#abolish police

[decolonize-the-left]

This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt, left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair – while arresting none of them.

The pre-dawn raids on three houses on Thursday were the third Swat-style operation in residential areas of Atlanta and nearby unincorporated DeKalb county tied to a movement that began in 2021 – and the first in which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) played a prominent role.

The fight against Cop City has attracted national and global headlines, especially after police shot and killed one environmental protester at a campsite in a public park – the first such incident of its kind in US history. At least one of the search warrants for Thursday’s raid seen by the Guardian authorized the FBI to confiscate dozens of items from the raided homes – including laptops, cellphones, “Defend the Atlanta Forest” stickers and posters and personal journals. The operation came after weeks of Atlanta officials promoting a campaign to catch activists linked to arson against construction and police equipment, all the while activists have been committing more acts of sabotage, alternating with nonviolent, civil disobedience.

COINTELPRO 2.0. if you don't know what that is:

See the rest here:

#cop city #weelaunee forest #police brutality #politics #abolish police #acab #police state #surveillance state #history repeating itself #red scare #capitalism #fbi #leftist #biden #colonization #fascism #human rights #civil rights

[radicalurbanista]

8.2.22. Los Angeles

LA City Council voted to criminalize sitting in public on 20% of LA’s land in an effort to strengthen police power and funnel more unhoused and Black and brown people into jails. Council members used police to clear the chamber of protesters, and nearly all people in the chamber, in order to pass the measure without protest.

[Image 1 shows a line of police officers with their backs turned to the city council bench, facing an empty council chamber minus one person sitting in a bench, possibly a journalist.]

#los angeles #defund lapd #abolish police #tweet #8.3.22 #housing is a human right #homelessness #41.18 #city council

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

“Cops Are Not Our Friends”

#ftp #acab #1312 #abolish police #abolish the police #abolish the cops

[chronicallycouchbound]

Legality ≠ morality

#abolition #abolitionist #acab1312 #acab #abolish the police #abolish the state #abolish police #abolish ice #abolish prisons #abolish family policing #leftist theory #leftist #abolish landlords #abolish capitalism #abolish the supreme court #1312 #human rights #incarcerated people #incarceration #cripple punk #cripplepunk #chronically couchbound #fuck 12

[queerism1969]

#killed #his #killing #police #arrested #police state #protests #policing #prison #reform #suspect #abolish the police #fuck cops #police brutality #fuck the police #abolish police

[radicalgraff]

"Pretty Girls Hate Cops"

Seen in Copenhagen, Denmark

#hate cops #abolish police #graffiti #graff #vandalism #copenhagen graffiti

[settlercolonialismisbad]

We are witnessing a state-created moral panic backlash against calls to defund the police that rivals anything we talk about in similar terms and will have similarly dire consequences for the population. https://www.curbed.com/2023/06/atlanta-cop-city-design-architecture-tactical-village.html

#cop city #stop cop city #defend atlanta forest #moral panic #police brutality #this is america #defund police #abolish police #we said abolish not reform

[mrsblackruby]

People really need to stop pretending they give two shits about the most damaged and vulnerable people in society when they think their existence is more of a problem then our oppressive institutions.

#vent #I don’t expect people to be educated on theses topic but it’s still annoying #my politics #prison abolition #prison industrial complex #abolish prisons #abolish police #black lives matter #leftism #leftist

[kny111]

New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Thursday.

"We want to make sure we are looking at slavery and its legacies," said state Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages before the floor debate. "This is about beginning the process of healing our communities. There still is generational trauma that people are experiencing. This is just one step forward."

The state Assembly passed the bill about three hours after spirited debate on Thursday. The state Senate passed the measure hours later, and the bill will be sent to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for consideration.

New York would be following the lead of California, which became the first state to form a reparations task force in 2020. That group recommended a formal apology from the state on its legacy of racism and discriminatory policies and the creation of an agency to provide a wide range of services for Black residents. They did not recommend specific payments amounts for reparations.[1]

The New York legislation would create a commission that would examine the extent to which the federal and state governments supported the institution of slavery.[2] It would also address persistent economic, political and educational disparities experienced by Black people in the state today.

