beautiful, wonderful anarchists: a thread

"Hello, Mayor, commissioners and neighbors. I am the daughter of a Portland police officer, a former staffer for Mayor @SamAdamsPDX, and I've worked in New York City for Mayor Bill de Blasio's Office of Criminal Justice...

"I'm a homeowner in inner Southeast Portland and I'm a landlord. I say all of these things because my opinions on defunding the police and investing in communities often make people want to paint me as an anarchist or a crazy -- I don't like that word -- but a crazy liberal...

...or radical. But I'm a human who has a lot of different perspectives on these issues. And so I think that my neighbors and the beautiful wonderful anarchists and community builders on this call have done a really great job of pleading with you."

"The person who spoke before me -- what more can we do, right? I mean it's very obvious that the community continues to be silenced...

"I do want to thank @CommRubio for her leadership on the City Council to invest in community based approaches to gun violence prevention, which work and are effective and are far more effective policing alone...

"Police even agree that we need to invest resources, equally, and community based approaches. That is the only way that we're going to build a more resilient economy, build a more vibrant community that includes everyone, not just white people in Portland...

"And I'm a white person and I know that white supremacy hurts me too. It hurts everyone. But mostly it hurts my non-white neighbors and I'm tired of it...

"I'm tired of seeing the people that I have worked for and that I have supported silencing these people and not respecting their demands...

cc: @SamAdamsPDX

"And every time you say 'clean up Portland' I hear you say that you're referring to people as litter. So stop saying 'clean up Portland' when what ur really doing is sweeping people away and not taking care of Portland. Why don't you take care of Portland instead?"

- @AlaciaJayne