#StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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It occurs to me that I really have no idea what the internet is
The size of a fiber optic wire capable of supplying a home with high speed internet.
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What is today’s to-do list, if not yesterday’s to-do list persevering
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the problem here is not lack of police power. it is that the police are inherently on the side of the white supremacists. do not use this as a reason to give the police more money, power, legitimacy, or authority.
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obsessed with this person holding up a QR code citing their sources
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how many people who were arguing yesterday that minimum wage workers deserve to be poor are quoting MLK today?
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They can delete it but screenshots are forever. This is what the police do.
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liberals have learned to call racism "systemic" but then suggest exclusively non-systemic fixes like police trainings as solutions
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"Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I've been arrested?...I'm Noelle McAfee, I'm Chair of the Philosophy Department"
WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.
I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.
This video provided to us by an
#Emory
PHD student. You can hear him in this video.
@ATLNewsFirst
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The line to sign up for public comment is OUT THE DOOR of city hall and only getting longer. Atlanta does NOT WANT COP CITY
IF YOURE IN LINE TO SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT STAY IN LINE
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Moments like these, I hope, help demonstrate what we mean when we say “criminality” and “crime” are political constructs meant to preserve white supremacist ruling class power. This is not a system that can deliver real justice.
The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people he killed "victims."
Rittenhouse killed 2 people and wounded another with an AR-15 style weapon. The judge says "victim" is too "loaded" but will let lawyers call them "rioters, looters or arsonists."
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Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice should only deepen our commitment to a free Palestine; the EMT’s attempts to save him should deepen our commitment to expanding life-saving services; and the cop’s response of drawing a gun should deepen our commitment to abolishing the police.
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completely iconic mid-arrest expression
Law enforcement carry a pro-Palestinian protester at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Photo by Nuri Vallbona
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the doxxing truck is literally sitting outside my class right now doxxing pro-palestine students of color, and harvard's response is to send an email denouncing "from the river to the sea" and starting a committee on antisemitism with no concern for islamophobia or doxxing 👍👍
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I had a professor in undergrad who, when talking about a person who did massive harm while alive, would stomp her foot on the ground a couple times and yell “how ya doing down there buddy?”
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This brings tears to my eyes. An incarcerated man donated $17.74, the equivalent of 136 hours of his essentially unpaid labor in prison, to relief in Gaza.
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this is taking me OUT lmaoooooo releasing 300 crickets into a recruitment event for the police department trying to destroy a forest to build Cop City is completely metal
Atlanta Police Department hiring event in Brooklyn was disrupted today by abolitionists who released 300 crickets into the Marriott hosting. The fire alarm was also pulled.
Per release: “We are everywhere. We are the horde of locusts that will destroy you.”
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consider what it says about the United States that a lawsuit like this could even exist
BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear Johnson v Grants Pass, a case about if homeless people can be punished for using things like pillow and blankets when sleeping outside if there are no safe shelters.
This is the biggest SCOTUS case about homelessness in decades.
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The thrill I felt when everyone ran onto the Harvard yard and started setting up tents…
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describing the actions of a bear being a bear as a crime wave
California authorities looking for large 500-pound black bear in a 7-month crime wave.
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Ted Cruz making The End of Policing a bestseller overnight all because he wanted to hold up some scary books he’s never read is hilarious
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okay columbia faculty!!!
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MLK’s daughter has personally called you out multiple times for your anti-democratic actions when it comes to Cop City. Delete this.
Remembering the powerful legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today. His unwavering commitment to justice, equality, and love continues to inspire us all. Let's reflect on his teachings and strive to positively impact our communities.
#MLKDay
#Inspiration
#EqualityForAll
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ABC news saying this verdict will restore faith in the criminal legal system. It shouldn't. Remember that they initially tried to cover up this case, and it was only because of Ahmaud's family & community that there was national attention. This system cannot provide justice.
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Again, all the horrible things you say would happen if we abolish the police are actually the things happening now, under the biggest police state in the world....clearly police aren’t doing what you think they are
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golden rule of reporting is that any bad local result for "the left" presents a national mandate whereas any good local result for "the left" could only ever happen in that one place
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The people who were loudest about petty theft at CVS and Walgreens seem to have very little to say about the Brett Favre situation, wonder why that is
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there’s always the implication that the left has the power to shift elections but never the implication that Democrats should govern accordingly
If "the left" sits out the 2024 election because they are mad that Biden isn't pure enough, they will help elect a Christo Fascist government that will waste no time turning this country into a Christian theocracy. So breathtakingly stupid, my teeth hurt.
