Author, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba shows that collective action can be powerful only with community, and provides the next generation of changemakers with critical lessons on abolition and organizing in her new book.
Tag: #NoCopAcademy
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The Blackivists on documenting movements
A group of Black archivists is helping communities create their own narratives, filling in what history books have left out.
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Can #AnybodyButMitts win in the 37th Ward?
Incumbent alderman faces two challengers and a new hashtag.
Posted inNews & Politics
A Visual Voter’s Guide
Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.
Posted inNews & Politics
Caught between black and blue
Was the police shooting of Harith Augustus justified? Is Blue Lives Matter for white cops only? Three black Chicago-area officers talk about what things look like from where they stand.
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Black Caucus members eject protesters from fund-raiser, call themselves ‘gangsters’
“You ain’t seen no gangsters like this city’s aldermen.”
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The activists and the aldermen: The #NoCopAcademy campaign’s crash course in Chicago civics
After a City Council setback, the #NoCopAcademy campaign reflects on strategy—and aldermen on both sides of the issue respond.
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Are there alternatives to calling 911?
A workshop prompted attendees to examine the cop within themselves.
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Rahm’s police academy plan met with youth-led backlash from #NoCopAcademy campaign
Activists call on city to redirect $95 million toward education of kids, not cops.