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Tatiana Lima, Director of Systems and Strategy
Tatiana is a passionate advocate for self-determination and human rights. She was born in the Bronx, New York, but has spent most of her life in Atlanta, GA. She is a Georgia State University alumna, where she earned both an undergraduate degree in African American Studies and a juris doctorate in law. Her experience includes work as a grassroots organizer, scholar-activist, policy advocate, legal consultant, and criminal defense and transactional attorney. Her favorite things in the world are her son, Geronimo, hiking to waterfalls, and creating digital art.

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Tatiana Lima, Director of Systems and Strategy Tatiana is a passionate advocate for self-determination and human rights. She was born in the Bronx, New York, but has spent most of her life in Atlanta, GA. She is a Georgia State University alumna, where she earned both an undergraduate degree in African American Studies and a juris doctorate in law.

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Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

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Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

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Kit - This is a nonprofit organization that aims to free "wrongfully convicted" persons from prison. They have several branches of the organization across the country, but this is the original organization from NYC. I want to critique this organization's work and how they approach the prison industrial complex.

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We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

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Puente Movement for Justice is Puente's work to support people impacted by the criminal injustice system including people who are incarcerated, their family members and communities, formerly incarcerated people who have been released, and leaders in the wider movement for justice who have been impacted by the system. We are working on the community, local, and state levels to fight the criminalization of all people regardless of age, sex, gender, race, religion, language, or status.

Our criminal justice work includes:

Rights Restoration clinics to assist people who were formerly incarcerated to reestablish their basic rights (including the right to vote and other civil rights);

Assistance for people who are incarcerated and seeking clemency with application processes through the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency;

Assistance for people who have been recently released from prison to reintegrate into their families and communities;

Storytelling initiatives aimed at destigmatizing incarceration;

Healing workshops for people affected by incarceration;

Educational community workshops on navigating the criminal justice system;

Advocacy for improved conditions of confinement;

Fighting against oppressive criminal justice policy and advocating for alternatives to incarceration;

Building power by organizing cross-movement (immigration and criminal justice).

Through Puente's Movement for Justice work, we aim to empower, educate, and contribute to the healing processes of people directly impacted by the criminal injustice system and their wider communities. Ultimately, we are working towards the mental, emotional, and physical freedom of our people, and towards an end to incarceration and family separation.

If you or your family member are impacted by the criminal justice system and in need of legal support, please or call email us (602) 252 1283.

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Puente Movement for Justice is Puente's work to support people impacted by the criminal injustice system including people who are incarcerated, their family members and communities, formerly incarcerated people who have been released, and leaders in the wider movement for justice who have been impacted by the system.

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Transformative Justice Law Project of IL

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Grace D - Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois is a non-profit organization that provides legal services and educational resources to people inside and outside of prison. They list their core values as prison abolition, gender self-determination, and transformative justice. Ash Stevens is part of their Board of Stewards! Their main initiatives focus on providing resources for name changes, representing clients with criminal cases, and helping people expunge their criminal records. They see legal services as an immediate response to harm, rather than a solution to structural violence and oppression. Their website states that they support long term movements for prison abolition, but I couldn’t find any more specifics. After reading ‘Every Mistake I’ve Made’ by Shira Hassan, where she argues that things complicit with the state such as social work shouldn’t be considered transformative justice, I wonder how their work might be in tension with their value of transformative justice.

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Transformative Justice Law Project of IL

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PRISON ABOLITION.

Prison abolition is a movement to create lasting alternatives to punishment-based institutions such as prisons, jails, juvenile, immigrant, and military detention centers to actualize community safety. Instead of consenting to this false and fear-based need for prisons, we as abolitionists invest our energy in community empowerment, community-led education, radical activism, transformative justice, and liberation as necessary alternatives to the prison system and as methods to make prisons obsolete.

GENDER SELF-DETERMINATION.

We prioritize the needs of transgender people because we believe that transphobia is inherent in almost all legal and social services available in the Chicago area and throughout Illinois, especially the criminal legal system itself. Gender self-determination necessarily includes access to and control over healthcare, holistic mental and emotional support, fashion and self-expression, gender-affirming housing, education, bathrooms, and social services, freedom from violence, harassment, and incarceration, and all the tools we need to be fabulous, empowered and safe in how we live in our genders.

TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE.

