Resistance to Trump: Abolition as a Powerful Weapon

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Don't Let Lawless Police Departments Off the Hook


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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is apparently working to undo federal oversight of systemically criminal, abusive, and racist local police departments.

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Sessions is re-negotiating an agreement with Baltimore that in its current form includes a community oversight task force, an independent federal monitor, and the requirement that officers receive instruction about implicit bias.

Sessions has asked his subordinates to review agreements with other police departments to be sure that they accomplish such goals as boosting morale and the recruitment of police. A memo from Sessions states flatly, "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies.”

The message to militarized police departments in this era of free war weapons and the sanctioning of racism and bigotry at the highest levels is clear: have no fear of federal oversight.

Click here to help us stop this effort in its tracks.

It is the responsibility of the U.S. Department of Justice to enforce U.S. law, including by bringing under control lawless police departments.

Let's tell Congress to tell Sessions that he cannot shirk this duty.

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100 Disruptions: Inauguration Day


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Chris,

On Inauguration Day, hundreds of protesters were arrested and charged with felony rioting. More than 200 of them are now facing up to ten years in prison and a $25,000 fine for protesting the Trump administration.

Police also swept up journalists and legal observers alongside protesters — indicating that police were acting indiscriminately when they detained people. The severity of the charges and punishment is almost unheard of in U.S. protest history.1 This raises the question: Are these arrests an attempt to make an example of protesters early on during the Trump administration?

Today’s action is to read “How the government is turning protesters into felons” and share it with a friend.

The media have not been adequately reporting about the consequences these protesters face — let’s spread the word.

Thanks for all that you do,

Lucia, Collette, Dutch and the free press team
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1. “How the Government is Turning Protesters Into Felons,” Esquire, April 12, 2017: http://act.freepress.net/go/16785?t=...9036884.C8RQYe


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#DeadlyExchange


Dear Chris,

It’s a dystopic riddle for our times: what do you get when you bring US police, border agents, ICE officers, and FBI officials from the US together to learn with soldiers and cops in Israel?

The answers are deadly serious:

- An apartheid army empowered as a global gold standard.

- Police and soldiers shooting people in the streets with total impunity.

- Massively expanded spying and surveillance programs holding entire communities captive.

- Unprecedented levels of deportation and imprisonment separating families and destroying futures.

- Physical and legal attacks on human rights defenders, gutting movements for justice.


Indeed, one of the most dangerous places where the regimes of Trump and Netanyahu converge are in exchange programs that bring together law enforcement and military personnel from both countries. Thousands of the highest ranking police officials and law enforcement executives across the country have participated in these exchange programs, which are primarily billed as opportunities for U.S. law enforcement to learn counterterrorism tactics from the Israeli military and police. In these programs, both sides exchange worst practices that promote and extend discriminatory, repressive, and violent policing and surveillance.

That's why we are launching a campaign to end this Deadly Exchange. Sign up here to bring the campaign to your community.

The sad truth is that the majority of these programs are run by Jewish organizations, including the neo-conservative Jewish Institute on National Security of America (JINSA), local trips led by Jewish federations, and a large program run by the Anti-Defamation League. All with the buy-in of local elected officials who send police on taxpayer time.

Civil rights organizations and Jewish communal institutions have no business participating in further endangering those in Trump’s and Bibi’s crosshairs by dispatching police, ICE and FBI agents to exchange tips with an occupying army. And cities— especially so-called progressive or sanctuary cities— must end their participation in these programs.

As a Jewish organization dedicated to safety and justice for all people, it’s our duty to draw the line at these exchanges. Join us today.

We can’t end this exchange, or uproot the deeper systems it exposes, without first educating ourselves and each other. We have a full curriculum ready-to-go, and we’ll coach you on every step of the process through an online training. All you have to do is sign up and we’ll walk you through the rest.

Sign up now to host a community teach-in.

There is so much going dangerously wrong these days, it's hard to know what to pay attention to. But in fact, all the threats we face are inextricably connected. And if we are going to fight back effectively, we have to recognize and address these connections.

The US and Israel are premier propagandists of the dangerous lie that violence against some communities will create security for others. This campaign is an opportunity to upend that deadly myth. We know that real safety is created through joint struggles for justice. We build together by showing up to protect and defend one another. It is that exchange— not between police, but peoples’ movements— that we must grow.

We're counting on you to take this campaign and make it your own. Let's do this together.

