Gang Injunction Part of Larger Set of Failed Policing Policies

In Arizona, outside the blinders of the mainstream media, a grassroots movement is building strength to repeal SB1070 and other anti-immigrant measures. Indigenous and Latino families who have been on the land for generations, some before it was colonized to become part of the United States, have drawn the line at the bill’s mandate that all police officers engage in racial profiling to enforce federal immigration law. But in communities where the level of documentation changes from one family member to the next, policing causes more harm than good.

Here in Oakland, we are also building to dismantle a system that targets poor and working class communities of color for physical, economic, psychological and emotional punishment. We believe that the proposed gang injunctions, like all forms of policing, scapegoat individuals for the systemic problems facing our society: a vastly unequal distribution of resources and power that has left public education and social services gutted and our prisons perpetually cramped with repressed human potential.

Today we fight against a controversial gang injunction as a part of a growing movement that says !Ya Basta!, enough is enough.

Read the full article at Oakland Seen.