Asha AE🐢Abolish police + Israel. 🇵🇸🇭🇹🇨🇩
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• Artist • Abolition🌱 • UIC Public Health '23 • AD taught me • #WeAreDissenters 🌊 #NoCopAcademy #CopsOutCPS
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2017
Yeah, slavery was the worse than we could ever possibly fathom. We went to.the Slave River & Cape Coast Castle. First off, slavery in Africa vs Europe + the Americas was VERY different,still bad, but this race-based chattel slavery made by white men was truly the most SINISTER↓
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I drew an Chicago version of this iconic train scene from the Japanese Anime film, "Spirited Away". She's a Black girl on the CTA L going South on the Redline. She reflects on what she's observing→the reality of Capitalism. #spiritedaway #anime .
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This made my heart sink. AJ is a funny, quirky, & awesome spirit to be around. Police saw them as a threat, dehumanized them, & BEAT A DAMN KID who was trying to protect they ppl. If you can, please help AJ with these expensive medical bills coming soon. Can't reform this :-(
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BRANDON JOHNSON VS PAUL VALLAS 😭😭😭😭.Chicago is such a racist city, but I bet if we rally other young people and Black elders. Johnson can definitely win.
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UChicago kids never fail to tick me off. If you're SO CONCERNED about violence in Hyde Park, why ignore proposed community-led resolutions to violence(decades in the making.)U CAN NOT distance/separate yourself away from the community you inhabit & think you'll be safe from that!.
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I'm stunned to hear police destroyed Tortuguita's entire memorial. Policing is not individual, it's a settler-colonial, fascist, militarist, racist, capitalist, dehumanizing force; trained to not respect life if duty calls & will enforce an illegitimate State just because
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Emmett Till didn't whistle at nor was he "dared" to talk to that white demon b*tch.Why does mainstream tv still portray that, his cousin said that didn't occur. He was lynched for his very existence in a store & saying bye. Lynchings still happen, they just don't name it as such.
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This is what police do: Arrest kids who are demanding what we know we need for our prosperity & sustainability. (Wait till the end) Kids who are revolutionary & support our communities FR.(Roles in this demonstration were pre determined/planned) We keep us safe.#copsoutcps
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CPS has a $33 MILLION contract with CPD. POLICE DON'T KEEP SCHOOLS SAFE, resources that are currently lacking in most schools do. SPAM/ COMMENT on the draft policy! Demand that they terminate the contract!.Also, police ≠ security guards. #DefundThePolice
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Btw, I graduated last week: Bachelor's in Public Health! Now what?🤭 In my career I hope to work in housing justice, environmental justice,the visual arts, mental health,& the opioid epidemic. In my WORK, I want to organize in abolitionist, anti imperialist, & land back struggle!
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TAKE ACTION. PLEASE, THEY BEAT, SPRAYED, & BRUTALIZED CHICAGO YOUTH. They were demonized, dehumanized, and subjected to state violence for practising 1st amendment assembly,demanding what our communities need for safety/ peace of mind. POLICE ARE LYING RN. 24 arrested so far
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If you need a fucking visual. This is the purpose of policing. Protecting White Supremacist property that's on stolen land by beating, tear gassing, and brutalizing Black, Indigenous, and Brown people. This isn't safety, they don't prevent or address violence, they sustain it.
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The news after every weekend in Chicago shows that increased police presence doesn't significantly reduce instances of gun violence. Sharing a vision of a different presence that could be more beneficial to city neighborhoods. Pt1.#DefundCPD #DefundPolice .
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University of Chicago police are blocking the doors, preventing us from getting access to food, water, & bathroom breaks during our peaceful sit in. Folk bought pizza and we can't get it. Call 773-702-8181 and DEMAND that they stop blocking the doors. #WeKeepUsSafe #HydePark
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@_theonlykb Example: Your A.C.E Score.(Adverse Childhood Experience).can affect you physically & mentally until it's addressed. If left unaddressed could lead to actual conditions & diseases. Link: .
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Disclaimer: I just saw the news, it's not confirmed until tomorrow when early votes are counted. However, Vallas is going to be a beast to beat, we need Chicago to understand you can't police your way to address and resolve systemic social inequities & problems.
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Climate change really happening because why is there a tornado warning in Evanston and Chicago suburbs?.
