Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)

📣We are calling on CURB members to make public comment TUESDAY 10/27 @ 1pm via Zoom urging the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code to recommend community-based demands to the Legislature. 💥Take Action and details: bit.ly/10-27action #CareNotCages

🗞️Check out this new piece featuring CURB’s Amber-Rose Howard & @ellabakercenter.bsky.social's Barbara Chavez following the 3rd Annual Walk For Life Walk-A-Thon urging @governor.ca.gov to commute life without parole (LWOP) sentences before he leaves office.  Full article: bit.ly/10-13wave #DropLWOP

HOW TO STOP A JAIL IN YOUR TOWN @curbprisons.bsky.social @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social just mentioned this in the @socialismconference.org panel UNRULY SUBJECTS: A RECKONING WITH OUR MOMENT with @chenjeraii.bsky.social, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.scribd.com/document/177...

☀️As our 2026 Summer Fundraiser comes to a close, we want to express our deep gratitude to you all, the CURB community, for continually supporting a #CareNotCages vision in CA. Today is the last day of our Summer Fundraiser & we are so close to reaching our goal! Make a gift today: bit.ly/curbdonate

💭 Wondering what’s in California’s 2026-27 Enacted Corrections Budget?! Check out and share CURB’s overview here🔗bit.ly/enacted26 This overview breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly of California's $19.33 BILLION corrections budget. #CloseCAPrisons #CareNotCages #CABudget #CAPrisons

🗞️HOT OFF THE PRESS🗞️ Check out this new, incredibly powerful op-ed in @truthout.org by Mathew Witecki & Ryan Brennan, two imprisoned advocates who connected with CURB prior to the closure of the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC), in Norco CA. Full op-ed: bit.ly/crc8-31 #CareNotCages

🎙️Powerful words from an imprisoned comrade, Troy T Thomas in the California Health Care Facility on the harms of reforms that legitimize and expand the power of the prison industrial complex. 📲 bit.ly/CURBsubscribe #CareNotCages #CloseCAPrisons

✊🏾This month we honor #BlackAugust, uplifting its origins and the ongoing organizing against oppressive prison conditions led by imprisoned people that its legacy has inspired... read our full Black August post here: curbprisonspending.org/the-latest/h...

☀️CURB’s 2026 Summer Fundraiser is HERE We’re working hard to raise $10K this month to sustain the organizing, advocacy & public education needed to bring people home, close prisons + jails & move public dollars toward housing, healthcare & community-based safety. Donate today: bit.ly/curbdonate26

👋🏾CURB is a Black led coalition of 100+ orgs working to: 💫Reduce the number of people imprisoned in CA 💫Reduce the number of prisons, jails & detention centers in our state 💫Shift wasteful spending away from cages & towards life-affirming community investments Join the fight📲bit.ly/CURBsubscribe

CURB staff will be on summer recess from July 6th through July 19th.☀️ As our Black, Indigenous, brown, migrant, trans, and working class communities grieve immense loss, heightened criminalization, and attempted erasure, centering care and connection is more essential than ever. #CareNotCages

Come through TOMORROW LA! #CloseMCJ #CareNotCages

⏰📣PHONE ZAP📣⏰ 💥We have only a few days left to demand @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social commits to prison closure, rejects prison expansion, and implements further Corrections reductions in the 2026-27 Enacted budget due June 30th. Take Action TODAY: bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CABudget #CloseCAPrisons

🗞️HOT OFF THE PRESS 🗞️ New @sacbee.com article ft words from CURB's Amber-Rose Howard: bit.ly/6-16sacbee ✊🏾The #CALeg's final version of the #CAbudget includes another prison closure! 📣Urge @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social to commit to prison closure in the June Enacted Budget: bit.ly/budgetaction26

Check out this webinar on Thursday from our friends at Black Alliance for Just Immigration! You can register here: bit.ly/BEYONDTHESYSTEM

Thank you for amplifying @endfelonymurder.bsky.social ! 📣Check out the full op-ed here: bit.ly/ocregisteroped & demand @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social close another prison in the final #CAbudget: bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CloseCAPrisons #Cabudget

Op-Ed "Paying for Prison Beds We Don't Need Doesn't Keep California Safe" appeared on May 25th in the @ocregister.bsky.social and is written by Brian Kaneda, Deputy Director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social #carenotcages fmeproject.org/paying-for-p...

