🚨Wed. Dec. 8th is the final budget hearing. 📲Text MPLS to 55156 to join us, @blackvisions, and @colorofchange to demand that city council rejects a $27 MILLION funding increase for MPD. ✨Find your Ward and call your CM at mplsbudget.com✨ Jacob Frey’s proposed budget hands more money to the police while cutting essential services. He’s spent the last year spreading harmful propaganda and campaigning directly against any effort to truly advance public safety. Mayor Frey needs to be held accountable. These resources should go to life affirming initiatives and not a $191 million police budget. More money to a violent, overfunded police force does not keep our communities safe. Minneapolis has tried this before by increasing the police budget every single year. And year after year, our communities feel less safe. ⚡️Sign up to participate in the budget hearing on Dec. 8 at 6:00 PM CT. Here's how: 1. Go to bit.ly/MplsBudget. 2. Scroll down until you see "Public Hearing Signup Form." 3. Pick "City Council" from the drop-down menu that says “meeting type” 4. Pick "December 8- 6:05 p.m.- City Council” from the drop-down menu “Council Meetings” 5. Pick “2022 City Budget” from the drop-down menu “December 8 public hearing agenda items” 6. Add your information. Use the phone number that you’ll use to call into the meeting. 7. Use the name you want them to call you. You must have an email address. You don't have to put in a business or an address. 8. Click "submit" How to prepare your testimony: Keep it short! 60 seconds or less ▪️Say your name, where in the city you live, and call on the council to “stand with the people, not Jacob Frey.” ▪️Include your story & perspective: ❗️How have you been impacted by MPD? ❗️Why should the city fund communities and reimagine public safety after 44% of Mpls residents voted for alternatives to policing? ❗️How would your community be safer if the city funded housing, mental health resources, violence prevention, resources for immigrants, or harm reduction instead of MPD?