HB1020 MISSISSIPI BOOTS ON THE GROUND W/Rukia Lumumba & Iyafalola H. Omobola

WE WILL AGAIN DISCUSS MISSISSIPPI HB1020, WITH LYAFALOL H. OMOBOLA OF THE The People's Advocacy InstituteThe People's Advocacy Institute & RUKIA LUMUMBA  is executive director of the People’s Advocacy Institute in downtown Jackson Mississippi House voted to pass the Capitol Complex Industrial District (CCID) Expansion Bill—an anti-Black piece of legislation that steals the right to vote and elect local officials from Jackson residents by placing county judges and prosecutors in the hands of the Mississippi Supreme Court and state attorney general. Although white people only comprise 16 percent of Jackson’s population, the CCID’s geographic region is primarily white. Under the guise of “public safety,” policymakers are trying to engineer a white enclave with a separate court system, state-appointed judges, and prosecutors.The bill’s architects propagandized the measure as “public safety” when it actually takes power away from taxpayers and forces them to pay for judges unconcerned with their interests and who will be tasked with sentencing procedures. We will not stand by while power hungry Mississippi policymakers try to strip Jackson of its autonomy and undermine its residents. 

http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2021/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1020IN.htm

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/09/06/a-water-crisis-in-mississippis-capital-is-a-harbinger-of-worse 

The bill is headed to the Senate! Call your Legislators! Tell them No! Stop HB 1020!