights #Selma #CivilRightsMovement #BlackAugust

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 25

#DYK: Nearly 160 years after the 13th Amendment, slavery remains legal in most states—as long as you're incarcerated.

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 23

No one honked to help Ali when he was locked up. Now, he's outside the fence, making noise to ensure no one gets left behind.
Learn from formerly incarcerated activists like Ali Birts in Reimagining the Revolution. Fight for a better future! 📖
🔒 #Abolition #MassIncarceration

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 21

#OTD August 21, 1971, George Jackson, revolutionary, prison organizer, and author of Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye, was assassinated by guards at San Quentin Prison.

His life—and death—ignited global solidarity and helped spark Black August.

#BlackAugust #GeorgeJackson #SoledadBrother

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 20

Author of The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio writes with fierce clarity about the people this country exploits and then discards. This is what systemic abandonment looks like.
#wisdomwednesday #UndocumentedAmericans #immigrationjustice #reimaginingtherevolution

Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 19

Rehabilitation breaks cycles, while punishment only repeats them. Let's focus on building a future that prioritizes growth and healing. 🌱💪 #AbolitionNow #ThisVsThat #TransformativeJustice

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Paula Lehman-Ewing @rtronblue.bsky.social · Aug 18

Half of all Black trans women report being incarcerated at least once. What does that say about the system’s design?

#transrights #incarceration #freedom #womeninprison

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