Justin Piché, PhD
@JustinPicheh
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Full Professor of Criminology @uOttawa researching criminalization-imprisonment-alternatives. Member of @jpp1988 @CarceralCulture @CPEPgroup & @CappKemptville
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1/2 On Oct. 26, 7-9pm
@WorkersAC
(720 Spadina Ave.) join me & Rachel Herzing + discussants Tiina Eldridge (
@RittenhouseANV
), Robyn Maynard (
@policingblack
) for the
#Toronto
launch of
#HowToAbolishPrisons
(
@haymarketbooks
) moderated by Jessica Evans (
@TorontoMet
).
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Thinking about
@uOttawa
's Lebanese students who came across this obscene post yesterday.
Are these the kind of statements you had in mind when you appointed a special advisor on antisemitism
@recteurUOpres
?
Today’s targeting of Hezbollah operatives was brilliant. It struck a major blow against a terror group that has fired thousands of rockets against civilians all while the useless UN mission in Lebanon stands by. There is a price to pay
#Hezbollah
#FAFO
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@erinotoole
So under an Erin O'Toole government, Canadians would need a criminal record check to determine whether they qualify for access to a vaccine at this stage in the roll out?
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Bomb Gaza into rubble and kill scores of kids. Tragic, but perfect acceptable.
Interrupting business as usual at malls ahead of Christmas. Horrific, how could protestors possibly do this to children?
Who has no moral compass again? Some have lost the plot.
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1/4 In the coming days, people who've been dehumanized & have dehumanized others are going to be rounded-up by the cops in
#ottcity
. There are children who may be separated from their parents right in front of their eyes or from afar by jail walls. Human beings may die.
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#ottcity
is it property tax time already? Question to my councillor
@RiverWardRiley
& mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
. Is there a way for me to redirect my household's tax contribution earmarked for the Ottawa police to initiatives that actually enhance community well-being & safety?
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1/ Since
@uOttawa
's admin didn't widely consult or even bother notifying students, staff and profs about the decision to divest from & boycott
@FierteCapPride
in
#OttCity
, at some point
@recteurUOpres
& co. will need to answer some basic questions like...
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2/4 This isn't a time for popcorn, champagne popping & celebration. This isn't a time for
#CarceralEnjoyments
. This is a time where we're bearing witness to harm in response to harm and we need to summon our better angels to resist our worst instincts.
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Exactly two months until "
#HowToAbolishPrisons
" is published by
@haymarketbooks
April 9th.
While nervous about what readers will think these blurbs from great abolitionist thinkers & organizers (see back cover) put my mind somewhat at ease -
#AltText
in 🧵. Big thanks to them.
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An important reminder to not confuse law with justice.
BREAKING:
Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice rules in favour of UofT. Students protesting a genocide must end camp by 6 pm tomorrow or face police violence.
The UofT administration has been granted the
immoral license to unleash police violence
against its own community. 🧵
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3/4 It's critical that even in the most challenging times that we continue to imagine, strive for & try to build a future where solidarity is premised on equity, inclusion, collective responsibility, real safety, joy & liberation for all, not othering.
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1/3 For comrades Rachel Herzing & I interviewed and/or organized with since we began working on "How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement" in 2016, you know it's been a long road.
Excited to report that
@haymarketbooks
is putting the book out into the world this April!
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To criminology students & others aspiring to be police officers to "help people & prevent violence" ask yourselves: Will policing allow me to reach these goals? If I'm a cop will I enact violence on people seeking access to basic necessities 4 all? The answers are all around us.
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4/4 The
#CarnivalOfPunishment
in our minds must be resisted.
#AbolitionInOurLifetime
requires
#ChoosingRealSafety
.
#DefundOPS
|
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
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@OPALamothe
@OPApresident
You do realize that cops investigate, arrest, charge & detain people for a living? That’s exclusion work. Some of those people cops criminalize are parents of school kids. Some kids are criminalized themselves. They may not see police classroom visits as an educative experience.
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1/2 OPS & their partners dropped the ball by allowing a protest organized by groups seeking a federal govt coup to enter the parliamentary precinct w/ transport trucks, etc. Then they allowed an occupation. Now they're seeking to be rewarded for their own inaction & incompetence.
