“[Policing] actually makes everything less safe…One of the ways it does this is in how policing has not just colonized our imaginations in the way it has taken over the concept of public safety…it also shrinks the way we move through space.”
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IC is an initiative led by and to end the criminalization and incarceration of women, LGBTQ, and GNC people of color.
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"As we seek ways to participate in decarceration efforts, we must simultaneously work to build the world we want to see. Check out #1MExperiments to read about a wide range of community-based efforts to create new ways of cultivating collective safety."
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"With no hope of a beneficent state—it is, ultimately, the same one that cages—incarcerated people, their loved ones, and those who ally with them have turned to one another, creating new coalitions to work against the state’s degradation of its people."
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I wrote about Celes Tisdale's writing workshop at Attica after the uprising, the poetry it produced, and more in a review of Tisdale's new book for @DissentMag dissentmagazine.org/article/the-po
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"We are responsible for not repeating police narratives or sensationalizing certain victims of violence over others, which often means diminishing the importance of Black life. We are responsible for one another’s lives." —IC fellow
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"Can we imagine a world & build toward it where everyone has everything for everyone without any kind of policing, surveillance,or punishment?...We really have to shift the scarcity mentality that has been embedded in us to justify policing" teenvogue.com/story/mariame- #NoMorePolice
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"...What shines through in these poems is the writers’ faith in the possibility of radical change in the face of deep repression, even when they lack any evidence that things might be different."
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Thanks @DissentMag for this great review. #Attica #poetry #abolition @DukePress
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-po
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“Freedom is a constant struggle.” -Angela Davis join us tomorrow to hear our feminist freedom dreaming scholars, activists, students reflecting on #BlackFeminism & Black freedom for our Africana Studies Symposium. #happeningtomorrow
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Visit our website for more resources. Be sure to check out this free resource collection aimed at helping organizers discern and evaluate what proposals for reform actually bring us closer to ending policing. Compiled by us, and : bit.ly/OrganizingBind
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. and talk about this more in the Re-Form chapter of #NoMorePolice (bit.ly/NoMorePolice):
"Ending qualified immunity would be a reform that tinkers at the edge of the problems of police violence rather than striking at its root causes."
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And all this talk about ending qualified immunity misses the main point, as point out in this interview: "Qualified immunity only comes into play AFTER someone has been harmed, after someone has been killed." democracynow.org/2023/2/1/tyre_
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"[Abolishing the police] does require a radical reimagination of what we understand safety to be & the means that we devote to achieving it." — #InOurNamesNetwork member on
#AbolishThePolice: It's possible. It's necessary. It's what we're fighting for✊🏾
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Making calls in the names of people murdered by police, to pass proposed legislation featuring reforms that wouldn't have stopped their deaths, and pours millions MORE dollars into policing, instead of the resources our communities need to build safety and wellness for themselves
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Literally nothing in that bill that they named after George Floyd would have prevented his murder, or that of Breonna Taylor.
and talk about this, and why it is #DefundThePolice, never reform, in #NoMorePolice, excerpted here.
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"Are we going to continue to pour more money, more power, more resources and more legitimacy into departments—and policing, that has proven over and over again that incidents like the murder of Tyre Nichols is the rule, not the exception?"
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A few critical reminders. First and foremost, the "Justice in Policing" Act (as our co-founder says, there is no justice in policing) would pour millions more dollars INTO police departments. #NoMorePolice
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It's literally Groundhog Day another Black person brutally killed by police another round of calls being made in their name for legislation that would give even more million$ to the department that killed them and for reforms that would not have stopped the cops from killing them
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"We must transform every fake cop neighborhood into real, affordable housing & vibrant neighborhoods where everyone has what they need to thrive. To do that, the city budget must fund life instead of death. From Atlanta to Chicago, it’s past time to defund & abolish the police."
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In the wake of the police murder of a forest defender in Atlanta, Chicago leaders just unveiled the completed $128M “cop academy.”
These cop cities are training grounds for police violence and must be dismantled to restore a world where life is precious. rampantmag.com/2023/01/from-a
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The Memphis police unit that fatally beat Tyre Nichols was part of a “special operations” division that receives $28 million a year, just a fraction of its $280 million budget. The city of Memphis spends more on policing than on anything else
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Here's a "trending" policy to watch out for in your city: Jails contracting private companies to scan incarcerated people's mail.
