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The Chicago Alliance

@CAARPRNow

Apr 23, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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!

@GovPritzker

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…

@SAKimFoxx

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!

@frso_chicago

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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THREAD: Gerald Reed has been incarcerated for 29 years after being tortured into confessing to a crime he did not commit. His incarceration exposes the illegitimacy of the prison system. W/ the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to #FreeGeraldReed and #FreeThemAll

Gerald was kidnapped by CPD on October 3rd, 1990. Detectives Michael Kill and Victor Breska, members of Jon Burge’s notorious “midnight crew”, proceeded to torture Gerald until he confessed to a double homicide.

During the “interrogation” the detectives broke a metal rod that had been placed in Gerald’s leg to repair his thigh bone from a gunshot wound. This injury has still not been adequately treated and Gerald cannot walk because of it.

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The Chicago Alliance

@CAARPRNow

Sep 22, 2020

🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨

Gerald Reed has been incarcerated for almost 30 Years for a crime he did not commit! This is injustice in it's truest form. Gerald's life is in danger.

It is our duty to fight to #FreeGeraldReed

Every call counts.

@GovPritzker

CFIST continues to demand @GovPritzker immediately pardon Gerald Reed & ALL those tortured and wrongfully convicted. When we say #FreeGeraldReed, we also mean #FreeThemAll! We will continue to fight until Gerald & all those tortured are free!
Get involved: bit.ly/cfistinterest

@GovPritzker

Sign the CFIST petition pressure @GovPritzker to pardon all torture survivors! The Governor is the ONLY person who has the power to free torture survivors with the STROKE OF A PEN.

caarpr.org/cfistpetition

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How will it enable us to #DefundThePolice?
What else will CPAC empower us to do?
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The word "community" is important here. The communities who need to be empowered are the ones most harmed by police violence, so #CPACNow council members will need at least 2 years of experience organizing in oppressed and marginalized communities.

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❗️Action Calendar❗️

Join the phone zap this week and next week.

We are keeping the pressure and demanding #CPACnow until we have community control of the police and the community can control how we #DefundThePolice. Join us.

Even if you don't live in a ward with a alderperson who sits on the Public Safety Committee of City Council you can still pressure your alderperson.

Don't know your ward/alderperson? Check it here: chicago.gov/city/en/depts/…

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The Chicago Alliance

@CAARPRNow

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Tomorrow at 9:30 we're demanding #CPACNow outside of City Hall. You can help from wherever you are using our at home toolkit: bit.ly/GoodMorningLori and taking part in our social media blast starting at 8am.
Let's get #GoodMorningLori trending again!