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Care Not Cops Campaign PDX

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Grassroots campaign in PDX to abolish policing and shift our reliance and resources to self-determined community care. Email: [email protected]

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Follow and fund @pdxumoja !
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The Umoja Youth program has created healing space for Black youth, hosted Night Out For Safety and Liberation, Trans Day of Diaspora and developed Black abolitionist youth leadership in Portland for over 4 years!
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The program is currently raising funds to sustain staff positions, provide an incredible cash assistance program, and build up Black-led abolitionist campaigns in Portland.
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Follow the link bit.ly/UmojaYouth and donate today!!
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[image 1: A grid paper background with fine blue lines and several creases. Large black text reads: “FUND UMOJA YOUTH”. A large sprout with two green leaves is growing out of the ‘U’ in UMOJA. Below, small black italicized text reads: "Since 2017, the Umoja Kijana Shujaa program creates a safe space where young Black women, trans and nonbinary people can bring their whole selves, where our identities are respected, where we can learn and heal together." To the left, mid sized orange and black text reads: “THIS GIVING TUESDAY: RESOURCE BLACK YOUTH ABOLITIONIST STRUGGLE AND STRATEGY”. At the bottom of the image there is a black text link that reads: bit.ly/UmojaYouth. The ‘u’ in Youth has a small sprout with two green leaves growing out of it. ] by @carenotcopspdx

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Sharing in solidarity with folks living in Laurelhurst Park:

It warms our hearts to see energy being poured into the community many of us hold so dearly, and attention paid to a population that is often otherwise invisible.

A “normal” campsite eviction happens 2-10 days after the city posts a notice. Exact sweep intel is rare. Evictions are intentionally opaque; the city anticipates resistance. In this case, HUCIRP reps alerted those of us who serve Laurelhurst, hoping to pass the buck to us to clean and relocate the camp so they wouldn’t have to spend money and time. We immediately stopped by to ask what support they wanted. In doing so, we got their consent to call our community to action.

An eviction defense is not an autonomous direct action. It’s meant to center those at risk, and we fear this message may have been lost in the excitement. The camp residents appreciate beyond belief all of the food, supplies, and camaraderie—but many are uncomfortable with and stressed by aspects of the defense. First, many feel the action has become more of a desire to socialize and feed egos than stand in solidarity with them. Second, the 24-hour presence of loud strangers in their homes feels invasive and excessive. Folks who wished to quietly pack up and leave feel unable to do so under constant surveillance. Third, folks are uneasy with the presence of black bloc, protective gear and heckling of police. Many houseless folks have experienced significant trauma at the hands of police, are not arrestable, and are terrified of police intervention.

Respect quiet hours, don’t yell at cops or neighborhood Karens. We are under public scrutiny, and any consequences will fall on the residents, not us. This is not a time to throw a party—this is a heavy topic and should be treated as such.

Thank you all so much for your support of this action; please keep all houseless comrades in mind after this. Find a camp in your neighborhood and focus on it. Build relationships with those folks, and ask how you can support them best. Offer community and friendship, and community and friendship will be offered in return.

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Tomorrow morning houseless people living in Laurelhurst Park are scheduled to be swept. Folks are asking for people to show up to help defend against the sweep between 5am-1pm. We are not the organizers behind this but sharing in solidarity.

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[Slide 1: Red square with drawing of tent and fists raised in solidarity. It reads: What's happening at Laurelhurst and why you should care]

[Slide 2: Red square with drawing of tent and fists raised in solidarity. It reads: On Tuesday, November 10th, the Homelessness and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program will be forcibly evicting about 100 people living peacefully at Laurelhurst park, where they’ve been since before the pandemic. They cite a violation of CDC guidelines as their reason for this escalation, despite the relatively low levels of COVID cases among the houseless population. If the name of the program didn’t clue you in, the folks carrying out this sweep only care about the nearby property owners, and not about the lives of the people living in the camp. We can’t let this happen.]

