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DoomsdaysCWBecome an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchist</a> or Forever Hold Your Peace2025-02-21 "If you know any real-life <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchists</a>, you know how absurd this is. Given access to the government’s payment systems, no anarchist would begin by cutting off resources to starving children or medical research. An anarchist would begin by cutting off funding to the police and the other instruments of state violence—precisely the institutions that Donald Trump and Elon Musk will expand at any cost."<a href="https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WePoliceOurselves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WePoliceOurselves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoGodsNoMasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoGodsNoMasters</a>

DoomsdaysCWSo, I've excerpted from the article things that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Police</a> should be doing! Instead of arresting people and making quotas! Until all that changes (and the corruption in police unions, especially in the US), we need to view most police as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>... Bear Clan no more: Why a Thunder Bay safety patrol has turned away from its founding principles of co-operating with policeWhen First Nations people in this city took community safety into their own hands, they ended up at odds with local law enforcement and the Winnipeg Bear Clan group that inspired their organization. And on the streets, the struggle still goes on"'Some of the terminology that [leader Ivory Tuesday] used, you know, ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/settler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#settler</a>,’ ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonial</a>.' These are very divisive terms in our communities and we’re about reconciliation,' says Mr. Favel, who revoked the Thunder Bay group’s Bear Clan membership in February." [Ummmmm....]by Jolene Banning Published November 7, 2019"In the wake of the Bear Clan’s demise in Thunder Bay, several volunteers have carried on patrolling under the new name, Wiindo Debwe Mosewin. The group is led by Indigenous women and says it welcomes people of all races and nations to patrol with them. (Another community group called the Sleeping Giant Patrol had also formed, but has since been shut down.) "Ms. Tuesday says Wiindo Debwe Mosewin decided to offer a space free of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicians</a>, based on years of mistrust. While out on patrols of the streets, rivers and alleyways at night, the group shares food and stories with the city’s most vulnerable. 'I listen to what they have to say and validate them for what they’ve been through while living here. Mainly I just try to be a friend,' Ms. Tuesday says."Read more: <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bear-clan-no-more-why-a-thunder-bay-safety-patrol-has-turned-away/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bear-clan-no-more-why-a-thunder-bay-safety-patrol-has-turned-away/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/5l1at" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/5l1at</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WiindoDebweMosewin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WiindoDebweMosewin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WePoliceOurselves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WePoliceOurselves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a>

DoomsdaysCWCame across this story while researching <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThunderBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThunderBay</a> (where some of my ancestors are from). From 2019.Inside the controversy over Thunder Bay’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityPatrol</a> groupThe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol</a> monitors the city for people in distress and posts anonymized stories of racism on social media. Critics say it doesn’t value evidence — but the group insists that it’s after a different kind of truthWritten by Jon Thompson Mar 7, 2019THUNDER BAY — "'Darryl' could tell you all about the negative interactions he’s had with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThunderBayPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThunderBayPolice</a> Service since he moved to the city from Sudbury in 2016. His girlfriend, his cousin, and most of his friends could tell you about interactions of their own. So could his grandfather, who told him that officers had once driven him out of town and left him on the highway to walk home — something known as a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StarlightTour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarlightTour</a>.'"Darryl could tell you, but he won’t tell the police. He never files complaints. As an Indigenous person, he has no expectation that they would take him seriously: the Thunder Bay Police Service and its board, as demonstrated in two recent reports from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ontario</a>’s police-watchdog organizations, are plagued by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SystemicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemicRacism</a>."Instead, he has been telling his stories to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BearClanThunderBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BearClanThunderBay</a>, now known as the Wiindo Debwe Mosewin Patrol — a group of about 40 volunteers who circuit the streets, waterways, bridges, and woods, looking for people in distress. They don’t demand identification or interrogate him, he says. They offer him hot chocolate, and they listen."'I just feel more comfortable talking to people who understand the issues,' he says. 'Most people are in denial about the whole police situation, but me, personally, I’ve experienced it.'"Depending on who you ask, Bear Clan Thunder Bay either found itself or put itself in the middle of the public conversation sparked by the reports. Local politicians — and the group’s parent organization, based in Winnipeg — have accused it of being anti-police, racially divisive, and alarmist. The Thunder Bay chapter, one of dozens across the country, was stripped of its right to use the Bear Clan name."Read more: <a href="https://www.tvo.org/article/inside-the-controversy-over-thunder-bays-indigenous-community-patrol-group" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tvo.org/article/inside-the-controversy-over-thunder-bays-indigenous-community-patrol-group</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WePoliceOurselves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WePoliceOurselves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a>

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