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it’s amazing that this country invests so much into airport security theater while not even requiring companies to make planes that stay in one piece
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Whenever someone dies after struggling with mental health, people act shocked and sympathetic––but when a high profile figure draws a boundary to protect their mental health, it's all hate and acting entitled to their time & energy.
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Side note one of the Emory
professors who was violently arrested and thrown to the ground by police today is also MARRIED TO THE EMORY DEAN OF ADMISSIONS... they're so committed to funding genocide that admin is arresting each other's spouses
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Cops are arresting people in the Atlanta forest so that contractors can cut down hundreds of acres of forest land in the midst of oncoming climate disaster to build a cop academy and a Hollywood studio. “Police are the muscle of racial capitalism” has never been clearer.
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My home city of Buffalo, NY just elected its first socialist mayor, India Walton!!!!!!
She defeats Byron Brown, the four-term incredibly pro-police mayor who refused to debate her.
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this is one of those pictures that really speaks for itself.
this is why cop city cannot be allowed to be built. these are also the cops that train with the IDF. it’s all connected.
Gotta make sure the dogs are ok while tear gassing humans ✨
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love that "cancel culture" hysteria refers to people like the zoom masturbator who literally just got his job back, instead of the real institutions––prisons, the deportation machine, etc––that actually disappear and dispose of huge numbers of people
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*bad thing happens while police have an outrageous, essentially unlimited budget*
Media: guess you regret defunding the police, huh?
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Martha telling Ellen there should be no prisons…yes
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Well, the Atlanta City Council passed $67 million in funding for Cop City, by an 11-4 margin, after over 15 hours of essentially unanimous public comment against it.
Quick thoughts before I go to bed.
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Professor Ruha Benjamin (
@ruha9
) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜
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Police training is not and has never been the issue. The cop who murdered Rayshard Brooks received 2,000 hours of training, including sessions on de-escalation tactics, cultural-awareness training, and instruction on use of deadly force. Policing itself is the problem.
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She tried to escape out the back. Ate her whole dinner while peoppe screamed and chanted outside. Not a moment of peace for genocide accomplices
@ewarren
At least 50 people protesting outside of a restaurant in Cambridge where
@SenWarren
is eating dinner. “We’re not leaving til Warren leaves!”
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I will genuinely *never* believe what the police say about what happened. This was a political assassination.
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Reminder that before Atlanta councilmembers voted to approve Cop City, they listened to 17 hours of public comment over TWO DAYS from Atlanta residents that OVERWHELMINGLY opposed the project.
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“The 28-year-old hired by Gwinnett police” so…..a cop.
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yeah the era of anything he did being cute or funny ended when he vocally supported genocide
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Gonna say that again: police following the rules is just as deadly as police breaking the rules. Standard enforcement of the the criminal code is violent. It's why the whole thing needs to go.
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omg activists also poured cement in the toilets of the Brooklyn Marriott hotel for hosting an Atlanta Police Department recruitment event...I would imagine Marriott will not be rushing to host another such event for the destroyers of the Weelaunee Forest
“APD we don’t want your shit!”
Toilets at the Brooklyn Marriott hosting an Atlanta Police hiring event this weekend have been clogged with cement, “shrimp on the side.”
The venue was wheatpasted last night, with crickets & fire alarm pulled yesterday.
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I respect both choosing to vote and choosing not to vote. I don't respect choosing to only politically participate once every 4 years in the form of trying to shame others into voting.
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To those who feel tempted to call for more training in the wake of these killings: please don't. Police don't kill because they're improperly trained, they kill because it's part of their job. Training doesn't take away the power to kill––disarming and defunding do.
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Just saw the Brooklyn shooter suspect had been arrested at least 12 times before—meaning the punishment system had at least 12 opportunities to "intervene" & yet did nothing to prevent the harm. How much more evidence do we need that policing has no interest in preventing harm?
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Okay I want everyone to read this transcript of a radio conversation between Atlanta police officers regarding the arrests of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund Activists.
AUDIO RELEASE: Atlanta Police Department discusses how the latest arrests of
@ATLSolFund
organizers are part of a deliberate campaign targeting the
#StopCopCity
movement. Audio is from Zone 4 FIT again, just after they got done mocking the vigil. Links/transcript follow.
