Seattle consent decree: Ten years. $200 million dollars.
"Our biased policing got incredibly more expensive."
Let Seattle's experience be a warning to any other cities considering calling on the DOJ to "fix" your policing problems.
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Defend your local library. Defund your local police department.
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Virtually every inch of contemporary U.S. cities has been privatized and enclosed. If you don't have money, it's hard to find a place to use the bathroom, take shelter from rain, or gather with friends. Enforcing this arrangement with force is one of the main things police do.
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The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048.
Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.
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Please support Sandy in leaving her abusive partner and recovering from her injuries. We will be sharing Sandy’s own words below [TW: Mentions of SA, DV, IPV]
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Ditto for Seattle.
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The real San Francisco crime wave is rent.
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The laws and the courts don’t keep us safe; we do. No matter the ruling in this case, we will always support each other to have caring, supportive, and safe abortions. Mifepristone and misoprostol are here to stay.
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Taking this couple’s baby for having a home birth shows the ugly truth about family policing—it targets Black families; tears families apart; collaborates with cops; turns doctors into cops; endangers children; violates human rights. #TornApart #abolishCPS
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Police will dutifully enforce the nightmarish laws of the future currently being contemplated by the nation's sickos.
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Today’s front page is incredible. Make this your Sunday long read, please:
Horrifying stories of women chased down by the LAPD abortion squad before #RoeVsWade
latimes.com/california/sto
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3. We sharpened our demands. Care, Not Cages. Freedom, Not Transfers. Decarceration NOW.
Make no mistake, we will continue to shift the conversation. We won't stop until it's politically impossible for King County to do anything BUT #ShutDownKCJ and #FreeThemAll.
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2. We learned that there are many options for emptying King County Jail, and that without relentless community pressure, the County will default to the option that locks people up somewhere else.
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1. We learned that most King County Council members are still more worried about crossing Executive Dow Constantine than they are about the lives of their most vulnerable constituents.
(Shout out to for being on the right side of history.)
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Make no mistake; this was but the first skirmish in the war to shut down the deadly King County Jail. We learned a lot. We grew our ranks. And we’re ready to keep fighting.
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After three consecutive weeks of powerful community testimony against a new jail contract, King County Council voted tonight to outsource our community members to ANOTHER deadly jail. A🧵.
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‼️King County Council kicked ppl out of public comment IRL +cut zoom for 30 mins CENSORING the public comments +recessed for another 30 to get ppl to drop off the call/hide vote for deadly SCORE jail contract. PILE INTO MEETING NOW IF YOU CAN — Deets below to witness or testify.
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ALERT! Today at 1:30 PM KC Council will likely vote on the plan to move people from the deadly King County Jail to the deadly SCORE jail.
Public comment by zoom: webinar ID 813 1719 0179
Phone in: 253 215 8782
Or show up in person! 516 3rd Ave, 10th Fl.
tinyurl.com/TellKCC
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C'mon Chicago!
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LOL REALLY HOPING A THOUSAND COPS QUIT TONIGHT!
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ALERT! Today at 1:30 PM KC Council will likely vote on the plan to move people from the deadly King County Jail to the deadly SCORE jail.
Public comment by zoom: webinar ID 813 1719 0179
Phone in: 253 215 8782
Or show up in person! 516 3rd Ave, 10th Fl.
tinyurl.com/TellKCC
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It is with profound sadness we offer our deepest condolences to the family of Elijah L. Lewis who was murdered yesterday on Capitol Hill. Elijah was a long time friend and collaborator of Converge Media making numerous appearances on air and in film over the last 4 years but even… Show more
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It is with deep sadness that we are mourning the loss of Elijah Lewis. Elijah was committed to the community in so many ways, whether in his work with Africatown, Ethereal Vision, or teaching financial literacy to the youth at RBAC.
You will be missed Elijah. Rest in peace.
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3. Show up on Tuesday at 1:30 pm, either remotely or in person (with your mask!), to give public comment. Details here: tinyurl.com/ShutKCJ – talking points here: tinyurl.com/TellKCC
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Keep the pressure on:
E-mail Council TODAY and let them know, vote NO on the SCORE Contract. Everything you need to take action is here: tinyurl.com/ShutKCJ
Call their offices and leave the message: vote NO on the SCORE Contract & stop deadly carceral expansion.
