📣⚡️We hope you are celebrating the fact that with today’s successful override of the Mayor’s veto, the movement to defend Black Lives in Seattle officially started defunding the SPD today (for the first time ever), and reinvesting in Black community.⚡️📣 1/
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📢🖤Let’s never forget: the colonizer’s first city council in Seattle used policing to kick the Duwamish people out. So, today marks a small victory in beginning to dismantle an institution that is deeply rooted in histories and practices of colonization and enslavement.🖤📢 2/
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🌱🦖After months of taking to the streets, endless hrs of zoom mtgs, hundreds of arrests, & thousands of protestors brutalized by SPD, all amidst a global pandemic, we proved to Durkan that we are not backing down & she can’t use anti-Black magic tricks to stop a movement.🦖🌱3/
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🚨💯We will defund the police in Seattle. We will abolish police and create paths to community safety that are rooted in the knowing that WE KEEP US SAFE.💯🚨4/
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💥What’s next? We are gonna need to pressure Durkan to #FreeTheFunds that were approved today for investments in scaling up community based solutions to safety. And, the 2021 budget is gonna drop soon—to which we demand: #DefundSPD by 50% (at least).💥5/
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🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿But first: rest!! And sending blessings and deep gratitude to everyone, especially Black folks, who’ve been putting in the work to make our wildest abolitionist dreams possible. We see how your fighting spirit and practices are making a new world possible🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽6/
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