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War Making and State Repression


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Last week, news broke that as Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeks to assert a “tough on crime” approach in his position, he is committed to ramping up the disastrous “war on drugs.” A few days later on Thursday, the US dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the world on Afghanistan, a brazen continuation of the devastating “war on terror.” And this past Tuesday, Trump’s administration set its sight again on immigration, vowing to bolster the “war on gangs.” These efforts have for decades resulted in the criminalization, destabilization, and attack on communities here and around the world, and ultimately, have only served to expand the prison industrial complex and its repressive reach.


Under any administration, and especially under Trump, we at Critical Resistance see that the expansion of the PIC to fight “crime” – whether that be categorized as drugs, terror, or gangs – will not only exacerbate broader social and economic problems – it will also be used to grow the repressive power of the state to target those of us fighting for gains, big and small. The intensified criminalization policies, sentencing, surveillance technologies and practices, and policing tactics that these “wars” have brought about have long been used to stifle dissent and attempt to crush resistance movements.


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For instance, with regards to the war on drugs, John Ehrlichman, who was counsel for Domestic Affairs under president Nixon, admitted:

“We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.”

Although the war on drugs has not been the primary driver of the US imprisonment system’s growth as is often believed, it has still served as a significant force of criminalization and was a major repressive tool, alongside COINTELPRO, to bring down the Black Panther Party and other liberation movements of the 60’s and 70’s.

Similarly, the war on terror has reinforced mass surveillance and the targeting of Arab and Muslim leaders and Palestinian solidarity activists, including the cases of Sami Al-Arian, Aafia Siddiqui, the Holy Land Five, and most recently, the imprisonment and impending deportation of Rasmea Odeh. More broadly, technologies and military equipment developed on the pretext of counterterrorism, such as the Stingray and Bearcat, are in wide use by local police departments and are regularly deployed for protests, rallies, and demonstrations.

The fight for abolition is a fight to protect and defend our people and movements. Alongside many, we strive to chip away at the PIC, seeking to strip away the state’s arsenal of tools and resources tools that are used to keep us from strengthening our resistance, and ultimately, achieving liberation.

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100 Disruptions: Net Neutrality or Bust


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Chris,

Last month, we organized a silent walkout in support of Net Neutrality at the FCC’s open meeting. This week, we took things up a notch by live ‘Rickrolling’ Chairman Ajit Pai at the beginning of the FCC meeting.

It was epic — and now we need you to join in the fight.

Today’s action is to register for the Net Neutrality or Bust organizing call taking place on Thursday, April 27. During the call, we'll update you on what’s next in the fight for Net Neutrality plus you’ll hear from activists about their experiences during the recent FCC action and receive a toolkit for organizing protests in your own community.

Pai has already met with his buddies in the industry and the Trump administration to build a plan to kill Net Neutrality2, so it’s time to roll up our sleeves and show up in a big way.

Thanks for all that you do–

Collette, Saurav, Brandon, Mary Alice and the rest of the Free Press team
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P.P.S. Check out our blog on this week's FCC protest — which includes a video of us Rickrolling Chairman Pai. lulz.

1. “Ajit Pai, F.C.C. Chairman, Moves to Roll Back Telecom Rules,” New York Times, April 19, 2017: https://act.freepress.net/go/16795?t...9036884.ixmDWV


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OBAMA VS. TRUMP ON DRONES: WHAT’S CHANGED?


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There was a time when my idealism and pro-worker attitude extended to these rural whites along with all workers - I saw them as victims, too. Now I don't care anymore. If they want to destroy themselves by going down this road, let em. I don't honestly don't even care anymore at all. I give up.

At the exact moment where you need to go to battle, you choose to GIVE UP? What is wrong with you?
I mean, it's not just about them destroying themselves, it's about them making life shit for everyone else as well.

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This Mother's Day - Let's Free Our People


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Chris --

In the weeks after May Day, nearly two dozen local and national groups are working together to bail as many incarcerated mothers as we can so they can spend Mother's Day with their families. We will support Black birth mothers, trans mothers, and other women who mother and are entangled in the criminal legal system.

Without our support, this mother’s day, many mothers could be languishing in cages, separated from their families and loved ones simply because they cannot afford bail! Join us in bailing out as many mothers as we can the week before Mother’s Day.

When our mothers are locked in cages, our families and communities suffer. For all of our mothers and our trans mothers specifically, nearly a third of whom report sexual assault in local jails, a few days behind bars can result in irreparable physical and emotional harm



This Mother’s Day, we are raising money to bring our Mamas home. The Mama’s Bail Out Day is rooted in the tradition of our enslaved ancestors who went to every length, including harnessing their collective resources, to purchase each other's freedom and keep their families together. This year, we are taking a stand against a money bail system that tears our families and punishes our Mothers for being poor.

