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As part of the @dropthecharges_ national day of action against state repression we organized an event to write to political prisoners from the 2020 uprisings. We wrote over 60 letters today! If you want to write on your own, you can use this toolkit: dropthecharges2020.org/write

Our goal in addition to building peace in our communities was also to #DefundCPD & dismantle, disarm & #AbolishCPD while trying to decriminalize how violence is addressed. Lightfoot knows this so it makes since that she steals & dilutes our #PeaceBook app idea!

"Real justice isn’t a cage for Derek Chauvin; it would be breath flowing through Floyd’s body as well as other victims of police violence, including Adam Toledo, Ronnieman Johnson, Roshad McIntosh, Rekia Boyd, Ma’Khia Bryant, and Tony McDade." dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

If Mayor Brandon Johnson had kept her campaign pledge to increase the Real Estate Transfer Tax on high-end properties to generate funds to create affordable housing, Chicago would have had $82M to address homelessness this year. This funding could have housed 5,101 households.

Op-Ed: 'Lightfoot Has Failed Us on An Elected School Board' Two bills in the General Assembly would mean democracy for Chicago’s public education. Naoma Nagahawatte, a CPS mom and advocacy director of the non-profit ILRaiseYourHand, speaks on them: southsideweekly.com/op-ed-lightfoo…

Hi, I authored an op-ed in response to the campus distractions from Palestine chicagomaroon.com/article/2021/6…

"Campus policing is rooted in conflicts between institutions of higher education & the Black neighborhoods near where they are often located." #AbolishPolicing washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

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Please join our youth on Saturday, June 5th at 2 pm at the Logan Square Monument to demand #TreatmentNotTrauma!

Download the #NoCopAcademy organizing toolkit at NoCopAcademy.com/Toolkit. S/O endorsers orgs, supporters, & everyone who threw down & is still throwing down to #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #AbolishICE & invest in our communities & life-affirming institutions

Before the demand to #DefundPolice was ringing out nationwide, it was ringing out in the streets & halls of Chicago through the visionary #NoCopAcademy campaign. Watch the video, read the toolkit & celebrate a fierce fight for safe communities & learn from these brilliant leaders

UPDATE: Today we sent @potus, Vice President JD Vance & Garland our #DropTheCharges letter—urging them to dismiss the federal charges against 350+ protesters who participated in last yr's uprising for Black lives—signed by 90 organizations 4600+ individuals‼️THANK YOU for the support...

(Final letter: nlg.org/wp-content/upl…) ...But there's much more work to do! *14,000 people* still face state charges‼️ Follow ✨@dropthecharges_✨ to stay involved w/ ongoing #DropTheCharges campaigns in various cities. #BlackLivesMatter

🗣️In an email to Truthout, National Lawyers Guild Dir Research & Education Traci Yoder characterized the anti-protest laws as “part of a larger trend of conservative, right-wing efforts at the state level designed to counter the goals of social movements...” [1/4] 🧵 truthout.org/articles/over-…

When we are willing to fight for more than what seems possible now, we help open the doors for future fights.” Check out the reflections, lessons learned, and tools from the brilliant NoCopAcademy organizing toolkit NoCopAcademy.com/Toolkit

Governor Pritzker’s LDC plan is a proposed reform to youth prisons. He says that “transformation” means building a new “restorative” youth prison in Central Illinois. But a reformed prison is redundant nonsense. #Final5Fridays

📖 The Spring/Summer issue of Guild Notes is here! Read up on NLG news from chapters & committees across the country, & articles & poetry by jailhouse lawyer members. Full PDF: nlg.org/guild-notes/wp… Links to individual articles: nlg.org/guild-notes/is… Happy reading! 🗞

The history of reformed prisons is the history of youth prisons. It’s the history of women’s prisons. It’s the history of men’s prisons. Reforming prison just retools the same violence in a new rationalization. We don’t need reform, we need abolition. #StopLDC #Final5Fridays