Whether you share a voice note or not, if you want to sign up to testify, you can use the Cambridge City Council form to sign up to give testimony at the 5:30pm council meeting on May 18th:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/publiccommentsignupform

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In response to Councilor Simmons' testimony, The Black Response (TBR) is working to re-center the perspectives of Cambridge public housing residents, which is why they are hoping to get people to use their testimony time to share voice notes from residents of the affected neighborhoods.

I can help people get in touch with a TBR organizer to use your testimony time for voice notes.

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At the Cambridge, MA Council meeting this week, Councilor Denise Simmons delivered a long speech implying that the organizing against #ShotSpotter is driven by out-of-touch white do-gooders. This is a massive distortion, both because ShotSpotter is technology that has been confirmed to be ineffective in communities with *much* more gun violence than Cambridge, and because it erases the perspective of public housing residents who hate being under constant #surveillance.

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We are now in an all-hands-on deck moment with regard to organizing to remove #ShotSpotter from Cambridge, MA. The Black Response (https://www.theblackresponsecambridge.com/) wants to fill the council chamber on May 18th with people advocating to remove the microphones.

You can also sign up for testimony and use your time to play a recorded voice note from residents of Cambridge public housing who are affected by the surveillance but unable to attend the meeting.

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Important update on #ShotSpotter in Cambridge: at council meeting on May 11th there was an agenda item to vote to remove the ShotSpotter microphones, but Councilor Burhan exercised charter right to delay the vote for the week.

He note that emotions were running high following the highly disturbing shooting on Memorial Drive, although it should be noted that (regardless of how it is discussed in the press) that incident was unrelated to ShotSpotter.

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More information on Cambridge's upcoming #ShotSpotter vote and actions you can take is available from the #StopShotSpotter coalition here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xh3yfo9bPVAKtYTJjMwvV1rg9q-tBwsgUtGsO3VJKZs/edit?tab=t.0

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Things you can do to help end the use of #ShotSpotter in #CambridgeMA

* Attend the City Council Meeting on May 11th either in person (at 795 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge or over zoom https://cambridgema.zoom.us/s/97895847144)

* Send emails to the Cambridge City Council ([email protected])

* Sign up for public comment (https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/CityCouncil/PublicCommentSignUpForm)

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