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1/2 Almost a decade in the making... now
#HowToAbolishPrisons
published by
@haymarketbooks
is in my hands & hopefully it'll also be in yours on April 9th!
Consider pre-ordering your copy today at:
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2/ How does
@uOttawa
's decision to divest from & boycott
@FierteCapPride
foster "a space of respect and inclusion for all"?
How does Pride
#OttCity
's "Statement in Solidarity with Palestine" "not align with the University's broader mission and values"?
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1/2 Full Professor. Not bad for a scholar who only got into one PhD program in 2006 with an abolitionist research proposal despite having a near-perfect GPA in my master's (thanks to
@AaronWDoyle
taking a chance on me). Yes, I still have a bit of a chip on my shoulder ;-)
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3/ How is it acceptable 4 an academic institution like
@uOttawa
2 make claims without explication & substantiation (preferably citing evidence)? This, after all, is what we expect students & researchers in our community 2 do, yet our admin simply make declarations from upon high.
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Devasting news. I just met with Sarah a few days ago to discuss her progress on her PhD thesis and we ironed out a plan for her to finish, as well as plans for collaboration this spring. There's been so much loss in the community in recent years. Rest in power Sarah.
1/9 Joint statement by
@CPEPgroup
,
@jpp1988
&
@trackinjustice
As collaborators of Sarah Speight (PhD Candidate, Geography, University of Ottawa), it is with deep regret that we inform the community that she passed away last weekend.
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@Sflecce
The teachable moment you insist on is that no matter the risks to your health (e.g. vision loss), capitalism comes 1st. Show-up to work everyone. Your sacrifice is needed.
As an aside, aren't you having issues recruiting & retaining teachers? Wonder why? Great employer you are.
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@MacLeodLisa
Did you even read
@SarahJama
's statement? Any fair reading would see her statement as a call for peace, to finally deal with longstanding issues at the root of decades of conflict, as well as concern for "all those impacted".
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@ColinDMello
1/2 Creating a "pipeline" for more police officers when (a) we know $1 invested in violence prevention saves $7 on cops, courts, cages and victims services after victimization occurs and (b) when policing often harms people pushed to the margins is bad idea.
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Time for editing the final proof & getting blurbs for "How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement" by Rachel Herzing and I
@haymarketbooks
.
Soon past the point of no return... gulp ;-)
The book will be out on 9 April 2024! Order your copy today: .
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@brianlilley
@CdnPressNews
1/2 Let's be fiscally conservative for a moment. Exercise + recreation makes for healthier people & helps prevent illnesses. Healthier people draw less on healthcare resources, thus reducing the costs to govt. We need more access to exercise + recreation in prisons, not less.
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These guys can't even find 0.12% out of a $400 million police budget to divert mental health calls in a meaningful way.
I don't belong here. How about you
#OttCity
?
#NOPE
| No
#Ottawa
Police Expansion
#YES
| Yes to Equity and Supports
#BuildCommunitiesNotCopShops
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Looking forward to hearing from the
#OttCity
police chief on how much this
#HorseShit
(horse training, boarding, transport, patrols, etc) is going to cost taxpayers + what evidence exists that cops on horseback make us safer.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCopShops
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@_MarkSutcliffe
"I'm prepared to do everything I can to resolve" the
#OttCity
financial crisis except abandon the unrealistic municipal tax increase cap promise you made amid inflation, an infrastructure deficit, and desperate need for service upgrades.
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2/2 There was a group of people committed to making us all safer at Bank & Riverside today + many more like them across
#ottcity
that could use more support.
#WeKeepEachOtherSafe
.
Our city should be
#ChoosingRealSafety
.
#DefundOPS
|
#BuildCommunities
.
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1/2 Just voted for
@cmckenney
.
#ottcity
would be lucky to have a mayor with their competence, courage, and integrity who believes in fairness, taking action on climate change, govt transparency and accountability, and building a healthier city that works for all of us.
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On 24 Oct 2022 vote 4 me as
#ottcity
councillor in
#RiverWard
. I won't be on the ballot, but vote 4 me anyways. If you want to know what I think about municipal matters impacting residents, please read my PhD thesis. Everything you need to know is there.
