Resources

Join us for a difficult conversation about how we sustain movements under state violence and repression.

This episode is the first in a series of conversations about #metoo and the apocalypse of patriarchy and rape culture. In this first conversation, Adrienne and Autumn share about the personal impact of the #metoo movement on our lives and the questions it is spurring in us. Content warning that this episode includes discussion of sexual violence.

Today the Brown sisters talk with transformative justice practitioner Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and get our minds blown with frameworks and breakthroughs on how to really address harm and grow beyond it.

In the United States, if undocumented immigrants are victims of crime on U.S. soil, they may qualify for a U-Visa. This is a special visa that grants undocumented victims temporary legal status, which may later open the door to applying for a green card. But despite the trauma that immigrants may have from being a victim of a crime, starting the process for applying for a U-Visa brings an additional set of challenges. Immigrant communities are often afraid to call the police, even when they’re the victim of a crime, for fear of being deported. This investigation demonstrates how law enforcement agencies are handling the U-Visa process throughout the country, using their own discretion to deny victims of crime the opportunity to apply for the visa.

As cases of police abuse and misconduct gain attention, activists have moved beyond calls for reform to advocate for the abolition of police. It’s a controversial and widely misunderstood idea. How would police abolition work, exactly? How would we protect public safety? Radical Imagination host Angela Glover Blackwell explores these questions with humanitarian hip-hop artist Jessica Disu, a.k.a. FM Supreme, who has publicly called for police abolition. And we hear from Rachel Herzing, co-director of the Center for Political Education in Oakland, California, about the racialized history of policing and innovative community-driven alternatives for public safety.

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.

Después de casi una década de presencia de policías armados en 45 escuelas secundarias de la ciudad de Toronto, el Consejo Escolar del Distrito de Toronto (Toronto District School Board, TDSB), decidió retirarlos la semana pasada.

After almost a decade of armed police in 45 secondary schools in Toronto, the School Board decided to remove them last week.

#WeAreUofT picks up on heated debates around the Toronto Police Service and their School Resource Officer program. Established in 2008 – just one year after 15-year-old Jordan Manners was fatally shot in the chest at C.W. Jeffery’s Collegiate Institute in Toronto’s west end. This podcast includes input of teachers and community organizers arguing that the School Resource Program puts youth in danger and replicates patterns of anti-Black racism and violence against working class communities within the city more broadly.