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Benji #StopCopCity #FreePalestine Hart Profile picture
@radfagg
Jul 2, 2020 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Thread: A loving note from your local, stressed-out freelancer:

#DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
We will still need to learn about and organize around defunding police in the fall. We will still need to learn about and organize around defunding police after November. We will still need to learn about and organize around defunding police in 2021. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
That there are so many new voices and bodies in this fight, that there are so many ready, excited, and energized around abolition, is so heartening. Let's not confuse urgency with running ourselves into the ground. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
Please continue hiring and working with Black freelancers, educators, organizers, artists. Also, recognize we have limited capacity, and that we will still have rent to pay in the fall. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
Recognize that if your group is new to abolition, now might be the time to do some internal dialogue/study (there are SO MANY great resources on abolition available) before bringing in folks from directly impacted communities to teach you from our own experience. #DefundPolice
Recognize if the next time a facilitator is available to work with your group is in September, that's great! September is as good a time to demand the defunding of police as any other. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
The need to #DefundPolice and #AbolishPolice is urgent. Folks who have been fighting this fight for years can tell you, it has always been urgent, and it will continue to be urgent for a long time to come.
Building power is also about spreading out our efforts, sustaining our calls for the long haul, and giving ourselves time to rest. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
Urgency doesn't mean we have to do it all this week. Folks who are truly committed to defunding and abolition should expect to be engaged way after this month, this summer, this year. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
We have time, and we have each other. We arrived at this moment through patience and persistence. Let's keep it up by breathing deep, building with each other intentionally, and not rushing the things it is crucial be done right. #AbolishPolice #DefundPolice

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Benji #StopCopCity #FreePalestine Hart Profile picture
Dec 2, 2020
The abolitionists of the 1800s lost a big audience when they said the institution of chattel slavery couldn't be redeemed. Slave owners--many rich and powerful--felt alienated by the statement. It was polarizing. In fact, it led to war. #DefundPolice politico.com/news/2020/12/0…
It would have been more diplomatic to call for reform: To stop beating slaves, to not separate parents from children, but allow the institution's core--one pop. of people owning another--to continue unfettered. Perhaps they might have won more over to their cause. #DefundPolice
Black people are no longer (literal) property in this country because the abolitionist movement called for slavery's abolition. It took a war for that demand to become reality. But the institution ended because of the clarity of movement, and its radical vision. #DefundPolice
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Benji #StopCopCity #FreePalestine Hart Profile picture
Sep 22, 2020
THREAD: I’m voting early for #BidenHarris2020.

Here’s why, against many of my core values, I’m doing so, why you should too if you’re able, AND why voting in this election is not revolutionary, and deeply insufficient:
I believe we need to use every tool we have at this moment. I believe a contested election gives us more fodder than one where Trump wins easily. I believe a racist establishment president is NOT BETTER but MORE NAVIGABLE than a fascist for of our most marginalized communities.
That being said, the idea that fascism can be voted away is dangerous, not only because fascism doesn’t care about the laws of democracy, but also because fascist movements that are mobilized at this moment will continue to be, regardless of how the election plays out.
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Benji #StopCopCity #FreePalestine Hart Profile picture
Sep 3, 2020
It's good that more ppl are aware of the overlap between law enforcement, vigilante militias, and white nationalist organizing, but I'm also disturbed by the discourse that one has "infiltrated" the other. They are the same. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The overlap between law enforcement and white nationalism isn't a recent event. One is inseparable from the other. If police departments evolved from slave patrols, then policing begins with the goal of white nationalism. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice worxintheory.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/ori…
A cursory review of US history reveals this: Sundown towns, the birth of the KKK, race riots in which police watched white ppl to destroy neighborhoods of color. Policing and white nationalism have been bonded from their inception. #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
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Aug 26, 2020
The saddest thing about @ChiPubSchools voting yet again to keep police in CPS ins't just that they're on the wrong side of history, it's that getting on the right side is inevitable.

#PoliceFreeSchools will be reality. You're just waisting time/$ until we get there. #CopsOutCPS
Hearing officials today use terms like "school to prison pipeline" and "restorative justice" while arguing FOR police in schools was insulting, and not even a good cover. We know exactly where you stand, and more importantly, we know where we stand. #CopsOutCPS #PoliceFreeSchools
The only members of the board who uplifted the actual voices/demands of youth were also the only ones who came with the actual data/stats that support #PoliceFreeSchools. @ChiPubSchools NO MORE STUDIES. The research has already been done and the findings are clear. #CopsOutCPS
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Aug 21, 2020
Grateful to @them for running this story on HRC's deletion of a tweet praising #LoriLightfoot after Black and brown Chicagoans pointed to its hypocrisy.

I also want to challenge some of the analysis here, which comes directly from the her administration: them.us/story/hrc-dele…
From the article:

"In addition to the police beatings of protesters, Lightfoot also drew criticism for nightly shutdowns of transit service through downtown...The nightly road and transit closures, unrelated to protesting, were enacted after looting downtown on August 10."
The looting that occurred downtown and in other parts of the city WAS PART OF THE PROTESTS of policing. #LoriLightfoot's claim that the de facto separating of the predominately Black south side from the predominately white north side had nothing to do with protesting is a lie.
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Aug 18, 2020
THEY DELETED THAT HEINOUS #LoriLightfoot TWEET Y'ALL

#StopLightfoot #DefundCPD #PeopleOverProperty
#Lightfoot has a similar profile to her predecessor #RahmEmanuel in that her national image and her status in the Democratic party matter much more to her than the opinion of local Chicagoans--especially Black, brown, immigrant, poor and working ones. #StopLightfoot #DefundCPD
The platforms these national orgs give #LoriLightfoot don't just shroud the violence she commits locally--they empower it. So long as she is allowed to masquerade as a champion or "racial justice" and "intersectionality" nationally, she is empowered to be the antithesis locally.
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