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98% in . We won y'all, come on now🙌🏾. @Brandon4Chicago is our mayor. This will be a fascinating historic chapter in Chicago's history👏🏾
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I'm sorry, but police as marshalls at a reproductive justice March is a parade, not disrupting power, pressuring decision makers, or anything. Police are the ones who will ultimately be enforcing any patriarchal, racist, and eugenical policy. They are never on your side.
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THIS DUDE ALMOST RAN US CPS STUDENTS, ALUMNI, & PARENTS OVER. We are out here because Janice Jackson refuses to listen to #safereturnornoreturn Guess what? The police down the street did nothing, because they don't keep us safe & protect the violent status quo. PLATE # 1800336
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Update: They are out, safe, and home! Thank you everyone!!.
JAIL SUPPORT needed at 3900 S California. SHOW UP FOR OUR YOUTH who fought for their civil rights, their needs, and made the choice to take a stand. From jia- "Do NOT call into 3900 cal rn, they’re trying to keep the lines open for the public defender to do their job" #copsoutcps.
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THE HARMONIZING. THE RHYTHM. The GLOW. Most importantly, the spirit. She could've just did Acapella and have the same impact. #JillScottVsErykahBadu
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@kamilalyciaa from @GKMC18.I'M TIRED OF THE MEDIA & COPGANDA lying and distorting the story. Our phenomenal youth community organizers were BRUTALIZED for protesting. You probably seen the videos, police kettled and trapped kids and Chicagoans. #ChicagoProtests #DefundCPD
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@giselleway_ @antalalakam HONESTLY, in my #sociology class we learned about the racist/oppressive reality of "individualism" & the "traditional" #family. Of course, this was enforced by systems of the violent state to sustain. Great #book: ."The Way We Never Were" by Stephanie Coontz, especially ch 2
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1 yr ago, the 2020 Chicago Uprisings began. Never forget CPD gave kids & Chicagoans concussions, chemical reactions, & broken bones for mobilizing against police violence(an oxymoron).Only #Abolition PRESENCE NOW will end this, not billions of $ that went to "police reform". ↓
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A teen-young adult having a gun for a sense of safety=tip of iceberg.Shooting back to get away & try to survive another day in a crisis State that neglects ppl/our needs tells u all u need to know about police & why defunding 12ASAP is essential for justice & our overall survival.
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Mari from Whitney M Young HS, explaining why cops don't belong in our school, don't make her feel safe, and why they need to go. EVERYWHERE.#Policefreeschools #copsoutcps #copsoutwy.
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If we get COVID-19 in a week, it's on Lori & the pigs.They tried to disperse us by pepper spraying & tear gassing during a pandemic, so we had to take off our masks. They were technically trying to kill us by trying to get us to choke or get sick. Art by :
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MERCH the Save the Fred Hampton House met their goal. Guess people DID do more research about Fred Hampton & what's going on now. Excited to see this museum, the community gardens, & space for community development.Who they working with to embrace Hampton's politics & goals? 👀☺️
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Forever #NoCopAcademy crew. It's sad to see the cop academy's ribbon cutting.This report shows how actual residents didn't want this & that you can't train inherent violence out of policing. All this $ could've gone to WANTED essential community resources!
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Though yeah, in regards to Chicago this weekend. Literally, build more free, accessible, and resource-filled clean spaces for young people to just exist. Downtown is for everyone,we gon reclaim that space one way or another. "Give them something to do?"So, they can't rest either?.
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Slowly but surely a fascist, military police state. This isn't normal and shouldn't be normalized. Young people & community orgs give thorough ideas/proposals for creating the presence of community safety without more policing, and the city chooses not to listen.
All visitors to Chicago's Millennium Park will pass through a bag check and be subject to handheld wand screening. Anyone under the age of 18 who are not escorted by an adult will be asked to leave starting at 6 p.m. Thursday - Sunday.
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@supernaira explaining what she endured. LISTEN and ACT to #DefundCPD because they prevent true safety. This is warfare on youth. This is trauma and Lori is the figurehead of what they did to my people. What really happened to youth Community organizers↓ #chicagoprotests
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@aquarius_aquari I only brushed and scrubbed my baby box turtle ( 5 months old) twice, because they really do not need all of that abrasion and scrubs. PLUS, she HATES IT and tries to bite the toothbrush. Just a warm-cool water rinse is good!