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People will say abolition is unrealistic because [insert instance of violence], but the instance of violence being described is actually unfolding *now*, under the largest police state in the world...meaning policing is not actually stopping the thing people are concerned about.
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but seriously i do think every student organizer should see this because it is so widely applicable
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If you're wondering why people might feel unenthusiastic about voting for either party, consider that police killed a climate justice protester last week in Atlanta and no Georgia politician, Dem or Repub, has even acknowledged it.
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Okay let me tell you what happened today.
Atlanta residents showed up for over 7 hours of public comment against cop city. The line to sign up for comment wound throughout City hall, down the stairs, and outside.
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Feel like we're running out of ways to say it, but now over FORTY PEOPLE have been charged with DOMESTIC TERRORISM for being part of or associated with the movement to Stop Cop City.
Everyone who cares about justice in any form should care about this.
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If you haven’t already made the connections between climate justice and police abolition, now is the time. There’s no road to a sustainable future that does not run directly through police power.
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i want to read a piece on how john krasinski and chris pratt both played loveable non-hyper-masculine characters on beloved comedies and then both got super ripped and i feel like more (vocally) conservative as well as active producers of US military propaganda
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A plainclothes Atlanta police officer intervened in an argument yesterday between two people who knew each other, and it ended with the cop shooting one of the two people arguing.
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What is a burning cop car compared to an actual life stolen by the police? What is a destroyed window compared to a destroyed forest? Come on.
#StopCopCity
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Someone set themself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Atlanta yesterday in protest of the ongoing genocide, and basically all the coverage of it has gone out of its way to obscure both what happened and WHY it happened.
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God. Last night, Atlanta police killed 22 year old Nygil Cullins, who was in the midst of a mental health crisis, and the APD spokesperson says "Our officer did a great job to isolate the subject to the front of the business where no patrons were in harm’s way."
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Abolitionists: police are an enemy of the people and of social movements
Police: yes, we are your enemy
Liberals: we are increasing police funding
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This is really really bad. Atlanta police have arrested three organizers with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund –– the organization dedicated to legal defense and bail support for criminalized protesters.
This is a major escalation –– they're arresting those who defend the arrested.
This morning, APD raided The Teardown House and arrested three organizers with
@ATLSolFund
.
The Solidarity Fund provides legal defense and bail support for first amendment protected activities in Atlanta and the surrounding area.
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Two connected things happening in Atlanta right now:
1) the city’s trying to use eminent domain to displace longtime Black residents of Peoplestown, citing flooding.
2) the city’s trying to replace 85 acres of forest land—*key to preventing flooding*—with a massive cop academy.
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Democrats consistently trying to disprove the “lesser of two evils” theory
BREAKING: The White House just released an immigration proposal that would increase mandatory detention and create a new system allowing mass deportations without due process.
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For Biden to explicitly SAY he saw those pictures just for his office to retract it in a move that a tiny fraction of original viewers will see…so deeply evil.
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the H*rvard Law student gov passed a BDS divestment resolution, and a bunch of zionists tried to get it overturned on procedural grounds, forcing a new vote. Two reps who resigned in protest then tried to un-resign to vote against it. BUT IT STILL JUST PASSED AGAIN LOL
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when poor people steal for survival it's a crime wave but when rich people and government actors collude to steal from poor people to build a stadium, that's just a thing that happened
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Once you realize that the police are actually a destabilizing and violent presence in most people's lives on both a systemic and individual level, the question "how will people be safe without police" no longer makes sense or feels as challenging.
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the creator of 8cantwait praising a cop it's too good lololololol
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If you're following
#StopCopCity
, this is huge. The mayor has consistently touted the community advisory committee's role in the process.
Now, one committee member has quit in protest, and another member has appealed the permit that would allow destruction to begin. Thread!
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Crowd of maybe 100 protesting outside of
@ewarren
’s house right now. Join if you can!
Corner of Bowdoin and Linnaean in Cambridge
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Friends if you have never thought about abolition until this week you do not need to be posting explainer threads about what it is. Just saw another thread with >50k likes saying we don’t know what police will look like after abolition.
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Reminder that the Olympics are structurally evil for many reasons, one of which is they RELY ON the policing & removal of disproportionately Black poor, sex-working & homeless people. The Atlanta jail was built for the 1996 Olympics––a jail we're still organizing to close in 2021
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“the technique of murder doesn’t comfort the dead. It comforts the executioners—and all their supportive onlookers.”