📣ALL HANDS ON DECK! Final opportunity this budget season to demand prison closure, expanded pathways for release, & investments in critical social safety net services! 💥TAKE 1 MINUTE to send a letter to @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social and Budget Committees TODAY! 📲bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CAbudget

🗞️💥Check out this new op-ed by CURB’s very own Brian Kaneda, Paying for Prison Beds We Don’t Need Doesn’t Keep California Safe 🔗 bit.ly/ocregisteroped, just published in the @ocregister.bsky.social 📲Take action to demand #CareNotCages in the #CAbudget at bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CloseCAPrisons

ALL HANDS ON DECK! Governor Newsom’s #MayReviseBudget cuts critical services while CA’s prison budget INCREASES to $14.6 BILLION💥📢 Take less than 1 minute to send an email today demanding #CareNotCages 📲 bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CAbudget #CloseCAPrisons

🎉AB 1958 @ashkalra.bsky.social, the Racial Justice Act 6.0, passed the Appropriations Committee and is on to the Assembly Floor! Thank you to our co-sponsors and community who made this possible! ❤️‍🔥 ✨Stay tuned for updates on #AB1958! #CALeg #RacialJusticeAct

📢LEGACIES OF RESISTANCE IN CA PRISONS  A new series on the history of imprisoned-led resistance in California, and what it means for the fight to close prisons today- full post here: www.instagram.com/p/DYFzksFkg_... #CABudget #CAPrisons #CloseCAPrisons

📣✨CURB is seeking a Summer 2026 #Intern to support the #CloseCAPrisons Campaign and other CURB advocacy! 📲Please see the Internship Posting on CURB’s website (bit.ly/curbintern26) for more information about CURB, our internship program, qualifications & application instructions. Apply by May 8th!

📣💥THIS Monday 4/20 @ 2:30PM we are mobilizing with our partners to demand accountability and freedom for survivors of CDCr staff abuse, #CloseCAPrisons, and investments in community-based services. 🗣️ In person sign-up: bit.ly/42026hearing 📲 Virtual Action: bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CAbudget

Take less than 1 minute to submit written comment ahead of the hearings 📲bit.ly/budgetaction26 Join us in calling on state leaders to decarcerate elders, shift corrections spending to community-based services, and stop prison expansion! #CloseCAPrisons #CareNotCages

NEW: Vera is launching the Incarceration and Inequality Project Data Explorer, the first national data tool with a primary focus on the intersection between incarceration and economic outcomes. Explore the data and learn more about your county: www.vera.org/incarceratio...

On the heels of #WomensHistoryMonth, check out this NEW op-ed by Amber-Rose Howard, CURB Executive Director, and Eric Morrison-Smith, Alliance for Boys and Men of Color Executive Director: bit.ly/3-31dcjournal Join us: @curbprisons.bsky.social #CloseCAPrisons #CareNotCages #MutualAid #CivilRights

Cowboys are sold as an intrinsic part of a conservative Texas - but what if we told you they were actually labor organizing rebels who held strikes against private ranchers and had the Texas Rangers sicced on them? 'Unlearning the Myth of Red Texas' CC: @currentaffairs.bsky.social shorturl.at/XWsJO

Policing *is* sexual violence "sexualized conduct in police workplaces has been a recurring issue that I’ve seen far too often... He said using office’s systemic investigation power for the first time would allow it to examine issues with broad impact" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Hot off the press in @calmatters.org 🗞️🗞️ Check it out here 📲bit.ly/3-18calmatters 💥💥The necessity and possibility of prison closure is breaking through. #CloseCAPrisons #CAbudget #CAleg #CAPrisons

Last week, FMEP members worked in collaboration with partners Californians United for a Responsible Budget @curbprisons.bsky.social and UnCommon Law. We all know the work we do is hard. We also know criminal justice advocacy is more effective and sustainable in partnership. bit.ly/4bt28dm

TOMORROW! Join us in person if you can! In person and virtual action sign up here: bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CABudget #CloseCAPrisons

📣📣Calling San Diego Community! ✨Join CURB for an #ICEOUTOFSANDIEGO action this Thursday, 3/12 @ 11am. This action is organized by our partners Universidad Popular ~ a grassroots organization based out of North County San Diego working to promote health, education, and civic participation #ICEout

📣Demand accountability in the Corrections budget, full & permanent prison closure & shift $$ to #CareNotCages 🗓️On Wed, March 18th at 9:00 AM, Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Accountability & Oversight will hold a special hearing on CDCR. More info & take action: bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CAbudget

PUBLIC SAFETY BUDGET HEARING IS TODAY! Join us at the state capitol in Sacramento @ 2:30pm and/or take action remotely! 📣Sign up for in-person comment: bit.ly/hearing-signup 📣Submit virtual written comment: bit.ly/budgetaction26 #CABudget #CloseCAPrisons