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TOOLKITS & ORGANIZING

#DefendBlackLife: Community Altar Building Toolkit

Black Feminist Future is leading a call to participate in community altar building across the country as part of The Movement for Black Lives In Defense of Black Life Week of Action June 1st- June 5th.

10 Kind of Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color

Palm cards from INCITE! about 10 Kind of Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color

Police Brutality Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color: A Critical Intersection of Gender Violence & State Violence

Learn more about how law enforcement violence is both raced and gendered and how to organize for safety in our communities with this fold-up poster from INCITE!

Invisible No More Study and Discussion Guide

A Study and Discussion Guide to accompany the book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.

Healing Justice Toolkit

This Healing Justice Toolkit shares strategies for healing justice responses, including rapid response and street response, from Dignity and Power Now in partnership with Justice Teams Network.

Whose Security Is It Anyway? A Toolkit

Spearheaded by Lara Brooks, Whose Security? underscores the reality that institutional violence within community centers, healthcare organizations, and social services, in concert with the “helping” industry’s increasing collusion with and reliance on law enforcement, fuels the prison pipeline.

12 Things To Do Instead of Calling the Cops

Tips for conflict resolution, crisis intervention, and keeping your and other communities safe without the police!

#SurvivedandPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolotionist Praxis

#SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis is a collection of tools, tips, lessons and resources published in 2018 and developed through the experiences of Black women, women of color, immigrants and queer/trans people- and an effort to document and reflect on movement work that is so often erased from history.

Community Action Toolkit From NCAVP

COMMUNITY ACTION TOOLKIT For Addressing Hate Violence Against LGBTQ and HIV-Affected Communities by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects in 2017.

Train Takeover Template

#NoCopAcademy campaign's 2017 train takeover resource guide about how YOU can engage in effective activism for police accountability. 

Black Women's Resistance Toolkit From Black Women's Blueprint

Black Women's Resistance Toolkit in the Era of Trump, crowdsourced by a Community of Survivors and encouraged use for resisting/surviving /healing/uplifting community/sisterhood/survival strategies that centers people of African Descent.

Street Youth Rise Up Campaign

Law Enforcement Violence Against Women & Trans People of Color Organizer's Toolkit

Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color: A Critical Intersection Of Gender Violence & State Violence Toolkit is an organizer's toolkit from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.

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FACT SHEETS & REPORTS

People's Retort to the Prosecutor's Report

Aura Rosser was shot dead by Ann Arbor police in 2014. The Michigan State Police conducted an investigation and Washtenaw County Prosecutor announced his decision not to indict the officer for homicide. This report empowers the people to question and challenge that report, the incomplete and biased investigation, and the entire system of racism and injustice that resulted in the killing of Aura Rosser.

EXPANDING OUR FRAME: Deepening Our Demands for Safety And Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence Policy Brief

EXPANDING OUR FRAME: Deepening Our Demands for Safety And Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence Policy Brief for the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, published with the Ms. Foundation in 2019.

Centering Black Women and Girls in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary and Freedom Cities

Centering Black Women, Girls, Nonconforming People and Fem(me)s in Campaigns for Expanded Sanctuary and Freedom Cities, in partnership with the National Black Women's Justice Institute and the Ms. Foundation and published in 2017, outlines strategies to protect Black women, girls, gender nonconforming people and fem(me)s from over- criminalization, incarceration, and policing — experiences shared by nonimmigrant Black communities, as well as Black and other immigrant communities alike — within campaigns for expanded sanctuary and freedom cities.

FACT SHEET: Black Girls Are Disproportionately Arrested and/or Experience Disciplinary Action at School

Summary of Disciplinary Data for Girls in U.S. Public Schools: An Anaylsis from the 2013-14 U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Data Collection by Misha N. Inniss-Thompson of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, published in 2017.

Research Report: The Most Dangerous Thing Out Here is the Police

The Most Dangerous Thing Out Here is the Police: Trans Voices on Police Abuse and Profiling in Atlanta is a participatory action research report written by Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNaPCo) in 2016.

Women of Color’s Experiences of Policing- Letter to President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Submission made to the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing in the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice in 2015 offering recommendations for policing policy and oversight specific to the experiences of Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color of all gender identities and sexualities.

Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women

Say Her Name: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women was published in 2015 by the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and sheds light on Black women’s experiences of police violence in an effort to support a gender-inclusive approach to racial justice that centers all Black lives equally.

Women of Color, LGBTQ People of Color and Racial Profiling The Case for an Inclusive End Racial Profiling Act

Fact Sheet on Women of Color, LGBTQ People of Color and Racial Profiling: The Case for an Inclusive End Racial Profiling Act.

We Deserve Better: A Report On Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color

We Deserve Better: A Report On Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color is a participatory action research report written by BreakOUT! with support from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in 2014.

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ART & MEDIA

Community Compilation on Police Abolition

Created for the opening of the Gone But Not Forgotten Quilt exhibit on October 17, ​​2016, this zine was created by Monica Trinidad and Sarah-Ji of For The People Artists Collective and Rachel Wallis, the artist and curator of GBNF Quilt Project. Their hope is that in the face of continued state violence that the quilt represents, that the zine would spark conversations and actions towards creating a world in which police are unnecessary.

POSTER: 100 Black Women and Girls Killed by the Police

Poster listing 100 Black women and girls killed by the police.

POSTER: We Stand With Monica Jones: Stop Profiling Trans Women Of Color

Poster from SWOP Phoenix, We Stand With Monica Jones: Stop Profiling Trans Women Of Color.

Say What? Media Guide for talking about trans and gender nonconforming people, youth, and people in the sex trades respectfully

This Media Guide was created by FIERCE, Streetwise and Safe (SAS), and the Audre Lorde Project (ALP).  We are all social justice Lesbian Gay Bi Two Spirit Trans Gender Non Conforming Queer People of Color led organizations based in New York City, housed in the Miss Major Jay Toole Building for Social Justice, and members of Communities United for Police Reform.

VIDEO: Taking Action for Dignity and Respect

Solutions Not Punishment led a successful action in 2015 after a trans man was pulled over by the East Point Police and harassed, threatened with a genital search to "determine" his gender, and wrongfully arrested because he was trans*. After a 2 hour rally and protest, SNaP Co received an official apology from the Mayor and Police Chief and a commitment from the city to implement new policies and provide training for all its employees that deal with the public.

VIDEO: We Are Rekia's Haven

This 2016 video from Project NIA illustrates some of the organizing and struggle to achieve some #Justice4Rekia, offered as documentation of ongoing struggle to Rekia’s family, friends and community with love and gratitude four years after Detective Dante Servin killed Rekia Boyd in North Lawndale.

A 'Zine: Featuring Writings, Art and Poetry about Police Violence Against Women and Trans People of Color

A 'Zine: Featuring Writings, Art and Poetry about Police Violence Against Women and Trans People of Color is a collection of statements, images, and analysis put out by Black women and women of color since the 2014 police shooting of Mike Brown in Ferguson to raise visibility of women abused by police.

VIDEO: Our Forgotten Voices: From HIStory to HERstory

Our Forgotten Voices: From History to Herstory: Revealing Womyn's Stories Under A Police State was produced by Sadie Nash Leadership Project in 2013 and sheds light on womyn's experiences of Stop & Frisk policing and surveillance by the NYPD.

Art & Stencil Kit for Rekia Boyd

An art & stencil toolkit about Rekia Boyd, Black woman killed by Chicago police in 2012.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

Your Guide to Street Safety & Preserving Your Rights with the Police

A know your rights comic about staying safe on the streets by BreakOUT!

Get Yr Rights: Curriculum for LGBTQTS Youth and LGBTQTS Youth-Serving Organizations

Know Your Rights curriculum for LGBTQTS Youth and LGBTQTS Youth-Serving Organizations by BreakOUT! and Streetwise and Safe, published in 2015

Film the Police & Know Your Rights: A Pocket Zine!

General information on knowing your rights and filming the police.

12 Things To Do Instead of Calling the Cops

Tips for conflict resolution, crisis intervention, and keeping your and other communities safe without the police!

Know Your Rights For Women and Gender Non-Conforming People

Cartoon for women and gender non-conforming people about knowing your rights,

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