Community Control Over the Police

Turn in petitions TODAY!
FREEDOM CORNER in the Hill District until 4pm!

Thanks to everyone who helped gather signatures to put community control on the November ballot throughout the South End yesterday! The enthusiasm of our volunteers has been amazing. We've collected ~3000 signatures, and we've had as many meaningful discussions with friends, neighbors, and co-workers about our fight for working class control, to take on systemic oppression and police violence.

That also means **we need many thousands more** and all hands on deck in the last three weeks to reach our goal! We're hitting Northside next weekend, 10:30 am, at Allegheny Commons Park. You can also collect signatures on your own by starting here: linktr.ee/pittsburghccop

Our campaign for community control over the police is glad to have the active support of the Green Party of Allegheny County, which has been part of the Stop The Station Pittsburgh coalition. We're building a grassroots, independent movement to take on a profit-driven, undemocratic system that relies on overpolicing. Instead, we should be able to determine priorities for public safety and public funding, through genuinely democratic organizational structures that refuse corporate money and strive to empower working class and Black communities.

Police Accountability: Pittsburgh Green Party Joins Stop the Station Coalition | Black Star News Photo: Stop The Station The Green Party of Pennsylvania has joined the Stop The Station coalition, an organization of local activist groups fighting for police accountability in the city of Pittsburgh, PA. It was initially formed in the summer of 2020 to fight the relocation of the Zone 5 Police Sta...

Yesterday members of AFSCME Local 2719 - Pittsburgh protested against recent decisions by David Ontario, the executive director of the Pittsburgh Parking Authority, and Will Pickering, the executive director of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewage Authorities, to keep city offices open during Juneteenth, despite city and state-wide recognition of it as a paid federal holiday. This underscores the crucial connection between labor and antiracist struggles, and the importance of organized, fighting unions. Many of the workers present enthusiastically supported and signed our ballot petition, and several volunteered to help collect signatures. We also talked about building a strong mass movement and what it would take to win Community Control Over the Police AND our workplaces. Solidarity!