Defending sanctuary and fighting for abolition: It’s our time to be bold
by Critical Resistance
We find ourselves in a moment with a great deal at stake. Our communities are fighting to define and create sanctuary spaces, while enduring a dangerous presidential administration that has emboldened white supremacist and xenophobic action. The Trump agenda has caused increased harassment, fear and even death. In the movement for abolition of policing, imprisonment, surveillance and the entire prison industrial complex, now is our time to be bold.
Woods Dewitt speaks to the Berkeley City Council June 20. On June 19, African Liberation Day, or Juneteenth, nationally prominent freedom fighters Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Junot Diaz and Kali Akuno wrote a letter appealing to Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin to do the right thing. Arreguin, backed by Bernie Sanders, was elected by progressives, but he let them down. – Photo: Brooke Anderson
We must stand united and see the movement for sanctuary as a part of abolition. We must defend all people targeted by the state and the daily violence of policing: undocumented people, former prisoners, people targeted by gang criminalization and working class communities of color. True sanctuary has no carve-outs. True sanctuary protects our people from policing and militarization.
In Oakland, Critical Resistance is part of the Stop Urban Shield Coalition working to put an end to an annual SWAT training and weapons expo that promotes the militarization of police forces all over the country and world.
This past Tuesday, CR Oakland and the Stop Urban Shield Coalition mobilized over 500 people to demand that Berkeley City Council lead the country in rejecting federal anti-terrorism programs tied to Trump and withdraw the city of Berkeley’s participation from Urban Shield.
In the movement for abolition of policing, imprisonment, surveillance and the entire prison industrial complex, now is our time to be bold.
National figures endorsed Stop Urban Shield’s demand that Berkeley withdraw from the war games, including author Naomi Klein, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, author Junot Diaz and Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson. Together we called on Berkeley to give meaning to its claims of sanctuary and defend us from these militarized trainings and the daily violence that Urban Shield unleashes on Black and Brown people.
For a liberal city that calls itself sanctuary and denounces the harmful policies of the Trump administration, pulling out of this federally-funded police militarization program should have been straightforward.
The Stop Urban Shield Coalition mobilized over 500 people, nearly all Berkeley residents, to the Berkeley City Council showdown, demanding Berkeley withdraw from the annual police militarization and weapons expo called Urban Shield that brings the policies and machinery of war to policing the hood. – Photo: Brooke Anderson
After five hours of community testimony, the City Council made a sham vote to continue participating in the program, and the police were unleashed on the communities who were there to protest the same type of police violence they were met with. Communities members rallied and stood strong, defending each other and amplifying our demand for an end to the violence of policing. See more of Brooke Anderson’s photos of the powerful night here.
We are proud of the unity and resilience displayed by all those who attended the hearings, and we send out a call to those fighting for sanctuary across the country: Be disciplined, be strong; we are with you!
For a liberal city that calls itself sanctuary and denounces the harmful policies of the Trump administration, pulling out of this federally-funded police militarization program should have been straightforward.
The task for all those fighting for liberation is to push beyond the bounds. We must push those in positions of power who are complicit with dangerous policing programs, yet claim to “support” immigrants, Black communities, people of color, queer and trans people, women and working class communities. We must push them, and we must push for abolition.
Knowing that the violence of the prison industrial complex stands in the way of allowing true sanctuary spaces to flourish, we are committed to advancing the vision of abolition.
Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex, can be reached at Critical Resistance, 1904 Franklin St., Suite 504, Oakland, CA 94612, 510-444-0484 or [email protected].
Stop Urban Shield Coalition letter to Berkeley mayor signed by Naomi Klein, Alicia Garza, Junot Diaz, Kali Akuno
To Mayor Jesse Arreguin, 2180 Milvia St., Fifth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
Dated June 19, 2017
Dear Mayor Arreguin,
Immediately after the vote for Berkeley PD to stay involved in Urban Shield, protesters took the stage and unfurled their banner. But they were rushed by police, who drove them off the stage and arrested two, including Samir Shtha, who was put in a pain hold. – Photo: Brooke Anderson
We write to you with hope and urgency on the Council’s upcoming vote on whether to approve the City’s Agreement with the City and County of San Francisco for Distribution of UASI Grant Funds for Urban Shield and the Berkeley Police Department’s Relationship with Northern California Regional Intelligence Center. We are confident that you are taking seriously the potential impact and gravity of this decision.
