Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, democratic civilian control of Chicago Police
#ECPSNow
! CFIST,
#FreeThemAll
- prison torture survivors
You were a civil rights icon, the conscience of a nation, & the maker of good trouble until the very end. Rep. John Lewis, you will be sorely missed.
Let’s all devote ourselves to the cause of justice and aspire to our highest ideals as John Lewis showed us throughout his life.
The police gassed, beat, and stampeded the people today to protect a statue of a rapist, murderer and a thief. A statue of colonialism is more precious to them than our lives and safety. We need CPAC now to control the police.
#CPACnow
Jacob Blake deescalated a violent situation and Kenosha police shot him seven times in the back. They then teargassed the people who were demanding
#JusticeForJacobBlake
. Police don't keep us safe.
This is why we demand
#DefundThePolice
and
#CPACNow
in every city.
If
@chicagosmayor
doesn't like being called a cop maybe she should stop being a cop. It takes a lot of audacity to get mad over memes after unleashing police brutality on thousands of Black people.
#GoodMorningLori
40% of Chicago's budget is for the police.
70% of covid-19 in deaths in Chicago are Black people.
These two numbers show the government's priorities.
Today at 6pm we're joining over a dozen organizations in fighting to prioritize Black lives.
#DefundCPD
#CPACNow
70% of covid-19 deaths in Chicago are Black people. This is due to the structural racism
@chicagosmayor
has maintained as mayor. We demand that resources be used to help Black communities recover from the pandemic, not for police to brutalize protesters!
#GoodMorningLori
We live in a world where
#KyleRittenhouse
can go to a protest with a gun and kill 2 people without facing any accountability. The whole damn system is guilty as hell. We can't stand for it!
Join us this Saturday at 2pm at Federal Plaza to protest this grave injustice!
Police have surrounded protesters who were trying to disperse and are now arresting and brutalizing them for not dispersing. Once again the police are proving that they don't keep us safe. Kettling is a tactic designed for police violence and mass arrests.
#DefundCPD
#CPACNow
The people of this city have been working together to keep each other safe from your policies and your police force. You need to release everyone who was arrested for protesting and drop all charges against them. And enact
#CPACNow
so we don't have to go through this again.
The curfew is lifted effective immediately. I know this time in our city and our country has been difficult for us all, and I’m grateful to our residents for working together to navigate this challenging time.
In Chicago over the weekend it is clear that THE PEOPLE keep us safe: hand out water, make sandwiches, do medic care, wait outside jails to give strangers a ride home, that check in on one another... & it is the police that escalate violence and destruction. We need
#CPACnow
!
It's a "nice hashtag," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says of the
#defundthepolice
movement, but “not a single person” she has talked to from Chicago’s neighborhoods has said they want fewer police officers on hand
Lori Lightfoot spent 60% of federal covid relief funds on the police while people lost their lives to the pandemic and police violence. Now she's advertising outdoor dining at the same time she's trying to block communities from holding police accountable.
Last spring, we expanded outdoor dining out of necessity. Now, we're expanding it because we love it.
#ChicagoAlfresco
is a new citywide initiative to design and create long-term outdoor spaces across all our neighborhoods.
CPD brutalized Malcolm London and now they're trying to charge him. We need mass pressure to
#FreeMalcolmLondon
right now!
Call 312-747-8366 or go down to 51st and Wentworth with masks and PPE
Comments by our brother
@Gerima_Gang
at City Hall yesterday on a racist resolution designed to help facilitate the genocide of Palestinians.
#freepalestine
“There’s more of us than them, so what the hell are you afraid of?!” - Frank Chapman, Co-chair
@CAARPRNOW
and Executive Director of
@NAARPR
Join us *TODAY* at 4pm along with
@BLMChi
,
@Chi_Nations
,
@byp100
and others at Homan Square. Masks on and bring your friends.
On Saturday, June 13th we are supporting 3 actions in the Chicagoland area! Police violence cannot stop us from taking the streets all over the city and nationally. We will continue to demand
#CPACNow
and the defunding of the carceral system.
RSVP here:
“What we learned from the mass shooting on 79th is that POLICE DONT KEEP US SAFE. Police were there. They were called. They did not stop it. They did not stop it midway. All they bring to the table is handcuffs." - Trina Reynolds-Tyler at Freedom Square anniversary Rally
Tonight we stood in solidarity with the 10th district councilors and community demanding justice for the asylum seekers sexually assaulted by officers at the 10th district police station.
GERALD REED IS COMING HOME!!!
After another delay in court this morning, we heard this afternoon that Gerald's sentence was commuted by
@GovPritzker
.
GERALD REED WILL BE FREE!
#FreeThemAll
Gerald's case is in front of the Governor! Our support is having an effect. The phone operators know him by name. We need all hands on deck to demand
@GovPritzker
free Gerald and all survivors of police torture and wrongful conviction.