#JustinPich
éForThePeople
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2/2 If allowed this pathetic, shameless & shameful long-term carceral state resource grab will only further entrench institutions that uphold & deepen domination. When this is all over we need to
#BuildCommunities
capable of meeting human needs + community defence.
#DefundOPS
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📢COMING SOON📢
Largely thanks to the efforts of Rachel Herzing we will soon have the
#HowToAbolishPrisons
study guide
@haymarketbooks
. Here are the back & front covers of the guide. Looking forward to sharing what's in between the covers of this resource with you all soon!
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A lengthy🧵on the police and prison state
@fordnation
wants to build + why he should say
#NOPE
| No Ontario Prison Expansion &
#YES
| Yes to Equity and Supports. We need to
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Premier.
Ford promises to build as many jails as needed to keep criminals behind bars
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@fordnation
@OCDSB
1/2 In fairness Premier, it appears that the
@OCDSB
has made accommodations to allow police officers to speak as “community helpers” in schools (just without uniforms and cruisers in tow) even though many children and youth are demanding that cops get out and stay out of schools.
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You can't urge people 2 move on when those who caused harm haven't apologized, provided meaningful restitution 2 those their actions impacted & assurances they'll alter their behaviour 2 ensure the safety of others. You've been a proponent of restorative justice. You know better.
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How many criminalized people imprisoned at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre before the siege could’ve instead been safely released on their own recognizance by OPS or via bail releases by justices of the peace but weren’t? What would explain the differential treatment?
Of those arrested, 103 were charged. The main charges are mischief and obstruct.
89 of them have been released with conditions that include a boundary they are not allowed to attend.
The others have been released unconditionally.
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Thou shalt not encourage current and former students or anyone else for that matter to pursue careers that will surely result in harm to themselves and others.
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@PCPressOffice
If your party and govt are actually interested in enhancing community well-being and safety, here are a few ideas of where you could allocate $22 million a year to instead of free cop academy training. It's not too late to change your minds.
1/6 What could $22 million going towards free tuition for 480 police recruits a year go towards that would actually enhance community well-being and safety? Here are a few ideas
#IfWeHad22MillionDollars
per year...
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In the wake of Umar Zameer's acquittal in the death of Const. Northrup how will police associations & chiefs spin the outcome? Often the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. Here are 2 resources showing why we should be skeptical of copaganda+police stenography🧵
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Quick facts. Being imprisoned doesn't erase your age, medical issues and/or vulnerability associated w/ being caged in a congregate setting. Imprisoned people (incl. elderly) don't have super powers that make them immune to any of this.
#ContainCovidNotPeople
|
#CleanOutPrisons
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Did I hear this right? Did
@OPSChiefSloly
say that if his force's 2021 budget got cut by $1.2M out of a budget of well over $300M that he'd have to make cuts to things like de-escalation training and anti-racism initiatives? No cuts to be had for police violence work apparently
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@glen_mcgregor
3/ If Pat King gets bail in the name of his health and public health after everything he has said about
#COVID19
, the first question that should be asked is who's being caged at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre right now that should be getting bail, but isn't and why?
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@CuriePeach
I cheered and then asked myself wtf am I doing. What is this accomplishing? Is this consistent with what I believe? What are the ramifications for the future? Not wagging a finger at anyone. Just raising implications of our collective reactions to this moment of great harm.
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1/6 What could $22 million going towards free tuition for 480 police recruits a year go towards that would actually enhance community well-being and safety? Here are a few ideas
#IfWeHad22MillionDollars
per year...
News release says Ontario Police College currently runs 3 cohorts per year of 480 officers through this $15,450 course, so my math says that’s $22 million/yr in free tuition. News release also says in 2024 it will expand to 4 cohorts/yr of 550 officers each, so that’s $34 M/yr.
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@geniebouchard
What does it say about the state of healthcare in our country when a human being needs to hawk a cherished possession or require a gift from a wealthier person to be able to acquire the means to hear to their fullest potential? Common Canada. Demand better.
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Worked years towards a goal, applied for it & received very supportive reviews from peers this afternoon that brought me to tears. Thank you to the four reviewers (incl. reviewer
#2
) whoever you are. I’ll pay it forward, but for now I’ll take a break & do another kind of writing.
