Posted on 06/09/2020 10:29:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
VANITY. I'll post various sources. Here are the demands:
For ease of consideration, we’ve broken these demands into four categories: The Justice System, Health and Human Services, Economics, and Education. Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.
The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle. In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest. We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed. We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles. We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined. We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service. We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community. We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail. We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction. We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged. We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote. We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system. We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons. We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment. We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems. We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city. We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record. We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.
We also have economic demands that must be addressed.
We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control. We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle. We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions. We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.
Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”
We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients. We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability. We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.
Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.
We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum. We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media. We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.
Transcribed by @irie_kenya and @AustinCHowe. Special thanks to Magik for starting and facilitating the discussion to create this list, to Omari Salisbury for the idea to break the list into categories, and as well a thanks to Kshama Sawant for being the only Seattle official to discuss with the people on Free Capitol Hill the night that it was liberated.
Although we have liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle, we must not forget that we stand on land already once stolen from the Duwamish People, the first people of Seattle, and whose brother, John T. Williams of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe up north was murdered by the Seattle Police Department 10 years ago.
Black Lives Matter — All day, Every day.
Yeah - the most exciting near us was in Kirkland when about 20 armed guys showed up to protect the downtown shops. And of course that wasn’t exciting at all - but good to see.
I was working in Pioneer Square yesterday. No protests nearby, just the usual bunch of homeless and drug addicts and disturbed people. It really is sad that so many live their lives like that.
A mix of black and white. Although the blacks are the ones that are very loud and disagreeable with each other - really noisy down there. The white ones seem to keep to themselves and quiet.
Although one white homeless guy walked by me (as the blacks were yelling at each other) and quipped “So when do us white folks get to f-ing riot!?” I laughed a bit too loud.
(I didn’t try to correct him that the majority of protestors in Seattle are white!)
What part of ‘the riot act’ does the media intentionally not understand ?
They don't have a Department of Defense, do they?
Nope. Just a Department of Offense.
So when the tanks and helicopter gunships move in on them, all the blue-landwhales and soi-bois are going to rush to the chain link fence and ...and...
raise their eyebrows in UNISON!
"How DARE you!"
and now they’re calling for the appeasement Mayor to resign.
video:
https://twitter.com/RennielVisterie/status/1270593070065565697
Statement from Seattle Antifa:
Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd. With each new discovery of chemistry, physics, biology, the anthropological sciences, of the practical application of sound principles, dogma collapses. It is a part of that old edifice of religion which crumbles and falls in ruins. The faculty by which man is differentiated from the lower animals is his reasoning power. But the devout believer renounces reason, refuses to explain the things which surround him, the innumerable natural phenomena, because his religious faith is enough for him. The brain loses the habit of thinking; and this religious sottishness hurls mankind back into animalism.
The rapacious property-owning American [...] admits no limits, possesses no scruples and does not share the fears and the cowardice of our bourgeoisie. [They are] violent, absolute criminal. When they feel the need, they simply stain their hands with proletarian blood. They lack any human sense. They are only interested in exploitation. We want an extraordinary heavy taxation, with a progressive character, on capital, that will represent an authentic partial expropriation of all wealth; seizures of all assets of religious congregations and suppression of all the ecclesiastic [...] revenues, in what constitutes an enormous deficit of the nation and a privilege for a minority; revisions of all contracts made by the war ministers and seizure of 85% of all war profits.
To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution. Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give [advice]. We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism. [Marx] had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
Just kidding. It wasn't Antifa. It was Benito Mussolini.
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I had seen it but not much real information there. But please pass along anything else you find.
Hey, I was just looking at Idaho - cheaper than Seattle but not as cheap as it used to be.
Anyone want to ask them if they support having white doctors to treat white patients? Libs are some of the most racist and hateful people in existence.
If things go south in the rest of Washington, don’t think for a minute that the good people of North Idaho won’t guard the border to prevent an influx of refugees. There is little love for Washington right now and it’s exporting of it’s cluster.
Be safe.
this makes them insurrectionists doesn’t it? What’s the penalty for insurrection if they are?
Ok, everybody. How many of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution does this violate?
And what about Article IV, Section 4?
Unimaginable that could happen in south central WA where I am.
There are some nuts in Spokane but not enough to sustain that.
Antifa has quite the protected status. If this was any other group, say a white supremacist group, this would never had gotten to this point. For one thing, the media would be outraged, instead of supportive. The intelligence community claims that they are allowing antifa to continue while they go after the top level organizers and financial backers. Which usually means they already know who the backers are. And there is no investigation.
“Auntie Faaa”
I’m stealing that!
Okay so we’ve considered your demands and here’s our position. Get lost.
As a counter-proposal:
Defund the universities and colleges.
Fire all the teachers.
Hire extra police, we’re gonna need them.
Build a few extra franchises of the Comedy Club so these poindexters will have an outlet for their obvious talents.
For Freepers in Seattle, as well as other Antifa/BLM damaged cities, please post any good, documented information you have about these groups, leaders, publications (including fliers), funding, and photos (if possible), here at FR so that we readers can see it and save them into our own databases/files for future reference.
If we can do this in every major city in the US, even if it is just 3-5 people, we will have hundreds of “eyes and ears” on the ground to keep watch on these threats to America.
It will be used by researchers and writers to spread the word about who they are, how they operate and are funded, what their materials look like, re pics, who their leaders/members look like (esp. in action), and where they are.
Watch out for the sucker punch, or sucker kick. That is their forte, their M.O. Sucker punch some young person , then the four slither away to Mom's basement. That's what I've seen in the news videos of them.
Andy Ngo is not exactly MSM, is he lol
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