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Pan-African Community Action Condemns the U.S. Settler State for the Murder of Sonya Massey


It was with deep regret and indignation that Pan-African Community Action (PACA) learned of the deplorable murder of Sonya Massey at the hands of the Springfield, Illinois, police. We denounce this murder as one more in the persistent war waged on Black people by the U.S. settler state.

Ms. Massey was a 36-year-old Black woman who called 911 to report a potential intruder on July 6, 2024, only to be fatally and senselessly shot in her home by one of the responding officers, Sean Grayson. The other officer on the scene stood idly by as the incident unfolded.

This tragedy is strikingly similar to ...

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DC’s 2024 Crime Bill Is More War on the Black Working Class

By Pan-African Community Action

The "Secure DC” Omnibus bill is the latest attempt by DC’s local government to impose law and order, while ignoring the root issues that lead to street-level crime and advancing the war against the Black working class. After passing unanimously by the DC Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, the new crime bill was voted on and unanimously passed on February 6, 2024, by the full council. Pan-African Community Action (PACA) contends that Black people in the U.S are a domestic colony, an internal colony that is enforced by a massive police presence...

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DC Government’s Racial Equity Plan is Elite Capture by The State

A statement by Pan-African Community Action

D.C. Mayor Bowser’s “Draft Racial Equity Action Plan” (REAP) is a public relations document which reflects a continued commitment to the systemic foundations of racial inequities. As a follow-up to the empty gesture of painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on 800 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC and declaring that space “Black Lives Matter Plaza”, the REAP suggests that the state structures which maintain settler colonialism and capitalism can be a remedy for racial inequity.

“It is our charge and our responsibility to put in place policies that...

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No COINTELPRO DC

The DC government is deploying COINTELPRO like tactics against organizations and individuals fighting to protect and expand our rights. Of course, this is not news to those who have been engaged in political work here for any amount of time, but now, thanks to one local organizer, there is proof.

Suspecting she was being surveilled by the Metro Police Department (MPD), April Goggans of Black Lives Matter DC (BLMDC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the documents the DC government had on her. After years of hiding, stalling and lying by MPD, April took the request to court. T...

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Community Control of Public Safety: Building a Transitional Program for Power

“The system and its minions will never create anything that challenges the function of its police.”

That Community Control Over Police campaigns (CCOP) are essentially neocolonialism is a rather wild claim that avowed abolitionist activists, like Dubian Ade applies to the articulation of CCOP by advocate Max Rameau, an organizer in Pan-African Community Action (PACA) to which this author also belongs. Understandably Ade avoids the rabbit hole of condemning the Black Panther Party as neocolonialist, the progenitors of CCOP.

While the Democratic Party claims championship over congressional approva...

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The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing

A Reply to Critics of Community Control Over Police By Pan-African Community Action

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PACA Statement: Stand with the People of Nigeria #EndSARS

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Community Control Over Police FAQ


Why community control over police (CCOP)?
We can’t trust elites’ promises to abolish or defund police: policing and incarceration are big business and managed by Democrats and Republicans. State violence has no opposition party. We have to focus on getting the power to make these decisions ourselves.


I’m an abolitionist. Should I support CCOP?
Yes! CCOP is the best position from which to achieve abolition. Each policing district would hold a vote to decide what to do with its current police department, immediately giving the community the direct voting power to abolish, restructure, downsize, or ...

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Power Over Police

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Dissent Magazine.

Above photo: Protesters in Orlando, Florida, on June 6, 2020. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images.

State Violence Has No Opposition Party.
Communities that want to dismantle police departments will need the power to do that work themselves.

The clashes between police and protesters in response to the recent police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and others throughout the country expose the violence inherent to the U.S. system of policing. Social media has been inundated with hundreds of videos chronicling police aggression and brutal...

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A critical analysis of defund the police

A Critical Analysis of the Demand to
Defund the Police

By Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman

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 Pan-African Community Action

The intensity and span of the mass rebellion that has gripped the U.S. and expanded internationally since the recent spate of state sponsored murder of Black people has shaken global white supremacists, capitalist, patriarchy to its knees. The people have tasted a real sense of their own power and as a result some very unexpected developments have emerged and the opportunity for real social transformation and the shifting of power into the hands of working c...

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