According to the New York bill, the first enslaved Africans arrived at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, then a Dutch settlement, around the 1620s and helped build the infrastructure of New York City. While the state Legislature enacted a statute that gave freedom to enslaved Africans in New York in 1817, it wasn't implemented until 10 years later.[3]

"I'm concerned we're opening a door that was closed in New York State almost 200 years ago,"[4] said Republican state Assemblymember Andy Gooddell during floor debates on the bill. Gooddell, who voted against the measure, said he supports existing efforts to bring equal opportunity to all and would like to "continue on that path rather than focus on reparations."[5]

In California, the reparations task force said in their report that the state is estimated to be responsible for more than $500 billion due to decades of over-policing, mass incarceration and redlining that kept Black families from receiving loans and living in certain neighborhoods. California's state budget last year was $308 billion.[6] Reparations in New York could also come with a hefty price tag.

The commission would be required to deliver a report one year after its first meeting. The panel's recommendations, which could potentially include monetary compensation for Black people,[7] would be non-binding. The legislature would not be required to take the recommendations up for a vote.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who is the first Black person to hold the position, called the legislation "historic."[8]

Heastie, the governor and the legislative leader in the state Senate would each appoint three members to the commission.[9]

Other state legislatures that have considered studying reparations include New Jersey and Vermont, but none have passed legislation yet.[10] The Chicago suburb in Evanston, Illinois, became the first city to make reparations available to Black residents through a $10 million housing project in 2021.[11]

On the federal level, a decades-old proposal to create a commission studying reparations has stalled in Congress.[12]

Some critics of reparations by states say that while the idea is well-intentioned, it can be misguided.[13]

William Darity, a professor of public policy and African and African American Studies at Duke University said even calling them reparations is "presumptuous," since it's virtually impossible for states to meet the potentially hefty payouts.[14]

He said the federal government has the financial capacity to pay true reparations and that it should be the party that is responsible.[15]

"My deeper fear with all of these piecemeal projects is that they actually will become a block against federal action because there will be a number of people who will say there's no need for a federal program," Darity said. "If you end up settling for state and local initiatives, you settle for much less than what is owed."[16] K, Blog Admin notes: [1] This is useful because it's attempting institutionalization of the divestment in needing money to solve the issue of slavery reparations and instead aims to provide a means to account for such a system by way of adhering to necessities. This seems like a legislative path to that. A formal apology is well overdue so the creation of these institutions, paired with divestment in money (which are literal enslavement notes) makes for said apology more effective and honest.

[2] Correct, slavery is handled and supported to this day at a state and federal level. Any strategies aimed at changing this enslavement system requires changes at both state and federal levels, otherwise what's the point? [3] Legislature like the one in 1817 what it did was make enslavement go covert while continuing to operate with the same engine. Which is why we need to correct any semblance of it existing by abolishing institutions that were created from slavery and repurpose ones sabotaged by past and existing pro slavery legislature. Reparations fixes itself to do just that.

[4] Read [3] because slavery's door was never shut. There's never been enough evidence, something I hope this legislature corrects, with regards to presenting when this "end of slavery" ever occurred. As far as everyone experiencing this god awful system is concerned slavery continued just fine.

[5] Slavery as a system created such a historical inequivalence for all involved that a path has never honestly been formed to claim we're all equal. How can we "continue" on something we've never even established?

[6] Translation: The enslavers who own this system over us and invested so much in slavery can't put their money where their labor is. This is our issue how? Legislature like this will help correct that.

[7] I would hope that this conversation around monetary compensation and reparations from enslavement systems involves a divestment plan from a currency note that has factual connections to and will continue to be looked at as an enslaver note to those who study slavery historically. So this might look like an institution that can help communities divest from ever even needing to use money due to their systemic connections to slavery.

[8] This legislature is needed and overdue, I wouldn't call it historic yet. People within government tend to have a low bar for what's historic and epic.

