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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122127293085050575

Follow and support the extraordinary work of Flat Out Inc and FIGJAM (Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne).

‘Strip-searching women in prison is state-sanctioned sexual abuse and it must end’, by lived experience https://cheekmedia.substack.com/p/strip-searching-women-in-prison-is

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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122124951837050575

We want to know which of our representatives is LYING about what this vague, undefined “council-led civic presence” will be.

How could councillors give the thumbs up for a program that hasn’t even been designed yet? They’ve given a blank cheque to unelected bureaucrats to create something that could be

#Footscray #FCR #SocialHealth #Justice #Reinvestment #Solidarity
From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122124468135050575

About 50 community members attended the Maribyrnong council meeting tonight to see how councillors would vote on the future of security-based programs against marginalised communities in Footscray. Unfortunately, the door remains wide open for more harm after tonight’s vote. But it’s not over. We still

#Footscray #FCR #SocialHealth #Justice #Reinvestment #Solidarity
From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122124441813050575

80+ people at the FCR speak-out tonight despite pouring rain. Chanting “hey hey, ho ho: security has got to go!” and “from the mall to the hall: Footscray belongs to all!”. Speakers highlighted that some members of our community aren’t problems that others need to be protected from; they are our

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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122124397965050575

Council’s own evaluation tells them the community wants real community participation in council decision-making.

So what does Council do? They recommend another half-baked program that ignores the evidence and the findings of their own evaluation. It includes no mention of community consultation!

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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122124193053050575

The last post summarising the findings and recommendations of FCR’s community evaluation of Maribyrnong’s security program, and maybe the most important.

In our ‘positive plan’ we make a series of recommendations for what council should do to achieve real safety for all in Footscray. This isn’t about

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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1610748403256882/

There’s been a change — and a backdown — from council in the lead-up to Tuesday’s vote on the future of the security program. But it’s not over yet.

Watch this explainer to see what this means.

Join us at the speak-out on Tuesday 17 February at 5:45pm at Footscray town hall to tell council loud and clear we don’t buy

#Footscray #FCR #SocialHealth #Justice #Reinvestment #Solidarity
From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122124004335050575

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

Join the speak-out this Tuesday to make clear our community’s opposition to security based models and all approaches that view some people in our community as ‘threats’ (whether to safety, amenity or gentrification) to be ‘managed’.

On 17 February, Maribyrnong councillors will

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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122123868825050575

Here is another disturbing aspect of what FCR’s research found about Maribyrnong council’s security program: the program creates more not less safety risk because of how it handles public drinking.

And it is probably illegal for council to be interfering with people drinking in public altogether.

On

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From the Footscray Community Response Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/122118149193050575/posts/122123367447050575

On 17 February, Maribyrnong councillors will vote on whether to throw more security guards at entrenched inequality and hardship in Footscray.

New research from Footscray Community Response shows the security patrol program is making Footscray less safe, and discriminating against our friends and