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When you say ACAB you better fucking mean it. It is ALL COPS. Not one specific flavor of cop, ALL FUCKING COPS.
Female cops, LQBTQ+ cops, POC cops, religious minority cops. THEYRE ALL BASTARDS.
ALL COPS MEANS ALL FUCKING COPS. THEY COULD BE YOUR GRANDMOTHER. AND GUESS WHAT? YOUR GRANNY IS A BASTARD.
NO to Kenney & Council’s Brutality Budget!
We said: Defund the Police by $120 million We got: SAME POLICE BUDGET; SAME POLICE BRUTALITY VOTE NO to Kenney’s Brutality Budget
After 20 days of unprecedented protests demanding significant defunding of the Philadelphia Police, Mayor Kenney and City Council President Darrell Clarke have delivered a budget that openly betrays Black community safety and our city as a whole. Late Wednesday night, Clarke and City Council leadership left our bloated and abusive police force entirely intact. This massive police budget leaves critical city departments that serve our communities gutted by devastating cuts.
Rather than taking action, the city’s political establishment has intentionally misled the public by claiming that no increase means defunding the police force. We won’t fall for it. Co-opting the language of the movement isn’t enough to hide City Council’s cowardice and betrayal. The blame for the violence this budget ensures lies squarely at the feet of Council President Darrell Clarke, Majority Leader Cherelle Parker, Majority Whip Curtis Jones, Deputy Whip Mark Squilla, and Council Appropriations Chair Maria Quiñones-Sánchez.
Their budget maintains the reckless $120 million police budget increase City Council and Mayor Kenney have imposed since Mayor Kenney took office. Despite mass outcry and despite Black people being murdered on video by police officers across the U.S., City Council has willfully produced the same police budget and the same police brutality. Taking real action to defund the Police means elected officials must decrease their budget by no less than $120 million.
Notably, City Council Leadership’s budget also makes no attempt to increase the tax burden of Philadelphia’s super-wealthy individuals, corporations or developers to fund city services. By ignoring Kendra Brooks and Helen Gym’s Personal Wealth Tax and full elimination of the Tax Abatement, Darrell Clarke has yet again repackaged the same failed tax policies that have made Philadelphia America’s poorest large city.
As municipal workers, we are thrilled to see the number of AFSCME DC 33, DC 47 and non-union city worker siblings who have joined the struggle for a just city. We are emboldened by the thousands of people fighting for Black and Brown liberation in our streets. Together, we are building a future upon real political alternatives to the corrupt and insular Democratic establishment.
To get there: We demand members of City Council VOTE NO to Clarke and Kenney’s Brutality Budget. Defund the Police by $120 million to Fully Fund City Services.
Is anyone else getting this ad, it's a split screen of a 911 call and protesters with signs saying defund the police and the call is getting an automated message about how no ones there to respond and it might take 2-5 days for someone to be able to respond to your *emergency* call (idk if it's just me but it seems they enhance its an emergency)?? I tried to block it but I might've not scrolled far enough. Just wanna know if it's reaching anyone else
In the last few days Ive seen a few murder stories or stuff about how crime is on the rise where people will sarcastically say something like I have a perfect solution defund the police that'll solve it! But it's like, police have all the funding right now and they're still not stopping, or in many cases solving it sooo? Am I missing something?
After 27 Days of Rage, No Reduction of the Philly Police Budget
Mayor Kenney, Council President Darrell Clarke, and Philadelphia’s Democratic Leadership have Failed Us. We’ll need to FLEX REAL WORKING CLASS POWER to win.
Yesterday, City Council voted to approve Philadelphia’s budget by a quiet vote of 14-3, with all 14 Democrats on City Council voting yes in a party block to uphold the PPD’s full budget. After twenty-seven days of tireless mobilization and direct action with a clear demand to “Defund the PPD,” City Council and Mayor Kenney took no action whatsoever to decrease the police budget.
The safety and well-being of Black Philadelphians have been outweighed by the interests of the Fraternal Order of Police and the super-wealthy who rely on the police to protect their assets. Presented with a clear call for radical change, Philadelphia’s government brazenly chose to uphold the status quo of violence, deprivation, and brutality.