We can also imagine that, given your role and responsibilities as mayor, part of your decision is weighing all the impacts that Tuesday’s vote will have related to other pressing issues for the residents of Berkeley. As progressives, we know that you are also weighing the significance of this vote for the Bay Area, California, nationally and internationally. As you can empathize, we, of course, similarly feel the weight of this vote.
We are living, leading and organizing in a moment where the middle ground is rapidly disappearing. As white supremacy, true fascism, extreme xenophobia and Islamophobia, climate change denial, privatization, attacks on civil liberties and rights are escalating – while cries for an intensification of military attacks, surveillance and use of force are heard from the right wing and the alt right forces that support them – we are looking for bold alternatives.
Given the precarious political moment facing communities all across the country and people across the globe, we know that all eyes are on Berkeley. Those of us who live and serve communities in Berkeley and those who live in neighboring communities or even farther away have felt heartened and inspired by your progressive voice and stance in a time when the violence of the far right, elected or not, is knowing fewer and fewer bounds.
Progressive people everywhere are identifying Berkeley as a potential shining example to resisting the right’s attacks and agenda. As we strive to support and build progressive electoral victories, people are looking to Berkeley’s solidarity stances and legislative examples. And people are asking everyday, “How can we help Berkeley?”
After clearing protesters from the stage, Berkeley police – militarized in their minds and equipment from prior involvement with Urban Shield – followed more protesters who were rallying outside the meeting place, a middle school, and attacked them. Urban Shield is supposed to protect Americans against terrorists; who are the terrorists here? – Photo: Brooke Anderson
Mayor Arreguin, we know you understand that ending police violence protecting immigrant and refugee sanctuary and civil liberties are central to the civil rights struggles of today. The issue of militarization of police, embodied in the decision Berkeley will make on Tuesday, is inextricably connected to the critical issues of alt-right violence, the federal government’s attacks on sanctuary cities, the continued killings of Black and Brown people by police, mass incarceration and other social and economic inequities. We need you to stand firm on this issue.
If you are able lead Berkeley away from Urban Shield, we are confident that support and initiative from progressive individuals and organizations will grow exponentially. This will send a message of a clear commitment to humanization and humanitarian responses to crises over militarization and authoritarian responses.
Now, more than ever, progressive elected officials need to be working as part of broad-based movements for civil and human rights, peace and justice. We want to build that with you.
However, if you are not able to stand firm on Tuesday, we worry that the networks of support that want to pour positive and affirming energy and resources behind you and the City of Berkeley will be uncertain that they have the ally we think we have and want to have in you and others on the City Council. In these times, we cannot afford confusion and hesitation.
Pulling away from Urban Shield will be a literal and symbolic example that will have powerful resonance for progressive forces and will help strengthen our communities in Berkeley, in Alameda County, in California and beyond. We trust that you can make the right decision.
In solidarity,
Naomi Klein, author, social activist and filmmaker
Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter co-founder
Junot Diaz, author
Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson
and the Stop Urban Shield Coalition:
AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center
BAYAN USA
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Critical Resistance Oakland
Xicana Moratorium Coalition
American Friends Service Committee
Anti-Police Terror Project
BASAT
Catalyst Project
Ella Baker Center
Friends of Sabeel North America
Haiti Action Committee
International Coalition for Human Rights in the Phillippines
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Palestinian Youth Movement
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism
SURJ
War Resisters League
Source: http://sfbayview.com/2017/06/defending-sanctuary-and-fighting-for-abolition-its-our-time-to-be-bold/
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123’s of true Christianity v popular & damnable heresies
#1 “ONE” not triune: ……Mark 12:28…Which is the first commandment of all? 29. …Hear, O Israel; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 30. And ………..this is the first commandment….. 31. And the second is…..
