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i animated a smol weary cat plodding through 2020………..

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Defunding the Police: What it Means and Why Planned Parenthood Supports It

Planned Parenthood — in solidarity with patients, staff, and supporters — stands with the Movement for Black Lives’ call to defund the police. Defunding the police means investing less in militarizing police forces and investing more in community-based solutions, education, and health care. 

From slavery 400 years ago to present-day attacks by police, systems of white supremacy have imposed imposed a public health crisis on the lives and safety of Black people. Today, there are far too many examples across the country of police officers strong-arming and killing Black people. Yet certain lawmakers want to continue pouring money into weapons, training, and systems that allow officers to commit violence without consequences. It’s time to shift our priorities. 

Instead of investing in systems that brutalize Black communities, elected officials must prioritize public-health approaches that strengthen Black communities. Excessive and discriminatory policing should be replaced with a model that promotes community support, connects individuals to available services, and actually creates safe and sustainable environments. 

What Defunding the Police Means

Defunding the police doesn’t mean reducing safety, as the Movement for Black Lives explains. Defunding the police is all about protecting and serving communities in ways OTHER than militarizing the police. Defunding the police really means investing in community-based solutions, education, and health care.

A successful plan to defund and divest from the police will look different in every city and require participation from the community. But across the board, Planned Parenthood supports calls for national, state, and local governments to:

Shift away from massive spending on police forces that often don’t keep people safe, and reverse centuries of disinvestment in Black communities; and

Shift toward a massive investment in community safety that works — including increased funding in public health — so we can all live connected, represented, and free.

Why Planned Parenthood Supports Defunding the Police

Planned Parenthood’s first priority is the health and safety of our patients, and that concern doesn’t stop once patients walk out our doors. Our support for people’s health and safety extends to Black, Latino, and other patients and staff of color — including immigrants — who live in a world where law enforcement officers pull them over, engage in brutality, and target them because of the color of their skin and immigration status.

Planned Parenthood supports efforts to defund and divest from the police because the continued militarization and brutal treatment of Black people runs counter to our values: caring for people’s bodies, lives, and futures. Everyone deserves to live in a world where people are equally protected, and have the resources they need to be healthy and safe.

We stand with the Movement for Black Lives in defense of the basic human rights of Black people, and we stand in solidarity with all of our social justice partners against hate and discrimination.

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We Commit to Advocating for Policies That Will End Police Violence and Systemic Racism

It’s unacceptable that Black people disproportionately suffer from state violence and killings. 

Planned Parenthood is committed to advocating for policies that will dismantle the system of white supremacy and oppression of communities of color — including policies to end police violence.

Specifically, we’re calling on public officials at all levels of government to work together to adopt four key proposals: holding police officers and departments accountable, divesting from police budgets, investing in community-based solutions, and ensuring peaceful neighborhoods. Here’s the breakdown of those four proposals:

1. Evaluate local, state, and federal budgets and policy priorities. Then, divest resources from policing. 2. Reallocate resources to the health care, housing, and education that people deserve. Invest in community-based solutions and policies that prioritize public health approaches.  3. Enact laws and policies that allow everyone to parent their children in safe environments and healthy communities — without fear of violence from individuals or the government. These policies are necessary to ensure that individuals, families, and communities have the tools they need to stay healthy and thrive. 4. Eliminate policies that criminalize health care, including punishments for people living with HIV and people’s behavior during pregnancy (including self-managed abortion).

In determining exactly how to defund the police, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Thankfully, examples of successful efforts to defund the police demonstrate what’s worked. And one thing is certain: True reform requires community participation.

Get Involved

Ensuring that the humanity and dignity of Black people’s lives are valued, seen, and believed is an integral part of the Black Lives Matter movement — and Planned Parenthood is unapologetic in our support of it. 

We must demand accountability, justice, and an end to the inequity that continues to define every moment of life for Black Americans. We are working with organizations and communities to build a future where Black people have the right to live their daily lives without fear of violence; make choices about their bodies without fear of persecution; and access sexual and reproductive health care without entrenched barriers.

Join us in calling for justice and freedom. Get involved in defunding the police, creating safer communities and defending Black lives. GO TO M4BL.ORG.

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April 2020 Illustrations ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ

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Short-eared Owl by © Ahn . b . k

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Yes, this is my personal twitter.

And yes, this is based on a recent experience.

Cishet people PLEASE reblog. Its important that this is understood.

- mod Atlas

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If you are outside India, I am practically begging you to reblog this

Last week India passed a blatantly anti-Muslim law that seeks to naturalise millions of immigrants, except if they are Muslims.

In August of this year, India revoked the autonomous status of the Kashmir region, putting a communication blackout on the state. Kashmir has entered the fifth month of no internet and heaviest militarisation of any region in the world.

India is a secular, socialist republic. This bill is anti-constitutional and against the principles on which the country was founded

Naturally, there have been protests across the country. At the forefront of the protests are students from India's public universities.

Police opened fire on peaceful protestors in Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi, and Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh.

Ever since then, the ruling fascist Hindu nationalist political party, the BJP, has been doctoring videos and sending fake news all over the internet, discrediting protestors and labelling them as terrorists

India has already seen too much religious violence, please please signal boost this, call your representatives, make them aware, get them to make statements. The only thing India and itd dictator Modi care about is its image abroad

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A brief summary of what happened on 11-12 Nov 2019

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We’re losing the fight

People please please please spread this. Hong Kong is under attack. We used to be an amazing city, we still are. We served as the link between East and West, and had a relatively good relationship with Mainland China. We were technically a part of them, but we kept our own laws and government under the Basic Law (HK law agreed on by both China and England). We had freedom; freedom of speech, religion, protest, all that. We stood up for what’s right.

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, we’ve always had a great relationship with the police force. Just look at the Umbrella Revolution of 2014, it was pretty dang peaceful considering the number of people out on the streets. Sure there were isolated incidents, but overall? There was a mural agreement between protestor and police. We do what we have to do, we fight for what we believe is right, we try to minimalize casualties. That’s not the case anymore

The city has turned into a battlefield. The police have become demons. They’re ruthlessly beating innocent civilians and passerbys. They sprayed pepper spray into a crowded train compartment. They pepper sprayed a pregnant woman directly in the face several times before proceeding to pull her to the ground and beat her. They shot people in the chest, leg, and eye point black. A lot of us don’t even think they are the police of Hong Kong anymore. We believe they are soldiers from the Mainland. They are tearing the city apart

I also feel the need to clear up some things. We are NOT fighting for independence. This started out as a protest against the extradition treaty that would strip Hong Kong of our right to free speech. It has evolved into a protest against police brutality and government negligence, and those two things have only gotten worse and worse. Again, this is not a fight for independence. We just want our city back, we just want One Country Two Systems (the agreement made between China and England. Hong Kong will be a part of China, but have a separate government and a separate justice and social system) back

PLEASE BOOST THIS. Not enough people know about the violence against the citizens. Outside media has painted the protesters as the villains when that is not the case. I’ll come back to add photos and videos to this post, but as for right now, please just BOOST THE HECK OUT OF THIS