Tales of the Jedi is amazing
Episode 1: Look at baby Ahsoka! Isn’t she cute!
Episode 2: Corruption gnaws at the very heart of the Republic
Episode 3: Jedi are Cops and AllCops are Bastards
Episode 4: If anything happens to Qui Gon I will kill everyone in this galaxy then myself
Episode 5: Local Jedi Knight doesn’t realise he is training his apprentice to survive Order 66
Episode 6: Hope you like fucking crying!
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I'm anti-police but live in a city with very high crime rates. I worry that this will impede any moves to remove police from our neighborhoods, and it highkey already is; even poc here express sentiment that they'd welcome what would amount to a police state in the city. I'm leaning towards forming my own neighborhood watch and encouraging others to do the same. But all the resources I find on the subject are very pro-police and actively encourage a working relationship with LEO. Do you have any info on anarchist, leftist, anti-police neighborhood watches that help monitor and deter crime, encourage community unity, and only engage LEO when absolutely necessary or never at all?
We don't have a lot for you b/c we're an antifa blog that focuses on that and not necessarily anti-cop stuff. But you might want to hit up some of those tumblrs, like allcops. And maybe some people will leave helpful suggestions in the comments here?
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I know you can’t get into specifics but the cops have been driving through a natural area lately really close to my parents. They even tried to ticket my parents for walking in this natural area as they have been doing for decades. Technically the natural area is corporate owned so the cops are protecting corporate interests but people have been recreating here for years without incident. Any advice to get the cops to back off and stop protecting the corporation over people just trying to walk their dogs? Oh and also these cops are paid by the corporation but are fully fledged cops, not security guards.
We're really more of an antifascist blog than an acab blog, tbh. But maybe someone will have ideas to leave in the comments here? Or you could try putting your question to an acab blog like allcops for example.
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Confront the IACP in Philadelphia this October
This October, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) will hold their annual conference in Philadelphia. This is a call for an ambitious mobilization to directly disrupt the conference, to publicly spread an explicitly anti-police position, and to attempt to open up space that is hostile to state control. We hope to do so using both coordinated and decentralized, autonomous actions in the area immediately surrounding the conference in Center City and throughout Philly.
The IACP brings together law enforcement agencies from throughout the world to “advance the science and art of police services” through international coordination, training, and policy work. Their 2017 conference will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, with four days of workshops, an exhibition hall with corporate vendors, and a number of secondary events at other locations. Also, a “general assembly.”
This call for opposition comes from the perspective that policing is inherently a colonial, white supremacist project. From their inception, the police have had as their primary function the maintenance of a social order based on violent domination along lines of race, gender, class & ability; from slave patrols to strike-breakers and from vice squads to gang units. Opposition to the IACP presents a unique opportunity to advance a position that is absolutely against all policing, as a large part of the organization’s agenda mirrors that of those who would reform the institution. Body cameras, diversity in hiring, “trust and accountability,” and above all, “community policing” are all central themes of the conference and to recommendations for “21st Century Policing.”
As the Trump administration (universally endorsed by law enforcement unions during the election) bombastically seeks to reinvigorate the militarization of police, it is a crucial time to aggressively put forward an analysis that recognizes militarization and community policing not as divergent, but as complementary parts of a coherent strategy of domination.
Meanwhile, the hundreds of participating agencies and workshops starkly demonstrate the severe intersectionality of the violence the police have always carried out. Interlocking movements for black liberation, indigenous struggle against colonization, sex workers’ self-determination, resistance to ableist police violence, radical political movements resisting repression, queer rebellion, global anti-imperialism, migrant and refugee justice and no borders movements, housing justice, environmental struggles, and more, all have a stake in opposing the strategies and tactics that will be promoted at this conference.
The IACP conference puts on display what we know from our daily participation in diverse forms of resistance: that every struggle is a struggle against the police.
While all the departments involved have histories of (and foundations in) violence, many have also seen fierce resistance to that violence in the recent past. Participating departments from Albuquerque, Chicago, Milwaukee, Seattle, the Bay Area, and more have seen rebellions against them in the last several years. We hope to use this opportunity to build connections with those who carry these memories of antagonism towards the police and contribute to lived experiences of uncontrollable revolt.
A complete list of presenters, vendors, and workshops is available on the conference website, www.theiacpconference.org, but here is a small sampling of some notable participants:
• Peter Newsham, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (who gave orders to kettle protestors on J20)
• Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (speaking on their experience sending officers to repress resistance at Standing Rock)
• Robert Metzger, Chief of Pasco (WA) Police Dept. (presenting “Public Trust After a Police Use of Deadly Force Incident,” based on lessons on maintaining stability after the police murder of Antonio Zambrano-Montes)
• Local departments from Philadelphia, New York, Albuquerque, Seattle, New Orleans, Edmonton, Chicago, Las Vegas, El Salvador, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Tempe, AZ, Tucson, AZ, Dubai, Portland, OR, San Diego, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Vancouver, Australia, Raleigh, NC, Dallas, and many more.
• Federal agencies, including FBI, Border Patrol, ATF and USCIS.
Expect more information and specific calls soon. In the meantime, save the date, make plans, study some maps, learn the terrain and spread the word throughout the region and beyond. Here are some more detailed resources to get started:
Outreach Zine for Reading // Outreach Zine for Printing
Workshop Descriptions and Schedule // Conference Hotel Map // Special Event Schedule
Against White Supremacy // Against the Police
For a world without cops, prisons, or borders.
FTP//1312
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