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ColorDecourage retweeted
HB 1323 is a bipartisan bill that would make protesting on Washington State highways a class C Felony.
Because mass protest will be a crucial tool of resistance to both federal fascism and local austerity measures, we must make sure it doesn’t pass.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?B…
ColorDecourage retweeted
Do you think jailing people is free?
King County courts, jails, and prosecutors cumulatively cost $634m annually to lock up fewer than 2,000 ppl
Plus, another $92m for Seattle courts + prosecutors
Plus $465m for SPD
Plus $285m for KCSO
That's nearly $1.5 billion
ColorDecourage retweeted
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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ALT Handwritten note. Prompt at the top asks: What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you? Answer below: They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries That was in my Duffel Bag. They also took my leather motorcycle vest worth 300$+ and my whole tent setup.
ColorDecourage retweeted
“Progressive” state with the second-most regressive tax system, after Florida.
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ColorDecourage retweeted
Idk why I'm shocked by this but I'm just finding out that Seattle is sweeping 20+ vehicles on Thanksgiving, when there are no services bc most ppl have the day off. Your hard earned tax dollars at work.
The cruelty is the point.
Moore is completely gaslighting so many people's lived experience. Seattle conducted over 2,800 sweeps in 2023. Don't tell us that sweeps aren't happening!
ColorDecourage retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1899, Seattle unveiled a totem pole in Pioneer Square. It had been stolen from a Tlingit village. historylink.org/File/2076
ColorDecourage retweeted
Israeli forces shot him in broad daylight while wearing a press vest.
You target journalists when you don’t want witnesses to your crimes.
Well, the city just gave SPD $170 million, so perhaps that is to account for the $200 million budget shortfall... along with the lack of progressive revenue.
ColorDecourage retweeted
You’ll be shocked to learn that the “miracle cure” for homelessness is housing and services.
ALT Manchester turns to Finland’s ‘miracle cure’ for homelessness Housing First offers homes to the homeless with no strings attached and gives them intensive, wrap-around support to help get them back on their feet.
ColorDecourage retweeted
Stickers seen around NYC in the days after cops opened fire in the NYC subway, shooting a fellow officer, two bystanders, and an alleged "fair evader" they were attempting to apprehend.
ColorDecourage retweeted
NEW: Records obtained by Real Change show how the City of Seattle spent $89,000 to demolish the Black Lives Memorial Garden last December.
@GuyOron reports.
realchangenews.org/news/2024…
ColorDecourage retweeted
There were 12 sweeps that we knew of over the last two weeks, and likely many more that were not posted. Each week we provide sweep support, material aid (tents, clothes, food, harm rdx, gas, propane etc). Pls send us 💸 so we can continue our work!
ColorDecourage retweeted
Cops steal more than thieves. Literally.
ALT Chart showing how cops took more from people than burglars. Forfeiture surpassed burglary in 2014
BREAKING NEWS 🚨 @IJ is taking on one of the most predatory civil forfeiture schemes we have ever seen. Indiana is intercepting packages at a FedEx shipping hub, running K-9s over them, and forfeiting any cash found w/o saying a specific crime that was violated.
ColorDecourage retweeted
And then people complain about the waste on public streets and instead of blaming our purposely neglectful government they blame poor people who live on the street and don't have access to a bathroom.
ColorDecourage retweeted
Seattle's over reliance on levies as a means to solve our problems is reason # 623 why this city's gone to hell. Simultaneously displacing poor fams/small biz while letting corporations off the hook for their outsized impact on our infrastructure. The chamber can get fucked