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KC Council is claiming this is a temporary “solution.” But even before the vote, the Executive has already shared their eagerness to expand, saying they want to relocate more than 60 people a day and then further increase the County’s reliance on SCORE.
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We don't need an amended SCORE contract. We need NO SCORE CONTRACT.
We need to keep telling them until they get it: No More Deadly Cages. #NoStealthJailExpansion #ShutDownKCJ #FreedomNotTransfers
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After two weeks of public outcry against the proposal to outsource the misery at the King County Jail to the deadly SCORE jail, KC Council has delayed the vote *yet again*. THIS Tuesday, the Council will consider the proposal with what they hope will be less public attention. 🧵
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Here's a no-paywall link:
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They. Were. Locked. Inside.
39 men, burned alive inside a migrant detention center, under America's Migrant "Protection" Protocols.
This is our modern-day Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
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URGENT. King County Council has a vote scheduled TODAY on a *new* jail contract to send our people to *another* deadly jail.
They need to hear from YOU.
In person or remote public comment. E-mail. Call.
E-mail: tinyurl.com/ShutKCJ
Talking points: tinyurl.com/TellKCC
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People are in mortal danger because they're in jail; in jail bec. they're unable to pay bail or get crisis care/housing/services they need. #Solidarity with . Please read, take action TODAY. votes Tues 3/28. $3.5M to move people from Jail A --> Jail B? No.
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The Council will vote this Tuesday 3/28 at 1:30- there’s still time to let the Council know you want solve problems, not just move them around. 3 ways:
1. In person public comment
2. Comment via zoom
3. Write your council member
Assistance here: tinyurl.com/ShutKCJ
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Read it. Share it. Take action.
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Our downtown jail is one of the deadliest in the country, and the County knows it. One proposal in front of the Council rn is spending millions to move a handful of ppl to a different deadly jail.
This is not a solution.
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New Studies Show SARS-CoV-2 Disables At An Alarming Rate
Follow these five easy steps to pretend it's not happening.
![New Studies Show SARS-CoV-2 Disables At An Alarming Rate
Follow these five easy steps to pretend it's not happening.
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"A person can match the names of people who died unsheltered to the names of people booted from their homes the year before pretty faithfully"
Evictions = preventable death.
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Sending armed cops to evict a vulnerable community member ends in her death. Predictable. Tragic. Avoidable. #HousingForAll Now. #AbolitionNow.
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Read Seattle DSA's statement on the tragic death of Eucy, a DSA member living in Ballard. She died following an eviction attempt by the King County Sheriff's Department. We condemn the systemic violence that made this situation possible.
zurl.co/K5Bq
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A forest music festival attendee was just denied bond because they were aware of the likelihood of a violently repressive response, & took a single (minimal) step to prepare themself to exercise their legal rights in the event that repression came to pass. #StopCopCity
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jesus. the next person is denied bond. being held against them is the fact that they had a jail support number on them. that's being painted as evidence they came to commit a crime, when in fact, it's evidence that we live in a horrifying police state
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Live coverage here:
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March 5 arrestee bond hearings live tweets: John Fowler for the state is laying out a set of claims on behalf of the state. He is tying the forest defenders to groups existing all the way back to 2019.
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Everyone should be paying attention to and contributing to this fight not only because these folks deserve our solidarity but because our freedom, our right to protest, and the future of our planet depends on it.
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Instead of shuffling people around various unlivable torture chambers, why don’t we come up with practical solutions for reducing the jail population?
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Then: Undrinkable water at the downtown jail.
Now: Unflushable toilets at the jail in Kent, where 50 people were moved in an effort to improve jail conditions downtown.
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Then: Undrinkable water at the downtown jail.
Now: Unflushable toilets at the jail in Kent, where 50 people were moved in an effort to improve jail conditions downtown.
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🧵🧵🧵 Breaking: 2nd bond hearing today for 22 concertgoers charged with terrorism. Many denied bond, others given harsh bond conditions.
State's "evidence" of terrorist activities: attending a music festival, wearing a black shirt, having muddy shoes, knowing # of a lawyer.
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folks arrested in the forest attending a music festival are having their second bond hearing in DeKalb Court today. so far it's seeming like the judge will be granting (fairly expensive) bonds, as the prosecution has no evidence.
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