[Slide 3: Red square with drawing of tent and fists raised in solidarity. It reads: We know for a fact that forced, evictions, or “sweeps”, don’t work. Taking people’s personal belongings away does not make the person disappear. Deprived of their clothing, tents, and personal items, people living outdoors become even more vulnerable to cold weather, illness, stress, and instability in their lives. Breaking up camps also breaks the bonds of community that help folks cope with the stress of houselessness. Homeless people have the same property rights to their possessions as any other person in Oregon, but these rights are often ignored in the process of a sweep, and possessions are often difficult or impossible to get back.]

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Update on Fall Budget Monitoring Process (BMP)! Watch today's Fall BMP vote on amendments here: https://youtu.be/nzz79HzVLgI

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[Slide 1: Green Square with header that reads: “So, What’s happening with the Fall BMP?” Below reads: “Last week City Council had their final Fall BMP hearing. During this session, commissioners were able to propose amendments to Mayor Wheeler’s proposed budget. “]

[Slide 2: Green square that reads: “Wheeler’s budget did not include any cuts to the Portland Police Bureau. Jo Ann Hardesty proposed cuts that total $18m with support from Chloe Eudaly. Over 180 people signed up to testify during the budget hearing.”]

[Slide 3: Green square that reads: “Testimony lasted for almost six hours. Testimony was almost all in support of Hardesty’s amendments. Originally, Wheeler had to leave early but his debate was cancelled and he was able to stay the whole duration.”

[Slide 4: Green square that reads: “Jo Ann Hardesty pushed for the vote on amendments to happen last week before the election. With Wheeler being able to stay the whole time, this was expected to happen.”]

[Slide 5: Green square that reads: “However, at the end of testimony, Amanda Fritz moved to adjourn the meeting because she felt there wasn’t enough time to ask questions. Hardesty expressed disappointment because commissioners had several weeks to ask questions but did not before the meeting.”]

[Slide 6: Green square that reads: “Commissioners ended up voting to adjourn the meeting with the exception of Hardesty who hung up before the vote. The vote is now scheduled for November 5th at 2pm (today!) Because it is a “second reading” there will be no public testimony.”]

[Slide 7: Green square that reads: “As it stands, Hardesty and Eudaly are in support of the cuts to the police bureau. Fritz and Wheeler are opposed. This leaves Dan Ryan as the potential deciding vote. Follow us on Twitter @carenotcops for live updates”] by @carenotcopspdx

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UPDATE:
Dan Ryan’s voicemail is full. Keep calling, and email
CommissionerRyanOffice@portlandoregon.gov
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City Councilor Joann Hardesty is proposing a series of amendments to cut the police budget by $18 million during the upcoming Fall BMP hearing this Wednesday, October 28th. Chloe Eudaly is already in full support of the amendment.
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Ted Wheeler and Amanda Fritz are not in support. Dan Ryan is on the fence and may be the deciding vote.
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Call Dan Ryan and tell him to vote yes on Hardesty's proposed amendments.
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First slide:
On a light blue background, black outlined yellow text reads Fall BMP Phone Zap.
Centered in the image is a red and white cartoon rotary phone. To the right and left of the phone are two yellow lightning bolts topped with arrows pointing up at Fall BMP Phone Zap.
Below the phone, the phone number 503-823-3589 is bolded in yellow.
Below the number, black text italicized text reads, Call Portland’s newest city commissioner Dan Ryan and urge him to vote yes on Jo Ann Hardesty’s Fall BMP Budget Proposal!

Second slide:
On top of a light, salmon pink background, inside of a light blue speech bubble the phone zap script reads:
Hello my name is ______and I live in the ______ area of Portland.

I am calling on Dan Ryan to vote yeson Jo Ann Hardesty’s Fall BMP proposed amendments. These amendments would cut $18 million from the police budget as well as reinvest city resources into programs that strengthen community care. In the midst of a pandemic, and national uprising against the inherent violence of policing, it is imperative we take bold action now.

In addition to Hardesty’s proposed amendments we urge you to support additional community demands including: defunding tactical and surveillance units, a PPB hiring freeze, ban on crowd control munitions, no overtime for cops, and reinvestment to participatory budgeting processes for community care.