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It’s on: Net neutrality repeal announced


BREAKING: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai just gave Comcast a giant gift--and a slap in the face to the rest of us.
In a speech today, Pai--a former Verizon lawyer--laid out his plan for letting ISPs like Comcast and Verizon censor and control what we see and do online.[1]

The public submitted 3.7 million comments to the FCC in the fight to make net neutrality the law of the land. We need to organize millions more to protect net neutrality now.

Will you chip in today to stop Comcast from censoring the Internet?

Pai thinks that corporations should voluntarily commit to not censoring and controlling their customers' internet usage.[2]

But even with net neutrality regulations currently in place, telecom companies have already tried to break the rules. AT&T tried to stop iPhone users from using FaceTime.[3] T-Mobile used its Binge On service to slow down YouTube download speeds.[4] Comcast put data caps on its broadband customers but exempted their own streaming service.[5]

But we can win this fight, because we've built a large coalition that includes conservatives and liberals that support net neutrality. Big online companies, like Netflix and Etsy, and hundreds of small startups are on our side as well.[6][7]

We have fought too long and too hard to lose net neutrality now. Will you chip in to help us save it?

Yes, I’ll chip in. This is our last stand to protect net neutrality.

Thanks for speaking out,
-Tiffiniy Cheng, Fight for the Future

[1] C-SPAN: https://www.c-span.org/video/?427558...proposals&live
[2] Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...ity-fcc-237543
[3] Save the Internet: https://www.savetheinternet.com/pres...net-neutrality
[4] BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35232288
[5] The Daily Dot: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/net-...isp-reporting/
[6] Variety: https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/in...on-1202029621/
[7] Engine: http://www.engine.is/startups-for-net-neutrality


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BREAKING: Our Internet


Chris,

The days of the essential open Internet protections we won in 2015 “are numbered.”1

That proclamation against Net Neutrality — a founding principle of the web, that all content be treated equally — was made today by new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, speaking to a crowd of Team Cable’s lobbyists and allies.2

Chairman Pai and his team of open web enemies intend to roll back the Title II Order, the hard fought consumer protections that more than four millions Americans fought for and won just two years ago.3 Those same protections — that keep the Internet from becoming a series of slow lanes, for those who can’t pay, and fast lanes, for the few who can — are in grave danger because of Chairman Pai.4, 5

This is going to be the biggest battle the Internet has ever seen and to prevail we need to build an army even bigger than the one that ushered in that massive Internet win in 2015, and we need to do it now. Will you ask your networks on Facebook, Twitter and however else you reach them, with this link: act.openmedia.org/defendtheinternet

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Chairman Pai is moving incredibly fast. Tomorrow, the plan will be announced formally, and it will be voted on and pushed through by the FCC on May 18.6 We need to show the FCC that Americans will not stand for assaults on our open Internet.

Please ask your friends to stand with us, Chris. All of the amazing work we did leading up to our giant win in 2015 will be undone if we don’t stand together now. The way we won then was through sheer numbers and smart strategy, and with your help we can, and must, do it again.

The future of the Internet depends on this — can we count on you?

Yours for an open, affordable web,

— Katy, on behalf of the OpenMedia community

P.S. This fight will be one of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced, but we’re determined to do everything we can to stand up for an open web. Another way you can add your support is by donating today. Even $10 goes a long way towards fueling the movement. Thank you.

Footnotes
[1] Chairman Pai Speech on the Future of Internet Regulation: Federal Communications Commission
[2] Internet regulation speech by Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai: C-Span
[3] The day the Internet stood still: TechCrunch
[4] Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules: Ars Technica
[5] FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has kicked off his campaign to kill the agency’s net neutrality rules: ReCode
[6] F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules: New York Times

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REVEALED: Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality


Hi,

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai finally revealed his plan to kill net neutrality.

Click here to stop him now.

The plan is great news for his former boss, Verizon, and a complete and total assault on the free and open Internet for the rest of us. Ajit Pai wants to undo Title II classification of Internet service providers, even though this is the only legal foundation that lets the FCC ban paid “fast lanes”.

Now, the future of the internet is in the air—if ISPs like Comcast and Verizon get their way, they’ll be able to censor and control what we see and do online.

Tell Congress and the FCC to reject Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality.

Ajit Pai laid out his plan in what’s called a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” (NPRM), the FCC's way to solicit the public’s comments on proposed rule changes. His NPRM asks if net neutrality rules are even needed, with absurd questions like:

- Do we even need a rule against blocking?

