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May 9, 2020 6 tweets 6 min read Read on X
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The #FreeThemAll forum is one week away so here's a quick thread on what CFIST is and why the campaign exists.
Don't forget to RSVP on the event page and invite everyone you know: facebook.com/events/6505700… Image
The Chicago Police Department has a long history of torturing false confessions out of people. There are hundreds of incarcerated survivors that we know about and many more whose stories have not yet been recognized. Our mission is to #FreeThemAll. ImageImage
Survivors, families, and community orgs have fought for years to make Chicago recognize this systematic torture, but the city continues to deny justice to survivors by keeping them in prison and defunding the TIRC. Our demand to @GovPritzker: immediately release all survivors! ImageImage
Our mission does not end there. Due to the covid-19 outbreak, ALL incarcerated people are at risk due to hazardous conditions in prison. As such, we demand a #MassReleaseNow from all prisons, jails, and detention centers. ImageImage
You can help our campaign by calling the governor & elected officials and signing petitions by CAARPR: (caarpr.org/pardonreed & caarpr.org/cfistpetitiont…)
and other orgs fighting to #FreeThemAll, such as this one from @ChiBondFund: chicagobond.org/2020/03/22/984… ImageImage
Share this event and these asks far and wide.
You can also phone bank to help build for the event, sign up here: forms.gle/xtQBUbqFjvupNN…
We are building mass pressure to #FreeThemAll and we need your participation! Image

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Apr 8
We’re here at the @CCPSA_Chicago hearing with Superintendent Snelling to raise our demands on CPD.

First up for public comment is Kofi from @GKMC18 speaking on the need for immediate action following police crimes, including firing of officers, and an end to traffic stops. Image
In response, Snelling dodges the concrete demands and speaks about the need for training and partnering with violence prevention groups
Next up Miracle Boyd from @GKMC18 responds to Snelling’s claim that traffic stops have gone down by mentioning the 50,000 carried out last year, and speaks about the number of cases never addressed from 2020 and before and asks what he will do to address them. Image
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Sep 24, 2020
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.
Read 20 tweets
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.
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
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
Read 4 tweets
Jul 29, 2020
What is #CPACNow?
How will it enable us to #DefundThePolice?
What else will CPAC empower us to do?
A thread on how exactly CPAC will overturn the power dynamic between police and our communities. Image
The #CPACNow ordinance was first written in 2012 after the police murder of Rekia Boyd. It would establish community control of the police, a goal first fought for by the Black Panther Party, by putting elected community members in charge of decisions around policing. Image
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. Image
Read 10 tweets
Jul 28, 2020
❗️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. Image
Sign up for the phone zap to pressure your alderperson docs.google.com/forms/d/1DiQXy…
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/…
Read 4 tweets
Jun 16, 2020
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! Image
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