Resources

A toolkit of advice for what to do when stopped by law enforcement or immigration officials.

The Oakland Power Projects (OPP) are an initiative to engage Oakland residents in building community power and wellbeing without relying on cops. CR Oakland has been fighting against the violence of policing for more than 10 years, and we hope you’ll join us in this next phase.

A toolkit from the Safe Outside the System (SOS) program with a collection of strategies to build safety in party spaces without relying on the police or state systems. The Safe Party Toolkit can support you, partygoers, and throwers in: creating a space in which partygoers self determination and safety are prioritized, preventing and intervening in violence before it escalates, making a community atmosphere where violence isn’t acceptable, encouraging others to intervene/prevent violence from happening, and supporting survivors of violence.

Students around the country are turning the heartbreaking school shooting in Parkland, Florida, into an inspiring push for change. Plans for coordinated student walkouts have been making national news and have already spurred disciplinary threats from some school administrators. That’s why it’s so important that everyone – especially students and allies – learns about students’ rights.

Since 2001, when Metro Nashville Police officers make a traffic stop they must fill out a form with information about location, date, gender, race, ethnicity, age, and reason for making a stop. Members of Gideon’s Army reviewed the information from the forms from 2011-2015 and created a detailed report that explains the findings.

BreakOUT! created this 2014 report in an effort to educate other young people, educate decision-makers in New Orleans, maintain pressure on the city to implement policing reforms, measure the effectiveness of ongoing policing reforms, and document stories and strategies of BreakOUT! organizers. This report also shows how criminalization encompasses more than just policing and highlights the work of BreakOUT! to “starve” the system by preventing arrests and incarceration.

This guide will give survivors of this violence and community members tools – like safety tips, Know Your Rights information and Community Action strategies – to respond to incidents of violence, to the culture of anti-LGBTQ and HIV-affected violence and to support LGBTQ and HIV-affected survivors and communities.

Black Women’s Resistance Toolkit in the Era of Trump, crowdsourced by a Community of Survivors and encouraged use for resisting/surviving /healing/uplifting community/sisterhood/survival strategies that centers people of African Descent.

An organizer’s toolkit from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.