Jennifer Lawrence has launched her own Twitter profile.
The Silver Linings Playbook star, 29, joined the social media platform earlier this month and shared her first tweet on June 16.
Jennifer previously said that she would ‘never’ have an Instagram account however she has since decided to make her social media debut.
Joining in! Jennifer Lawrence has launched her own Twitter profile
So far the actress’ Twitter – which has the handle @JLawrence_RepUs – has just 3,500 followers.
The actress is using her huge platform to speak out on the Black Lives Matter movement, after sharing a series of tweets advocating for the recent protests.
The profile picture Jennifer has used is from the promotional image from her campaign Unbreaking America: Solving the Corruption Crisis.
Jennifer and director of anti-corruption campaign RepresentUs Josh Silver walk through three lives that show what’s wrong with the legal corruption in a short film.
Activist: Jennifer, who is a board member for RepresentUs, continues to use her platform for good as her first tweet explained how one in four black men in America will be jailed at some point in their life due to a corrupt system
The short aims to show what is wrong, how they can help to fix it and what viewers are able to do about it themselves.
Jennifer, who is a board member for RepresentUs, continues to use her platform for good as her first tweet explained how one in four black men in America will be jailed at some point in their life due to a corrupt system.
Sharing a video which explained the corruption, Jennifer wrote: ‘Nearly 1 in 4 Black men in America will be locked up at some point in their life.
In this short video, @omarepps & @desmondmeade explain how corruption has broken our criminal justice system – & what we can do to fix it.’
Say Her Name: A further tweet addressed the injustice against Breonna Taylor a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers on March 13, 2020
A further tweet addressed the injustice against Breonna Taylor a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers on March 13, 2020.
The statement read: ‘For three months since her murder Breonna Taylor’s family, the people of Louisville, Americans across the country, and many around the world have called out for justice.
‘And yet, those calls have gone unanswered. No arrests have been made, the officers responsible for her death remain employed by the LMPD, and disturbingly, the LMPD’s own investigation report was woefully inacurrate.
‘As a Louisvillian, as a human being, I cannot be silent. I join all those who are speaking out against this grave injustice, calling upon Attorney General Daniel Cameron to take immediate action to hold those responsible for her death accountable.
‘Mr. Cameron, the longer you wait to bring those responsible for her death accountable. Mr. Cameron, the longer you wait to bring criminal charges against officers Johnathan Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, the more trust erodes.
‘I urge you to commit to transparency in the investigation and prosecution of these officers, and address the LMPD’s insufficient response to Breonna Taylor’s murder.
‘We must not allow the erasure of Black women to continue in America. As many activists and leaders have been imploring for years: #SayHer Name.’
Unbreaking America is by Represent.Us, an anti-corruption group, which seeks to bridge the political divide, creating anti-corruption laws that ‘stop political bribery’ and ‘fix broken elections.’
Lawrence is the star of a new documentary about corruption in the American political system
Premise: The film is by Represent.Us, an anti-corruption group, which seeks to bridge the political divide, creating anti-corruption laws that ‘stop political bribery’ and ‘fix broken elections’
Against a backdrop of bright graphics, Jennifer talks about flaws in politics and makes it clear that she isn’t talking ‘about Democrats and Republicans.’
‘I’m talking about the flaws that exist in our politics system regardless of which party is in power,’ Lawrence says.
‘…look, the government is ours. We pay for it, so it needs to work for us, and right now, it doesn’t,’ she adds.
Jennifer highlights one of her concerns, if an issue has 0 percent support or 100 percent support, there’s only a 30 percent chance that Congress will take action on it, she says, because lobbying interests dictate policy.
Brief appearance: Co-founder of Represent.Us, Josh Silver makes an appearance in the short film and outlines possible reforms to the current system
Lawrence asks, ‘how do we unrig this system?’
‘I’m obsessed with this idea, not just of unrigging it but actually fixing it,’ she continues.
She talks about changing things on the local level, ending gerrymandered voting districts, mandating transparent political spending and overhauling lobbying laws.
Plan: All of the suggested reforms are put in a ‘model law’ called the American Anti-Corruption Act which Lawrence and Silver think could become a reality if enacted on the local level
All of the suggested reforms are put in a ‘model law’ called the American Anti-Corruption Act.
Silver adds that politicians win in the current system so for change to occur they need to go ‘around’ Congress with cities and states all across America passing anti-corruption acts.
They present the argument that if laws are changed at the local and state level then federal officials will have almost no choice but to enact laws that would reduce the influence of money in American politics and policy.
On its website, Represent.Us says it needs 11 million people to watch the film.
Life: Jennifer poses during a photo call prior to the Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Ready-to-Wear collection fashion show by Christian Dior in Paris on Tuesday