- Do we even need a rule against throttling?

- Do we need a rule against paid prioritization?

Tell Congress and the FCC, "Yes! We need rules to stop Comcast from blocking, throttling, and slowing down websites."

AT&T has tried to stop iPhone users from using FaceTime.[1] T-Mobile used its Binge On service to choke Youtube download speeds.[2] Comcast put data caps on its broadband customers and then exempted their own streaming service.[3] Time Warner cable throttled Netflix and the popular game “League of Legends”.[4]

If this continues, ISPs will be able to destroy the very openness that has made the Internet so wonderful.

By contacting Congress and the FCC right now, you can stop this from happening.

Worse, Ajit Pai made it clear that he will be abandoning Title II. That alone means the death of net neutrality rules at the FCC.

Back when net neutrality rules were built on Title I (“title one”) Verizon sued the FCC and won. Courts were very clear: the FCC couldn’t ban “fast lanes” under Title I. So even if Ajit Pai introduces good net neutrality rules—which seems unlikely given his questions—if he switches to Title I the rules are guaranteed to get struck down in court. And that’s his plan.

This is not a time where we can sit back and let ISPs censor the Internet. We must defend net neutrality. Click here to take action!

The time to use the internet to save the internet is now.

Thanks for all that you do,

Evan at FFTF


[1] https://www.savetheinternet.com/pres...net-neutrality

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35232288

[3] https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/net-...isp-reporting/

[4] http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/9/1454...egends-netflix



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[LaborTech] Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security


Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ional-security

Users trying to access online encyclopaedia via Turkish internet providers receive ‘connection timed out’ error message


Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has presided over a crackdown since last year’s coup attempt. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

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Sunday 30 April 2017 03.46 BSTFirst published on Saturday 29 April 201712.21 BST

Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, the country’s telecommunications watchdog has said, citing a law that allows it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security.

Later on Saturday, Turkish authorities said they had sacked more than 3,900 civil servants, and military and police personnel as the purge of alleged anti-government officials continued, and also banned TV dating shows.

The move to close down Wikipedia access is likely to further worry rights groups and Turkey’s western allies, who say Ankara has curtailed freedom of speech and other basic rights in the crackdown that followed last year’s failed coup.

“After technical analysis and legal consideration … an administrative measure has been taken for this website,” the BTK telecoms authority said in a statement on its website.


Turkey arrests 1,000 and suspends 9,100 police in new crackdown
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It cited a law that allows it to block access to individual web pages or entire sites for the protection of public order, national security or the wellbeing of the public.

BTK is required to submit such measures to a court within 24 hours. The court then has two days to decide if the ban should be upheld.

A block on all language editions of the online encyclopaedia was detected at 5am GMT on Saturday, monitoring group Turkey Blockssaid on its website.

“The loss of availability is consistent with internet filters used to censor content in the country,” it said.

When attempting to access the webpage using Turkish internet providers, users received a notice that the site could not be reached and a “connection timed out” error.

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Monitoring groups have accused Turkey of blocking access to social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, particularly in the aftermath of militant attacks.

The government has in the past denied doing so, blaming the blackouts on spikes in usage after major events.

Technical experts at watchdog groups, however, say they are intentional, aimed in part at stopping the spread of militant images and propaganda.

The latest purge of officials was reported in the government’s official gazette. The expelled included prison guards, clerks, academics, and employees of the religious affairs ministry, all of whom were suspected of links to “terrorist organisations and structures presenting a threat to national security”, the government said.

It is the second large-scale purge since the narrow victory of an 16 April referendum giving Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sweeping powers.

On Wednesday more than 9,000 police personnel were suspended and another 1,000 detained for alleged links to the network of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Ankara blames for the failed coup.

Also suspended were 1,127 employees of the justice ministry – including prison guards and clerks – plus 484 academics, and 201 employees from the religious affairs directorate, the government said on Saturday.

About 120,000 people have already been suspended from jobs ranging from the civil service to the private sector, and more than 40,000 arrested, following last year’s failed coup.

Mass detentions immediately after the attempted coup were supported by many Turks, who agreed with Erdoğan when he blamed Gülen for orchestrating the putsch – which killed 240 people, mostly civilians. But criticism mounted as the arrests widened.

Relatives of those detained or sacked since July say they have nothing to do with the armed attempt to overthrow the government, and are victims of a purge designed to solidify Erdoğan’s control.

Turkey also banned hugely popular television dating shows, a move that been mooted for months by the government.

“In radio and television broadcasting services, such programmes in which people are introduced to find a friend.... cannot be permitted,” said the text of the decree.

Deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said in March that the ban was in the pipeline, arguing the shows do not fit in with Turkish traditions and customs.

“There are some strange programmes that would scrap the institution of family, take away its nobility and sanctity,” Kurtulmus said at the time.


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Make Mary's Freedom a Reality! #EndTransDetention


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Dear Chris,



Mary is one of 9 trans women still detained in Santa Ana City Jail seeking asylum.

Santa Ana City Jail has a history of verbal, physical and sexual abuse. ICE has informed the trans women they will start getting transferred to New Mexico this Friday, May 5th!

Mary was given a bond of $6,000 for her release! Can you donate $50, $20 or $10 to make Mary’s release a reality?

She fled Mexico in 2003 and has resided in San Jose and Anaheim the past 13 years. She was detained and criminalized for failure to pay a parking ticket, and has been detained in Santa Ana for the past 6 months. Mary's physical well bing has been affected due to the food in Santa Ana. Her mental health has also been deteriorating by overall conditions of the jail.

She will be transferred unless her bond is completely paid for by Friday morning.

You can make Mary’s freedom a reality! Donate $50, $20, $10 to her bond fundraiser started by a community member who has been visiting her the past few weeks.

Thank you for your continuous support!

In Solidarity,

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Deportation Defense Coordinator
Immigrant Youth Coalition
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Protect the open internet


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The new Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a former Verizon lawyer named Ajit Pai, is trying to kill net neutrality.

Chairman Pai has announced a plan that would undo the strong, enforceable rules put in place in 2015 that protect the open Internet.

Without net neutrality, Verizon, Comcast and the other monopoly Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be able to start interfering with our ability as Internet users to control where we go and what we do online.

Click here to sign this petition to members of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Federal Communications Commission:

“Don’t kill net neutrality. We deserve a free and open Internet — one where the flow of data is determined by the interests of Internet users, not the narrow interests of Internet Service Providers.”

Because of net neutrality, the Internet has become an unparalleled engine for democracy, innovation, education, communication, entertainment and commerce.

But without strong rules to protect an open Internet, ISPs will be free to block content, control the pathways to information and create pay-to-play schemes.

In 2015, we won strong open Internet protections under Title II of the Communications Act because of a massive public outcry in support of net neutrality, including 4 million of us who spoke out to support it.

Since then, opponents of net neutrality have been relentless in trying to take away our hard-fought victory — first in the courts, and now through the FCC.

The first vote on Chairman Pai’s disastrous plan will be on May 18th, so we need to speak out today.

Click here to sign the petition to send the FCC and our elected officials in D.C. a clear message that we won’t stand by and let them kill net neutrality.

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Honoring Rose Braz


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“The international abolitionist movement owes a greater debt to Rose Braz than can ever be adequately acknowledged. Rose has always modeled the dedication, compassion, and humility that distinguish our very best social justice leaders. I consider myself one of the many who have been profoundly inspired by her example. Wherever there is struggle, resistance, and dreams of a better future, Rose’s spirit and legacy will be secure."

- Angela Y. Davis


Dear Friends,



With tender spirits and heavy hearts, we at Critical Resistance bid farewell to one of our co-founders and long time leaders, Rose Braz, who braved a long fight with cancer and passed away peacefully on Tuesday.
Rose’s contributions to Critical Resistance (CR) and the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex are immeasurable; neither CR nor the international modern-day abolitionist movement would exist as powerfully as they do today without Rose’s tireless work. When Angela Davis put out the call to “do Critical Resistance!” at the end of the first CR conference in Berkeley, CA, 1998, the phone kept ringing for “more Critical Resistance” and it was Rose who answered. Part of the original conference planning committee, she became the organization’s first staffer, making real the struggle to move beyond the prison industrial complex (PIC).

Inspiring, seemingly unstoppable, and a fierce movement builder, Rose laid an indelible foundation for CR and the broader movement against the PIC. With sharp media and strong campaign organizing skills, Rose was a driving force behind the Delano II campaign, which halted the gargantuan 20-year prison building boom in California and integrated environmental justice and anti-prison approaches for the first time.

The brilliant legal attack against the proposed Delano II prison highlighted how the habitat of the endangered Tipton kangaroo rat would be compromised by the construction of "a prison that wasn't needed" and created space for statewide grassroots organizing. Her fierce messaging and coalition-building power put the California prison regime on its heels, burst the mainstream bounds of the term environment, and amplified the environmentally toxic and racist impacts imprisonment has on our communities. (We recommend this article by Rose and Craig Gilmore, "Joining Forces," which lays out with nuance what has become a primary strategy in fighting new jail and prison construction.)