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Woke up to so many emotions, but I made it to my second decade. My former life is over? Glad I decided to keep going. Now that I've found a purpose, I will find that light when the darkness returns.Anywho, if ya wanna send sum☺️ (saving for my dream) .$ AshoAE.V: Asha-Edwards-3
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This isn't medieval warfare. Lightfoot is sick. When she did this, kids were stuck DT & had no way to get home after the uprisings. This city repress Chicagoans expression of outrage. Take to the streets & Defund the Police. #WeKeepUsSafe Police≠Safety
BREAKING: The city is closing the Lake Shore Drive bridge Downtown Thursday, the same day video of Chicago Police fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo will be released.
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CT: Sexual Violence/Pedophilia. Whitney M Young Magnet Highschool still has a sexual predator as a P.E teacher/coach,Mr Geiger. It's been long overdue to have him fired. I had permission to share her experiences/ amplify this in the hopes that action is swiftly taken. Email admin
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THE ADULTISM at Whitney M Young Magnet Highschool IS VIOLENCE. We explicitly addressed concerns regarding what leads to violence & how we can prevent such at our school specifically. Police didn't keep us safe & will not in the future. Whitney Young rolling in his grave! DISGRACE
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My professor green lit my final oral presentation that explains the vision of a pilot program that begins to give the presence of abolition within the University of Chicago police jurisdiction. If anybody has more data on violence prevention and budgeting, please hmu!.
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It don't stop g #makiyahbryant #sayhername This child called the police looking for help, refuge, for someone to stop harm,& when trigger happy cops arrived they didn't attempt to de-escalate & shot her. Police are trained to kill on-site, not safety,& that's not what she needed!.
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@radfagg giving the history of this neighborhood, the significance of this location (Black/Brown School turned Lofts building), & a call for #policefreeschools. Lori Lightfoot doesn't represent the Black queer community or history. #BlackTransLivesMatter
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Who planned this? Police checking individual IDs to only let in ppl who live downtown thru access points, some police didn't know of these points, police blocking streets, enforcing closures. Whoever declared all buses to the Loop to be suspended caused most of the mess and.
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I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN.🐬 I'm so glad for everyone who came out. Current students & alumni were THOROUGH explaining how WY has not supported us,why cops NEVER helped in creating a safe space,& the alternatives needed. #copsoutwy #copsoutcps WATCH VOTE:
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#justiceforbreonnataylor .Justice won't come from the same system that took her precious life. Organize to get cops fired without pension, not rehired, defund the system, get their presence outta our communities. Build networks & organize for essential resources that keep us safe
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> 3% of rapists go to prison, because prisons weren't built to prevent violence, but for profit & to extract labor. No, I don't want rapists to go to prison & have access to more vulnerable people who are mainly incarcerated for crimes of survival due to Capitalism. #MeToo ↓.
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THREAD learned from older🌱folk:.Organizing is usually not a job,you bring your skill set to radical movement work. You can't sustain yourself just off movement work,that's falling into NPIC when your survival is dependent on what people believe in & if they believe in ur work.↓.
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#MiracleBoyd talking about where she's sending her GoFundMe $ because it's obvious that #LoriLightfoot won't invest in community resources that actually support our communities & address the root causes of violence. Policing can not do that & only react to it @GKMC18 #wekeepusafe
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Besides thinking the worst of children & criminalizing their existence,instead of providing more accessible & free youth spaces, I have a feeling police would ALSO harass anybody who "looks" like a teenager & ask for ID's→ Bringing ICE & endangering undocumented folks into this.
NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is implementing a 10pm curfew for Chicago teenagers on weekends.
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WE'RE AT COOK COUNTY JAIL TO DEMAND.#MassReleaseNow.#FreeThemAll4PublicHealth .#FreeThemAll .This pandemic has showed us what actually keeps us safe: mutual aid, community resources, neighborhood networks, AND FREEING OUR PEOPLE. Who can free them:.
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I despise how ppl instantly check his arrest history to vilify him,the cops didn't know his past.Their gut reaction was to shoot a Black man in front of his kids,after he broke up a fight.He's an abuser→doesn't mean he deserves to die.His behavior can be addressed & transformed.
