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Guest Post: On Reparations, the Run-Off, and Confronting Police Torture in...
The following is a post written by my friend and comrade Alice Kim. It is re-published from her blog “Dancing the Dialectic.” Earlier this week at the last mayoral debate in Chicago’s unprecedented...
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Spelling Out The Names…
Grateful for good friends and comrades. Grateful to those who say and spell out the names. Grateful to my friend Kelly for her words and deeds. photo by Kelly Hayes (4/10/15)
View ArticleGuest Post: Court Day 1 #RekiaBoyd
My friend Crista Noel wrote a few words about the first day of Dante Servin’s trial for killing Rekia Boyd. Crista co-founded Women’s All Points Bulletin, a local organization focused on police...
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Interrupting The Death-Making: Notes from Chicago
Driven to a deserted field on the far Southside of Chicago, Darrell Cannon was scared to death. It was 1983 and the police wanted a confession. Darrell was terrorized with Russian roulette while being...
View ArticleParent-Led Restorative Justice Efforts in Chicago Schools
For over 10 years now, my friends and comrades at POWER-PAC have been transforming school cultures through parent-led peace rooms. Below is a new video recently released by the City of Chicago –...
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On Showing Up, Erasing Myself, and Lifting Up the Choir…
photo by Bob Simpson (Chicago, 4/21/15) It was unlikely that we would come to know her by her first name: Rekia. She was a 22 year old young Black woman when Dante Servin, a CPD detective, shot her in...
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We Do This For Damo…
It’s been a year since Dominique Franklin Jr’s death. Last May, Damo was a stranger to me. The first time that I heard his name was when a young person I love told me that he was in a coma. Shortly...
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Grief, Love & Celebration: #DamoDay in Chicago
It’s been another packed week for me. I am tired and I haven’t had time to blog. #DamoDay took place on Wednesday and I felt a mix of emotions. It was wonderful to hear the stories shared by Damo’s...
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#SayingHerName in Chicago
Yesterday on Facebook, I read a series of posts by a young Black woman. She was lamenting the fact that Black men are too often silent and sometimes hostile about addressing violence against Black...
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#FireDanteServin: An Abolitionist Campaign in Chicago
On April 20th, I was getting on a plane headed back to Chicago from Nashville when my phone started ringing. Friends who were in the courtroom as the judge acquitted officer Dante Servin for killing...
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Creative Organizing, Political Education and Abolition in Chicago…
In Chicago, in this historical moment, groups of people are relying on creative organizing to envision and struggle for a radically transformed world where policing and the violence it produces are...
View ArticleChicago’s Mental Health Movement Responds to Mayor’s ‘Reforms’
I wanted to share this press release from the Mental Health Movement here in Chicago because it offers an important critique of the so-called ‘reforms’ being offered by Mayor Emanuel. In addition, the...
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#AlvarezMustGo: Defeating An Awful Prosecutor in Cook County
I haven’t been able to blog regularly so far in 2016. I’d hoped to have more time to do so. Life and work are both kicking my ass though. In my “free time,” I’m currently focused on grassroots...
View Article#Justice4Rekia: Chicago Organizers Make #BlackWomensLivesMatter
On Monday, we mark four years since Detective Dante Servin killed Rekia Boyd in North Lawndale. I first learned about her death from a friend’s Facebook post. As part of the early organizing efforts by...
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Why Protest? A Zine
The idea for this zine came when I read an anonymous Facebook post on a friend’s page several months ago. The post was about why protest matters. I shared the words on my own Facebook page and asked...
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