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    The Seattle Times is liberal newspaper just like here in Spokane, The Spokesman Review. I was watching it on the local news, not Fox, and all that was taking place was live........ who knows the truth, but the mayor is a left winged liberal the same as the governor.....

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    Trump Enacts Tariffs, Travel Ban On CHAZ | The Babylon Bee

    WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trump has announced a new set of tariffs and a travel ban on CHAZ, escalating the trade war between the United States and the fledgling nation-state.



    "Effective immediately, no travel to or from the foreign country of Seattle," the president said at a press conference. "Additionally, a 25% tariff will be placed on all goods coming from CHAZ, once they start exporting things." The president will also be cutting all diplomatic ties with the communist nation, further increasing tensions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    The CHAZites now have a list of 30 demands. Demands? So it now becomes a hostage situation of sorts.
    I have been wondering what those demands are. Are they posted anywhere?

    Never mind, I found them:

    Given the historical moment, we'll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.

    The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition.
    We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
    In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest.

    We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed.

    We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles.

    We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined.

    We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service.

    We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community.

    We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed "The George Floyd Rebellion" against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail.

    We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction.

    We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged.

    We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote.

    We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system.

    We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.

    We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.

    We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems.

    We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its "lost and found" and return property owned by denizens of the city.

    We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington.

    We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record.

    We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called "undocumented" because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.

    We also have economic demands that must be addressed.


    We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.

    We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle.

    We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country.

    We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing "homeless sweeps" that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions.

    We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.

    Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call "Health and Human Services."


    We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black p
    atients.

    We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.

    We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.

    Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.


    We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum.

    We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media.

    We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.

    Transcribed by @irie_kenya and @AustinCHowe. Special thanks to Magik for starting and facilitating the discussion to create this list, to Omari Salisbury for the idea to break the list into categories, and as well a thanks to Kshama Sawant for being the only Seattle official to discuss with the people on Free Capitol Hill the night that it was liberated.



    THE DEMANDS OF THE COLLECTIVE BLACK VOICES AT FREE CAPITOL HILL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

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    Now that I have read their demands, I am thinking that the US Army needs to swoop through that city and clean up these terrorists.

    Who do they think they are?

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    Now that I have read their demands, I am thinking that the US Army needs to swoop through that city and clean up these terrorists.

    Who do they think they are?
    Thanks Zeke, I didn't know what those demands were before you posted them either. As I was reading those demands I was wondering how they were going to financially support themselves and their movement and then I saw this one...

    "We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege..."

    It's like a preteen's wish list... I want world peace and Utopia now you figure out how to give it to me and give it to me now.

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    They have taken over more blocks a friend told me a bit ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lindaeverchanging View Post
    They have taken over more blocks a friend told me a bit ago.
    That's just sad. I'm really surprised that they are able to get goods and services. The should be autonomous in every way, including negotiating for water, gas and electricity. The food they bring in should be paid for, not donated, along with anything else. I'd think the biggest issue there are innocent civilians who happen to live in the zone against their will.

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