"This zine provides a basic introduction to de-arresting, aka free folks from the grasp of law enforcement officers (LEOs). It covers a number of different tactics and goes over some of the risks involved."

PDF:
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/direct-action/de-arrest-primer/
https://haters.noblogs.org/files/2024/04/DArrFormatted.pdf

#Protest #dearrest #dearrestaction #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #NoJusticeNoPeace

“Abolition, as a tradition, a philosophy, and a theory of change, moves away from a myopic focus on the prison toward a more expansive vision of the social, political, and economic processes that defined the context within which imprisonment came to be viewed as the legitimate hand of justice. As a “practical organizing tool and long-term goal”, abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment. As illustrated by the history of the prison and the police, reforms sold as “progressive” all too often function to mask expanding mandates, logics, and budget lines. Abolitionist movements require struggles about strategy and vision: what, for example are the “non-reformist reforms” (to use a phrase coined by Marxist theorist Andre Gorz and applied by Thomas Mathiesen in his Politics of Abolition) that make sustainable and material differences in the lives of people living under the control of oppressive systems?”

—Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners & Beth E. Richie

[“Abolition. Feminism. Now.” pg 45-46 (epub). 2022]

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #Criminology #CriminalJustice

I just got into an argument with a shopping centre security guard because he was trying to kick a houseless person out of the shopping centre. This person seemed semi-conscious and wasn't responding to his demands to leave, so the security guard kept saying he was going to call the cops.

I asked if he'd thought of calling an ambulance, because it seemed like a medical emergency to me (me, who was a nurse for a long fucking time..), and the security guard just said that it was "obviously drugs".

Turns out when the paramedics got there the guy had a blood sugar of 1.4mmol/L (which is like 25mg/dl for the US folks).

The security guard was all like "well how was I supposed to know??"

I mean, someone who is houseless having a medical crisis from a chronic condition that needs access to specialist management and regular food?? I'm fucking shocked. Who would ever have guessed?! 🙄

#RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #Australia #houselessness #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #housing #MutualAid #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenSecurityGuards #CommunityCare

Something is going on at Bathurst jail. There's a helicopter with paramedics, a dead person in a mortuary bag, and a bunch of cops standing around on the front lawns.

I hope all the people in the jail are ok and safe.

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #AllCops #EvenYourUncle

Okay! We are not done with Today in #FuckThePolice yet.

Posted today.
Gatineau cops choking a person who asked to go to the hospital.

https://youtube.com/shorts/nhh9hNhym9U

#AllCops #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle

Today in #FuckThePolice

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Edit: He's awake, but in a LOT of pain. Update here
https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/112865187239820658
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Morning folks. This is a hard one. I am sharing the go fund me for the family of Tylor Maxie (Coore), the Afro Indigenous man shot by toronto police on Tuesday.

Tylor suffers with paranoid schizophrenia and was having an episode at the time. Police took it upon themselves to shoot him as their only means of subduing Tylor and deescalating the situation leading to him near death in ICU after multiple surgeries.

Needless to say this is a heartbreaking and close to home reminder that police violence is at the root of the settler colonial project here, rife with racism and ableism. Only a day after Sonya Massey, who also suffered from schizophrenia was shot and killed by police.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tylors-criminal-lawyer-fees

#AllCops #acab
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #JusticeForTylor