Forwarded from Building Autonomy Ⓐ
Forwarded from Seattle BLM Scanner
The ICE event had its facebook page deleted for a number of reasons. There will still be an event of some kind and the safety precautions for it are not as developed as they should be for such a large event. That said people are working on putting together as much safety and organization as they can with limited time, and a new facebook page is up with updated info (it's still at Westlake at 11a/1p)
https://www.facebook.com/events/302793044432971
https://www.facebook.com/events/302793044432971
Forwarded from Washington DC BLM Protests
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Vonnie 🌿 We are all Siblings
My niece is participating in the vigil for Vanessa Guillen happening in DC right now. They are marching to her new memorial mural in Columbia Heights. She says, “The police have just arrived.” @UnhingedFool #DCResists #DCProtests https://t.co/tPVRFvmIO6
Forwarded from Washington DC BLM Protests
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ChuckModi
“We were out here all night. I haven’t slept. Why? Because IDK if police would blitz this place. 2am? 6am? 10am? I still don’t know. Being able to capture police brutality & share it w/world. That’s why we know about George Floyd” Pls follow @uncleiso doing…
Forwarded from Strike Force
KOMO pulled their earlier poll when it got an answer they didn’t like. let’s do it again. https://twitter.com/komonews/status/1282792356773638144?s=21
Twitter
Do you support the idea of defunding the Seattle Police Department budget by 50 percent?
Forwarded from The Free Thought Project
This is huge!! A city in California is proposing to end police enforcement of traffic laws! 😲😲
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/city-proposes-ending-police-enforcement-traffic-laws/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/city-proposes-ending-police-enforcement-traffic-laws/
The Free Thought Project
For the First Time in US, City Proposes Ending Police Enforcement of Traffic Laws
For the first time that we can find in American history, a city in California is proposing to end police enforcement of traffic laws.
Police attacking protestors in #Portland right now. Live stream: https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1282933535213420545
Twitter
Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)
I am here outside the Portland Police Association HQ where the police have decided to get violent for some reason. https://t.co/AHie1ulXGw
"Offensive statues are toppled not because they are historical, but they are actual. This is not an erasure of the past, but precisely its recognition in the injustices of the present, related to an ongoing trauma quite literally transmitted from the past."
https://roarmag.org/essays/toppling-statues-as-an-act-of-historical-redemption/
https://roarmag.org/essays/toppling-statues-as-an-act-of-historical-redemption/
ROAR Magazine
Toppling statues as an act of historical redemption
The removal of offensive statues may seem to be a distraction, but it is a redemptive challenge against injustices transmitted from the past.
An article from 2016
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/06/chicago-police-bosses-targeted-cops-who-exposed-corruption/
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/06/chicago-police-bosses-targeted-cops-who-exposed-corruption/
The Intercept
Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.