Quick links:
- Staying Safe at Protests
- Protest Safety During COVID-19
- Organizing Asian American and Pacific Islanders for Black Lives
- Organizing as Abolitionists
- How Can APALA Support Your Chapter’s Organizing?
Staying Safe at Protests (esp. militarized protests)
- Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20 (2 hour and 45 min video)
- ASL interpretation provided, and Youtube's automatic closed captioning is mostly not terrible.
- Slides
- Handouts
- A pocket guide to direction action
- Choosing a Protest Buddy Tip Sheet
- ACLU: Know Your Rights- Protesters’ Rights
- Protesting while pregnant or breastfeeding
PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM CHEMICAL WEAPONS
- Friendly Neighborhood Street Medic
- Eye Care for Protesting
- Defending Against Tear Gas
- Pepper Spray Decontamination Process
- Intro to Tear Gas and Pepper Spray
- After-care for chemical weapons
AFTER THE PROTEST / BEYOND THE PROTEST
- Healing Resources for BIPOC Organizers Taking Action on the Front Lines
- 26 Ways to Be In Struggle Beyond the Streets
Protest Safety During COVID-19
Protest Safety During COVID-19: Things to consider and prepare before heading out to a protest
Protest Safety During COVID-19: Ways to support protestors
Organizing during physical isolation (90 min webinar)
Discussion of creative all-digital organizing actions and offline community-building actions that incorporate the need for physical isolation.
Captioned in 7 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Bahasa, Arabic, and French.
Additional Resources:
Organizing Asian American and Pacific Islanders for Black Lives
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR HISTORY AND SOLIDARITY MOVEMENTS
- Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit (here’s the recording of a national call [90 minutes] on how to use the Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit to fight for Black lives)
- questions on (the limits & effects of) (asian american) allyship
- Unmasking Yellow Peril (18 Million Rising Zine responding to COVID-19)
- Video: Intergenerational Dialogue about what we've learned from Black and Asian Solidarity in NYC (2 hour discussion with ASL interpretation)
- Essential Anti-Racism Resources for Asian People in America (Book, documentary, art suggestions)
- Virtual Conversation about PI and Black Solidarity (60 minutes) About self governance, the long-standing ties between Black liberation and our own Pasifika sovereignty, and that community control is not only possible: we’ve always known how to do it.
- Resources on South Asian and Black Solidarity (Also a conversation on South Asians for Black Lives (120 min video)). More anti-racist resources for South Asians.
- Southeast Asian Anti-racism Toolkit (includes many translated resources)
- Doing Business in Black Neighborhoods: Anti-Blackness, Anti-Racism and Muslim Communities
RESOURCES FOR TALKING WITH YOUR FAMILY
- Call on Me, Not the Cops (Translated letters in response to Jun 2020 Uprisings)
- Letters for Black Lives (Translated letters to share with our multilingual communities aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities)
- Black Lives Matter translated materials (crowdsourced repository of materials in Asian & Pacific Islander diasporic languages we can all use to navigate difficult discussions about Black Lives Matter, anti-blackness, American history, and police/state-sanctioned violence with our families and communities) Here’s another BLM dictionary for multiple Asian languages resource.
- Tips for talking to your Asian immigrant family about Race (translations provided)
- Talking to my non-Black Asian Mom about Property Destruction (only in English)
- Letter to family to not call the police (only in English)
- Letter to Korean Church Community (only in English)
TRANSLATED STATEMENTS OF SOLIDARITY
- Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network’s statement translated into simplified Chinese
- VietLeads’s Statement in support of Black Lives translated into Vietnamese
Organizing as Abolitionists
ABOLITION 101 AND ORGANIZING MATERIALS
8 to Abolition Platform (translated to ASL, Vietnamese, and Korean. New translations coming)
- In response to the harmful 8 Can’t Wait Campaign, abolitionists put together the 8 to Abolition platform to ground us in the work of abolitionists who have come before us and continue to do this work. Each platform point is accompanied by local and federal actions we can take.
Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex video project
- The videos in the series explore the current state of the prison industrial complex (PIC) and how people are fighting back to resist and abolish it. Includes a segment on how migrant justice is connected.
Critical Resistance: Abolition of Policing Workshop Toolkits
- The goal of the workshop is to give participants an understanding and historical overview of policing in the US, and to provide abolitionist ways to resist and not rely on the cops in a range of situations.
- Download a zip file that has everything you need to be able to present this workshop. Included is a facilitator agenda, our definition of policing, a timeline, scenarios, a list of people’s resistance and resources that we use.
- Policing Timeline
Defund Police Toolkit: Concrete steps toward divestment from policing and investment in community safety
Asian Prisoner Support Committee: The mission of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is to provide direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and to raise awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported.
FOR EDUCATORS, HEALTH CARE WORKERS, EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS, and SOCIAL WORKERS
- Grow abolition on your campus
- Oakland Power Projects: Anti-Policing Resources for Healthcare Workers
- Oakland Power Projects: Emergency Preparedness without Policing
- “Law Enforcement is a Public Health Issue” Policy Recommendations from the American Public Health Association.
WHAT TO DO INSTEAD OF CALLING THE POLICE
- How Can We Stay Safe Without the Police? Tips for you and your family and community
- 5 Ways to Help Someone in a Mental Health Emergency Without Calling the Police
- 12 Things to do Instead of Calling the Cops
- How to Keep Each Other Safe: Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet
- Toolkit for pod planning with your housemates or family, with a pandemic response frame
WHAT TO DO WITH INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT AND HARM
- Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
- Transform Harm: An online resource hub for ending violence.
- Creative Interventions extensive Toolkit (over 500 pages!) of how to stop interpersonal violence without relying on the prison industrial complex (including the use of policing, imprisonment, surveillance, criminalization or Child Protective Services).
- Listen to Stories about Community Responses to Harm and Interpersonal Violence with the StoryTelling & Organizing Project
How Can APALA Support Your Organizing?
Please reach out to APALA staff or email us at apala@apalanet.org to support your next action or campaign. Below are some examples of how we can support:
We can help you brainstorm and strategize your next action.
Do you or your chapter have a goal, but you’re not sure yet how to achieve it? We can discuss different actions and identify which may be most effective for your chapter or community. We can also walk through planning the logistics for different actions including but not limited to: protests, phone zaps, social media actions, fundraisers, town halls, worker hearings, etc.
We can help you host virtual events via Zoom, Facebook Live, Youtube Live, etc.
We can provide technical and planning support to help you host a virtual room, setup registration, and walk through logistics for a virtual event.
We can provide outreach lists and set up text banking or phone banking
Do you need your latest chapter member list? Is your chapter or community hosting an event that you would like to recruit AAPIs for in your community? We can create lists, set up the text bank or phone bank platform, and train folks to do text banking and phone banking.
We can amplify your actions
We can create graphics, sample posts, and share your actions on APALA’s national social media platforms and networks to amplify your actions.