Pull Over Prevention is a free bulb replacement and safety check to avoid police harassment.
- We call it “Pullover Prevention” because we want to make cars safer for working class families and eliminate excuses for cops to pull people over. We know traffic stops based on things like broken tail lights have been a form of racist harassment and punishment of poor people. By working on cars, we help each other survive the conditions created by capitalism and white supremacy.
- The Michigan General Defense Committee is an anti-capitalist community defense organization. We want to keep each other safe from exploitative bosses, cops, landlords and politicians. We are inspired by groups like the Black Panther Party, who developed survival programs like the free breakfast program, as part of their revolutionary political work. We want to get organized with other working class people to stand together against exploitation, not as a charity or non-profit service, but as friends, co-workers, neighbors and community members fighting together.
- We know police don’t make our communities safe — they do the opposite. We see the struggle to abolish prisons and police as necessary for the people’s safety, for destroying white supremacy, and for creating a classless free society. Capitalists expanded mass incarceration as a legacy of slavery in the U.S. in the 1970s to control Black communities who were fighting for freedom and to dispose of surplus workers, and this violence continues to escalate today. We stand in solidarity with our comrades and loved ones in prison and with all who have experienced police violence as we fight for abolition.
- GDC has three chapters in Lansing, Ypsilanti, and Detroit, and has three working groups: Abolition, Housing, and Anti-Imperialism. We want to build a world that prioritizes people over profit. Let us know if you’d like to get involved as an organizer, help us fix cars, share some food or knowledge, tell us about a problem we can fight together, talk about revolutionary theory, or simply learn more about GDC.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
ABOLISH THE POLICE!
HOUSING FOR ALL!
END U.S. IMPERIALISM!
END THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA!
FREE PALESTINE!
Lansing: First Sunday of every month 12-4 p.m. at The Village, 3525 S Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Detroit: First Saturday of every month 12-3 p.m. at Grace in Action, 1725 Lawndale.