involved with the stop urban shield campaign. laura, kaswani is a palestinian-american born raised in san francisco she s the executive director of the arab resource and organizing center and an unapologetic abolitionist. urban shield was, and i love to say this, because we were able to put an end to it as of last year. it was the largest militarized police training in the world it was taking place on the weekend of 9/11 each year, right? and it was training cops, it was training fire-fighters, it was training nurses to respond to disasters as if they were at war with their community. it also brought the state of israel to come train