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Next time
@PierrePoilievre
says "jail not bail" in a scrum or press conference can a reporter please ask him why he's so comfortable being a bootlicker? For a 'small govt' type he sure has tons of faith in 1 of the biggest bureaucracies of them all - the prison industrial complex
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Thinking of those that, unlike Mr. Zameer, are held in pretrial detention in
@fordnation
's Ontario where police always get their man apparently & you're presumed guilty. Cases like this 1 are the tip of the iceberg.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCopShopsAndCages
#BREAKING
: Umar Zameer has been acquitted of all charges in death of Toronto police Const. Jeffrey Northrup
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Anyone looking for a new hat this spring?
@CPEPgroup
sample one. In our last meeting this one lost out to the dad hat and the bucket hat, but I continue to make the case.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
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Come out next Wednesday night in
#Montreal
@LawMcGill
for a "Prison Abolition in Canada" roundtable feat.
@ElJonesPoet
,
@DebraParkes
& me.
Will be selling copies of
#HowToAbolishPrisons
&
@CPEPgroup
merch to raise funds 4
@CappKemptville
legal fund,
@PCPMtl
+ Termite Collective
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1/2 Congratulations to all
@uOttawa
graduates, including Dr. Matthew Ferguson whose PhD thesis "Between Commemoration and Criminalization: Demystifying, Demythologizing, and Debunking the Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial" is a must-read.
Link:
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Meanwhile, as fair-weather 'allies' pull-out from
@FierteCapPride
...
Israel perpetrating war crimes in plain sight in Gaza, says ex-UK diplomat
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@NatalieMehra1
@fordnation
There's a whole whack of privatization / infrastructure projects that can be found here:
#NOPE
| No to Ontario Privatization Everywhere
#YES
| Yes to Equity and Supports
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@CBCPitchbot
Headline should read "Plutocrat shamelessly cheers on
#ottcity
siege to build case and public support for replacing truckers with Tesla robotrucks"
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@MacLeodLisa
If this is a contest between who is showing more humanity and better judgement amid this horrific catastrophe that has been going on for roughly three quarters of a century, you lose MPP MacLeod. Meet the moment instead of failing the test just this one time would you?
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@Travisdhanraj
@fordnation
@CUPEOntario
Don’t recall you telling people on the election trail that you would use the notwithstanding clause to impose contracts on workers.
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I'm taking part in
#ScholarStrikeCanada
this week in support of & solidarity with Black, Indigenous & other people of colour who are demanding an end 2 the racism they endure, including carceral state violence & discrimination in colleges + universities
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1/3
@fordnation
,
@Sflecce
& co. can find $1.2B for a new prison in Thunder Bay, up $499M for a new prison in Kemptville, up to $499M for new prison infrastructure in Brockville & roughly $48M x 3 to expand existing prisons in Napanee, Thunder Bay + Kenora.
Solidarity w/ the Ontario education workers organizing for decent working conditions. Funds are always available for surveillance, jails, repression, while life affirming social needs are decimated. education is a social need and good and workers deserve our support right now.
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Every university including my own
@uottawa
needs to
#DivestNow
from death making in Palestine. There’s no defence for continued investments in the military and prison industrial complexes that injure, maim and kill across the globe.
READ HERE: a summary of the
#ICJ
Order on the request of South Africa of 10 May 2024 for the modification of the Order of 28 March 2024 in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
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What’s that feeling when you see your hero’s
@RATMofficial
for the first time under the
@RBC
banner that plunders the land and the people…
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New from
@SarahSpaghett
and I
@CPEPgroup
: "Build communities, not cages: Jails are death traps, no matter how new" via
@globeandmail
@fordnation
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
. Say
#NOPE
| No Ontario Prison Expansion &
#YES
| Yes to Equality and Supports
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Looking forward to seeing
@criminology
& co. + my 2 presentations tomorrow at
#BelfastCrimCon
, including 1 during the Irish Penal Abolition Network launch chaired by
@gillmcn01
where I'll be selling copies of
#HowToAbolishPrisons
@haymarketbooks
to raise $ for the new network.