[9] Not enough people. 3 is not enough. This is a ridiculously low amount considering how easy it can be to sabotage this work as they have in the past, this increases that chance. They need more community input. Otherwise, what's the point?

[10] Further implicating these states with systemic slavery.

[11] Not enough for similar reasons that a slaver creating their own paper and telling you to live off of it is not enough to stop slavery.

[12] So the one thing that did have a semblance of working, you let it rock there, doing nothing? Seems like an institutional trend.

[13] How? Explain using evidence in the same way we abolitionists use evidence to prove slavery is not needed.

[14] Agreed, and they don't have the capacity to make their enslaver dollars mean much into the future. Money temporarily becomes pay outs which are like the apology letter you include system changes with otherwise its just enslavers recycling their image.. AGAIN.

[15] Agreed, but I hope this doesn't mean shift in focus from what needs to structurally change at a state level and what these types of legislature can do. I think federal changes should come with state strategizing as well.

[16] see [14] and [15]

#reparations #thoughts #news #policy #legislature #trans atlantic slave trade #slavery #abolish slavery #abolish police #abolishment #black lives matter #new york #nyc #new yorkers #black new yorkers

[starryseas-tardisdreams]

If you tell me to my face to vote for Joe Biden I will actually fight you.

He’s COMMITTING MASS EXTERMINATION GENOCIDE IT DOESNT GET WORSE THAN THAT.

He’s now worse on immigration than any previous president, including Trump

He and Copala Harris have been worse on sex work, police, and prisons their entire careers. He banned letter writing to and from prisons for god’s sake.

He forced the railroad workers to go back to work when they were on strike

He is creating Record fucking oil production as climate change gets worse.

He’s not better in a single fucking way. Oooh woohoo he says he thinks we should have abortion, he hasn’t made a single attempt to solidify abortion into law. Just like Obama didn’t (even when he had the supermajority in Congress and promised it during his first campaign) and just like Clinton didn’t. Because democrats don’t want to fucking legalize abortion, they pretend they will to keep you racist losers voting for them. Don’t even come at me with anything about LGBTQ+, Copala Harris tortured trans prisoners as attorney general, fuck her and fuck you for supporting her.

If neo liberals spent half the time, money, and resources that they spend on elections and put it into leftist infrastructure instead we would actually have the power to make change.

If you’re voting for Joe Biden, you’re a racist, genocidal piece of shit or so astoundedly ignorant that I wouldn’t even know where to begin trying to educate you.

#joe biden #democrats #palestine #free palestine #abolish ice #abolish prisons #abolish police #2024 elections

[brettdoesdiscourse]

So what exactly are cops good for? Because legally, they aren't required to protect you. Cops don't stop crimes actively happening. There have been countless times where cops are actively committing the crime. Cops don't prevent or deter crime in an area. So, what exactly are they doing?

#acab #anti police #police abolition #abolish police #social discourse #discourse #brett does discourse

[decolonize-the-left]

Was going through old boxes and found some fun lil DIY life hack pamphlets I picked up from a trash somewhere

Who knew glue was so useful.

#acab #praxis #leftist #direct action #communists #anarchists #ancom #abolish prisons #abolish police #abolish ice

[radicalurbanista]

twitter thread

August 9, 2022. Los Angeles

LA City Council deploys riot police at a public meeting to criminalize sitting and sleeping near a school and to fund police to enforce the measure.

#los angeles #abolish police #defund LAPD #city council #41.18 #tweet #twitter #housing is a human right #end homelessness #8.9.22 #video #link

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"Cops Off Campus"

#acab #1312 #abolish police

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #acab #fuck police #fuck the police #fuck cops #fuck pigs #defund the police #police #abolish police #cops

[corneille-moisie]

abolish capitalism

abolish police

abolish prison

abolish work

abolish borders

but to do all that, and keep these abolished, we, most of all, need to abolish money and abolish the notion that things and time have financial value.

#here i explained 'abolish money ^^' #abolish money #abolish police #abolish work #abolish prison #abolish borders #anti work #anti capitalism #anti money #acab #eat the rich #abolish laws even #idc #anarchy #abolish money ^^