Community-powered, publicly-financed, future-facing progressive for Portland Mayor
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sarah iannarone (she/her) på Twitter:
"To those who say Antifa are violent thugs: I am not a violent thug and I am Antifa. I am Antifa because the Red Hats are coming after brown & black people, after Jews, after queer & trans people, and more.
They are coming after our democracy.
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Intersectional feminism seeks to break down structural impediments for Black Indigenous, impoverished, immigrant, disabled, Jewish, Muslim, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander, lesbian, bi, queer, and trans women.
All women are entitled to safety, health, prosperity and liberty.
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For too long, I've been called "radical" for insisting that the white supremacist patriarchy is at the root of nearly all social ills.
Communist
Manhater
Out there
Naive
they call me.
No! I am practical: dismantling these systems of oppression is our only hope for the future.
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A Letter to the Women of Portland | by Sarah Iannarone for Portland Mayor | Medium
Nevertheless, I remain grateful for my education which transformed my feminism to be intersectional, deepening my understanding of how the diverse prejudices people experience are amplified when combined.
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My first-hand experience of violence, housing insecurity, unstable employment, sexual harassment and assault, reproductive injustice, and lack of parental support mean that I am poised to lead Portland on behalf of the residents in our city who need me most.
medium.com/@sarah2020/a-letter-to-the-women-of-portland-5b3b6de33b4b
Rethinking Public Safety | Sarah Iannarone for Portland Mayor
That a sentence this clear and this simple is perceived as a threat by bad actors in law enforcement is both damning and a desperate warning that America must radically redefine our concept of safety to one that serves all its residents. Our city is no exception, because Black Lives Matter in Portland.
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It is time to stop wasting money and stop putting good money after bad.
Reducing the budget of the PPB doesn?t mean there?s nobody there when you call for help.
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Polls suggest that the majority of Black and Hispanic Portlanders are not satisfied with our police force?s ability to protect them from violent crime and feel that policing isn?t currently addressing their safety or needs.
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sarah2020.com/en/policies/rethinking-public-safety/
Mayoral Candidate Sarah Iannarone Releases Sweeping Public Safety Plan - Blogtown - Portland Mercury
Abolish the Gun Violence Reduction Team. Iannarone echoes a 2018 city audit, which found that members of the GVRT (then the Gang Enforcement Team) disproportionately pulls over drivers of color. "While all gangs should be discouraged, it is clear that the police have been profiling people of color rather than individuals engaging in criminal activity," she writes.
www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/11/19/27504465/mayoral-candidate-sarah-iannarone-releases-sweeping-public-safety-planPortland police record highest number of death investigations in single month in more than three decades -
Portland?s deadly July: Domestic violence, suspected love triangle and gang retaliation among 15 killings -
oregonlive.com
The tit-for-tat killings involve adversaries from the Hoover and Loc?d Out Piru gangs, police believe, and set off another round of shootings to cap one of the most violent months in Portland in 30 years.
The alarming toll - 99 shootings, 38 people wounded and 10 people dead from gunshots, four from stabbings and one from blunt force trauma - also includes gruesome domestic violence attacks, fury over an apparent love triangle that left three people dead and disputes between friends that spiraled out of control.
"Some of these are who-done-its. Some of these are domestic. Some of these are retaliatory," said Detective Division Cmdr. Jeff Bell. "The sheer number and variety stand out."
Investigators point to a confluence of circumstances causing the surge -- the pandemic, summer heat, the diversion of police to handle nightly protests and the city's elimination of the bureau's Gun Violence Reduction Team.
Of the 38 people injured in shootings last month, 34 were either teenage boys or men. Most of them - 25 - were Black, four were Hispanic and nine were white, police said.
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The absence of the specialized gun violence enforcement team has emboldened young people to "be out with guns," Lovell said.
"They know therezs not someone watching," he said. ?There's no real deterrent there. I think that?s what's causing the spike we've seen in July."
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/08/portlands-deadly-july-domestic-violence-suspected-love-triangle-and-gang-retaliation-among-15-killings.html
På svenska kan det även kallas "munhoreri". Den som har gjort fel är den som har spelat in detta utan Trumps vetskap. Det är till och med olagligt, och därför borde media inte ha använt sig av klippet. 
