Resources

The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate new weapons, push boundaries and justify its violence. This webinar features discussion by Miche from Trans Latina Coalition and Chella Coleman, Coordinating Team Member for Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.

The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate new weapons, push boundaries and justify its violence. Part 1 will address questions around public health and movement solidarity. Part 2 will examine the historic and current expansion of police powers in times of crisis.

Longtime abolitionists, thinkers, writers, activists, militants: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Kim Wilson, and Amanda Alexander discuss revolutionary survival amidst pandemia and how abolitionist struggle is making the ‘impossible’ become possible.

Jurisdictions across the country are working diligently to address the complications of the coronavirus on their criminal justice systems. To assist cities and counties in adopting useful policies and practices, the National Network of Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils (NNCJCC) and the Justice Management Institute have gathered information on the responses being implemented by state, city, and county justice agencies to the epidemic as well as resources and guidance from various national organizations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state governments are key actors in protecting the United States’s most vulnerable residents. They run jails and state prisons, which are key to “flattening the curve,” they oversee court systems, they provide homelessness services, they decide whether to enforce evictions and utility shutoffs, and more. This interactive tool tracks developments of the coronavirus response in local and state governments, with a focus on what is being done — and what’s not done — to protect vulnerable populations.

A webinar about the history and principles of Mutual Aid–with examples from the Global South and US South–from folks on the frontlines.

What does it look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other on earth, there are many reasons why a person might not want to call 911. Undocumented, sick, over-policed, dependent on or in love with an abuser? In this episode, Laura talks with the editors of the just-released book, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. Transformative justice applies the principles of mutual aid to justice.

In these compiled lists, you will find links and resources that cover a large array of information. From covering general support and information, mutual aid support networks, emergency funds, and mental health details.

Funders for Justice created this website for funders because we believe that our collective investments in housing, education, health, transportation, food security, and jobs will fail if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’s resources from criminalization. Our partners in the field are organizing for divestment from criminalization, and understand that as critical to the work of transforming communities to be truly safe and secure. This website is a toolkit for grantmakers, donors, and funder affinity groups, to help funders in confronting mass criminalization.