It's a cruel policy that pushes people towards more expensive communications options, generating $ for the jail & companies.
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After 21 days, final Texas prisoner ends hunger strike against solitary confinement | The Texas Tribune
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Stop Cop City action toolkit with basic background, ways to take action, more resources, and FAQ - one of many such resources, so share this and share others! There are so many ways to get involved!!
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Absolutely this.👇 Thread
Many educators, students, and groups are already organizing and getting to work. Let’s hear those stories!
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I don't want to read any more stories about teachers who have to change their Black Studies class. I want stories about teachers who are resisting the AP changes. I want to hear about parents organizing freedom schools. I want to see students sit in libraries with banned books
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If you’re a young person in Florida looking for radical books to read and share, an educator looking to grow your library, or part of an organization that’s in the fight, get in touch by filling out this form forms.gle/8LpC3zeJNczbzR
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"What reform misapprehends is what police are. They’re not broken, they’re not rogue. They’re not in need of policy reform or more discipline or regulation...They’re doing exactly what they were set up to do, and they’re doing it very well." #NoMorePolice
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And at every step of this, we give more and more money to police.
When they push for reform, this is what they mean.
Across the country, organizers are fighting back and working to build the world we want to live in: the demand is still #DefundThePolice bit.ly/DefundPoliceUp
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Mariame Kaba () and Andrea Ritchie () discuss their book NO MORE POLICE, gun violence, policing, and hope for the future in this interview with
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This Black History Month, we will be announcing a new publication and sharing more of our inspirations and facts about Black radical print history. Stay tuned! 🖤
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There are better ways to keep children safe than taking them from their families. We CAN abolish family policing and reimagine child welfare.
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NEW YORK: we will be having a Stop Cop City teach-in and FUNDRAISER for on February 16th at in Brooklyn.
We’ll be screening Riotsville, USA and a great short film by about Stop Cop City.
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Putting people in metal cages and calling it “justice”
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What is something that's weird that society accepts as normal?
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Check out our 2020 collaboration with
on #DefundPolice ✨ a short animated video that goes into the concepts behind calls to defund and the history of policing.
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What can concrete support for survivors of intimate partner violence look like from an abolitionist perspective?
Check out this toolkit, Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence, and the release video: bit.ly/ASP_toolkit
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A few resources to learn about the criminalization of survivors, the intersection of racialized gender violence and criminalization, and why supporting survivors means we must #DefundThePolice: interruptingcriminalization.com/gender-violence
Follow to learn more, and read this report:
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Have you had a chance to check out our brand new participatory action research report, Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action by #SurvivedAndPunished?
We invite everyone to defend criminalized survivors. Collective action will get us ALL free!
survivedandpunished.org/2022/03/03/def
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"We punish survivors of domestic and sexual violence regularly. We stigmatize them, blame them, and so on. This merges into a really brutal criminal legal system...and very efficiently criminalizes survivors and puts them in prison."
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She killed her rapist after months of abuse. Advocates say Kansas governor should set her free
Sarah Gonzales-McLinn's killed Hal Sasko. Her appeal for clemency from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly highlights grooming, bondage, pornography & undisclosed evidence
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"The arrest rates of women have increased significantly in the United States over the last 40 years. And they’ve done so in part as a result of increasing criminalization of intimate partner violence," says .
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Re-sharing The Demand is Still #DefundThePolice, a report by that we released in 2021 summarizing demands, wins and lessons from organizers fighting to #DefundPolice.
Check out this useful resource + get ready for a new update, coming soon! 👀bit.ly/DefundPoliceUp
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Quote of the Day: “The defeatism in conversations about abolition comes out in the arguments that there always were police and prisons, and there always will be. But there weren't always police and prisons and surveillance. And there will not always be.”
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THANK YOU to @lorrilh for the timely donation of NO MORE POLICE: A Case for Abolition, by @prisonculture & Andrea Ritchie
Quote of the Day: “Hope is a discipline.”
- Mariame Kaba
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If you're looking for more information on how communities are working to build safety by divesting from policing and investing in what we need to survive and thrive, check out the wealth of #DefundPolice resources at defundpolice.org.
The demand is still #DefundThePolice
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most people have never been saved by a police officer, never got pulled from a car before explosion, never got rescued by police in a hostage situation, never got their stolen property found and returned by police. stop advocating for people that take your money and don’t do shit
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