Filmmaker. Concerned citizen. Bagel snob (i.e. New York Jew). Women’s basketball fanatic. Wife to my wife. Human to my dog and hopefully everyone else. She/her.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2009
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Melissa Finell retweeted
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner has been wrongfully detained in Russia. It's time to BRING BG HOME! @WhiteHouse @POTUS @VP
Sign and share the official petition at change.org/wearebg
#WeAreBG #BrittneyGriner Learn more: wearebg.org
@TheWNBPA @athletes4impact
Melissa Finell retweeted
THREAD: One week ago Justice Kavanaugh (left) ruled 100s still imprisoned by an Oregon law even he admitted was "rooted in racism" were out of luck bc they were convicted too long ago. Oregon's "progressive" AG Ellen Rosenblum (right) could fix this injustice today. Refuses to.
Melissa Finell retweeted
N🚫 FENCES!
Community members in echo park have organized a petition demanding the removal of @MitchOFarrell’s carceral fences at EPL.
Sign the petition here: nofencesechopark.org
Call Mitch’s office at (213) 207-3015 and demand #NoFencesEchoPark now or ever!
Melissa Finell retweeted
Chauvin is the part of the iceberg above the water. Whether or not he falls doesn’t change the fact the system that buoyed him must be dismantled.
Melissa Finell retweeted
the heaviest substance known to humans is the psychic weight of all the emails you haven't responded to
Melissa Finell retweeted
Donald Trump wins in 2016.
Media: We gotta talk to Trump voters!
Donald Trump loses in 2020.
Media: We gotta talk to Trump voters!
Melissa Finell retweeted
BREAKING: More than 600,000 Georgians have requested their mail ballots for the January 5 runoff elections.
Help elect @ReverendWarnock and @ossoff to the U.S. Senate by requesting your ballot today ➡️ ballotrequest.sos.ga.gov. Happy voting and let’s get it done... again. #gapol
Melissa Finell retweeted
Voter suppression should never be measured in the aggregate. That’s typically an indication of autocracy. 21st cen. voter suppression targets certain communities to disenfranchise while obfuscating intent. More simply put: more people in the water doesn’t mean fewer sharks.
Melissa Finell retweeted
When people in Louisville erupted in righteous outrage and took to the streets to protest Breonna Taylor's death, their message was clear: Her life mattered.
Today's decision is intended to send the exact opposite message: That her life was expendable. We must reject this.
Melissa Finell retweeted
According to Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah, which began tonight, is a tzaddik, a person of great righteousness. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
Melissa Finell retweeted
"And this is nothing new. I am not sad. I am not sorry. I am mad. And I am tired." - Letetra Widman, Jacob Blake’s sister.
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I greatly appreciate the WNBA explicitly supporting Black women and saying the names of the women we’ve lost to police brutality. They didn’t meme it. Also, it is very important to point out that American professional basketball returns today and not next week with the NBA.
Melissa Finell retweeted
My colleague @C6Nury & I are calling for a systematic crisis-response plan to replace police presence in non-criminal situations with unarmed service providers including medical professionals, mental health workers, homeless outreach workers and others with specialized training.
Los Angeles, we must #DefundTheSheriff and #DefundLAPD and invest in #CareNotCops. Enough is enough.
.@LASDHQ , @LaCoSheriff kills people in our neighborhoods and in the jails. LA County is proposing a $3.4 billion sheriff budget. We MUST #DefundTheSheriff to end state violence in our communities. #CareNotCages #FreeThemAll #JusticeLA #DefundPolice #CareNotCops
Melissa Finell retweeted
We're not backing down, #BreonnaTaylor deserves justice. The officers who murdered her still have not been charged.
Now more than ever we must keep up the pressure and demand @louisvillemayor act now.
Dial 844-298-2731 to demand these officers are charged and fired!#SayHerName
Melissa Finell retweeted
Yo @ericgarcetti how your city got almost 60k homeless people and you giving LAPD 1.8 billion dollars? I would really like an answer and so would the rest of the tax payers of Los Angeles.