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Welcome to our Skill Up!

Community Agreements

• Respect our facilitators by letting them lead.
• Bring your full self - with your questions, curiosity, & energy (or lack thereof)
• Put your questions in the chat
• Keep the chat focused
• Share the air
• Speak from your personal experience
• Take responsibility when your actions cause harm
• Minimize use of jargon
• We are all worthy now just as we are. We are enough. Gathering to learn and act in community today brings us closer to the goal of collective liberation.

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OUR TIME TOGETHER

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY COMMUNITY SAFETY?

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WHO ARE YOUR PEOPLE?�

GROUNDING COMMUNITY SAFETY ALTERNATIVES IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

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VISIBILIZING THE LIMITS

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BRIEF Q&A

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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY COMMUNITY SAFETY?

As Vision Change Win defines it, community safety “includes the following: security, office and organizational safety, verbal de-escalation, physical de-escalation, personal safety, transformative justice processes, community safety neighborhood strategies, bystander intervention, and cop watch.”

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Spend two minutes reflecting on the communities, groups and lineages that shape you, the people you are in relationship with. Now we’ll do a Jamboard to respond to the question of Who Are Your People?

EXAMPLES OF COLLECTIVE RESPONSES TO COMMUNAL THREATS

HARM REDUCTION & GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING

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COMMUNITY SAFETY

WHAT THEORY & PRAXIS ARE COMMUNITY SAFETY ALTERNATIVES GROUNDED IN?

MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & SAFETY RESPONSES

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Domestic Violence

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COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES FOR STATE-BASED VIOLENCE

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Community safety teams

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WHAT THEORY & PRAXIS ARE COMMUNITY SAFETY ALTERNATIVES GROUNDED IN?

MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & SAFETY RESPONSES

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Immigrant Justice

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COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES FOR STATE-BASED VIOLENCE

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Sanctuary, Borderlinks

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WHAT THEORY & PRAXIS ARE COMMUNITY SAFETY ALTERNATIVES GROUNDED IN?

MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & SAFETY RESPONSES

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Anti-Police Brutality

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COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES FOR STATE-BASED VIOLENCE

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Transformative Justice and community accountability circles

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WHAT THEORY & PRAXIS ARE COMMUNITY SAFETY ALTERNATIVES GROUNDED IN?

MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & SAFETY RESPONSES

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Anti-War Peace Movements

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COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES FOR STATE-BASED VIOLENCE

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Peace and Anti-militarism Movements

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VISIBILIZING THE LIMITS

WHEN STRUCTURES THAT CLAIM TO OFFER SAFETY & SECURITY ARE THREATS

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Domestic Violence

Immigrant Justice

Anti-police brutality

Peace and anti-militarism

WHAT THEORY & PRAXIS ARE COMMUNITY SAFETY ALTERNATIVES GROUNDED IN?

MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & SAFETY RESPONSES

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• Domestic Violence
• Immigrant justice
• Anti-police brutality
• Anti-war peace movements

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More Resources

• Spiritual Grounding from Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen and other 30 Days of Love spiritual resources on Decriminalization
• Transform Harm: transformharm.org/
• Get In Formation - Community Safety Resource from Vision Change Win
• Defund Fear Justice Activist Common Read Curriculum:
• One Million Experiments, and especially this podcast episode

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And more at sidewithlove.org/loveresists

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