End the Deadly Exchange Seattle is a local coalition working to demilitarize our police and make Seattle safer by ending police exchanges with all countries that consistently engage in human rights violations. With over 50 endorsements from community organizations across Seattle, we hope to create legislation that will end the Seattle Police Department’s exchanges and trainings with any military, police, or security forces from any country that violates human rights.
About the Deadly Exchanges
Deadly Exchanges are trainings between US and foreign security forces in which the “worst practices” of policing are shared to promote and extend discriminatory and repressive policing practices that already exist in both countries. These “worst practices” include racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention, and attacks on human rights defenders. Thousands of US police officers, sheriffs, border patrol agents, ICE officers, and FBI agents have trained with military and police forces in Israel and in other countries committing human rights abuses.
More information can be found from the national Deadly Exchange campaign.
Of course ending these exchanges won’t end police violence here in Seattle, but this campaign is an opportunity to chip away at the global structures of white supremacy and state violence that these exchanges both rely on and help strengthen.
Local Campaign
We are excited to support Council Bill 120142, which will prohibit the Seattle Police Department from participating in trainings, exchanges, and partnerships with any country that violates human rights according to international law.
CB 120142 is endorsed by:
350 Seattle
A Sacred Passing
Alki United Church of Christ
American Muslim Bar Association
API Chaya
BAYAN Seattle
Black and Pink Seattle/Tacoma
Blaq Elephant Party
Books to Prisoners Seattle
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Washington
Coalition of Seattle Indian Americans
Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites — Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Working Group
Decriminalize Seattle
Divest SPD
Falastiniyat
Freedom Socialist Party
Husaynia Islamic Society of Seattle
IfNotNow Seattle
International League of People’s Struggle Seattle-Tacoma
International Women’s Alliance
Jewish Voice for Peace Seattle
John T. Williams Organizing Committee
Kadima Reconstructionist Community
La Resistencia
Muslim Association of Puget Sound – American Muslim Empowerment Network (MAPS-AMEN)
Middle East Peace Builders at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood
Muslim Forum of the Pacific Northwest
Never Again Seattle
Northwest BDS Coalition
OneAmerica
Parisol // Pacific Rim Solidarity Network (PARISOL)
Palestine Legal
Palestine Teaching Trunk
Palestine Solidarity Committee, Seattle
Palestinian Youth Movement – Vancouver, BC
People of Color Community Coalition
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Radical Women
Real Change
Resist US Led War Seattle
Resource Generation Seattle
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Seattle Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Seattle Democratic Socialists of America
Seattle Education Association
Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC)
Seattle University Students for Justice in Palestine
Social Justice Fund Northwest
Stop Veolia Seattle
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights UW
Transit Riders Union
Veterans For Peace, Chapter 92
Washington Advocates for Palestinian Rights
Washington Community Alliance
Washington for Black Lives
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
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