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NEVER forget Chicago police almost killing us to protect a statue of a white supremacist colonizer. (ppl bulgeon in the head/body, concussions,& asthma attacks from spray)ALL cops are bad, they will do what they are ordered to do→ protect white supremacy
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Ariel from @BLMChi PREACHING! We keep us safe! Make sure your homies are good & supported! Police come at us the hardest when the crowd dwindle. #DefundThePolice #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishPolice.#ChicagoProtests.Community safety↓.
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Organic protests are✨, but some of the young ppl who are planning these need more training for such high risk actions & aren't involved in long term campaigns or have a plan to get their demands met. Abolitionist political orgs can absorb youth into more long term movement work.
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Proud Boys supposedly headed to Hyde park in Chicago, around 55th, might attempt to disrupt community teach in events going on today. Bring yo boys 😩.
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Me yelling NEW SHIT when Jamila Woods performed her new song 😭😭😭 like an open mic session. I'm in awe and working on fan art ASAP
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Thank you CTU for taking a stand against Lightfoot's ego driven & reactionary measures. CPS kids telling me half their class is out sick or in quarantine. The city should've put more funding into ensuring free childcare, access to essential resources, & reliable remote learning!.
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@noname ANIME, which one? 🥺. YES, it's not our job to educate men. It's THEIR job to unlearn misogyny & patriarchy embedded in Amerikkkan culture + apply healthy behaviors to their circles. There are countless books/articles written by radical Black Women/Fems to read on. Ex: B.Hooks↓
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#NewProfilePic police can't stop my joy. Nor will 🐷 stop our movement that has continued since this settler-colonial, occupying, imperial, & police State's inception.This is a lifelong seeding.🌻.I haven't changed my profile in since 2017, tho this one is still kinda discrete ☺️
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The devil himself
War Criminal Henry Kissinger has finally died aged 100. In his lifetime, he's been responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the History of the World. Here is a thread: 🧵
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Oh shoot, I really just signed the lease to my first lil Apartment. So grateful and thankful for being able to do so. I'm scared tbh. I hope there are no hidden costs 🤧 and I didn't sign to a slum Lord. Now THE MOVING PROCESS 😀 who want help me move a block over?!(mid-end May).
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I'm hearing birds chirp chirp all happily for the first time in months. 🥺 Might climb a tree and join them. SUMMER is here 🌻🌳🌼🐦.
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Y'all remember #StopLightfoot when we been said she ain't the one? Aye well, we all finally came to our senses 🫣💅🏾 THAT WITCH IS GONE 🙇🏾
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CPD gotta $33 MILLION contract with CPS! POLICE DON'T KEEP SCHOOLS SAFE, resources that are currently lacking in most schools do. SPAM AND COMMENT on the draft policy! Demand that they terminate the contract! #DefundThePolice #PoliceFreeSchools #CPS
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Update: We've been waiting for the meeting FOR HOURS & they are using the excuse that the building is closed now. Folk BEEN OUT HERE, & they could've met with the organizers HOURS AGO.We fed up & some aren't leaving until @care_not_cops DEMANDS ARE MET. #DefundUCPD.
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STOP SHAMING BLACK & INDIGENOUS PPL who not voting for Biden.Why TF would I vote for a racist rapist, segregationist, carceral war monger? Sure,I'll vote down the ballot & in local elections where we as ppl have more power in disrupting harmful structures. Real change=dismantling.
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Bet y'all don't even know community orgs around here.GET TF OUTTA HERE if ur not going to do sum beneficial about it.Time & time again,🚓/surveillance has been shown to not be effective.Root causes of violence has been discussed, but U Chicago prefers reactionary police measures.
UChicago kids never fail to tick me off. If you're SO CONCERNED about violence in Hyde Park, why ignore proposed community-led resolutions to violence(decades in the making.)U CAN NOT distance/separate yourself away from the community you inhabit & think you'll be safe from that!.
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DISRUPT THE NORM OF DT AND THEIR POWER STRUCTURES. THE NORM IS VIOLENCE. #PoliceFreeSchools NOWW!. TAKE UP SPACE.