#FreeGeraldReed
#FreeThemAll
Lori Lightfoot has been letting people die while giving our money to police to terrorize our communities. Words cannot describe the extent to which Lightfoot does not care about Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
#DefundCPD
#CPACNow
BREAKING NEWS: A departmental breakdown shared with aldermen last week shows that, of the $403 million in discretionary federal funds provided to the city COVID-19 direct response, more than $280 million (!!!) went to the Chicago Police Department.
#CARESNotCops
#RightToRecovery
Tomorrow at 4pm we're standing in solidarity with Indigenous people and demanding the removal of all symbols of white supremacy in Chicago. Join us at the Columbus statue in Grant Park.
RSVP here:
The people are in the streets even after being beaten, teargassed, harassed & attacked by the police all summer at protests.
We will not be silenced.
It is our duty to take to the streets to demand the people's mandate.
We will win.
We will win.
We will win.
We are marching to build a new society. We are marching because this society, resting on a duopoly headed toward fascism was not designed for us. Trump is an articulation of protofascist white supremacy. We resist fascism by fighting back. We resist neoliberalism by fighting back
WE DEMAND COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE POLICE NOW!
With over 60k supporters across the City of Chicago, the powers that be can no longer ignore the mass rallying demand for community control of the police & nothing less -
#CPACNow
!
Sign&share the petition:
We demand an all elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) that will have final authority over the police budget and policy, and the ability to make decisions in misconduct cases, not just provide oversight. We demand community control of the police!
#CPACnow
1000 marchers and 300 cars gathered today to demand
#CPACNow
, justice for RonnieMan, Flint Farmer, and all those killed by CPD, and freedom for all torture survivors and the wrongfully convicted.
We're gonna keep shutting the streets down until our demands are met!
#FreeThemAll
"
@chicagosmayor
said she supports our right to protest, but when we show up in the streets, she blocks us off. That doesn't look like support" - Tanya Watkins from
@SOULInChicago
On Black Friday, thousands of Chicagoans took to the downtown steets, shutting down both sides of Michigan Ave and demanding that the ceasefire be extended indefinitely, and that Palestine be freed from brutal occupation. Chicago says- NO BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE!
This week we're flooding the mayor's email and social media in shifts. Check the graphic below for your day of virtual action.
Join us on Wednesday to demand
#CPDoutofCPS
and resources for students.
RSVP here:
#GoodMorningLori
#CPACNow
Chicago is the police torture capital of the US. For decades, CPD has tortured people like Gerald Reed, George Anderson, and Mark Clements into false confessions. We demand freedom for all survivors and
#CPACNow
to stop the torture!
#FreeThemAll
@GovPritzker
@chicagosmayor
You sent police to brutalize protesters all of last summer.
You slandered Adam Toledo after he was murdered by CPD.
You covered up the raid on Anjanette Young's home.
You wasted $281.5m of covid relief money on cops.
You've done nothing but protect the status quo.
I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many. That isn't just in City Hall.
It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American.
UCPD is proving once again that it needs to be abolished. Support Uchicago student organizers and demand that UCPD open the doors and meet with them now!
Now the CPD just tried to get in and the UCPD wouldn't let them through the front door. They won't answer to us, they won't answer to admin, they won't answer to CPD, this band of cops is accountable to NO. ONE. The only goal is always violence. horrifying
Van Dyke receiving 81 months is an outrage. 3 cops getting acquitted for the cover-up is horrendous. This is not justice.
#LaquanMcdonald
's life mattered.
Chicago is the biggest city whose mayor
@chicagosmayor
hasn't committed to defunding the police. We demand
#CPACNow
which will give the people control of CPD budget and policy so we can
#DefundCPD
and
#StopPoliceCrimes
ourselves!
Lori Lightfoot is doing exactly what Rahm Emanuel did for exactly the same reason. The police and politicians both serve the racist ruling class, so no mayor is going to hold the police accountable. We, the Black and Brown people of Chicago, have to do it.
#CPACNow
A Black social worker in Chicago was handcuffed naked after police wrongly stormed her home in 2019.
The mayor's office tried to block TV airing video but failed. The woman, Anjanette Young, sued to get footage and says making it public is difficult but "I want accountability."
If you have never heard of Homan Square you can *START* by reading this article. As you read be aware of and honor the consistent applied pressure of Black and brown survivors and organizers in Chicago for this information to be made public.
In 2 days we will take mass action all over the country to demand
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
and everyone whose life was stolen by police.
We are also demanding
#MassReleaseNow
to end the spread of covid-19 in prisons and jails
Join us!
70% of covid-19 deaths in Chicago are Black people. This is due to the structural racism
@chicagosmayor
has maintained as mayor. We demand that resources be used to help Black communities recover from the pandemic, not for police to brutalize protesters!