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Big thanks to everyone who came to recent
#HowToAbolishPrisons
(
@haymarketbooks
) events in Winnipeg & Oakland, as well as bought books & merch as we raised funds 4
@BarNoneWpg
,
@C_Resistance
+
@c_c_w_p
.
Off next to
@redemmas
in
#Baltimore
June 1 at 7pm.
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Today, news broke that half of the criminalized women imprisoned in Canada's federal penitentiaries are Indigenous. As discussed in the new issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on an "Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition", there is another way.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Fresh off the presses. In the mail to contributors and subscribers in the coming weeks!
Check-out the articles from Volume 30, Number 2 of the JPP on an "Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition" online and subscribe to order your copy today:
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1/2 It wasn't just the weather that was dark and cold in
#OttCity
today. In one day,
@_MarkSutcliffe
& co. broke ground on a $193M cop campus + set aside $419M for Lansdowne 2.0. Both are corporate pocket lining boondoggles in the making.
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Please read and share my open email to
@UofT
Vice-President of People Strategy, Equity & Culture Kelly Hannah-Moffat on the "Notice of trespass to participants in the encampment at St. George campus".
#Disclose
#Divest
#FreePalestine
cc:
@occupyuoft
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1/4 The Ottawa Police Service wants to build a new cop shot in the Byward Market through leasing space at the Rideau Centre for at least 5 years to the tune of roughly 246k a year.
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Incorrect. Irresponsible. Dangerous. Horseshit.
Not a single murder of a police officer in this country has been motivated by efforts to
#DefundThePolice
. If that were the case, police leaders wouldn’t miss a chance to state it over and over again.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCopShops
'Defund the Police' leads to attacks on Police.
Catch up on all of the Malcolm Mayes cartoons for the month of March here:
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@DavidColetto
@_MarkSutcliffe
You really need to find more excitement in your life if street sweeps and more cop shops is what gets you excited. If you like seeing people in handcuffs and getting roughed up, rent a video or something brother.
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-Permanent & supportive housing = 40k/year per person
-Community garden = 12k/year
-Harm reduction = $14,500/year per person
-Drug treatment (35 days + 1 year of aftercare) = 19k/per person
-Counselling = $150/hour
-Peer support worker = 52k/year
#BuildCommunitiesNotCopShops
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There's still a
#PrisonPandemic
. As of 25 May 2021 there were at least 8,522
#COVID19
cases (6,150 prisoners | 1,983 staff | 6 contractors | 383 unspecified) linked to Canadian prisons. Close to 500 new cases in May so far.
#ContainCovidNotPeople
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@_MarkSutcliffe
How about stopping the public-private-partnership gravy train at
#OttCity
hall? How about investing upstream in preventing violence instead of retrofitting shopping mall space for a cop shop in the market and building a new $200M cop campus in Barrhaven? Could go on and on...
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Sold out 1st in-person event for
#HowToAbolishPrisons
+ some $ raised for
@PushingEnvChi
via
@CPEPgroup
merch! Thanks to
@chihumanities
&
@haymarketbooks
for organizing. Also thanks to Rachel Herzing for facilitating + Sharlyn Grace & Stephanie Zarate for sharing their insights.
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It's been said before & bears repeating again: problematizing over-representation implies there can be an appropriate level of representation. So what would be an 'appropriate' level of criminalization & incarceration of BIPOC by our colonial & racist punitive injustice system?
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Looking forward to seeing my
@haymarketbooks
#HowToAbolishPrisons
co-author Rachel Herzing & great
#Chicago
organizers in 4 weeks for our April 13th
@chihumanities
session - “A conversation on the movement against imprisonment”!
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
How to Abolish Prisons
A conversation on the movement against imprisonment
www.chicagohumanities.org
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1/ Join Rachel Herzing & I, along with special guests (TBA) that contributed to
#HowToAbolishPrisons
on April 4th at 6pm ET to discuss lessons from the movement against imprisonment.
For more info & to register for this
@haymarketbooks
online event visit
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1/2 Check-out my new
@OttawaCitizen
op-ed -- "Next, Doug Ford should drop the Kemptville prison plan" -- ahead of tomorrow night's concert to learn about how this saga & efforts to
#StopTheKemptvillePrison
intersect with other struggles to
#SaveFarmland
.