Her key leadership grew CR into a national organization and force for abolition. Through these fights, Rose played an instrumental role in co-founding the now 70+ member-strong Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and the Coalition for Effective Public Safety, two coalitions that have resulted in thousands fewer people being imprisoned. She advanced abolition when it was almost-taboo and emboldened our movement, joining Justice Now at the forefront of the fight against women’s imprisonment in 2006 and supporting the CR-NYC and the Community In Unity coalition defeat jail expansion plans in the Bronx in the same period. CR was honored and privileged to have her on staff for 13 years and through four national conferences.

In just the few days since her passing, countless memories have been shared, with the most common reflection being that "Rose was one of the most important mentors in my life." Her legacy will undoubtedly live through present and future efforts, seeding the way to a more beautiful, enlivened abolitionist struggle and liberated world.



With Rose’s leadership, and participation in the organization from its inception in 1997 until 2012, CR boldly put forth a vision of the world we know is possible, one without policing or imprisonment, but rather one based on collective care, support, and dignity.

For all of us who share that vision, we are indebted to Rose’s life and efforts for spreading it far and wide. Please join us in celebrating her life.

With Love and Solidarity,
Critical Resistance


With her long history and unparalleled spirit in the fight against South African apartheid, working to abolish the PIC, uplifting internationalism, and protecting our environment, "Rose was the heart and soul of every liberation movement she joined, piercing the armor of the oppressors with her thorns and comforting those in pain with her soft petals."

Donations in Rose’s honor can be made to the Rose Braz Memorial Fund at the Wild Equity Institute.

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Dog the Bounty Hunter exploits Black women and their families

Dog the Bounty Hunter and the entire bail bonds industry profits off the suffering of Black women and families.



It's time for California to transform the dangerous money bail system.

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Chris,

California is on the brink of passing landmark criminal justice reform that would end the cruel cycle of incarceration and bail debt for thousands of families. But corporate bail profiteers and the Trump coalition are pulling out all the stops trying to kill it.

At a recent bail reform hearing, our partner, Essie Justice Group -- a powerful organization that harnesses the power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration -- came to tell their stories and push for bail reform. The bail industry was also there -- represented by a troubling coalition. Known-racist and proud Trump supporter Dog the Bounty Hunter was their celebrity guest and they even tried to pass off the leader of ‘Blacks for Trump’ -- a bail bondsman herself -- as representing the interest of the Black community.

Essie Justice Group’s members’ response to being confronted by overt racism from people desperately trying to hold on to their share of the incarceration business is to fight back by calling on Black communities and our allies to send a clear message that we demand an end to this corrupt and racist system.

Join us in standing with the thousands of Black women and families in California harmed by the corrupt and racist system of money bail.

The bail bond industry makes billions exploiting poor Black people and they don’t hesitate to criminalize our communities to keep the money flowing. Like Donald Trump and so many ‘Law & Order’ politicians, the industry employs scare tactics about mythical crime waves and ‘Law & Order’ talk to protect their profit margins.

It’s no surprise then that they would bring Dog the Bounty Hunter Chapman, who lost his television show after a recording of him going on an N-word filled rant forbidding his son from dating a Black woman, to represent them. What they really represent is the vile agenda to reverse the national trend toward bringing down incarceration rates in order to protect a system that criminalizes communities of color for profit. He should be nowhere near any conversation about reform.

The real experts on California’s criminal justice system are the women and families that have been impacted by it. They know that too many people are trapped in jail, awaiting trial because they cannot afford to buy their way out. They know that whether guilty or innocent, a single arrest could lead to long jail stays and long-term bail debt. They know that families can lose their homes, jobs and even be broken apart because California operates a system that locks people up if they can’t afford to pay.

Demand California put people over profits and reform the bail system.

Black women and low-income women bear the brunt of the vicious bail bond industry. Women become trapped in debt and are forced to make the difficult decision of paying for basic needs for their families and paying off a bail to a for-profit bail bond company.1 Others, like Sandra Bland, have died in jail while waiting to make bail.

This has gone on long enough and we can’t let frauds who hate Black people block progress in a state like California. Instead, if we can push this reform over the finish line, we can build momentum to defeat the industry for good. Ending the money bail system in a state like California will be a huge turning point for other states to follow suit.

Our families need this. Tell California legislators to pass bail reform.

