A group of teachers, parents, students, and community members for fully funded and resourced police and policing-free Winnipeg schools.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s launch! Find the full report on the effects of policing on Indigenous and Black students here:
policyalternatives.ca/public…
Help create safe, healthy schools for all!
Send the report to your candidates & ask them to sign this Pledge!
Announcing 🗣POLICE-FREE SCHOOLS ELECTION PLEDGE!
We challenge ALL Winnipeg electoral candidates to✍️!
Back to school is here and so is opposition to SROs! Community-minded voters understand police harms!
🔔Help out by sharing/enlisting your candidates!
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Blatant and predatory copaganda aimed at indoctrinating children and shoring up its PR image. Shame on WSD for promoting this drivel.
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Why does this program still exist @WinnipegSD ? We know several parents have complained about it, and that the discomfort with police presence in schools is the #1 reason why the SRO program was cut in your austerity budget.
Relationships aren’t bought.
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Last week Winnipeg police harassed an 11 year old as she and her aunt were leaving a Palestine protest. Yesterday Calgary Police assaulted a 13-year-old protester.
See the 13 y/old boy that got assaulted by police speak. You can still see the marks on his face. Calgary Police Services does not help us. They are not for the people they harm our people. #acab #abolishthepolice #StopCopCity share and repost
"Please be respectful," says the police force that has confiscated Palestinian flags at a vigil and threatened to call child services on an 11-year-old Tunisian Canadian girl for attending a rally, telling them they were "stupid" and to "put that 'shit flag away.'" #AbolishTheWPS
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"Please be respectful," says the police force that has confiscated Palestinian flags at a vigil and threatened to call child services on an 11-year-old Tunisian Canadian girl for attending a rally, telling them they were "stupid" and to "put that 'shit flag away.'" #AbolishTheWPS
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WINNIPEG - there is a gathering happening outside the law courts (408 York) this Monday at 1 PM.
It is being organized by one of the families of the men whose death at the hands of the WPS is being examined in the inquest.
Please show up to support if you can!
ALT Square graphic with black background and white all caps font. It reads "Gathering for families impacted by police violence." "As the inquest hearings conclude, we want to remember the lives of the people who died in police custody and support their impacted families." "Where: In front of the law courts at 408 York; When: Monday, Nov 20th, at 1:00 PM"
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A long-awaited inquest into the deaths of five men following altercations with Winnipeg police officers begins Tuesday, marking the start of a group inquest of unprecedented size over the last two decades in Manitoba. By @marshamcleod_ winnipegfreepress.com/breaki…
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
Follow @marshamcleod_ and consider attending the inquest into the Winnipeg police killings of Patrick Gagnon, Michael Bagot, Randy Cochrane, Matthew Fosseneuve, and Sean Thompson. Anyone can attend at any time for any length of time. Law Courts (408 York Ave) room 405.
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Over the last few weeks, I have received calls from families about a rise in Islamophobia in schools across #HamOnt.
First and foremost, to Muslim students in HWDSB schools, know that you deserve to be safe. You deserve a learning environment free from Islamophobia.
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🇵🇸 SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE 🇵🇸
Today, on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, abolitionist organizers across so-called Canada express our utmost support and solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance 1/
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We are proud to sign this statement of solidarity with Palestine on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality. Please read and share.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
"The murder of Elias Whitehead is the direct result of a culture where nearly all social, economic, and health-related issues are met with arrest, criminalization, and punishment."
Please check out our members' response to the winnipeg police murder of Elias Whitehead on October 15. Shame on police Chief Danny Smyth for silencing witness perspectives and legitimizing police violence. Condolences to the Whitehead family. ❤️
winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/…
We are proud to sign this statement of solidarity with Palestine on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality. Please read and share.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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MUST READ: This is a photo response by a youth when asked: "How are school staff responding to more overt forms of racism?". I too know this from listening to families, but also when a school division redacted my writing when I tried to show their 'dirt'. 🔥🧵
ALT Source: Nixon, J., Habtom, S., & Tuck, E. (2022). Rupture, not injury: reframing repair for Black and Indigenous youth experiencing school pushout. Journal of Visual Culture, 21(1), 132–160. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/14704129221088300
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The WPS reported a clearance rate of 8.4% for property crimes in 2022.
The top two incidents - mischief and theft of $5,000 or under from a motor vehicle - had clearance rates of 4.8% and 0.4%.
Yet they keep getting rewarded for their failures. DEFUND.
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/…
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Thanks to everyone who showed up and especially to jaypeywey and mbpolicedragrace and everyone who jumped in to make today’s rally and march for trans youth a huge success 🤩 #WeKeepUsSafe
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
care about kids? then get cops out of schools! #1MillionMarch4Chidren #ACAB
ALT A sign that reads “respect my trans homies or I’m gonna identify as a fucking problem.”
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
Folx, bashing race for ignoring gender (& vice versa) ignores two basic truths: 1) Experiences are intersectional (& mediated by class), 2) Binary thinking ignores how white supremacy through police target both! Listen to voices from families across so called Canada:🧵