Kkkapitalism Killed Everything- Even Our Courage-Lessons from the 1st how to NOT call the kkkops EVER workshop

div div div div div Due to the multitude of lies and stereotypes that permeate our capitalist society about poor people and people of color we all have collectively bought into the idea that we need to call 911 to be safe, said Jeremy Miller, organizer and revolutionary family member of POOR Magazine, and Idriss Stelley Foundation and co-organizer of the first strongHow to Not Call the PoLice EVER workshop /strongin September 2016.br / nbsp;/div p The first of this series of revolutionary healing and liberation workshops led by us post-kolonized gentrified, displaced, disabled, incarcerated, indigenous and unhoused peoples at a href="http://www.poormagazine.org"POOR Magazine/a/a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/homefulness"Homefulness/a and Krip Hop Nation was a powerFULL mix of scholarship, prayer, art and poor and indigenous peoples theory like we live and walk at POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE. One of the many liberation ahhh haaaa#39;s that emerged from this day was Jeremy#39;s comments which then made us unpack even deeper the impact of colonization and its subsequent invention of stolen land and stolen people protectors known as police on something as essential as our thinking, our spirits and ultimately, even our courage.br / nbsp;/p/div p How, thanks to this false post-colonial, wite-supremacist notion of safety the corporate notion of cleanliness (which equates into the complete absence of humans in our racist, classist clean cities landscape) and the cult of independence which separates us from our elders, our communities, our cultures and languages, we are all alone, living with strangers, outside of elder circles, outside of our own bodies and even our cultural ways of protecting ourselves and our communities. This is yet another unnatural, bizarre and dangerous aspect of colonization. What happened to our collective ability to hold each other, to be there for each other to stand up for ourselves and our fellow community members when they or we face danger. how is it that we have given away our own instinctual knowledge.br / nbsp;/p/div div And this is not just a white people problem or the tendencies of white people. As a matter of fact this is a multi-cultural epidemic with white supremacist, capitalist domination as the root cause and all of us as the victims.br / nbsp;/div div The immediate response to call 911 is exacerbated by racism and classism. White peoples and light-skinned POC#39;s will more likely be afraid based on their racist biases against peoples of color and therefore call 911 or the kkkops over kkkrimes that are completely racist and classist, aka the scary homeless peoples being in their neighborhoods (even though we are doing nothing but being in our cars, sidewalks, parks etc) or other kkkrimes like shopping, sitting in our cars, walking, sleeping, like so many, if not all, of the recent and historical victims of poLice murder.nbsp;br / nbsp;/div div But then its also us. Disemboweled by colonization. Stripped of our courage, our ability to stop and stand up , speak up, stand by or even handle an issue. So quick to call the paid killers in to handle it. This is a mistake not just made of lack of courage but of the lack of us giving up our love and care-giving tendencies to industries.nbsp; We have built elder ghettos to take care of our parents, elders and disabled peoples. Age-grade institutional schools to take care of our children. Therapy industries to take care of our problems and on and on. In the end we are not only unable to take care of things we have come to believe are scary but also we can#39;t take care of things that take too much work hassle. In essence not only has the lie of civilization swallowed our creativity, ethics and spirit, it has made us collectively too lazy to even be human.nbsp;/div div nbsp;/div div Ina href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5600" 10, 11 or 15 things you can do to NOT call the PoLice ever/a list we talk about building up a community circle. This takes a while. You can#39;t trust people overnight that you just met. But it is an essential part of decolonizing our lives, our bodies and our communities and our families.br / nbsp;/div pI work in a local middle school and I am considered a mandated reporter so if i don#39;t report when i suspect child abuse I could get in trouble, said a participant in the workshop. In addition to critiquing the white supremacist lies of poLice calls as the option for help, the relationship between poverty, racism and poLice calls, care-giving, poLice and the non-profit industrial complex we tackled the the extremely difficult issue of protecting and caring for children above all else.nbsp;/p pWe spoke together on how the protection of children is not solved with a hashtag, a website, a poverty pimped grant or a face-crak post. It takes loong wraparound, indigenous care-giving, it takes love and a different way of operating in the world. Words and moves by sister Samsarah Morgan and other decolonized, peoples of color birthing movements. It takes revolutionary street social workers and community care-givers and co-mamaz like Mama Jewnbug,Mama Laure McElroy andnbsp; Vivi-T from POOR Magazine mama teachers like Mama Blue, Mama Tracey Bell-Borden and Mama Sue Ferrer and me and the school circle of mamaz we create at Deecolonize Academy who refuse to EVER call CPS or APS but do constantly call each other and our fellow grandmothers and aunties to help and council and love and support children and their prarents in struggle/p /div pWe also spoke on other decolonized solutions rooted in poor and indigenous people-led theorynbsp; and self-determination, movements like the Auto-Defensas in Mexico and Barrio 23 de Jenero in Caracas Venezuela both of whom they kicked the poLice out of their town- and because in both cases like this stolen land, violent crime went down./p pOrganizer Sylvia Ronen pointed out that we can call the fire department directly instead of the kkkops when waht we are really asking for is medical emergency help./p pThe day was packed with more prayer, spirit, lessons and ideas than could ever be translated to a mere written document, but suffice it to say the conversation to move our colonized and confused minds away from the 911 call was deep and healing and in one afternoon brought us closer to a collective understanding and overstanding of our own communities power, strength and ultimately non-poLice engaged autonomy./p /div