Until justice is real,

Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Anay, Clarise, Enchanta, Malaya, and the rest of the Color Of Change team


References:

1. “Bail Reform California, ” Bail Reform California Platform, 2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/783....872082.S5k5jL


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Stop the spread of killer drones


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U.S. military drones are now taking off and landing at a civilian commercial airport in New York State near Syracuse, where drone pilots at Hancock Air Base learn to use flying robots to kill thousands of miles away.

Plans are in the works to employ drone pilots in more U.S. cities. And U.S. Customs and Border Protection has drones in the skies near, and not so near, U.S. borders, as well as loaned out to local police. Little by little, the wars come home.

Now more than ever, we need to build a movement to ban all weaponized drones. Click here to add your name.

Little by little, the wars expand. The number of countries (and armed groups) using drones continues to rise. And the early months of the Trump presidency have seen a dramatic increase in the use of drone strikes by the United States, and in the areas of the earth to be targeted.

Nonviolent protesters near Syracuse, N.Y., have for years now risked prison to educate and build pressure against the use of drones to kill in U.S. wars. In March a jury acquitted four of them, and a judge dismissed charges against others stemming from a separate action.

When people learn that there is passionate resistance to drones, they often stop and consider why.

One way that we can reach a lot more people is by delivering this massive petition. Please add your name.

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Don’t let Trump sell federal contracts (Sign the Petition)


Trump’s bringing back private federal prisons after one of the largest and worst private prison companies gave big $$$ to get him elected.

TELL THE FEC: Investigate potentially illegal political contributions from GEO Group!

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Chris —

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators, gave generously to elect Donald Trump president. Then they were awarded a $110 million contract to run a new immigration detention center in Texas.1

In 2016, President Obama’s Justice Department decided to phase out private prisons. And for good reason. Private prisons are notoriously overcrowded and understaffed,2 provide substandard medical care to inmates, and are more dangerous for both corrections officers and inmates. Despite the hype, they don’t even provide substantial cost savings.3

So why in the world would President Trump’s Department of Justice rescind the ban on private prisons?

Maybe it has something to do with GEO Group giving a sketchy $225,000 to a super PAC that worked to get Trump elected. GEO also gave $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration to make sure the message got across.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Investigate private prison operator GEO Group’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump!

GEO Group is a very bad actor in an already troubled industry.

In 2009, GEO pulled out of a private prison it ran in Pennsylvania after it was the subject of several wrongful death suits. It ran the largest juvenile detention center in the country until it was hit with a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the facility.4

Now GEO Group is facing allegations that it asked Republican lawmakers in Texas to file a bill that would make it legal for immigrant children to be held indefinitely in its detention centers, allowing it to make as much money as possible.5

There’s a reason federal contractors are banned from making political donations. It is a direct path to rampant government pay-to-play.

That’s why the FEC needs to investigate this contribution immediately. Sign our petition today.

GEO tried to route this donation through a subsidiary group, but the evidence shows there’s effectively no distinction between the groups and both rely on taxpayer dollars.

With President Trump just firing FBI Director James Comey, who was looking into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the election, we need tough investigations to make sure the Trump administration is operating above-board.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Don’t let private prisons buy their way into government contracts. Investigate GEO’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump.

Thanks for taking a stand,

Carli and the Rootstrikers Team


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Sources:
1. Mic, "Private firm wins $110 million contract for new immigrant detention center in Texas," April 14, 2017.
2. NPR, "Investigation Into Private Prisons Reveals Crowding, Under-Staffing And Inmate Deaths," August 25, 2016.
3. Time, "This Is the Real Reason Private Prisons Should Be Outlawed," August 24, 2016.
4. Newsweek, "Private Prison Company GEO Group Gave Generously to Trump and Now Has Lucrative Contract," May 11, 2017.
5. Ibid.


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PETITION: Tell the FEC to investigate possible illegal contributions to Trump


Trump’s bringing back private federal prisons after one of the largest and worst private prison companies gave big $$$ to get him elected.

TELL THE FEC: Investigate potentially illegal political contributions from GEO Group!

SIGN THE PETITION


Chris Kaihatsu —

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators, gave generously to elect Donald Trump president. Then they were awarded a $110 million contract to run a new immigration detention center in Texas.1

In 2016, President Obama’s Justice Department decided to phase out private prisons. And for good reason. Private prisons are notoriously overcrowded and understaffed,2 provide substandard medical care to inmates, and are more dangerous for both corrections officers and inmates. Despite the hype, they don’t even provide substantial cost savings.3

So why in the world would President Trump’s Department of Justice rescind the ban on private prisons?

