{"id":529,"date":"2020-06-15T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2020-06-26T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T06:35:11","slug":"seattle-uprisings-early-victories-further-opportunities-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/entry\/529","title":{"rendered":"Seattle: Uprising’s early victories & further opportunities to participate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reposted from Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

As many of you know, things are happening at the Seattle City Hall and around the country as a direct result of #BlackLivesMatter organizing in response to the police murders of George Floyd and countless other Black and indigenous people. For example, here is a (very partial) list of victories documented by Chicago-based activist collective Rampant: Rebellions Get Results: A List So Far<\/a> (note this post was written on June 8th, and there have been many more victories since then, not to mention victories before June 8th that were not included in the list!)<\/p>\n

In seattle, here are some of the victories that we are aware of:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mayor Durkan issued curfews to stop demonstrations, but demonstrations continued and she was forced to withdraw the curfew.<\/li>\n
  2. Mayor ordered a 30-day moratorium on the use of tear gas. The order came with the caveat that Chief Best could still order its use if she felt the necessity, which she did just a couple of days ago, but still both leaders faced criticisms for going back on their promises.<\/li>\n
  3. City of Seattle is withdrawing a lawsuit against King County which had prevented inquest into killing of civilians by the police for the last two years.<\/li>\n
  4. City of Seattle withdraws its petition to be free from federal oversight placed on its police forces due to patterns of racial profiling and civil rights violations.<\/li>\n
  5. Peaceful demonstrators persisted in Capitol Hill for over a week despite being attacked by the police with chemical weapons, flash bangs, stan grenades, etc. and forced SPD to retreat, creating what became known as Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or Capitol Hill Occupied\/Organized Protest.<\/li>\n
  6. Seattle City Council unanimously passed a resolution rebuking President Trump\u2019s threat to send in active duty military to Seattle.<\/li>\n
  7. Chief Best ordered officers to stop concealing badge numbers with \u201cmourning bands.\u201d They did not follow the order, so the City Council is working on a legislation.<\/li>\n
  8. City of Seattle agreed to transfer<\/a> old fire station in Central District to the local African American community to use as a community center.<\/li>\n
  9. City Council member Kshama Sawant proposes ordinances to ban the use of chokehold<\/a> by police officers and the ownership, purchase, rent, storage, or use of \u201ccrowd control weapons\u201d<\/a> such as tear gas and flash bangs. [Update: Both bills passed unanimously!]<\/li>\n
  10. City Council member Lisa Herbold proposes an ordinance to prohibit police officers from covering their badge numbers<\/a>. [Update: Passed unanimously!]<\/li>\n
  11. City council members Lewis, Pederson, and Morales propose an ordinance to abolish the crime of prostitution loitering<\/a> (which the SPD uses to profile and harass women of color). [Update: Passed unanimously!]<\/li>\n
  12. City council members Lewis and Morales propose an ordinance to abolish the crime of drug loitering<\/a>. [Update: Passed unanimously!]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do you have more? Please send it to us so we can add to this list!<\/p>\n

    ANYWAYS, Today (Monday, June 15th) at 2pm the City Council is discussing CMs Sawant and Herbold\u2019s bills on banning certain police behaviors that have been used against protesters. The Council meetings are held online due to COVID-19, but you can sign up to testify<\/a> and\/or watch the meeting<\/a> (direct YouTube link<\/a>) live.<\/p>\n

    We are VERY interested in CMs Lewis, Pederson, and Morales\u2019 bills to eliminate prostitution and drug loitering ordinances. City\u2019s own working group had recommended<\/a> repealing these ordinances TWO YEARS AGO and we\u2019ve met with council members to ask them to follow up on the recommendation, but the Council has so far failed to act on it. The ordinances are likely to be discussed at a later time, but you can submit comments on them NOW on the link above.<\/p>\n

    Lastly, the Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade has endorsed \u201cDefund Seattle Police\u201d campaign, which seeks to immediately cut at least 50% of SPD budget to fund community-based programs that prioritize health and safety strategies and free all protesters arrested during the recent protests. If you agree, please sign on to the campaign as an individual<\/a> or as an organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reposted from Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade. As many of you know, things are happening at the Seattle City Hall and around the country as a direct result of #BlackLivesMatter organizing in response to the police murders of George Floyd and countless other Black and indigenous people. For example, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","category-sex-trade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}