JESUS IS GOD AND IS THE FULLFILMENT OF ALL THE LAW AND PROPHETS SO IF YOU CAN’T GET THIS “FIRST OF ALL COMMANDMENTS” RIGHT, ALL THE REST OF YOUR “FAITH” AND PREACHING ON LOVE & SIN IS MOOT
PART 4 & 5 HOW MANY GODS ARE THERE FOR THE ONE GOD TO TALK TO?? Who was Jesus praying to??!?…. The real question should be … How does having multiple different persons keep this one God/being/entity from praying to himself?! (The trinitarian “schizophrenic” “god-head”) The Trinitarians want to have their cake and eat it too as the saying goes. On the one hand they need to say they only worship one indivisible God being/ entity but on the other hand they feel the need for some reason to keep Jesus or God from praying and talking to himself by dividing him up into different persons!?! It never occurs to them that that since there is only one indivisible God to pray too and Jesus is that indivisible God come in the flesh that he would need to talk to himself as to show us how to live, suffer, pray and die for our/ flesh) benefit not his!?!….. So while Trinitarians are quick to complain that God was not talking to himself at Christ baptism or in Gen “let us” they ignore the logical demands of their own theology! If Jesus is the ONE GOD in flesh and the Father is the SAME ONE GOD in heaven then Trinitarianism demands THE ONE GOD is talking to HIMSELF the same “being”! Claiming that God is multiple different persons as the reason for why God is not talking to himself (because God is three different “selfs”) only demonstrates that what they really worship is in fact not a ONE GOD who talks to himself but three different god “selfs”/ and they all talk to each other! When they speak about who God was talking and praying to, they are quick to say “the other person, NOT HIMSELF!” But if you ask them how many gods do they pray to then they will say “ONLY ONE”!?! They expect you to believe that those three different persons are THE ONE GOD-BEING” which is like calling three different cars “THE ONE VEHICLE” (they are text book examples of prov 26:12)
PART 6: THE ANTI CHRIST….WHERE? WHERE?….EVERYWHERE!!! …..IT”S YOU O TRINITARIAN!
“WHO” it was (what person) that came “IN THE FLESH”, IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ANT-CHRIST”! Even Islam claims Jesus was the Jewish messiah/Christ who was to come in the flesh) they all deny “WHO” it was (what person) that came (to be the Christ) in the flesh!?!…….To deny the father is to deny the son because they are one and the same person that came in the flesh! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-6-anti-christ-where-everywhere-allen-daves?trk=mp-reader-card
JOHN 14: 8-20 where Christ specifically identifies himself (his person as the person of both the father and the HS; the only distinction is in “location” and “method of manifestation” …….Note Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: …: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, … the everlasting Father ….The son, father/Holy Spirit are all the same person, NOT like two different persons working together even as “one flesh” ….The “oneness” between Christ and the father is not comparable to a man & his wife, for only a fool would say “When you have seen me you have seen my wife, how sayest thou then, Shew us your wife?” Notice they asked to see THE FATHER and the response was Jn 14:9 ..“HAVE I BEEN SO LONG time with you, and yet hast THOU NOT KNOW ME, Philip…..Now image some fool trying to claim that statement if you asked to see his wife!?!!? You want to see the FATHER but have I been with you but you don’t know me!?!?!
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Jn 14 continued….…………..17. Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; (Jn 14:6 I AM the way, THE TRUTH,) whom the world cannot receive, .. for HE DEWLLETH WITH YOU, (present tense/standing next to them in the flesh) and SHALL BE IN YOU… (future tense “In them”) 18. I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU (future tense “In them”) Note: The spirit of Christ is the sprit of God and the holy spirit that is why Christ said “I will come to you” (to comfort them, because Christ is the comforter). The spirit was standing next to them in flesh… ….latter it would come to them to be inside of them (inside of their flesh as the spirit we are given)…..that is why. he would send the spirit…… However, Jesus himself here makes the point that the same person who was the HOLY SPIRIT that would come was standing next to them but lets them know “I will come to you again to be Inside of you”
The whole point to Gal 3:20.a mediator is NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, (HEIS) but GOD IS ONE. (HEIS) again, point blank, identifies the number of persons of God! The “but” points out the contrast between multiple persons in a mediation party v the “one” of God. God is not like a mediation party with multiple different persons. …..”the express image of his person” ( the person of God; singular not plural).Any attempt to lay claim otherwise is willful ignorance and delusional nonsense https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-1-echadechadmy-godgod-echad-allen-daves?trk=mp-reader-card