Through community-based movements, transformative justice seeks to resist state- run responses to violence (such as the police state and systems of punishment, detention, and incarceration) and instead promotes support, compassion, dialogue and community building. In this way, reliance on violent and oppressive State level systems is transformed and replaced with community empowerment.

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PRISON ABOLITION. Prison abolition is a movement to create lasting alternatives to punishment-based institutions such as prisons, jails, juvenile, immigrant, and military detention centers to actualize community safety. Instead of consenting to this false and fear-based need for prisons, we as abolitionists invest our energy in community empowerment, community-led education, radical activism, transformative justice, and liberation as necessary alternatives to the prison system and as methods to make prisons obsolete.

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Sarah GE - This is a statewide coalition of programs aimed at ending relationship abuse. Though the organization focuses on challenging institutions & structures, it has worked closely with the carceral state. My goal is to critique and analyze their work/achievements.

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Welcome to Violence Free Minnesota

The Coalition to End Relationship Abuse

(formerly Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women).

Founded in 1978, we are a statewide coalition of over 90 member programs working together to end relationship abuse, create safety, and achieve social justice for all. We represent victims and survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

Together, we can make Minnesota a violence free state.

What is

Relationship

Abuse?

Relationship abuse is when one person uses a pattern of behaviors and tactics to gain and maintain power and control over a current or former intimate partner.

HOMICIDE REPORT

Formerly the Femicide Report, documenting domestic violence homicide in Minnesota.

YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD

Campaigns, trainings, events, and other activities to prevent youth relationship abuse.

CLOTHESLINE PROJECT

A touching visual memorial of unique shirts for

each victim of intimate

partner homicide.

We Remember

A MEMORIAL TO MINNESOTA'S VICTIMS OF

INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE.

Each of these victims is someone's child, parent, sibling, family member, intimate partner, friend, neighbor, or co-worker. #WeRememberMN

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The Coalition to End Relationship Abuse (formerly Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women). Founded in 1978, we are a statewide coalition of over 90 member programs working together to end relationship abuse, create safety, and achieve social justice for all.

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Black And Pink – WE FIGHT TO ABOLISH PRISONS

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The J ust Practice Series was created:

Because we do not want to call the police-but often can't think of another way

Because we do not want to ostracize each other when we make mistakes/cause harm-so we need a space to build our relationships and practice being close to each other.

To lift up excellent popular education training and make it affordable for participants as well as sustainable for trainers

To offer a complex, multi-dimensional calendar that offers introductory level and deeper dive training and allows people to regularly access practice space.

Because we need space to grow, challenge, build and explore in a values based community space that is both generative and generous.

Pricing and Registration

All Just Practice workshops are on a sliding scale. You must pay at time of registration. If you have questions about pricing please email shirahassan@gmail.com. Proceeds from workshop registration go towards paying the facilitators, room reservation, etc.

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Because we do not want to call the police-but often can't think of another way Because we do not want to ostracize each other when we make mistakes/cause harm-so we need a space to build our relationships and practice being close to each other.

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Emma - Common Justice works in NYC as an alternative to the criminal legal system. If harmed parties agree, then the case is diverted to a restorative justice process that will replace the prison sentences the responsible party would have served. Common Justice also has an organizing and policy section called United for Healing Equity that aims to build the collective power of the Latinx and Black community to support every community's right to heal. They also run a blog and are involved in various action work around NYC.

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In New York City, we operate the first alternative-to-incarceration and victim-service program in the United States that focuses on violent felonies in the adult courts. Locally and nationally, we leverage the lessons from our direct service to transform the justice system through partnerships, advo…

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Serena - FreeFrom takes an ecological approach to interrupting cycles of gender-based violence. Their approach frames intimate partner violence as a structural economic issue, and through several different initiatives they work to generate and redistribute wealth to survivors. This includes cash grants (no questions asked), savings matching programs, peer groups, and more.

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FreeFrom is a national organization, based in Los Angeles, whose mission is to dismantle the nexus between intimate partner violence and financial insecurity.

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Tarul Kode Tripathi, Pharm.D., BCPS (Board Chair)
Pharmacist, Director of Account Management, MedImpact Tarul grew up in the greater Seattle area, as the eldest of 3 siblings. She is a mom of 2 kids, 2 dogs, and caretaker of elders. She and her family are survivors of domestic violence and long-standing friends of API Chaya. Tarul is currently serving as Chair of the Board of Directors. Tarul completed her Doctorate in Pharmacy at University of the Pacific and holds a board certification in Pharmacotherapy. As a senior clinical program manager with over 18 years of experience in healthcare consulting and strategic business planning, she is most passionate about health care equity and access to high quality care. She is also the CEO and co-founder of The Sanaya Set, a venture born out of her passion for social justice, self-care, and giving. As an ambassador for API Chaya, Tarul is focused on transformational leadership, empowering our survivor community, intersectionality, and building bridges to grown our impact to change lives.

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Tarul Kode Tripathi, Pharm.D., BCPS (Board Chair) Pharmacist, Director of Account Management, MedImpact Tarul grew up in the greater Seattle area, as the eldest of 3 siblings. She is a mom of 2 kids, 2 dogs, and caretaker of elders. She and her family are survivors of domestic violence and long-standing friends of API Chaya.

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Who We Are

Spring Up is a multimedia artivist collective and social enterprise building an alternative vision of our world rooted in ongoing consent, liberation, community accountability and care. We prevent and respond to gender based violence with consent education and transformative justice. We primarily serve youth and young adults (18-35) directly impacted by violence (eg. QTPOC, survivors of sexual violence, perpetuators of harm) to equip them with tools to heal from trauma and practice healthy relationships. We support mission-driven organizations seeking to transform internal cultural dynamics to respond to and reduce harm as well as increase diversity, equity and inclusion.

Leadership

Our organization is led by a growing community of queer and trans non-binary survivors striving to reduce, respond to, and prevent gender based violence in our communities. With background experience and expertise in popular education and participatory action research (PAR), we provide a wide range of workshops, trainings, tools, and consulting services exploring gender, sexuality, consent, power dynamics, trauma-informed response and healing, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). We are grounded in practices of community accountability, restorative and transformative justice.

As we build resilience in community and increase our collective capacity to transform harm and facilitate healing, our work is continuously shifting, growing and expanding. Our current projects and initiatives include:

A 4-month long Consent Fellowship program to develop local Miami community organizers', especially young adults, capacity to develop healthy practices in relationships and prevent and respond to gender based harm and violence.

A 4-month long Transformative Justice for Gender Based Violence class for local community organizers to explore and practice responding to harm and violence without punitive measures through community accountability.

Long and short term relationships with local and national movement organizations to support their efforts and vision. In Miami and New York, for example, we support Soul Sisters Leadership Collective as they work and build to empower young femmes of color to interrupt cycles of state violence, trauma, and oppression.

Practice

As a social enterprise our business is about more than profit. We value our humanity, uplift creativity, embrace community, and center care and pleasure in our work and organizational culture. We acknowledge that caregivers, nurturers, healers, community conflict mediators, practitioners of restorative and transformative justice, and many other "feminized" forms of labor aren't fairly compensated in our society. In alignment with our values, we seek to disrupt and shift these cultural norms by incentivizing collective success and maximizing team impact, honoring what we all bring to the work.

We are an ecosystem of consent peer educators, transformative justice practioners, trainers, teachers, and coaches. We collaborate with mission-aligned organizations, and adapt to feedback to make exponential growth towards realizing our vision.

Theory of Transformation
We believe in ethical storytelling, radical imagination, and collective creation.
Most attempts to create change do not transform the root causes of a problem. Stories are the most effective way to transform our mindset and shift the way we relate to the world. Through stories we learn to empathize with people we didn't know we had connections, and gain the power to imagine choices we didn't perceive before. These transformations in mindset are consensual, lifelong, adaptable, and self-guided.

Four Pillars

We have a four-part approach to everything we do to ensure we are acting in a balanced and sustainable way.
Imagine: To do anything, we must first imagine it. We embrace the power of imagination through storytelling.

Create: We create to share the solutions and innovations we have imagined, to inspire, and to create models of possibility.

Build: To be sustainable, we must build communities and organizations with the capacity to implement transformation and grow in response to feedback.

Support: We must support ourselves and each other to survive and thrive into the future we are imagining, creating, and building together!

millennial Values

Millennials are the bridge between the last millennium and the new one, between the 1000s and the 2000s. We get to decide what the rest of the future looks like - if we survive to the year 3000, if we are happy and free. With technology and connection we have the power to shape the world through our choices as creators, consumers, teachers, students, care providers - as people. As individuals there is only so much we can do, but together we are unlimited. We share three central values:
Imagination
What we can imagine, we can create, and with each attempt we get closer to realizing our goals. Imagining a future we want to live in gives us insight into solutions to the problems facing us today.
Freedom
Freedom is the ability to shape our own destiny, to choose what we do with our time and energy. Freedom looks different to each of us, so we each need to imagine what freedom means to us in order to imagine a world where we can all be free.

In our pursuit of individual freedom we often forget that absolute freedom is not freedom for all, and quickly turns to tyranny. Tyranny is placing your will over another's, choosing what someone else does with their time and energy.
Care
In order to create a future where we can all be free we need to care about the consequences of our actions; we need to listen to feedback and choose to evolve. We need to value the uniquely human skills of creativity and care. Creators go out on a limb to create something new for all of us and caregivers invest their time and energy in our wellbeing.
Don't Revolve. Evolve.

Nastassja "Stas" Schmiedt (left) and A. Lea Roth (Right) Founders & Co-Directors
A. Lea Roth (they/them) and Stas Schmiedt (they/them) founded Spring Up in 2013 after experiencing the challenges of organizing across difference firsthand and perceiving an urgent need amongst social changemakers for shared language and frameworks rooted in a historical lens, critical theory, and tangible skills. Stas & Lea have provided consulting services to professional organizers for over 5 years. They've given two TEDx talks: "Cultivating a Culture of Consent" and "The Millennial Mindset Can Save the World," and have presented workshops to students from over 75 universities and high schools including Yale, Princeton, George Washington, University of Michigan, NYU, and Occidental. They are alumni of the StartingBloc social entrepreneurship fellowship, 4.0 Schools Tiny Fellowship for education innovation, and Dartmouth College.

Stas and Lea have given workshops about gender based violence and cultivating consent culture through transformative justice at the Center for Justice at Columbia, the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, Emory's RespectCon: Understanding Sexual Violence through a Social Justice Lens, and the Florida Restorative Justice Association Conference in 2018; as well as the RJOY Convening on Restorative Justice and Sexual Harm, South Florida TransCon, and the National Building Accountable Communities Gathering in 2019. Our clients have included SOUL Sisters Leadership Collective, United We Dream, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), Miami Women's March, and Global Shapers.

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Shira Hassan's now defunct but AMAZING organization organizing with folks involved in the sex trades and street economies in Chicago

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Dear Community,

After nearly 12 years of operating, Young Women's Empowerment Project is going to dissolve our 501c3 in the fall/winter of 2013. We plan for our campaign work and syringe exchange to live on but we will not have paid staff, an office or a dedicated phone line. We will have a website for at least 2 years.

YWEP will be releasing a much longer statement about why and how we came to this decision. For now, we would like our community to know that:
*We came to this decision as a group using our consensus process and after a year of struggle. *We explored and tried multiple restructuring options before making this decision and got expert guidance from many allies and consultants.
* We came to this consensus because we want to end when it is a choice for us -not when we run out of money (we are fiscally sound) or we are threatened by law enforcement or others (more on this point in a future statement).

*We don't want to end in crisis, so we are ending in the middle of our operating year so we can transfer our leadership to the work they are planning on entering, and our programs to other organizations.

*Our work will live on
-Our campaign called Street Youth Rise Up will be led by our Chicago Youth Task Force with support from Dominique McKinney
-Our weekly meeting for youth in the sex trade will be housed at the Broadway Youth Center and led by our current staff
-Our Syringe Exchange called Sexxy will also have a home in Chicago and continue to be run by YWEP leaders.

* Our staff members will move to new challenges (like attending college, working with animals, or starting and developing businesses).
Please help us financially support our staff by giving to our grassroots fund here!
We started and continued to build YWEP because we know that young people in the sex trade deserve a spot at the table where decisions are made about our lives. That's still true.

As we've told people about this, lots of you have shared our grief at the loss of such revolutionary and incomparable work. It's hard to officially end something that is so special and important.

If you've met any of the people that work for YWEP, you know that they are astonishingly talented people. Work with us to help them to move on to new things in a way that reflects the incredible power and meaning of what they've accomplished.

We will hold a gathering during the weekend of August 10th 2013 in Chicago that will be open to the community for healing, documentation and ceremony, to honor the last decade of work and to launch the future work of our employees and membership.

For more information about how to support us please see our document called What YWEP needs from Allies and Talking Points

Thank you for your support and dedication to YWEP and our constituency.

In solidarity,
Young Women's Empowerment Project Leadership and Board

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Dear Community, After nearly 12 years of operating, Young Women's Empowerment Project is going to dissolve our 501c3 in the fall/winter of 2013. We plan for our campaign work and syringe exchange to live on but we will not have paid staff, an office or a dedicated phone line.

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Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

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These daunting statistics reflect a growing crisis in the United States - not of increasing violent crime, but of an ever-expanding web of criminalization in response to virtually every conflict, harm or need.

Criminalization is what fuels the violence of policing and prisons, detention and deportations, and of family separation - at the border, at the prison gate, in our schools, and by the family policing system. Criminalization is what marks women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people as targets for sexual violence by police and other carceral actors. Criminalization is also what drives the denial of protection, distribution of trauma, and denial of opportunities to heal, and denial of care and resources - as well as the punishment of self-defense and self-managed care in response to structural exclusion and abandonment.

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Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

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These daunting statistics reflect a growing crisis in the United States - not of increasing violent crime, but of an ever-expanding web of criminalization in response to virtually every conflict, harm or need. Criminalization is what fuels the violence of policing and prisons, detention and deportations, and of family separation - at the border, at the prison gate, in our schools, and by the family policing system.

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Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) unites teaching artists, arts advocates, artists who are or have been incarcerated and their allies, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to reimagine justice.

Anna Keefe- This appears to be an organization that dances around TJ language but is working in conjunction with the carceral state. I'm interested in looking into their mission/work and doing a critical analysis of their ties to carcerality.

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Justice Arts Coalition - A national network and resource for those creating art in and around the criminal legal system.

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Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) unites teaching artists, arts advocates, artists who are or have been incarcerated and their allies, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to reimagine justice.

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Transformative Justice Law Project of IL

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Aine Ramiro-Shanahan:
This is not an organization, but rather an excellent, user-friendly compilation of resources that focuses on six main topics: Transformative justice, restorative justice, community accountability, abolition, carceral feminism, and healing justice. Each tab contains articles, community training guides, and podcasts and videos.

I chose to click on the "healing justice" tab and read some of the collected articles because I feel that healing and disability justice, which are inexorably entwined, can sometimes be overlooked in responses to harm and violence. "Healing justice" is roughly defined as an approach to reclaiming ancestral practices and building new, more equitable healing practices in response to generational trauma and systemic violence.

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TransformHarm.org | A Resource Hub For Ending Violence

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TransformHarm.org is a resource hub for ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice. You can use what is here, and submit recommendations.

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What's Happening Now

Introducing Project NIA's first Artist's Residency...

Project NIA's mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth violence and to promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based safety responses. Beyond all of the words, what we are after is to end youth incarceration, a practice that we consider to be harmful, immoral, and counter-productive. When our ultimate goal is bluntly stated in this way, it becomes more difficult to win a majority of the public over to our side of the argument. People begin asking all sorts of questions like "surely you believe that some children and young adults belong in prison?" or "Is it realistic to close all youth prisons?" These are valid questions and we engage them.

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Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

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Communities United Against Violence (CUAV)

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CUAV's response to police violence + anti-black racism: As a team of Black and Latinx queer and trans people, we know that "black & brown unity" isn't just a cute trend. This is a lifetime commitment that we humbly admit has not been an easy road. Yet, this is a loud call from the ancestors to build real solidarity to end anti-black racism. Collective liberation means the end of interpersonal and state violence while offering an opportunity to heal and dream with our people ... Read more

WE BELIEVE IN

CUAV supports the healing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people that have experienced violence and abuse by other people and /or institutions.

Founded in 1979, CUAV works to build the power of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities to transform violence and oppression. We support the healing and leadership of those impacted by abuse and mobilize our broader communities to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of safety and liberation. As part of the larger social justice movement, CUAV works to create truly safe communities where everyone can thrive.

We support the wellness of predominantly low- and no-income LGBTQI people surviving violence or abuse.

Access short-term counseling to receive emotional support, safety planning, referrals, and limited case follow-up.

This support group is open to all LGBTQI survivors of violence. Weekly, we practice wellness skills that support healing and self care.

Learn how to support LGBTQI survivors of violence. Build leadership skills to transform cycles of violence into cycles of safety and healing.

"CUAV helped me to realize that there will be storms, but afterward there will be calm. I've been able to develop a greater sense of security and they have helped me strengthen myself. I now realize that I have the right to be treated justly."

- CUAV Member

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CUAV supports the healing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people that have experienced violence and abuse by other people and /or institutions. We support the wellness of predominantly low- and no-income LGBTQI people surviving violence or abuse. Access short-term counseling to receive emotional support, safety planning, referrals, and limited case follow-up.

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Philly Stands Up is...

Philly Stands Up is a small collective of individuals anchored to Philadelphia, committed to ending sexual assault and supporting prison abolition. From 2004 until 2015 we facilitated accountability processes with people who perpetrated harm, offered workshops and education, and participated in national movements for Transformative Justice. Since 2015 we remain in political affinity with one another, committed to writing, sharing resources, participating in national conversations about TJ and accountability work. Many of us still work on TJ projects individually.

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generationFIVE works to interrupt and mend the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse on individuals, families, and communities. It is our belief that meaningful community response is the key to effective prevention....

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generationFIVE works to interrupt and mend the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse on individuals, families, and communities. It is our belief that meaningful community response is the key to effective prevention....

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Josh - Started in 2004, this group has grown from smaller level workshops to spread alternatives to police responses to violence and has expanded into broader "community capacity" building.

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“Our goal is not ending violence. It is liberation.” -Beth Richie Creative Interventions provides vision, tools and resources to help anyone and everyone create community-based…

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Nora-- Big Door Brigade is a website/collective based in and around Seattle, Washington that aims to break down the barriers for getting involved in abolitionist and other leftist social organizing through education. Their aim is to increase participation in these movements.

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Bystander Intervention/Transformative Justice/Alternatives to Police Responses to Harm

This list of bystander intervention and deescalation resources is full of good stuff and a great place to submit resources you are aware of or are creating.

The Arab American Association of NY is working on bystander intervention training, and is working toward creating neighborhood-based networks that can do rapid response to ICE raids and other emergencies, trying to keep each other safe with those of us who are less vulnerable taking more risks. They have not yet published their curriculum, but keep your eye on their website for its emergence.

Here is a very useful handout from the People's Response Team in Chicago about Bystander Intervention that may be a good basis for community discuss/training.

The Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) "is a community collective of individuals working to build and supporttransformative justice responses to child sexual abuse. We are based in Oakland California. We envision a world where everyday people can intervene in incidences of child sexual abuse in ways that not only meet immediate needs such as stopping current violence, securing safety and taking accountability for harm; but that also prevent future violence and harm by actively cultivating things such as healing, accountability and resiliency for all - survivors, bystanders, and those who have abused others." BATJC has a framework around understanding how we are in "pods" with people who we would call upon to support us around violence. This is a page that explains the concept and provides a worksheet for mapping pods. This could be a tool for discussion in local groups toward building safety.

GenerationFive, an organization focused on ending child sexual abuse in five generations, created a very useful guide to understanding transformative justice and beginning steps to create transformative justice collectives.

Creative Interventions made this very practical toolkit based on their work to stop interpersonal violence. It includes a storytelling section where you can hear people's stories about what they tried and what happened.

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REP stems from Black love and liberation, with a vision that all communities thrive when our needs are met. We are grounded in the belief that as a community we have the ability and capacity to love and protect each other without giving our agency to systems that were built to destroy, consume, or commodify us. Our programs promote wellness and create safer and thriving communities.

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REP stems from Black love and liberation, with a vision that all communities thrive when our needs are met. We are grounded in the belief that as a community we have the ability and capacity to love and protect each other without giving our agency to systems that were built to destroy, consume, or commodify us.

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Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national coalition that includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations. S&P has affiliates in , Chicago, and California. It was founded in 2016 by organizers from the Stand With Nan-Hui defense campaign, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Love & Protect (then known as Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander), and the national Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign.

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Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national coalition that includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations.

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Elyse Hatch-Rivera : This organization really focuses on using "community strategies" instead of police resources. They also focus on providing tool kits of strategies to create safety within communities, strategies that specifically do not rely on the state or police (also look at how the state and its carceral logic have transpired, for example the war on terror). They also emphasize leadership development in communities so there are people and visible systems in a community to rely on instead of police. Not just community accountability but community development.

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Safe OUTside the System: The SOS Collective

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The Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective is an anti-violence program led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non Conforming people of color. We are devoted to challenging hate and police violence by using community based strategies rather than relying on the police.…