Black Lives Matter. Period. ISF stands against racism and police brutality, and we are committed to fighting for police accountability on the federal, state, and local level.
As we join the many organizations protesting against the police brutality and racism that killed George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Mario Woods, Nia Wilson, and far too many others, it’s important to build and sustain legislative actions to make change. Police are local organizations. They are accountable to federal, state, AND local regulations. And we can change those regulations if we demand it of our elected officials.
We have four things you can do today – one federal, one state, and two local – to do the work of dismantling police impunity and ending racism in policing.
Tell your Members of Congress: Dismantle police impunity by rejecting “qualified immunity”!
No one is above the law, and no one should be immune from liability for the consequences of their illegal actions – especially not police officers. The Enforcement Act (42 USC 1983) must be updated to include an explicit rejection of the judicially invented concept of “qualified immunity” for police and government officials who commit crimes.
Contact your Members of Congress and demand that they end “qualified immunity” for the police.
Tell your Governor: Reject Trump’s threat to send in the U.S. military!
The day so many of us have been dreading has arrived: On Monday, Trump threatened to deploy the United States military to states that don’t suppress the ongoing protests fast enough. This is obviously a dangerous imposition of federal authority and attempt to repress free speech and peaceable assembly, and we will not stand for it.
Contact Governor Newsom and tell him to reject Trump’s threat to send in the military.
Tell your City Supervisor: Vote NO on unqualified SF Police Commission nominees!
The greatest impact you can make on police accountability is right here at home. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering two items that can make a big difference now and in the future.
First, Mayor London Breed has nominated two unqualified candidates, Nancy Tung and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, to the SF Police Commission. Tung is a law-and-order conservative who will give the police an even freer hand to violate the civil rights of SF residents. Gordon-Creed is an unqualified business lawyer with no record of engaging on criminal justice issues or representing communities impacted by policing policies. The Rules Committee has already rejected them, but the whole Board of Supervisors still needs to consider their candidacy.
Call your Supervisor and tell them to vote NO on these unqualified candidates.
Tell your City Supervisor: End the curfew!
The Board is considering lifting the curfew in San Francisco. It expires automatically on Saturday, but every day it continues is another day that police—including both SFPD officers and the officers from numerous other agencies that the City has brought in to enforce the curfew—will continue to use the curfew to repress both protesters and people going about everyday business.
We support lifting the curfew, and several ISF members called in yesterday to register their support for ending it, but the measure failed to come to a vote. It was continued to Thursday.
Call your Supervisor TODAY and ask them to vote YES on lifting the curfew immediately.
If you can call into tomorrow’s meeting, you can ask the whole Board to end the curfew immediately during public comment. Please use your own words, but feel free to draw talking points from our script.
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ISF General Meeting: Sunday, June 7, 1–3 PM via Zoom. Register here to join our online meeting. We are working on more ways to stay in contact with you online!
Virtual Pints & Postcards: Sunday, June 7, 3–5 PM via Zoom. Join us in partnership with Vote Forward to write letters while chatting after our general meeting. Register here to get an invitation. For more info, see our webpage on the event.
Wednesday, June 3, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM: At Home & Together Phone Bank with Democracy Action SF. RSVP here to join this phone bank via Zoom.
Saturday, June 6, 1–4 PM: At Home & Together Phone Bank with Democracy Action SF. RSVP here to join this phone bank via Zoom.
Sunday, June 7, 12–2 PM: At Home & Together Phone Bank with Democracy Action SF. RSVP here to join this phone bank via Zoom.
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