#keepdc4me

On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 the DC Council will vote on the “Force of 4,200 - Police Officer Recruitment and Retention Emergency Act of 2017”. We say #NoNewMPD! Because this is emergency legislation, there will be no public hearing. As D.C. residents we MUST speak out. We've got to collectively #Resist acting out of fear in response to intracommunity violence. We must be courageous enough as a District to do something different because what we've been doing, including believing we can police our way out of this, isn't working. The Council spent months, hours, weeks, meeting, talking to the community, doing the research on other cities' successful programs, visiting other cities, and then created and unanimously passed the NEAR Act. Join BLM DC and Stop Police Terror Project DC to demand the council vote NO on the 7th and to ensure the NEAR Act is fully funded in the next budget. #SafetyBeyondPolicing

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Come on in! We will be in the Ora Glover Community Room! Who We Are #KeepDC4Me is a coalition of community organizations, neighborhoods, neighbors, families, friends, and individuals dedicated to disrupting, confronting and dismantling systems of state sanctioned violence and oppression created and operating to displace and criminalize Black people while inciting intra-community violence in Southeast DC through political education, building community power, and direct action. In line with Black Lives Matter DC, we do not follow one leader, we are a leaderFULL group exploring and making decisions together guided by the brilliance of Ella Baker who proclaimed, “Strong people don’t need [a] strong leader." What We Believe #KeepDC4Me believes that intra-community violence is just one of the many ways the effects of multiple oppressive systems show up in communities. Our community must work collectively using all of our resources to make sure that we thrive, not just survive. Black liberation requires Black communities to use their collective power and brilliance to confront very specific targets and sources of oppression that contribute to poverty, trauma, mass incarceration, displacement, and gentrification from within. We must force the Mayor and the Council of DC to divest from the police and invest in Black communities. Our Work We are committed to protecting and demanding more affordable housing, non-police solutions to intra-community violence, ending over-policing and police brutality, and economic justice in SE DC. Follow us on Twitter @KeepDC4Me For more information feel free to contact: April Goggans #KeepDC4Me Founder and Core Organizer with Black Lives Matter DC at [email protected]! *No law enforcement, media, elected officials, or electoral campaigning at these meetings! Allies welcome, this is a Black-led space.