This is the LAST WEEKEND to gather signatures for Community Control Over the Police, and we have thousands to go! Join us 11am-4pm at Freedom Corner! Training will be at 11am & 2pm if you're new, and it's never too late to join us. Please drop off any completed petitions!
Regardless of the outcome of these signature gathering efforts, the conversations we've had in working class communities this summer set the stage for ongoing struggle against police violence and systemic racism in Pittsburgh. Thanks so much to all who have volunteered so far!
This is the LAST WEEKEND to gather signatures for Community Control Over the Police, and we have thousands to go! Join us 11am-4pm at Freedom Corner! Training will be at 11am & 2pm if you're new, and it's never too late to join us. Please drop off any completed petitions!
How can you get involved in the fight for community control over the police?
π Knock doors & table with us this Saturday (7/17), 10:30am - 2pm! Meet at Cedar & E North Ave.
π¨ Print petitions & talk with your neighbors, friends, coworkers: https://t.co/2MH3oas9WJ
π£ SHARE!
Big business doesn't need another bailout w our American Rescue Plan dollars. Working class communities are in crisis, from rising rent/evictions to rising gun violence. We've talked w thousands: we want youth programs/spaces & affordable housing. Not overpolicing & inequality.
Join the movement for #CommunityControl over the police! This weekend we're tabling & knocking doors across Northside in #Pittsburgh: Saturday, 10:30am in Allegheny Commons North Park near the fountain - we'll hold a training before we head out! Bring a clipboard if you have one.
Thanks to everyone who helped gather signatures to put community control on the November ballot throughout the South End yesterday! Our volunteers' enthusiasm has been amazing. We've collected ~3000 signatures, and we've had as many meaningful discussions about our fight... (1/3)
... for working class control, to take on systemic oppression and police violence.
That also means we need many thousands more and all hands on deck in the last three weeks to reach our goal! We're hitting Northside next weekend, 10:30 am, at Allegheny Commons Park. (2/3)
Tomorrow we'll be collecting signatures for #CommunityControl Over the Police all across the South End of #Pittsburgh! Join us at 11am at Beechview and Broadway Avenues to help! Four weeks left and many thousands of signatures to go!
Signing stations below, stop by and sign!
We have 4 weeks left and thousands of signatures to go to get community control over the police on the ballot. You can start collective signatures RIGHT AWAY by going here ππΎ https://t.co/uqRBvUo9uA
Thanks to the organizations, candidates, and small businesses who have signed this statement of support for our independent, volunteer-led fight for Community Control Over the Police, including @APA_PGH, @JerrySDickinson, @NoCopMoneyPA, @ConnorMulvaney...
https://t.co/X9jWmKOFxI
Thanks to almost 20 volunteers who came out to West End today to get signatures for Community Control Over the Police! We collected several hundred signatures & had great conversations with residents about what public safety could look like if working class people had a real say.
Tomorrow! Join us in Sheraden to gather signatures for Community Control Over the Police in West End! July 3, 11am, meet us near the Carnegie Library.
Can't volunteer tomorrow? Come sign at Hillsboro and Chartiers between noon and 2pm!
We have less than 5 weeks to meet our target of 25,000 signatures to get Community Control Over the Police on the November ballot!
Join us for a general meeting tonite on Zoom at 7pm, with a virtual training at 7:30pm if you're new to petitioning!
https://t.co/A0X4qcnYL9