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It may not come as a surprise, but one of the topics we get asked about most frequently is intracommunal violence. That's right, this week we're actually going to talk about "Black on Black crime." But don't worry, it's still #Fuck12Friday
Since the recent uprisings began, it seems like there are more people than ever before who want to talk about violence in Black communities when we bring up #defundthepolice. #Fuck12Friday
There are usually two types of people who ask us about violence within the Black community. The first are the people who use "black on black violence" to divert attention away from protesting police brutality. #Fuck12Friday
Hello and welcome back to #Fuck12Friday! It has been a HECTIC week with the shooting of #LatrellAllen, so we're going to be taking a step back and do some history on #BlackAugust and the Black radical tradition. Follow along!
#BlackAugust is now a 41-year-old tradition, started in 1979 by Black people incarcerated in California. These folks wanted to begin a movement that honored the radical history of prison protest #Fuck12Friday
Why August? George Jackson, Black Panther and co-founder of the Black Guerilla Family. Jackson was incarcerated at age 18 and radicalized in prison. On August 21, 1971, Guards murdered Jackson at age 29 in a prison escape #BlackAugust #Fuck12Friday
Welcome back, y'all. It's already two weeks after CPD chose to attack black & indigenous protestors in order to protect a hunk of rock, that symbolizes Colonialism and White Supremacist Pillaging. Can you believe it? #Fuck12Friday
We here at BLMChi want to keep the solidarity going, this week by telling you a little bit about the Palestinian Freedom Struggle. #Fuck12Friday
Palestine is far away, so what's the connection? In 2014, CPD Superintendent Garry McCarthy Israel's third International Homeland Security Conference to learn policing tactics, and this isn't an isolated instance. #Fuck12Friday
Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday! Today we are talking about Homan Square and lifting up the demands of @BlkAbolitionChi to #CloseHomanSquare! 
This week, we heard about federal agents disappearing protestors in Portland, and preparing to head into Chicago. But Chicago has had a history of disappearing its own, long before this week. #Fuck12Friday
In 2016, an investigation by The Guardian uncovered what many Black Chicagoans already knew -- there was a CPD black site in Homan Square, where people were detained for hours or even days without access to legal counsel or a phone call. #Fuck12Friday.
Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday!! It’s 1pm (CP time) and we hope everybody is hype for the Black, Indigenous Solidarity Rally today at Buckingham Founta! facebook.com/events/5806116…
Wondering what Black, Indigenous solidarity has to do with the police? We got you...follow this thread! #Fuck12Friday
From the moment the colonizers set foot on the shores of Turtle Island, the struggles of Black and Native people have been linked. #Fuck12Friday
Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday!! Today is so so special because it's also Juneteenth!
As Black people continue to fight for liberation in the streets, we want to take a look at the history of the oppression and liberation of Black people on this historic day. #Fuck12Friday
It was on June 19, 1865 that folks still enslaved in Texas first learned they were free, 2.5 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. People have been celebrating Juneteenth since that day in 1865. #Fuck12Friday
Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday!! We're proud to see Chicagoans keeping up the energy and continuing to come out to the streets. We're in this for the long haul!
Lori Lightfoot's increased CPDs budget by $100 million dollars, but now she's using our voices speaking out against police to say that's not enough. She's calling for more increases as part of her reform. #Fuck12Friday #LiarLightfoot
We aren't here for the political glad-handing that claims to listen to our demands, and then works to increase the stranglehold police have over our communities. #Fuck12Friday #LiarLightfoot
Welcome back to #Fuck12Friday. We see all of you in the streets and on the internet saying FUCK 12 loud and clear, and we love you.
Because of the noise the people have been making, all 4 officers involved in the murder of #GeorgeFloyd have finally been charged. But the work is not done. #Fuck12Friday
In the past week, thousands of people protesting against police brutality were themselves brutalized by police in the streets, and arrested. We demand that these protestors be freed immediately. #Fuck12Friday
#Fuck12Friday is here again to tell you about why we don't fuck with 12!! Did you think we forgot?? This week, we're going over the adversarial history of policing and labor in Chicago. read! share! learn sumn!
First and foremost, it's in the interest of capital (big business, money, white people) to maintain our stratified, unequal social order and police are the front lines of that effort #Fuck12Friday
Throughout history, and especially in Chicago, police have violently suppressed labor organizing and uprisings that empower working class people or threaten the social order (socialist, anarchist, communist, etc. organizing) #Fuck12Friday
