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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists)
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#TenForJustice: The Road to Abolition • Founded 2020 • Harm Reduction, Decriminalization, Decarceration, Reparations, Dual Power, Mutual Aid, Community Defense, and Transformative Justice • thisisawkword.com/ten-demands • [email protected]
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End the criminalization of drug use and drug addiction.

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TEN DEMANDS demand 9: End the criminalization of drug use and drug addiction. Pass the CARE Act of 2019. Expunge all nonviolent drug-related convictions, and in lieu of arrest provide mental health, behavioral health and addiction recovery services nationwide; on Indigenous lands, provide resources for those services to be overseen by Tribal Nations and implemented at the discretion of each Sovereign Indigenous Nation. Legalize marijuana at the federal and state levels, and respect the Sovereignty of Tribal Nations that jurisdictionally protects all 573 recognized Nations from any federal or state penalty for the cultivation of marijuana. Pass the Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act of 2015, and invest state and federal revenue from legal marijuana into communities most impacted by the War on Drugs.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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This is what Zohran Mamdani is inheriting
Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State: In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. [graphic: illustration of headshot of Muslim man surrounded by cutouts of cops and cameras
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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ICE trained well…
Three military officers dragging a person by the legs
November 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Yes, it took some time, but we promised Google couldn’t hold us back…

TEN DEMANDS finally has a home, again — for #TenForJustice (the demands) and all our easy calls to action!

Check it out: thisisawkword.com/ten-demands
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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If you’re marching at #NoKings and haven’t seen/heard this or read this first, big mistake.
October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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How To Fully Fund Our Communities

A Revenue Generation Playbook

By @acrecampaigns.bsky.social + The Community Resource Hub for Safety & Accountability

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October 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Law Enforcement Violence Against Women Of Color and Trans People Of Color

A Critical Intersection of Gender Violence & State Violence

An organizer’s resource and toolkit

By INCITE!

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October 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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What’s Next?

Safer and More Just Communities Without Policing

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For @interruptcrim.bsky.social

With @dreanyc123.bsky.social @deanspade.bsky.social @ejeris.bsky.social more

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October 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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#DefundPolice
#FundThePeople
#DefendBlackLives

Concrete Steps Toward Divestment from
Policing & Investment in Community Safety

By @movment4blcklives.bsky.social + @interruptcrim.bsky.social

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October 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Demand 10
Free everyone in jails, prisons, youth facilities and detention centers, beginning immediately with the elderly, disabled and immunocompromised, nonviolent "offenders," undocumented immigrants, criminalized survivors, and those held on bail or for parole violations. Free all political prisoners, including Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Remove “except as a punishment for crime" from the 13th Amendment. Ban solitary confinement. Decriminalize misdemeanor offenses and probation/parole violations. Repeal all three-strikes and habitual offender laws. Ban the box. End the school-to-prison pipeline, repealing truancy laws, removing police, surveillance technologies and metal detectors from schools, and eliminating school zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, suspensions and expulsions. Close all local jails. Eliminate the… … expulsions. Close all local jails. Eliminate the prison industrial complex, closing all privately owned prisons, terminating all contracts with private companies that profit off prisons and banning all police foundations. End all new prison construction. End pre-trial detention. Cut funding to prosecutor's offices. Abolish ICE, end immigration detention and mandate legal immigration status priority to ICE detainees and their families. Eliminate civil commitment. Eliminate all carceral 'alternatives to incarceration, and implement measures for intervention, prevention and education. Abolish the death penalty. Implement a reparative, transformative justice model in place of the current system.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 9

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End the criminalization of drug use and drug addiction. Pass the CARE Act of 2019. Expunge all nonviolent drug-related convictions, and in lieu of arrest provide mental health, behavioral health and addiction recovery services nationwide; on Indigenous lands, provide resources for those services to be overseen by Tribal Nations and implemented at the discretion of each Sovereign Indigenous Nation. Legalize marijuana at the federal and state levels, and respect the Sovereignty of Tribal Nations that jurisdictionally protects all 573 recognized Nations from any federal or state penalty for the cultivation of marijuana. Pass the Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act of 2015, and invest state and federal revenue from legal marijuana into communities most impacted by the War on Drugs.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 8 Video Breakdown

Featuring Samuel Sinyangwe and Kamilah Moore

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Apologize publicly and provide indemnification to victims of police violence and racial discrimination in policing, prosecution and sentencing. Pass the Commission to Study Reparation Act H.R.40 and S.1083. Mandate Congress implement and enact the recommended reparation proposals within 120 days of the submission of the Commission's report, and immediately begin reparation disbursement to improve the lives of African descendants in the United States and to foster economic, social and political parity. Invest in… … equitable opportunities for Tribal Nations, and provide reparations to all descendants of Indigenous Peoples of America. Recognize all Tribal Nations and honor in perpetuity all treaties (including those not ratified), as well as obligations to support self-determination and return stolen land. Issue and read a formal apology to the Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples. Implement comprehensive, factual and unabridged social studies pertaining to Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples as part of the national curriculum, to combat their erasure, foster compassion and shift the paradigm of systemic racism and implicit bias.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 7 Video Breakdown

