Some updates from Monday's Stop Police Crimes meeting!
Please read to find out what our day to day work looks like and how you can get involved.
Gerald Reed is doing better than last week but still sick. He has not been tested for covid-19. The staff at Stateville were rude to Armanda but she managed to talk to Gerald eventually. She told him about the #FreeThemAllCaravan and he said thank you to everyone involved!
Gerald's lawyers are working on appeals and motions to reconsider. There is also a petition for emergency clemency that has been sent to @GovPritzker . We need to keep the mass pressure up with phone calls and other methods of contact as well.
Use this link to contact the governor if the calls don't get through: www2.illinois.gov/sites/gov/cont…
And call your representatives and demand that they work to #FreeGeraldReed and #FreeThemALL!
Find out who your reps are here: house.gov/representative…
and here: senate.gov/senators/index…
7 people from Innocent Demand Justice, the group working to free people who were framed by Detective Guevara, were at the #FreeThemAllCaravan. Help them out by calling @SAKimFoxx (312)603-1880 and demanding that she work faster to free the victims of Guevara's frame ups.
Save the date! May 16th is the kickoff rally for the Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of police Torture
We had a CFIST meeting on Saturday where we discussed upcoming actions and the May 16th event. There are committees for event planning, media, outreach, and film.
Tell everyone you know that this event is happening on May 16th. It will uplift the voices and stories of survivors & their families and outline the work CFIST has done over the past year as well as what the work will be going forward. Stay tuned for updates.
We are concerned about the record of the new police superintendent, David Brown. We will talk with our comrades in Dallas and release some educational materials. The people deserve to know who exactly is heading the police force even if the mayor didn't select him democratically.
We will be phone banking this week. We haven't put out an action calendar because most of our resources went into the #FreeThemAllCaravan but we are still calling the governor and other public officials and we need more people to do so as well.
We also plan to put out more political education materials going forward, so stay tuned!
Good and Welfare:
@frso_chicago is holding a Worker's Day forum on May 3rd. Someone from the Chicago Alliance will be speaking together with speakers from @BLMChi, @CTULocal1, and @SEIU73. See more details here: facebook.com/events/2504911…
Lastly, don't forget to put some money in the virtual bucket:
Venmo @/The-CAARPR
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