#GoodMorningLori
Today would've been Fred Hampton's 70th birthday. On Dec 4, 1969, Chairman Fred and fellow Black Panther Mark Clark were killed in an attack led by CPD & the FBI. Rest in power,
#FredHampton
!
The people showed up in power and outrage last night at CPD headquarters to tell the Police Board that we will not tolerate police killings and we need killer cops off our streets. Chicagoans raised our demands loud and clear—Justice for Dexter Reed!
We're estimating AT LEAST 500 cars at the
#GoodMorningLori
action in Logan Square. Keep laying on those horns! Keep flooding
@chicagosmayor
on social media! We won't stop until our demands are met.
#CPACNow
#FreeThemAll
Social media toolkit:
On Sunday, August 9 the CPD shot a young Black man in Englewood & then threatened the community members with assault rifles and riot gear. We stand in solidarity with the people of Englewood.
‼️Emergency Action‼️Tomorrow at 5pm in a car or on foot.
WE KEEP US SAFE. Be there.
What is
#CPACNow
?
How will it enable us to
#DefundThePolice
?
What else will CPAC empower us to do?
A thread on how exactly CPAC will overturn the power dynamic between police and our communities.
The reclaim pride march today was centered around & led by Black + Brown LGBTQIA+ ppl demanding change while honoring those who have fought before us. The history of LGBTQIA+ ppls resistance to police brutality, racism, & capitalism in the Stonewall rebellion was honored today.
Joe Biden is not welcome in our city! Last night we joined CJP to say hell no to Genocide Joe and demand the US stop to crimes against humanity and the supporting the murder of thousands of Palestinians by apartheid Israel!
#GazaGenocide
#FreePalestine
#GenocideJoe
#Gaza
North-bound perspective of the Coalition for Justice in Palestine protest that shut down Lakeshore Drive directly in front of Senator Dick Durbin’s condo along the lake.
FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE
@uspcn
Many young Black and Brown people in Chicago are not surprised by the police brutality against protesters because they've seen police inflict similar violence on children in schools. You have until midnight to leave comments here for
#PoliceFreeSchools
:
Police & politicians seem to think they can just ride out these protests and then go back to the status quo. We will not let that happen. We are fighting for systemic change, for a permanent end to police violence. We will get community control of the police.
#StopPoliceCrimes
Chicago's budget currently allocates more money to CPD than to public health & community services COMBINED. This is counterintuitive and unacceptable. Fill out the City Budget Survey NOW to let Lightfoot know that we demand to
#defundCPD
and
#FundOurCommunities
‼️deadline 9/13‼️
CTU is the line of defense protecting the Black and brown youth of this city, and their families, from being exposed to the COVID-19 virus and its lasting health effects.
ATTENTION
Due to road closures the new rendezvous point is 26th St and Michigan! Make sure everyone who is attending the caravan knows that we are meeting at 26th and Michigan!
CALL KIM FOXX and demand the charges are dropped against Julius Reed, brother of Dexter Reed, who was executed by over 96 shots by five CPD officers in the 11th district. Julius was brutalized and arrested at a press conference demanding justice for Dexter Reed.
Honoring Shasta Jones, Freedom Fighter & Revolutionary:
We regrettably and very sadly dip our banners of struggle for our dear comrade and beloved friend Shasta Jones who passed away early Thursday morning.
Update: Mark Clements was released from Cook County Jail late last night. Thank you to everyone who flooded the phone lines and showed up at Skokie courthouse and raised the demand to free him!
The struggle continues to
#FreeThemAll
#MassReleaseNow
"I urge the entire city council to have a heart and to pass CPAC. CPAC can put US the COMMUNITY as a council to finally investigate police officers that have acted without regard for the rights of human beings and to hold them accountable." Mark Clements, Torture Survivor
CPD has murdered, tortured, and brutalized Black and Brown people for decades. We demand
#CPACNow
to bring an immediate end to the reign of police terror in our communities!
"It is time to demand more from this country and the democratic party who panders for our vote... So Uncle Joe, we'll see you in the streets." - Tanya Watkins from
@SOULInChicago
#GoodMorningLori
@chicagosmayor
WAKE UP! Instead of imposing a 9pm curfew which gives police approval EVERY NIGHT INDEFINITELY to beat, gas, shoot, arrest anyone in sight - while targeting Black people - why not listen to the people? why not protect the community?
#CPACNOW
Our movement has made enough noise during this uprising to get community control of the police on the
#Debates2020
agenda and we're strong enough to get what we demand whether Biden supports it or not. The power of the people >>> the people in power.
#CPACNow
#DefundThePolice
‼️DEMAND KIM FOXX DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST ARRESTED PROTESTERS‼️
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