Resources

The Database for Police Abolition (D4PA) is a database-in-progress tracking proposals under consideration by decision-makers that would: 1) Defund and disarm police departments, 2) Diminish the role of policing in communities, and 3) Empower alternative visions for public safety. The proposals are compatible with a view “towards the horizon of abolition,” and avoid contributing to the legitimacy of policing as an institution for community safety.

This event was co-sponsored by Critical Resistance, Project NIA, Survived and Punished, Reclaim the Block, and Black Visions Collective. Panelists K Agbebiyi, Woods Ervin, Mariame Kaba, Dean Spade, and Kamau Wilson gathered to discuss the current state of abolition and community safety work and to assess current proposals for reform and potential alternative solutions to press for as we move forward in this moment of pushback against police violence. The video includes ASL interpretation.

A living compilation of resources and data around police funding, legislators that receive money from police PACs, mutual aid and places to donate, legal aid, and more.

Email government officials and council members to reallocate egregious police budgets towards education, social services, and dismantling racial inequality via this crowd-sourced tool.

This worksheet focuses in on the Coronavirus crisis in relation to the longstanding public health crisis of racialized policing, community divestment, and structural violence. It is an invitation to share ideas around these issues, and to consider what we can heal, dismantle, and create together in response.

The killing of Black people at the hands of the police is taking place against the backdrop of a pandemic that is taking Black lives at an alarming rate. Our communities continue to be disinvested in and our people continue to be vulnerable to every harm in our society. This is why we call to defund police departments across the country and demand an investment of those resources into the needs of our communities.

We know what is happening in Minneapolis is a product of what has happened to Black people for decades. We are paying attention and we are ready to rise.

Join us for M4BL’s National Call to Action Call, hear from Organizers in Minneapolis and across the country. We will share our demands and ways for folks to take action!

This activity guide includes stories, poems, and statistics to engage young people around the history of policing in the United States and the manifestations of police violence.

This 2016 toolkit, developed by youth interns, contains activities and supplemental materials for exploring the costs of policing in Chicago and what community safety can look like beyond the police.

Equity and Transformation along with the support from other community groups and individuals have designed this “Life Kit” as a way to offer what we can to help anyone that maybe struggling right now as well as providing them with useful information and resources in order to stay healthy. We must rely on each other to take care of US! This pamphlet includes the necessary information to help you get through COVID-19.