What happened? A trans pinkwashing panel sponsored by violent Victoria Police at the ‘Vic Pride Centre’ for next Thursday, was cancelled this week due to dissent, just as we were going to call a protest.
What happened?
- Cops were to hold a stage-managed copaganda event to camouflage their damaged relations with trans and gender diverse people because of their violence
- the ‘sensitive’ panel fell apart as dissent spread
- Dialogue, and reform of cops, is a dailed strategy, proven over decades, because policing is an inherently violent institution
- Te outcome of ‘dialogie’ is a trans flag to pinkwash police violence
POlice are violent. We keep us safe.
- In the white supremacist colony, cops murder Black people at high rates with impunity
- Cops every day enforce colonial, capitalist, violent hierarchies along race/gender/class/ability/sexuality etc
- cops repress liberatory protest: from those against the colony for land back, to free Palestine, to trans liberation
- On MArch 18th last year, cops infanously bashed trans solidarity anti-fascists, while facilitating a nazi transphobe rally. LGBTIQA+liaison cops used their identity to surveil us more.
POLICE ARE VIOLENT. WE KEEP US SAFE.
- Cops, including trns cops, are all members of the reactionary-fascist police association that defends police murder and impunity.
- Cops don’t need a pay rise – they break strikes – we need to end state violence, and fight across struggles to abolish cops!
- Cops are relatively few in number. they rely on hyper-violence, collaboration, snitching, and (particularly white) people deputising themselves as cops.
- We keep us safe. Grassroos networks defended drag storytime, meanwhille cops emboldened threats
- We can weaken police power by growing collective self-defence and by not calling the cops. If we build strong communities of care and mutual aid, police become obsolete.
- It’s no accident that corporate ‘Victorian Pride Centre’ was to again hold a forum pinkwashing violence.