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27 Oct, 9 tweets, 10 min read
In a few minutes, City Council will meet to begin voting on the 2022 budget.

We demand: #TreatmentNotTrauma #StopShotspotter
#DefundCPD

Follow along via #OurChiBudget2022

Read more & learn about the 2022 City budget, what is in it and not, here: bit.ly/bewarethecityb…
The scariest ​🌩️ thing about this Halloween🎃 is that half the city’s mental health clinics remain closed after Lightfoot promised to reopen them. Go to bit.ly/bewarethecityb… to take action. #BewaretheCityBudget #OurChiBudget2022
Why is City Council so spooked about reopening Chicago’s shuttered mental health clinics? Act now to tell your alderperson to stand with the people at bit.ly/bewarethecityb…. #BewaretheCityBudget #OurChiBudget2022
The 👻 spookiest 👻 part of this 2022 budget is the millions of dollars of funding being given to Chase Bank while thousands of Chicagoan families reel from the harm of the ongoing pandemic.

#TreatmentNotTrauma #StopShotspotter #OurChiBudget2022
Environmental racism makes a toxic terrifying halloween when @chicagosmayor only replayed 3 toxic lead pipes out of 650 she promised... in a city with 400,000 toxic lead service lines (one of the largest in the country)

#TreatmentNotTrauma #StopShotspotter #OurChiBudget2022
@chicagosmayor $200+ million increase in police spending is scary - it doesn’t make our communities safer but occupies Black and brown neighborhoods with structured and organized violence. Go to bit.ly/bewarethecityb… to take action. #BewaretheCityBudget #OurChiBudget2022 #DefundCPD
Our demands:

1) • Move money back into the public mental health clinics so that more residents have access to quality mental health care.

#TreatmentNotTrauma #StopShotspotter #OurChiBudget2022
bit.ly/bewarethecityb…
2) • Increase funding for Single Room Occupancy (SRO) housing and eviction prevention services

3)• Cancel the shotspotter surveillance program.

#TreatmentNotTrauma #StopShotspotter #OurChiBudget2022
bit.ly/bewarethecityb…
4) • Remove unfilled positions in the police department budget so that money can be used elsewhere

5)• Replace lead pipes in neighborhoods, so more residents have access to safe water.

#TreatmentNotTrauma #StopShotspotter #OurChiBudget2022

READ MORE: bit.ly/bewarethecityb…

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29 Mar
Justice for all killed/tortured/impacted by policing is when there are no more police killings, torture and terror. This means we must end the systems that require a government that uses murder, torture and terror as how it operates. We cannot separate policing from capitalism.
US capitalism which we know was born out of the massive spoils of slavery and enabled through massive genocide of the indigenous population. The Chicago Police Department was formed 3 yrs before the incorporation of Chicago as a city and 3 years after the Black Hawk war.
The Black Hawk war was in part how Chicago was “settled.” In part of that violent process, colonial settler capitalism necessitated a domestic army, policing to solidifying this geography into Chicago. In abolishing police, we are also talking about the “abolition” of capitalism.
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18 Feb
A lot is happening in Chicago. Mayor Lori Lightfoot Emanuel gave over 65% of CARES Act money to CPD. Today, the Office of Inspector General released their report on the uprisings where it is revealed how Lori is directly responsible for the brutality. igchicago.org/2021/02/18/rep…
Page 55 documents how during the May 30th protests, CPD refused a person their seizure medication, watched them collapse and threatened another detainee with violence if they moved, presumably to assist the person having a seizure. Footage then records a cop threatening rape.
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16 Feb
This is a must watch video of Chairman Fred Hampton. A fave. Incredibly important critical analysis of strategy and tactic.
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But this is also a real political tension where ideologies can be used to justify conflict in defense and in opposition to. We saw this appear acutely this summer.
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16 Feb
This is just getting started!!

Watch live on Facebook: facebook.com/watch/live/?v=…
We are now hearing a recording from incarcerated torture survivor, Stanley Howard, who was tortured by Jon Burge and has been incarcerated for over 37years.

Stanley was a part of the Death Row Ten and was exonerated but yet remains behind bars.

#FreeStanley #FreeThemAll
Mustafa Bimel, incarcerated from 1986 to 2018

#Presente

#TortureArchive
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9 Jan
This is an important point and also consistent with how fascism historically has arisen. It is always supported first by the ruling classes, despite classist stereotypes. That is because fascism rises out of the crisis of capitalism - it is a response and attempt at reconfiguring
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22 Dec 20
BREAKING: Alderman Anthony Beale and Alderman Lopez proposes an order to immediately cease all no knock warrants. #EndRaids
City Council is breaking for five minutes while the chairman researchers procedure.
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