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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Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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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"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
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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"
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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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Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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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Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
🇵🇸 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/
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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/…
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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/…
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
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:🧵
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
The research (and living) evidence is clear: involving police in school processes increases risks to all marginalized students. This is why school boards like @OCDSB demanded an end to school police officers. They also urged from the very start of their report (2021):
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
These experiences are quite common (but often under or not reported). Listen to students' "own words" from #Edmonton pubic schools describing how police can give students "the worst panic [if not physical] attacks":
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
In another 2021 report by @ugdsb they use gender/race interchangeably to recommend against the policing of students in schools.
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
So, if you see displays of 'diversity' or spaces getting race(or pink)-washed, keep moving (against policing). Make sure police have no free pass to enter and that there are accountability mechanisms to address harms. But since these are lacking, organize @PFSWpg @WpgPoliceHarm
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
If you are a parent who feels like the police may make you feel 'safer', that is not worth the potential/actual harm for others. Also, normalizing violence (feeling safe with police as opposed to others) corrupts and corrodes you. But, maybe you are & want to weaponize police.
Police-Free Schools Winnipeg retweeted
#NoSpaceForHate[OrPolice] #WeMakeUsSafe
Those in #wpgpoli #mbpoli if you want to read more in your own schools/yards here it is: policyalternatives.ca/public…