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Abolition is a commitment to collective action in the struggle towards liberation for all. It is also a struggle to abolish things within ourselves. It is hard, but necessary work. We can get there.
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Earlier today I gave a speech at
#OccupyTabaret
(link below). Thanks to the students for the invitation & your inspiring organizing. I stand in solidarity with you. uOttawa needs to divest from the military & prison industrial complexes.
#FreePalestine
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@DavidColetto
@_MarkSutcliffe
@cmckenney
5/ ...but that Mark literally tied calls to
#DefundOPS
to "some activist organizations". Well Mark, have you talked to survivors of police violence? Have you met with parents who have lost children to police killings in
#ottcity
, including ones calling for defunding?
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Ontario Govt just announced it has $ to expand its capacity to imprison people in the midst of calls 4 racial justice & at a time when it won't dedicate significant funds to reduce class sizes, yet not a single reporter made the connections or asked a Q about the logic of this🤦♂️
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“August 1 is Emancipation Day, but are Black people truly free?” via El Jones
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And I’m off to…?
I’ll send a free copy of
#HowToAbolishPrisons
@haymarketbooks
to the first person who guesses where I’m travelling to.
Clue: look closely at what’s in the picture.
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Never thought I'd see a prisonized eagle. For anyone interested in recent prison infrastructure projects involving Indigenization efforts, check-out "The front and back stages of carceral expansion marketing in Canada" by
@CarceralCulture
.
An award-winning building shaped like a soaring eagle provides a new space for Indigenous ceremonies and promotes a holistic approach to healing at a correctional institution in
#Quebec
. Read more:
@CSC_SCC_en
#PSPCStories
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"Reforms aim to reduce over-representation of Black, Indigenous people in jail"
A few initial thoughts...
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Coming up in three hours!
#HowToAbolishPrisons
How to Abolish Prisons
Join Rachel Herzing,
@JustinPicheh
, Naomi Murakawa, Mohamed Shehk, and more for a conversation about abolitionist strategy and the movement against imprisonment
Thursday, April 4th at 6:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend:
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@_MarkSutcliffe
1/ As an interviewer you always struck me as inquisitive and fair. As an aspiring politician you've become unrecognizable within a few weeks.
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1/3 If you could borrow $1.2 billion over 30 years 2 enhance community well-being & safety in your region, would you blow it on designing, building, financing & maintaining a prison at the rate of $40M/year, $109,589/day, $4,566/hour, $76/minute, $1.30/second like
@fordnation
is?
Ontario has awarded EllisDon a $1.2 billion contract to design, build and maintain the new state of the art Thunder Bay Correctional Complex. Our commitment to modernize correctional services will help ensure safe, healthy environments for staff and those in our care and custody.
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In even the most conservative-taught criminology courses at universities you'll have readings & lecture material on police de-escalation. Meanwhile university admin are promising or unleashing suspensions, expulsions & calling cops on their students protesting genocide.
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@M_Johnston1
@uOttawa
pulled out of
@FierteCapPride
? This would be news 2 me & probably most in our uni's community. Is this true
@recteurUOpres
? Would our uni's admin really choose 2 divest from & boycott Pride in
#OttCity
while not choosing 2 divest from & boycott genocide of Palestinians?
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Spread the word...
We won't stop fighting the Kemptville prison, whether in court or outside of it, until the Ford government drops its ill-conceived & costly plan to demo farm buildings + pave over prime agricultural land that also includes a creek & floodplain.
Our new press release / message to
@fordnation
@MPPKerzner
@ONsafety
+
@SteveClarkPC
"Kemptville residents vow to keep fighting the Ford government to save prime agricultural farmland and launch court appeal"
#SaveFarmland
#StopFordsKemptvillePrison
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
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@DavidColetto
@_MarkSutcliffe
1/ Dear David and Mark,
You're twisting in the wind right now. It's painful to watch. I'm writing 2 explain
#WhenMarkLostMe
.
Mark had interviewed me 5 times while he was at 1310 News on conditions at the Ottawa jail. I found him to be an inquisitive & fair interviewer.
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