Maybe it has something to do with GEO Group giving a sketchy $225,000 to a super PAC that worked to get Trump elected. GEO also gave $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration to make sure the message got across.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Investigate private prison operator GEO Group’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump!

GEO Group is a very bad actor in an already troubled industry.

In 2009, GEO pulled out of a private prison it ran in Pennsylvania after it was the subject of several wrongful death suits. It ran the largest juvenile detention center in the country until it was hit with a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the facility.4

Now GEO Group is facing allegations that it asked Republican lawmakers in Texas to file a bill that would make it legal for immigrant children to be held indefinitely in its detention centers, allowing it to make as much money as possible.5

There’s a reason federal contractors are banned from making political donations. It is a direct path to rampant government pay-to-play.

That’s why the FEC needs to investigate this contribution immediately. Sign our petition today.

GEO tried to route this donation through a subsidiary group, but the evidence shows there’s effectively no distinction between the groups and both rely on taxpayer dollars.

With President Trump just firing FBI Director James Comey, who was looking into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the election, we need tough investigations to make sure the Trump administration is operating above-board.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Don’t let private prisons buy their way into government contracts. Investigate GEO’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump.

Thanks for taking a stand,

Carli and the Rootstrikers Team


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Sources:
1. Mic, "Private firm wins $110 million contract for new immigrant detention center in Texas," April 14, 2017.
2. NPR, "Investigation Into Private Prisons Reveals Crowding, Under-Staffing And Inmate Deaths," August 25, 2016.
3. Time, "This Is the Real Reason Private Prisons Should Be Outlawed," August 24, 2016.
4. Newsweek, "Private Prison Company GEO Group Gave Generously to Trump and Now Has Lucrative Contract," May 11, 2017.
5. Ibid.


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Public Health Professionals Identify Policing as a Health Threat!


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In 2016, a group of public health students, researchers, and organizers felt that it Image by Kate DeCicciowas past time for the public health field to take a stand on the issue of policing and its harms. They recognized the daily violence of policing against Black and indigenous people, communities of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, people experiencing homelessness, and other marginalized communities as a devastating and pervasive public health issue, and that there needed to be a more urgent effort to advance people-oriented solutions.

These public health advocates collaborated to write and pass a policy statement through the American Public Health Association (APHA)* that names policing as a public health issue and urges for steps to decrease its power, including:

• divesting public resources from policing and investing instead in racial and economic equity;
• eliminating policies such as gang injunctions and anti-homelessness laws that lead to harrassment of and violence against specific communities;
• decriminalizing many activities;
• decreasing the acquisition and use of military equipment and reducing the number of SWAT teams and the frequency of their deployment;
• supporting alternative practices for creating community safety and addressing harm that do not rely on repression and surveillance.

The tireless grassroots protests in recent years against the violence of policing meant that such a statement could not be ignored by the APHA. The statement was approved as policy for a one-year term. This is a unique victory that we are calling on you to help amplify!

Organizations and individuals, please join us and endorse the statement! Fill out this form and share this email with your networks, coworkers and community.

We’re strongest when we advance a call together. We encourage you to uplift the statement and its recommendations in any of the following ways:



• Feature the statement on your website or social media. Post a link to this page or the statement and tell your audience how this statement connects to your mission or current campaigns and projects.

• Share it with your networks in a letter or email announcement. See Critical Resistance example here.)

• Use it in advocacy work– to bolster testimony, to strengthen letters to decision-makers, or call people to action.

• Quote it to the media if you’re doing a campaign around the harms of policing. This can be in a press release, an article or through a speaker at a press conference.

• Are you an educator? Include it in your curriculum this year and empower young people and soon-to-be-professionals to make abolitionist recommendations to reduce the role of policing in our lives.


Thank you for joining us in taking action and amplifying this significant toe-hold. As we continue the battle to defend and build the health of our communities, we must demand an end to the systems that harm our wellbeing.

We hope that this statement advances our struggles and inspires a growing body of health workers, educators and professionals to protect public health from the harms of policing and imprisonment.

Toward liberation,
Critical Resistance
About the future of the APHA statement:

The APHA is a professional association with over 25,000 members that adopts policy statements which they use to inform advocacy efforts of organizations and its members. The statement won approval for a one-year term. The authors are in a process now of revising the statement and organizing for its permanent adoption. Regardless of what the APHA decides for next year, we very much hope that groups will use the statement now while it is official APHA policy!

We welcome any feedback or questions you may have. If you do use the statement, or have other ideas for how groups might use it, please let us know.

Artwork by Kate DeCiccio and Sophia Dawson.

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