In response to the police murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Marvin Booker, Michael Marshall, Alexis Mendez-Perez, Andres Guardado, Tamir Rice, and countless others—Denver DSA voted this weekend to endorse and launch a campaign to Defund & Dismantle the Denver and Aurora Police Departments.

This is the first step to show officials in Aurora and Denver the growing movement behind these demands. Keep your eyes peeled for future actions to make our voices heard! We will settle for nothing short of the abolition of the police state and the prison industrial complex. But that road is long: we need everyone to fight together for freedom! Fill out this form to get involved.

We know that racist violence and the policing of poverty are not flaws in the system—they are the system working as designed. Elected officials (and the wealthy interests that support them) decided long ago that they would rather police and incarcerate Black, Brown, Indigenous and working people over supporting our communities with affordable and accessible housing, schools & health care, good unionized jobs and community resources.

The city of Denver spends nearly twenty times on law enforcement what it does on housing, and five times what it spends on housing, homelessness, and public health combined. We demand Denver and Aurora’s elected leaders unequivocally reject this status quo. Police have no role in a society where everyone is free from oppression, where each of us are afforded opportunities to flourish and thrive, where care and comfort replace crime and punishment.

We’re building a multiracial coalition of families, faith leaders, teachers, union members, and working class people committed to defunding the police, and rebuilding our cities.

SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION: http://bit.ly/DEFUNDDPDAPD