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@KCEquityNow
Sep 3, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
THREAD: Senait Brown's open letter to son Malcolm:

"One day you will look back & find the footprints your mother has left behind...I hope you will see the revolutionary fire that sparked my audacity to become a Black mama & bring you into this world."

southseattleemerald.com/2020/09/01/opi…
Liberation requires that we "divest from inherently racist institutions like the New Youth Jail [& policing]," & "develop a collective 'sense of empowerment' & consciousness in our community; plant seeds, build & invest in an infrastructure rooted in our own self-determination."
"That infrastructure is what I look to today to survive and secure our future...everything depends on what we build for ourselves."
"I wish for you to reap the benefits of African-centered education with Black Star Line & Freedom Schools with YUIR and WA-Bloc; I want you to be fed by the fruits of Nurturing Roots Farm & the flavors of Cafe Avole, to find your body in rhythm with Northwest Tap Connection."
I wish for you to find "safety in Africatown-Central District, to arm your body and mind with Blaq Elephant Party, innovate at Black Dot, and explore your best thinking at the Black Power Epicenter..."
"When we face the unspeakable challenges of living while Black and the police, schools, hospitals, medical clinics, and government are colluding to take away your life force, I need you to be able to look to the Black Prisoners’ Caucus, United Better Thinking, & Creative Justice"
I need you to be able to look to "...Community Passageways for strategy and refuge — a village to fight for our right to live radical, bold, and Black."
"Our liberation and your life is dependent on surviving these systems of oppression, planting seeds for our own infrastructure, and investing in what we have built collectively. Asheʼ Asheʼ"

#BuildAfricatown #TapInDontTapOut #Unity

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Oct 18, 2020
1/ BREAKING: Current mayor targets Seattle’s Black community by slashing the Equity Fund in yet another display of anti-Blackness.

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/s…
2/ Despite the current Mayor's cultish refusal to cut from the police dept., her current budget plan slashes the $30M Equity Fund created last year to "combat displacement & advance community equity."
3/ The Equity Fund was funded by the City's massive $143.5M sale of the "Mercer Mega Block" in South Lake Union.

seattletimes.com/business/real-…
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Sep 29, 2020
ATTN: Sign up to tell the Liquor & Cannabis Board that it’s time to #PayTheFee and release 20 cannabis retail licenses for Black ownership in Seattle now. Details in thread below.

First session today from 5-8pm.

Registration: linktr.ee/kcequitynow
PW: LCBequi
In Seattle, & across Washington, Black people have been excluded from ownership in an industry that was built on their backs – cannabis.

Of the 48 cannabis retail stores in a rapidly gentrifying Seattle, ZERO are Black owned.
Those with money & power want to keep things exactly the way they are. They want the illusion of inclusion with wall murals & Black security personnel, but they have no interest in real equity.
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Sep 29, 2020
1/ FACT-CHECK: False.

Watch & learn more about our transparent democratic community-led participatory budgeting process here:
2/ PB goes like this:

Communities most affected by policing brainstorm new ideas on how best/equitably to spend some of our taxpayer dollars. City residents put forward project proposals & EVERYONE in Seattle votes on them. Winning proposals get funded!

/3 The task-force is hand-picked by a wealthy white mayor to represent the entirety of Black interests in Seattle, against our explicit overwhelmingly supported demands.

The "task force" is, as @WhyICHOOSE180 puts it, just a Bootleg Rolex:

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Sep 27, 2020
1/ BREAKING: Sean Goode (@WhyICHOOSE180) resigns from @MayorJenny's "task force" before it starts:

"The role...was not to bake the cake [or] identify the ingredients the community would like to be included but to merely put the icing on so it would be palatable to my people."
2/ "FIRST, any investment that does not align with a corresponding divestment in policing does not actually create the change we need.

Imagine Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center funding both cancer research and the spread of the disease. Sounds ridiculous, right?" #Right
3/ "Yet @MayorJenny plans to spend $100 million to resource BIPOC communities while continuing to spend several times as much on [policing systems] the very thing that perpetuates inequity throughout BIPOC communities."

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Sep 27, 2020
50 protestors who participated in BLM demonstrations—incl. family members of Summer Taylor—filed a major lawsuit against the City of Seattle & State of WA wrongful death, personal injuries, & civil rights violations by Seattle police.

southseattleemerald.com/2020/09/26/50-…
"Protesters suffered...injuries from chemical agents, blast balls, flash bangs, batons, and rubber and plastic bullets. These weapons caused deep bruising and scarring, permanent hearing loss, bleeding, brain injuries and burns from chemical agents."
Police used "militarized tactics" against protesters during arrest and in custody, causing multiple neck, wrist, & "knee injuries, bone contusions, muscle injuries, damaged fingers, damaged hearing, bleeding in the ears, amputation of a thumb, and cardiac arrest."
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Sep 25, 2020
#FreeTheFunds Thread:

On Tues, City Council—after tremendous pressure from 10s of thousands of community members—resisted Mayor Durkan’s anti-Black obstructionism & upheld their decision to divest from the SPD by less than 1% & invest modestly in Black communities.
Huge shout out to everyone who tapped in to make this organizing happen. To all who showed up, hit the streets, volunteered, donated, emailed/called & used your voice to defend Black lives: we see & appreciate y'all deeply.

All power to the people.

It should not take such prolonged, sustained community efforts for this minimal change. But we acknowledge that the Council’s move to override the Mayor’s anti-Black veto marks an urgent break from decades of votes to expand racist policing.

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