Thank you. by @carenotcopspdx

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Social Justice Action Center (SJAC) launched a hygiene station open weekend evenings for the houseless community in the Central Eastside. Learn more @stshygieneatsjac
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[Image 1: Black square with two hands under running water. There is a yellow banner that reads: SJAC Hygiene Station. Below it reads: Fridays and Saturdays 4-7pm Sundays 6-9pm Social Justice Action Center 400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR hygienestationpdx@gmail.com]
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[Image 2: Black square with two hands under running water. There is a yellow banner that reads: SJAC Hygiene Station. Below it reads: Open bathroom hours, disability affirmative bathroom, handwashing station, other hygiene resources, free PPE.] by @carenotcopspdx

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Hello again!

After our success in getting all necessary tax forms to people locked in Oregon state prisons, we are now are attempting to send every imprisoned person who is subscribed to @criticalresistance ‘s newspaper The Abolitionist in prisons, jails, detention centers across the country the forms necessary to file for their stimulus checks. But we need your help!
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We need your help to make this happen! Please fill out the google form located in @CriticalResistancePDX ‘s linktree RIGHT NOW and start mailing these out forms today!
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[image 1: a red square with an illustration of an imprisoned person smiling and holding a letter while other letters flutter around them, two other smiling prisoners behind them reach out to one of the fluttering letters while a puzzled guard looks on. White text below the illustration reads: WE NEED YOUR HELP (AGAIN) TO MAIL IMPRISONED PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY INFORMATION ON HOW TO RECEIVE THEIR STIMULUS CHECK]
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[Image 2: a red square with white text that reads: FILL OUT THE GOOGLE FORM IN OUR LINKTREE AND START MAILING FORMS IN TODAY! WE NEED TO GET THESE FORMS IN SO THEY CAN FILE BEFORE OCT. 15TH
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#imprisonedlivesmatter #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishPrisons #AbolishThePrisonIndustrailComplex #CareNotCages #PortlandProtest #StimulusCheck by @carenotcopspdx

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A sincere thank you to everyone who participated in this project! Due to the immediate and overwhelming rallying of support from our community, we were able to coordinate 600+ volunteers to print, post, and send CARES act stimulus info and forms to 12,000+ people imprisoned in Oregon state prisons.

While Oregon Department of Corrections revealed its complete incompetence in this matter, having neither a plan to distribute the necessary forms and information nor being at all aware of the lawsuit that made funds available to the people in its custody, our network of prison abolitionist organizations came together to provide an opportunity for much-needed material relief to people in Oregon prisons.

We were only able to coordinate this massive action and directly combat the lack of access imprisoned people had to receive their stimulus checks because of Critical Resistance Portland's Write Them All Campaign, a project where volunteers are currently sending individual handwritten letters and a bilingual resource sheet to all imprisoned people in Oregon state prisons.

A sincere thank you to everyone who printed, provided stamps, spread the word, and rallied together to provide this successful support! Thank you to @SnackBlocPDX who provided $500 of resources. Thank you to @DefenseFundPDX who collectively sent 300 letters. Thank you to Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition (abolitioniststudy.wordpress.com) who first published the necessary documentation needed for people imprisoned to file for their $1,200.

Keep a close eye out for another, expanded action as we push to send CARES Act stimulus forms and information to a national contact list!

We keep us safe.

For a world without police.

For a world without prisons.

In solidarity,

Critical Resistance PDX, Black & Pink PDX, Care Not Cops, Lane County Mutual Aid, Siskiyou Abolition Project by @carenotcopspdx

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Repost from @criticalresistancepdx
We are attempting to send every imprisoned person in Oregon the forms necessary to file for their stimulus checks. But we need your help!
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Thanks to the #WriteThemAllCampaign held by @CriticalResistancePDX we have the ability to write to many of those held in Oregon State prisons.
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We need your help to make this happen! Please fill out the google form located in @CriticalResistancePDX ‘s linktree RIGHT NOW and start mailing these out forms today!
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[image 1: a red square with an illustration of an imprisoned person smiling and holding a letter while other letters flutter around them, two other smiling prisoners behind them reach out to one of the fluttering letters while a puzzled guard looks on. White text below the illustration reads: WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAIL IMPRISONED PEOPLE IN OREGON INFORMATION ON HOW TO RECEIVE THEIR STIMULUS CHECK]
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[Image 2: a red square with white text that reads: FILL OUT THE GOOGLE FORM IN OUR LINKTREE AND START MAILING FORMS IN TODAY! WE NEED TO GET THESE FORMS IN SO THEY CAN FILE BEFORE OCT. 15TH
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#imprisonedlivesmatter #BlackLivesMatter #AbolishPrisons #AbolishThePrisonIndustrailComplex #CareNotCages #PortlandProtest #StimulusCheck by @carenotcopspdx