Featuring @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social

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Repeal all anti-protest laws. Terminate all officers guilty of arresting or applying unnecessary and excessive force against protesters, for violation of their Civil Rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Ban the use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and all other crowd-dispersal methods. Strip police authority to issue dispersal orders. Expunge all protest-related convictions, and free all protesters in jail or prison.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 6 Video Breakdown

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Elect independent community councils for needs assessment, municipal decision making and oversight, prioritizing representation by marginalized groups. Invest in community-based public safety measures, including peacekeepers and wellness checks, intervention, violence prevention, skills-based education, mental health services, substance misuse and addiction treatment, mutual aid, mediation, and reparative, transformative justice. Mandate state-level monitoring for proper checks and balances.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 5 Video Breakdown

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End qualified immunity. Establish an independent national review board, along with community-level oversight committees, to investigate all police officers or police department employees who have been involved in or witness to any police-related crimes. (All police officers, police department employees, police union officials/members and individuals with any relationship to any police department are prohibited from participation, and anyone with any conflict of interest must recuse themself or face civil penalties.) Implement immediate termination of any officer found guilty through independent investigation, and require that officer participate in a pre-established program of reparative justice. Mandate that any police-related crime against any member of a First Nation be addressed according to Indigenous Sovereign Nation laws. Require all costs of police-related lawsuits be covered by officer pensions and/or personal liability insurance. Create a legal fund for victims of police brutality. Immediately dismantle any police department that violates civil rights.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 4 Video Breakdown

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Create an independent national database of police crimes, brutality and misconduct. Implement independent, community-led police department reviews and data audits. Require public reporting of all police records and schedules. Immediately terminate and eliminate pensions of any officer found guilty of manipulating data, covering their badge, turning off their body or dash cam or illegally stopping a citizen from filming.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 3 Video Breakdown

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Repeal the 1994 Crime Act. Abolish Public Law 280, transfer authority directly to Tribal Nations, and mandate that any criminal infraction on Indigenous lands be subject to Sovereign Nation laws regardless if the individual is a member of the Indigenous Sovereign Nations. End broken windows policing, stop and frisk, racial profiling, repeat-offender policing, gang policing, drunk driving checkpoints, neighborhood policing, immigration paperwork requests, and all other racially biased practices. Decriminalize poverty, by repealing all laws related to the street economy (e.g., sex work or drug trades) and the occupation of public space (e.g., panhandling or public urination). End… … mandatory arrest and failure to protect laws that lead to the criminalization of survivors of gendered violence. End all fines and fees associated with the criminal legal process, including ticketing, cash bail, court costs, and parole and probation fees. Implement stringent limitations on the number of cases managed by public defenders. Limit prosecutorial discretion, and end prosecutor immunity. Immediately remove all law- and oath-breaking judges. Document and publicly report racial and economic disparities on a court-by-court and judge-by-judge basis.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 2 Video Breakdown

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Disarm all law enforcement, including police officers and security guards, starting immediately with all military-grade weaponry and equipment. Enforce Abuse of Force laws. Make all body and dash cam footage public. End the federal 1033 Program that provides military weaponry to local police departments. Pass HR 1714, the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. Require all Byrne Grants be used for non-carceral alternatives to incarceration, instead of police department militarization. End all grants from the Department of Homeland Security, Joint Terrorism Task Force, FBI and federal Justice Department. End all Pentagon giveaway defense appropriations. End all militarized international police training exchange programs. Cancel all police and government contracts with private and public institutions that develop surveillance technologies. Establish national, state and local legal restrictions to prevent police departments from purchasing or using military weaponry.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Demand 1 Video Breakdown

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Pass the Breathe Act. Reject any proposed police department budget expansion, and implement the highest possible budget cuts every year until the budget is reduced to zero. Cut all police salaries until they are reduced to zero. Institute a freeze on all new hires. End all new investments in police training and facility renovations. Completely remove funding for public relations. Eliminate paid administrative leave. Eliminate for-profit policing, including all quotas, fines, pay-based arrests and civil asset forfeitures. End all police contracts with government and non-government agencies providing social services. Repeal the Law Enforcement Bill of Rights. Abolish all police unions, and immediately strip their power by making all police union negotiations public, demanding the AFL-CIO denounce police unions, and prohibiting political candidates from accepting police union donations. Reallocate all existing police department funds to communities of color, Tribal Nations and socio-economically disadvantaged communities for schools, public health, social services and other needs, as determined by these communities.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The Ten Demands for Justice provides the roadmap to abolition — with each action chipping away at an inherently, intentionally unjust system.

Read all 10 here, and print this PDF to bring to your city council members.

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October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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“I hope that the left movement removes this pacifism, this victimization that we do where we show up at protests and just let ourselves get beat up for the optics, as opposed to actually doing tactics that might help us stop these machines” - Eric King

(We agree with this sentiment)
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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We’re now on Instagram!

Icymi: There’s more revolutionary activity there than here

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October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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4. More than 40% of cops *admit* to beating their partners

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September 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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3. Cops are responsible for 1/3 of all stranger murders nationwide

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September 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Policing in the USA, 1492-Present: A Timeline

By Critical Resistance Oakland and @workingfamilies.org

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August 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM