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    • COMMUNITY POLICING UNCOVERED

      How Surveillance, Displacement and Counterinsurgency Happens in Our Cities.

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      Our communities know how brutal our police systems are and have been rising up to demand new visions of community safety and care. Less understood is the history and harms of reforms like community policing - a counter-revolutionary attempt to legitimize policing. Militarized counterinsurgency and surveillance tactics are impacting neighborhoods daily. From housing displacement and gentrification to corporate power and incarceration, these systems are long-term strategies to increase police funding rather than invest in communities. Watch a new video telling this story and hear from community leaders in Los Angeles about efforts to reclaim resources. How do we shift power to get what we need and deserve, to heal and thrive? Featuring the newly launched NO CSP video and a live performance by King Jaybo.

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    • SPEAKERS

      Dylan Rodriguez

      UC Riverside

      Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, and collaborator who is committed to building and supporting abolitionist, liberationist, anti-colonial and other forms of radical community and movement. Since 2001, he has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He was elected to serve as President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021, and in 2020 was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Since the late-1990s, he has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, the Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and Blackness Unbound, among others. Dylan is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He was a co-editor of the field shaping text Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2016). Most importantly, Dylan appreciates participating in all forms of collective study, thought, and planning that build capacities to survive and revolt against oppressive conditions.

      Pete White

      Los Angeles Community Action Network

      Pete White is the founder and co-executive director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), a grassroots organization working to ensure the human right to housing, health and security are upheld in Los Angeles. Pete White has been a community organizer in Los Angeles communities since 1992 and has educated and organized thousands of low-income people on a multitude of issues and campaigns. A lifetime resident of South Central Los Angeles, he is committed to fighting for a Los Angeles that does not tolerate racial injustice, promotes an equitable distribution of resources, and includes everyone. White believes that organizing and leadership development are essential tools needed to achieve social change and racial justice. He serves on a variety of Boards and Advisory Committees related to homelessness, organizing, and grassroots funding.

      Gloria Gonzalez

      Youth Justice Coalition

      Gloria Gonzalez is a twenty-six-year-old mother, organizer, artivist, and mentor born and raised in South Central Los Angles. She comes to movement work as someone who has experienced the youth justice system and the criminal justice systems. Her work is rooted in youth justice, abolition, and transformative justice. She currently sits on the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council in Los Angeles County. She is a consultant for the Youth Justice Advisory Workgroup, and her role at the Youth Justice Coalition is the Youth Development Coordinator. Gloria emphasizes, “I walk this path with courage because my ancestors walk with me."

      Hamid Khan

      Stop LAPD Spying

      Hamid Khan is the co-leader of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a broad coalition whose primary goal is to raise public awareness, participation, mobilization, and action on police spying and surveillance and to sustain long-term intersectional movement building. Hamid immigrated to the United States from Pakistan in 1979. Hamid is also the founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network (1990 – 2010) and a founding member of the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance.

      King Jaybo

      Performer

      Jared O'Brien also known by the stage name King Jaybo is a singer, rapper, songwriter, social justice advocate, and community organizer. O’Brien was born in Belize but moved to Los Angeles in 2014 with his mother and brothers who are also musical artists. King Jaybo as a part of his endeavors had opportunities o render opening performances before acts such as John Legend, Vic Mensa, Kehlani, and more at the Into Action Art Exhibit. He is a talented songwriter and has never had another dream other than to create music and Pursue his dreams as a musician.

       

      Despite being offered distribution deals, O’Brien started his own recording and management company. He was selected for a taskforce to create the first Youth Diversion and Development Department in Los Angeles County. In 2017 , Jared helped to end LA county’s 3.5 Billion dollar Jail expansion plan. In April of 2020 Jared worked as a lead coordinator for the Justice LA coalition to free over 4000 people from the LA County Jail.

       

      Jared was arrested multiple times in Belize and at the age of 17 arrested again in California but managed to avoid a nine year prison sentence in the California state of California. Jaybo uses music to connect people in the movement with themes of hope, change, international solidarity, & racial Justice. Some of his song lyrics have been adopted as protest chants during #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations in Los Angeles. Jared says that his experience as an Afro-Latinx immigrant in Los Angeles helps him to bridge gaps between Black and Brown communities.

    • About this Series

      This Livestream series, “Rise Up For Justice: Black Lives and Our Collective Future,” from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, is providing space for cutting edge conversations among activists, scholars, journalists, and other thought leaders to provide context and analysis on this transformative moment and envision what comes next in the movement for racial justice.

       

      A Black-led movement demanding police accountability and justice has galvanized anger, grief, and frustration over the repeated killings of Black men and women both historically and in the present day—but also hope for a future rooted in true belonging. People worldwide are participating in a pivotal uprising that will reshape not only our relationship with Black communities but also our collective future. Launched in June 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd.

       

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    • RESOURCES

      Watch the Video

       nocsp.org

      NO Community Safety in Policing: Video Viewer's Guide

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      ‘IT’S A MONEY GRAB’: BILLIONS IN COVID RELIEF GOING TO FUND POLICE AND PRISONS

       

      Curriculum & Resources: Teaching for Racial Equity & Housing Justice, OBI
       

      Guide: A COMMUNITY GUIDE TO LAPD’S REBRANDED DATA-DRIVEN POLICING

       

      American Rescue Plan – Resources for Localities
       
      PARTICIPATORY DEFENSE AND LEGAL CLINIC, Los Angeles
       
      Guide: Police Stop - Don't Talk: If You are Stopped by the Police

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      Abolition For the People -a collection of essays

       

      Reformism as Counterinsurgency

       

      Automating Banishment Report by Stop LAPD Spying

       

      ARMY FIELD MANUAL 3-24: Counterinsurgency 

       

      Youth Justice Reimagined

       

      Zine: A CHIEF BY CHIEF HISTORY OF LAPD “COMMUNITY POLICING” AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY

       

      Problems with Community Control of Police

       

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      Stop LAPD Spying Community Meetings Calendar

       

      Community Resources Hub

    • Follow our Collaborators

      • Los Angeles Community Action Network

      • Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

      • Youth Justice Coalition

      • Global Justice Program, Othering and Belonging Institute

      • National Network for Immigrant and refugee rights

      • Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

      • Coalicion de Derechos Humanos

      • Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)

      • VietRise
      • Justice Teams
      • Anti Police-Terror Project 
      • Inland Empowerment
      • We the People Michigan
      • Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Atlanta
      • UC Berkeley School of Public Health
      • ACLU of Northern California
      • Electronic Frontier Foundation

      • Mijente

      • Warehouse Worker Resource Center
      • Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
      • Healthy Black Families, Inc.
      • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
      • Rural Community Workers Alliance
      • Black Voters Matter Fund
      • Texas Organizing Project
      • Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
      • Advancement Project
      • Vote.org
      • Elect Justice
      • Revolve Impact
      • Athletes for Impact
      • More than a vote
      • Vote Save America
      • The Movement 4 Black Lives Electoral Justice Voter Fund
    • This series is produced by the #Rise Up4Justice Team at the Othering & Belonging Institute

      Gerald Lenoir, Tanya Díaz program producers

      Erfan Moradi, original graphic design

      Marc Abizeid, production and promotion

      Emnet Almandon, Miriam Magaña Lopez, research support

      Christian Ivey, social media management

      Olivia Araiza, Joshua Clark, Ayketa Iverson, #RiseUp4Justice Team

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