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Collective x Website x CTA, for: Harm Reduction, Decriminalization, Decarceration, Dual Power, Community Defense, Transformative Justice, and Abolition
May 20, 2023 5 tweets 13 min read
NOW in the TEN DEMANDS library

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NEW books, toolkits, podcasts, videos, studies and articles, from:

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(cont) NOW in the TEN DEMANDS library!

NEW books, toolkits, podcasts, videos, studies and articles, from:

@ChrisWBlackwell
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@ScottHech
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@lebron_chris
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@PrisonPolicy
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@truthout
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Mar 14, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
So what do we mean by #DefundThePolice?

Reject any proposed police department budget expansion, and implement the highest possible budget cuts every year until the budget is reduced to zero.

Cut all police salaries until they are reduced to zero.

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Institute a freeze on all new hires.

End all new investments in police training and facility renovations.

Completely remove funding for public relations.

Eliminate paid administrative leave.

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Mar 10, 2021 21 tweets 10 min read
Abolition is not about anarchy, or absence of accountability

As Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, it’s about the presence of life-affirming institutions

We decrim victimless “crimes”

And hold perpetrators of true crimes truly accountable to the people and conmunities they’ve harmed Through reparative, transformative justice, victims and perpetrators (who’ve typically been victims themselves) are repaired and transformed through mediation, rehabilitation, and service to the community
Nov 8, 2020 24 tweets 8 min read
#KamalaHarris pushed a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents and violating human rights, and continues to defend the existence of ICE #KamalaHarris laughed about putting parents in jail if their kids missed school, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, and families of color, including homeless mothers