NOTE: don’t be that one in prov 26:12 over my use of the word “fool” here prov 18:13 (https://www.scribd.com/presentation/322007258/Fools ) “But but, the gospel of John…the Gospel of John …look look…” which is quite ironic since the gospel of John does not leave ANY room for multiple different persons of Jesus and father. However the gospel of John does leave a few verses that facilitate God’s promise in 2 Thess 2:11/ Isaiah 66:4 (take note of “HAND” in verse 2,14..You just can’t make this stuff up…God is surely laughing at these fools; Ps 2:1&4)
TRINITARIANS CONFESS JESUS /THEY ARE NOT POLYTHEIST BUT ARE MONOTHEIST LIKE A LIAR & THIEF WHO “CONFESS” THEY DO NOT LIE OR STEAL The simple fact is that just because you confess or deny that you are in an adulterous relationship and denounce all forms of adultery has nothing to do with whether or not it is in fact adulterous! .. …A rose by any other name is still just a rose AND calling it a water lily does not change the definition of what a water Lilly or a rose is either!…No, Trinitarians confess & preach literally …”ANOTHER JESUS” 2 Cor 11:4
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- Like a thief in your house caught stealing your things insisting he was not there stealing “I CONFESS I am NOT stealing”. You just do not “properly understand” what he is doing/saying. Further, since you never had a “proper understanding” of what he is doing/saying you have no business accusing him since you do not even know what you are talking about in the first place. It is with and in your own ignorance that you base your “false accusations” & “ad homonym attacks” against him…… Ridiculous of course it is ……2Thess 2:11; Titus 1:16; 2Tim 3:5;
- A Favorite tool for pathological liars is to use incongruent definitions or create oxymorons out of synonyms such as “a person” and “a being” so as to claim that your god is THREE DIFFERENT PERSONS but ONLY ONE BEING: Which is (1) no different then trying to claim that “THREE DIFFERENT CARS” is “THE ONE VEHICLE” (2) blatant demonstration of the dishonesty & sorcery these children of hell will employ with “a strait face” (which is in part what it means to be a pathological liar)
……but, ah i remember how this game is played… “God is three in one” (or 1in 3 or 3in one et al) should have given you a hint, harking back to Satan in The garden…God said you will die…Satan comes along and states no you will be more WISE……today .God said He is one; but Satan’s children come along and say no three is more WISE and humble in the face of God’s grandeur only “a mystery” that can be understood “in faith”. God uses head and right arm to explain the distinctions between father and son.. However, the Trinitarian heretics say to the effect: “NO, that is just a figure of speech, or that is not what God really means. What God is really saying is that God is three different persons”. Fools, hypocrites and blind guides, God said he was One and by your traditions and vain imaginations have taken the words of God and made them of no effect, refashioning God into your image!
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#2 SECOND COMING Thou Fool! “I come quickly” so “Hold fast
till i come”… NOT …“in another 2000 yrs I might be coming soon any time now, so hold fast”!?! …those that deny the second coming of Christ in the war of AD70 are practicing a damnable heresy in denying the lord that bought them ( 2Peter 2:1-2 ;2Tim 4:8/ you cant love an appearing you deny& the context is the 2nd coming not the first)… Mat 7:23..”I NEVER KNEW YOU” …..Mat 10:33. But whosoever shall deny me before men……..sound familiar?…. If I said I am coming to your house in this generation when these things happen but no one knows the day or hour what fool would think I might be coming in 2000 years latter!?!? ..2 Tim 4: 4. And
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES.
2Thess 2: 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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#3 There is a sharp contrast between THREE groups :
(1) “PREDESTINED DAMNED” who were NEVER written in the book of life ………..Rev 17: 8 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, …as contrasted …EPH 1: 4. According as he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
(2) “MANY CALLED”= ONLY and ALL SAINTS (those who come to Christ) are written in the book of life … Philippians 4:3… ……Rev 21:27; (Only saints are Called and elect; Rom 1:6-7 et al) This is THE CHRUCH and ONLY these can have their names blotted out of the book of life ….….Heb 12:23 to the general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn … WHICH ………are WRITTEN in heaven,
(3) THE FEW CHOSEN: Those saints who were alive in group #2 who are now physically dead. They died “faithful” these are the FEW that were chosen faithful…….Rev 3:5. ……; and I
will not BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, (Ps 69:28) …. These are the FEW that are CHOSEN and now that they have died and are saved then “once saved THEY CAN NEVER BE LOST”
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