CopsOffCampusIowa

U Iowa chapter of @copsoffearth. partners w/ @IAFreedomRiders. cops off UI campus. fuck reform. fuck uipd.

[CopsOffCampusIowa @CopsOffCampusIA]

alongside @IAFreedomRiders we wrote a response to the university's "new" plans for safety and policing from the "reimagining campus safety committee"

we must never accept reformist responses that ignore the most marginalized on campus

[Campus Abolition Research Lab @campusabolition]

Completely unraveled by @dylanrodriguez’s keynote at #AbolitionsConf entitled “Counterinsurgency in/as ‘Abolition’” this afternoon. Such tremendous thinking about the relationship between abolition, warfare, and liberal-progressive blocs beyond and within higher education.

[rara 🔮 @mariahforathens]

my friend got pulled over for expired tag on friday. cop told her they could arrest her and put her children up for adoption if they wanted to. her kids, my godchildren, were in the backseat and began to cry.

cops lie to instill terror even in children.

[CopsOffCampusIowa @CopsOffCampusIA]

white men trying to protest at the public library drag queen story hour right now if anybody can make it to support ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

[Kalonji Changa @Kalonjichanga]

If you mention #AssataShakur then you should talk about ALL political prisoners, especially the father of her daughter, Black Panther Vet #KamauSadiki who is serving Life+10 years for not turning her in.

Check out this interview with his daughter K'Sisay:
https://t.co/ZKToGABTPZ

[Anarchism Quotes! @AnarchQuotes]

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

Ursula K. Le Guin

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Today in the U.S., corporations will steal $137 million in wages, rich people will steal $2.75 billion in taxes, and 1,300 people will die from poverty, air pollution, and medical error. Think about who benefits from the news ignoring this and focusing on low-level crime instead.

[DSM Black Liberation Movement @DesMoinesBLM]

Earlier this week, our organizers joined community members in visiting local businesses that have ties with “Cop City” in solidarity with the #defendtheatlantaforest movement. There is evil in our own backyard and we are putting them on notice.

[J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your campus’s disability services office that begrudgingly allocates accommodations to students in order to avoid violating federal law is not practicing disability justice.

[Stuart Schrader @stschrader1]

New study shows 43 of the 50 most populous cities in the US spend more on police, jails, courts, etc than on health & human svcs, public health, parks & rec, etc. This spending ratio is not correlated to public safety at all.
https://t.co/fxgZd2RpPW

[DSM Black Liberation Movement @DesMoinesBLM]

We are calling upon @DesMoinesGov to open a 24-hour warming center as we face extreme cold temperatures. Join us in pressuring city officials to provide for houseless residents. And donate to @dsm_mutual_aid.

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

“I don't care how much theory you got, if it don't have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant.”

The FBI and Chicago PD murdered Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in his sleep on this day in 1969. He was only 21 years old.

[Venezuelanalysis @venanalysis]

Gore Vidal famously said: "There is only one party in the US, the Property Party. And it has two right wings"

Disgusting how corporate outlets are happy to parrot the "devastating impact" of a strike but not the "minimal impact" of workers' demands on capitalists' huge profits

[Black Liberation Media ✊🏿 @BLM_edia]

"Dr. King's policy was...if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering & will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The U.S. has none."
Kwame Ture

[The Bike Nurse @Dgrosso17]

Denver Police Department gets half a billion dollars of the city's budget. Denver Health gets $33 million.

Budgets are moral documents
Budgets are moral documents
Budgets are moral documents
Budgets are moral documents

[Josie Pickens @jonubian]

Words I contemplate daily from the brilliant @prisonculture,"I see abolition as a process, not a destination. That means that you're always in motion and you're always trying to figure out what the next best step is. That's just a part of an abolitionist organizing practice (1/3)