—Naomi Murakawa
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GOOD NEWS: Judge is granting bond for all three Atlanta Solidarity Fund defendants, and notes concerns about the flimsiness of the charges and lack of evidence thus far. Even the judge is expressing doubt about these charges––which tells you how spurious they are.
#StopCopCity
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academics who write about harmful systems & yet feel no responsibility to support movements against harmful systems are simply exploitative. thanks
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cop math is police departments receiving a third of city budgets and saying they’re underfunded
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“We gathered in the streets to demand change”??? You arrested everyone who protested.
"The baton has now been passed to each of us. We've cried out for justice. We have gathered in our streets to demand change. And now we must pass on the gift John Lewis sacrificed to give us. We must register and we must vote," Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says
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The City of Atlanta just doxxed 116,000 people who signed the
#StopCopCity
petition. After the City Council directed the clerk to redact personal information, instead the clerk published all of it online––and we know the clerk has been taking orders from
@andreforatlanta
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Lots of adults should read this. The more I've learned about abolition, the more I've seen just how important a skill––and it's a SKILL to build––apologizing is. One to practice regularly, for small & big things, as a key part of accountability going beyond the words "I'm sorry"
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"[Prisons] do not contain the most dangerous members of society, for surely the largest crimes that threaten society the most are war, genocide, torture & the destruction of the environment."
Ruth Morris, 1995
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Even if you’re vaccinated the CDC still recommends not trying to co-opt abolition by saying things like “reimagine policing”
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The language of ICE "going rogue" is the same as language of prisons being "broken." Both obscure the fact that when these systems cause unimaginable suffering, they're working as designed, not misfiring.
And both preserve hope for a "fix", rather than a mandate to dismantle.
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regular, unexceptional, non-headline-making policing is violent. misdemeanor policing is violent. police following the rules is violent. everything going according to plan is violent. the plan is violent.
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literally all arrests are state kidnappings. an arrest is stealing someone from their community.
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tears in my eyes. cal poly humboldt students are occupying their campus in protest of genocide and honoring Tortuguita in the process
inside of the occupied siemens hall at cal poly humboldt, a message about tortuguita
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On Labor Day, remember that cops have no place in the labor movement and are in fact inherently antagonistic to organized labor and worker power!
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when people say "what's the alternative to the prison," too often they're really just asking "how else will we punish people?"
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what's happening in atlanta right now is fascism, and it's bipartisan fascism. it's the state deploying criminal legal infrastructure to eliminate political dissidents––to criminalize out of existence those who are fighting for a livable present and future.
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By refusing to accept or validate the Cop City petitions, Atlanta is once again sending the message that it doesn't matter what channels you use or how "official" they are. Demanding that people engage in "the right way" is ultimately a smoke screen.
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So far, every person arrested during Sunday night's mass arrests has been denied bond, except for the legal observer who was wearing a bright green Legal Observer hat. He had a bond set at $5k by the judge, despite even the PROSECUTOR asking for a consent bond (release w/o money)
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liberals went from "kids in cages" to "thoughts and prayers mr. president" very quickly.
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The state has officially filed RICO charges against 60 people allegedly part of the Stop Cop City movement. We’re going to need all hands on deck to defeat these bogus charges. They’re straight up political prosecutions.
But it’s not the time to panic, it is the time to organize
This morning the Attorney General’s office filed RICO indictments for 60 people alleged to be part of the Stop Cop City Movement.
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Pleased to announce I’ll be on the debut season of “The Activist,” working against my fellow activists to be the best activist, with Usher as my mentor.
A better world is possible, we just have to be willing to duel with other activists to the death, for entertainment!
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As more and more people step into abolition, please don't let it be watered down. I think one of the most important things for people to understand is the concept of non-reformist reform, explained by many abolitionist organizers/thinkers. Some resources:
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For the “they’re stealing it to resell it” 1) I don’t care 2) be mad at the conditions that make such such a market possible, not individuals. ⬇️
god forbid any of us be in the same position. let's assume this isn't a family but an actual stealing ring. do I really care about people reselling tide detergent? not really -- there being a market for that also speaks volumes
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Reminder that <9% of incarcerated people are held in private prisons, & ending private prisons won't free those people.
Yes, end private prisons, but also end public prisons, which are equally horrific sites of violence.
A "racial equity plan" should mean DECARCERATION.
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