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Imprisoned people are now eligible for the $1,200 stimulus check
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After Scholl v Mnuchin ruled that the US government couldn’t continue to deny funds which should have been available months ago, we have only 12 days to get this money into their trust accounts.
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And the prisons as usual aren’t doing shit!
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Call OR prisons and the ODOC and demand that they immediately announce the news, provide the forms, and help everyone file before the deadline.
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Here is a script and a phone list for OR prisons and ODOC officials. Please call each number – this is urgent!
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For more resources on how to help your incarcerated comrades, friends, and loved ones get this money, check abolitioniststudy.wordpress.com where you can access a pdf packet with all the necessary forms and instructions on how to fill them in and file them.
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Image 1: White bolded all caps text reads “Help get STIMULUS CHECKS to people locked up in Oregon!”
In bolded black text, “The Deadline for Prisoners to File is October 15th and the prisons havent done shit! Swipe for phone zap.” Background is a salmon pink, “prisons haven’t done shit” is highlighted in yellow.
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Image 2: Black outlined text reads “Call Now”
In a salmon pink squiggly circle black text reads, “Hello, my name is ________.
I am calling to urge the Oregon Department of Corrections to alert everyone in its custody that they are now eligible for the $1,200 stimulus check, and to make the necessary tax forms immediately available. This is very time sensitive, because the filing deadline is October 15. The DOC needs to help people imprisoned in Oregon help incarcerated people access their money.”
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Image 3: Black outlined text reads “Numbers” above a rectangle with soft edges, and a salmon pink border that outlines black text reading,
“Coffee Creek Correctional Facility:
(503) 570-6400
Columbia River Correctional Institution:
(971) 673-3521
Deer Ridge Correctional Institution
(541) 325-5700
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution
(541) 276-0700
Mill Creek Correctional Facility
(503) 378-2453
Oregon State Correctional Institution
(503) 373-0100

Message us for continued alt text if you repost! by @carenotcopspdx

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We are excited to join @pdxumoja & @2black4binariespdx this Tuesday from 4-8pm at Night Out for Safety & Liberation! The event will be in person both outdoor and indoor (indoor guests limited; masks required everywhere). Location will be announced on Monday.

We will be tabling, and have an area for people to testify about the city budget forum to tell city council that #SafetyIs a world without police!

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Join us next Tuesday at Portland's annual Night Out For Safety and Liberation! We'll have live performances, hot food from @kabbaskitchen, food boxes, coronavirus testing, childcare and more! We'll be releasing the location the day before the event for safety reasons. Check out the event page on our linktr.ee!
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#blackexcellence #nightoutforsafetyandliberation #blackorganizing #blacklivesmatter #blackyouthmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #blackqueerlivesmatter #blackqueerlove #blackfemmesaremagic #portland #portlandoregon #portlandevents

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Slide 1: drawn poster depicting a green grassy hill covered in yellow and burgundy flowers. There is a fence that’s been partially broken down by a brown hand/arm emerging from the underground, which is touching a Black hand/arm reaching from the sky/out of frame. Another Black and brown hand/arm pair reach for each other on a mustard yellow sky backdrop. Yellow and green text in the sky reads, “Night Out for Safety & Liberation
#SafetyIs
Freedom to collectively care, move, and grow”
A burgundy banner at the bottom of the image overlaying the grassy field reads, “JOIN US!
When: October 6th
Time: 4-8pm
All ages ~ FREE ~ Mask required”
Four Black people of lighter and darker shades stand on the grass and hold signs that read, “Hot Meals,” “Food Boxes,” “Live Performances and Music,” and “Kids Zone + Arts + Crafts” taken in Portland, Oregon by @carenotcopspdx

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