Resources

As resistance to the US imprisonment system grows, states and local jurisdictions have turned toward expanding their jail systems under the guise of making them seem more accommodating and service friendly. This chart provides examples of some common reforms or proposals around jails that only uphold their legitimacy and continue oppressive functions of jailing and initiatives to support instead.

Perhaps no group is more vulnerable to violence in our society than trans people, especially Black and Latino trans people. Often treated with scorn by police and judges, trans people are frequently criminalized for what would commonly be viewed as self-defense or a minor infraction. Our guests today, Appeal writer Aviva Stahl and trans activist Ceyenne Doroshow, talk about the criminalization of trans people and efforts to draw attention to a population told time and again that their lives are expendable.

In March 2018, police in Sacramento, California killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old, in his grandparents’ backyard. A year later, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s announcement that charges would not be filed against the two officers responsible for his death became the latest flashpoint for the Black Lives Matter movement. Appeal staff reporter Aaron Morrison provides the latest on the protests in Sacramento and how activists are working to hold police accountable and seek justice for Stephon Clark.

Created by BreakOUT! and the Congress of Day Laborers, this toolkit includes resources on organizing across intersections of identities, including race, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, country of origin, and language. This toolkit focus on collaboration between organizations in New Orleans, Louisiana, and provides information on adopting these techniques to other contexts.

In listening to families impacted by police violence and engaging in exhaustive literature, study, legal research and lived experience of community-appointed Police Commissioners, APTP has created this Best Practices Guide to support local organizers interested in supporting change to bring an end to the systemic police violence, abuse and murder against Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and marginalized people. Findings indicate that best practice requires the establishment of an all-civilian oversight structure with discipline power that includes both a Civilian Complaints Office and a Police Commission.

A toolkit created by BreakOUT! and Streetwise and Safe (SAS). This toolkit is meant to serve as a resource to share the ways people directly impacted by profiling, policing, and criminalization have made changes in policies that affect material conditions and lived realities of criminalized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and two-spirit (LGBTQTS) youth on the ground. The intention is to make the resources, strategies, and policies that can contribute to addressing the profiling, policing and criminalization of LGBTQTS youth broadly available to a wide range of organizations across the country.

A toolkit highlighting rights of trans and gender non-conforming youth in New York City.

A collection of legal resources geared towards those involved in water protector activism, including digital security and self-defense tools, your rights within immigration and border zones, and how to interact with law enforcement when demonstrating or if law enforcement comes to you.

“Justicia de Sanación es un marco que identifica como podemos responder de manera holística e intervenir sobre el trauma y la violencia intergeneracional, y traer prácticas colectivas que puedan impactar y transformar las consecuencias de la opresión en nuestros cuerpos colectivos, corazones y mentes.” ~ Cara Page