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We, UIC Dissenters, are assisting our neighbors living in a ⛺housing encampment right next to our campus through #MutualAid . No one is disposable & houseless people in Chicago are left to freeze. Venmo: UIC-DISSENTERS. 🗣️#DivestfromDeath + Militarism & Invest in HOUSING + Life
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I don't move in silence😅😭 so I'm sharing I've been accepted TO STUDY ABROAD IN GHANA THIS SUMMER 🥳 I'm so happy right now,like I'm really going to the motherland for the first time. I'm shook,hopefully this scholarship comes through.What should ik about GHANA? #cieestudyabroad.
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I really want to get trained in proper, non-carceral de-escalation, at least with young people. Also, in public health work, de-escalation for mental health crises. Love the toolkits, but idk how to apply what is shared 😭.
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Know their faces, know their names, know how they are on side of the violent status quo, refused to act on Black+Brown youth experiences, gaslit our people when we gave alternatives & DATA. ALL MEN voted to renew. Melendez abstained. The rest knew #BlackLivesMatter.= #CopsOutCPS
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Rahm literally hides when people discussed the Cop Academy and comes back out when a guy was advertising Loyola baseball caps. Chicago, this is your Mayor, not listening to the masses needs and concerns. #nocopacademy #nocopsuerahm.#blacklivesmatter #chicago
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Screw the Olympics, their committee is classist, racist, occupational, colonialist, transphobic, love eugenic politic, and generally behind in society. We could do better for Sha'Carri , have our own ethical and spiritual races. I hope she know she's raw regardless of "policy".
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I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!x12.Hope there's a ripple effect of taking down statues that symbolize White Supremacy, genocide, occupation, & false history.Hope Lori knows we still ain't going anywhere! #DefundCPD because policing doesn't work & #wekeepussafe.
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Brandon Johnson brought 70° weather, look at that 😆👏🏾.
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Vent: I'm so over academia as it exists rn. Really don't have the energy to be invested or care. Should've just picked up a trade.Just wanna get a nice degree to "fall back on"/"save$" & build free on grid cob & Earthship homes for people.Not this extra guff that don't help folk.
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Karla on why SROS don't keep students safe. We keep us safe. Tell the men Board of Education members to get on the right side THIS WEDNESDAY, when the vote happens. Adultism, Patriarchy, and Anti Blackness will not win. #policefreeschools #copsoutcps
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This is prob already a thing in Chicago, but one day when I get my degree, learn more from Afro indigenous methods,& receive training→I wanna help build sustainable natural homes & gardens. Free housing built from local Earthly materials+renewable resources/energy w/low waste.😤
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Policing is not a very dangerous "job", COVID 19 killed more police officers than anything in 2020 and 2021. They often refused to wear masks during uprisings. The FOP president declared 50% of Chicago's police will be out starting Friday because they aren't vaccinated. So🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾.
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WAP ALL DAY EVERYDAY 🤧. W - we.A - abolish.P - police. #AbolishPolice #ACAB #DefundThePolice #BlackLivesMatter. And some info links about why and what we create instead: 😌. .
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@RicWilson Wait, gotta graphic I made of some Abolitionist &/or Transformative Chicago community orgs or groups 😭↓
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It's a shame I can only look to Twitter/IG for correct & in-depth coverage on the developments of Stop Cop City, from the people.We HAVE TO resist cop fear tactics no matter what,but yeah, they are desperate trying to enforce the State's legitimacy throwing terro charges around.
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I feel like a broken record. I wish it wasn't a pandemic so we can go out more in our neighborhoods, offer direct support for specific needs, participate in more mutual aid rooted in our politics, and introduce the reality of Abolition.
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Wow. Mayor Brandon Johnson cleared the public floor. Only people in the chamber are here. He just can't comprehend people being outraged against apartheid & genocide. Like, how dare you engage in White Supremacist respectability politics. End the occupation now. Free Palestine
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If folk don't stop harassing me to vote in such degrading ways, then I won't. THE AUDACITY OF Y'ALL is ridiculous,how DARE you get aggressive WHEN YOU DON'T dare to take direct action to block a deportation, tear gas/weapons manufacturer entrance, an eviction, a ☣️dump of a corp
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Once again Chicago police interfere with actual community safety and wellness. Please help this man and his family out $ ↓ This is so disturbing.
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You know that moment when u actually have time to read all those revolutionary articles & zines. Sure it was I can't sleep it's 3 am, but wow I learned a lot & felt a lil less powerless in the moment we're in right now. My dream role: art, building homes, distro, & public health.
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