A Movement Betrayed
Let us be absolutely clear: Democratic Mayor Kenney and Democratic City Council President Clarke have betrayed Black Philadelphians along with the entire working class with this Brutality Budget.
This betrayal is not new, but with tens of thousands of Philadelphians from all walks of life engaged in mass struggle over this year’s budget, the Democratic Establishment’s betrayal is more visible than ever.
As working class fighters, it is our responsibility to take lessons from the last month. Twenty-seven days of direct action won a rollback of the Police budget increase. This is a landmark victory, but our mobilizations were not enough to win a significant decrease of the police budget or any meaningful restoration of city services and jobs. Until sustained mass organization threatens the political viability of elected leadership, we won’t have enough power to win real divestment in the police.
Layoffs are Coming
The AFSCME DC 33, DC 47, and non-union city workers of Campaign for a Just Budget expect a second wave of layoffs will come as revenues continue to fall. The first round of layoffs primarily impacted non-union workers in the Free Library and Parks and Recreation. The next round will be deeper and we expect AFSCME union workers will be laid off in large numbers.
Additionally, as we enter a second wave of the pandemic, we expect Mayor Kenney and Managing Director Abernathy will continue to risk our lives by pushing us to work in unsafe conditions and denying hazard pay for frontline workers.
Working People Pay the Price.
Philadelphia’s richest individuals, corporations, and non-profit institutions have continued to amass profits during the pandemic and developing economic depression. With Philadelphia’s unemployment rate hovering near 20%, it is unacceptable that Mayor Kenneyand City Council have placed the economic burden on the shoulders of working people.
It is clear to city workers that if the rich continue to evade paying their fair share in taxes, the city will continue to cut jobs and essential services that make our city work. This will deepen the suffering that working families and residents face. The June 1 layoffs already disproportionately impacted Black and Brown workers. Dramatic city service cuts will hit Black and Brown communities the hardest, while they continue to be over-policed.
Build Organization to Win
We have no reason to believe these conditions will change without stronger political organizations that challenge the Democratic establishment head on. Just as important, we need to build stronger and more militant labor unions that emphasize shop floor action and govern with bottom-up, participatory, and transparent methods. This city won’t work if we don’t!
Our ability to build a Philadelphia that serves the community and supports its workers depends on building a powerful and organized alliance of residents and workers that fight to Defund the Police, Tax the Rich, and Expand City Services with Safe and Well-Paying Permanent Jobs.
What’s Next?
Build Strong Worker Organizations. If you are a union or non-union City worker, join us as we build long-term for a stronger, more inclusive AFSCME.
E-mail: [email protected] to get more involved.
Build Strong and Permanent Political Organizations. If you have been on the streets, on the phones, or on social media pushing City Hall to #DefundthePPD, consider joining a political organization building for long-term power.
Keep Protesting and Taking Direct Action! This fight isn’t over. Stay connected to Campaign for a Just Budget on Facebook and Instagram and follow other local organizations to continue to mobilize.
Mayor Jim Kenney is pushing for incremental and inadequate police reforms, rather than a radically new vision for public safety and racial justice, writes Kris Henderson.
My city.
I’m dealing with this moment in part by focusing locally, because trying to follow everything nationally makes my brain want to explode. But I know my home town, and I know: we need far more change. We can’t give up.
"Write a poem about Justice", written on June 13, 2020 at the #blacklivesmatter march to #defundtheppd in Philadelphia, PA. I’m collaborating with #PoetsForPeace and writing poems for folks who contribute to a bail fund or BIPOC organization locally and around the country. Take a screenshot of your receipt and send me a socially-active topic. I’ll type up a poem and mail it to you with a clean pair of hands. #poetsofinstagram #typewriterpoetry #lovepoem #dreampoetforhire #marshalljameskavanaugh (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBjte0KDs2f/?igshid=1wzxpgvibkaxl
"Write a poem about Loss", written on June 13, 2020 at the #blacklivesmatter march to #defundtheppd in Philadelphia, PA. #poetsofinstagram #typewriterpoetry #lovepoem #dreampoetforhire #marshalljameskavanaugh (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeLNBFj7Rf/?igshid=rkdyw6s5yu0i
