Juneteenth 2020 March
Thanks to all of you—over 125 strong—who joined us on Zoom and Facebook Live for this week’s webinar, Supporting Black-led Community Safety and Abolition for NYC! We got a fantastic download from both Piper Anderson and Ejeris Dixon of how New York City’s past Black-led organizing around abolition and community safety strategies can inform our work going forward.
We talked about how to resource organizing for a New York beyond policing and broader systems of state violence. We also talked about the Let Us Breathe Fund, which has supported Black-led organizing in New York City in many forms since we founded it in 2015.
Here’s the full recording:
And here are links to the resources Piper and Ejeris shared with us on the webinar:
Ejeris and Leah’s Newly Released Book: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html
Piper’s TED Talk: Can Stories Create Justice?
https://www.ted.com/talks/piper_anderson_can_stories_create_justice
Vision Change Win’s Community Safety Toolkit
https://www.visionchangewin.com/services-and-programs/community-safety/
Rikers Public Memory Project
https://rikersmemoryproject.org/
Support NYC’s Transformative Justice Curriculum Archive
https://supportny.org/transformative-justice/
Here’s the slideshow that was in the webinar.
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Open in new tab These are links to groups Ejeris included as examples of innovative community safety:
- Sista II Sista
Sistas Makin’ Moves: Collective Leadership for Personal Transformation and Social Justice [pdf] - Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ)
www.ympj.org - INCITE
https://incite-national.org/
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3/Color-of-ViolenceThe-INCITE-Anthology - Critical Resistance’s Harm Free Zone NYC
http://criticalresistance.org/
Harm Free Zone Project: http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/HFZ-NY.pdf - Audre Lorde Project’s Safe OUTside the System Collective
Safe OUTside the System Collective (SOS) https://alp.org/programs/sos - Support New York
https://supportny.org/
https://supportny.org/transformative-justice/ - Challenging Male Supremacy Project
http://challengingmalesupremacy.org/ - Transform Harm NYC
https://transformharm.org/ - Brooklyn Movement Center’s Street Harassment Project
http://brooklynmovementcenter.org/
No Disrespect: http://brooklynmovementcenter.org/anti-street-harassment/ - NYC Transformative Justice Hub
https://nyctjhub.com/
Ejeris and Piper shared so much outstanding work by Black activists and changemakers in New York. Some, but not all, of which was supported by the Let Us Breathe Fund.
If you want to make a gift to support dozens of organizations working to address anti-Blackness in New York, consider making a donation to the Let Us Breathe Fund today!
Header photo by Neha Gautam