For the People Artists Collective
@ForThePeopleChi
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We make art for the people! We're a radical collective of Black artists & artists of color, infusing cultural power in Chicago organizing since 2015.
Chicago, IL
Joined December 2015
Are you looking for resources on abolitionist organizing? Check out "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?", a resource binder compiled by us, @interruptcrim, & @C_Resistance! ⚡️ Check out the full binder at: https://t.co/kTSOeeh9wI
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Thanks to everyone who has purchased a t-shirt (or five) so far, @prisonculture's fundraiser has sent tens of thousands of dollars to support abortion access! You can continue buying these (very soft, cool-looking, comes-in-lots-of-great-colors) tees here:
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I launched this store to support reproductive justice.
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Last Thursday was the reception for DE-MIL-I-TA-RISE by @justseeds and @wearedissenters .The talks were live-interpreted by ProBono ASL @ProBonoASL . Thank you to all who came to the talks live! The recording is available on our YouTube channel https://t.co/EjveHWj5m2
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The resource collection "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" ( https://t.co/wiJGWHctTv) kicks off with a list that we return to often, from @survivepunishNY's Preserving Punishment Power. We ask of each reform:
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Very belatedly listening to Angela Y. Davis talking about Capital on @LitReviewChi and it’s 🔥
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“'Judgment' reminds us to listen to the revolutions, to the movements, to the leaders that have come before us and educated us and have been educating us for years for free.” – @croadcore reading for Third Wave #ThirdWave25
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"It's like a breath of fresh air to be interfacing with people who also have a disability justice lens. Just having that political understanding and meeting in that framework is so important and affirming." –Antoinette Chen-See of @fireweedHJ #ThirdWave25
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"Third Wave Fund says to the queer and trans, disabled, and undocumented kid, that if you think that the world can be a radically different place, organized around people's human needs, yeah, we can actually do that." –Loan Tran, organizer & Advisory Council Co-Chair #ThirdWave25
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Tonight we're celebrating 25 years at our gathering, Radical Journey, Powerful Futures! Since 1997, Third Wave has moved over $9.3 million towards resourcing gender justice movements across the U.S. and U.S. territories. Let's get more funds towards our GJ movements! #ThirdWave25
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Thank you to Emi (@possiblesubject), a 25th Anniversary Host Committee member, for showing Third Wave Fund some love! 💐 Join us at our free virtual 25th anniversary event on 6/9 at 7pm ET! Register at https://t.co/BFznFhnxyA.
#ThirdWave25
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Today in 1972: Angela Davis, scholar, feminist, Black Panther, communist, prison abolitionist and inspiration to many was acquitted of trumped up charges following worldwide protests. Poster available here: https://t.co/suWGgvdB9R
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We’re exactly 1 week away from our 25th anniversary party! We’re so excited to celebrate with you that we’re doing our first-ever giveaway - head over to our IG for details on how to win one of these fabulous prizes from @fluidebeauty or @gc2bapparel! https://t.co/LDG8SCCjVl
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I have been witness to this, and it has been extremely painful for me on a personal level. I’ve watched almost the entire Black leadership of my local @ChicagoAfroSOC chapter leave CDSA in the past year or so, and if it weren’t for the #DefundCPD campaign I’d be gone too.
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Current look outside the husk of the former, and never to be again, MPD 3rd precinct.
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Thank you to the @chicagotribune and Lori Waxman for a beautiful review of DPAM's "Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantanamo" exhibition! Don't miss it! https://t.co/yFtpvVfJf0
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Mamdouh poses alone in a refuse-filled square of his Egyptian hometown; Murat in a cluster of mint-green containers that serve as a refugee housing complex in Germany; Rustam in the central hall of…
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The liberatory systems we desire have existed somewhere in time/space. Just as our hands can remember ways of braiding from distant places and times, we can remember a different relationship with the earth and ancestors. Art by @AmirKhadar with #CreativeWildfire 🔥
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Top 5 Episodes Most Played: 🔸48: Revolution Will Not Be Funded w/ Joy Messinger 🔸34: Pedagogy of the Oppressed w/ Hilda Franco 🔸32: Earthseed Series w/ @adriennemaree 🔸42: Black Reconstruction w/ Frank Chapman 🔸60: Capital w/ Angela Davis Tune in!
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Free Our Mamas! Sisters! Queens! Support the Bail Fund for Black Mothers through this beautiful poster series- https://t.co/PblpEb2aVS
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Want to help protect and expand abortion access while rocking out cool tees featuring @prisonculture's words? Check out her t-shirt fundraiser with all proceeds going to @PartnersClinic! Buy a t-shirt or 5, and support them in opening a new clinic in MD:
bonfire.com
I launched this store to support reproductive justice.
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