We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
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upEND Movement invites you to submit Afrofuturist-inspired visual art, poetry, and short works of fiction to our first creative publication, Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing.
Dream, Create, Liberate – Visioning Session
Get inspired to create poetry, art, and fiction exploring a future without family policing.
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Dream, Create, Liberate – Deadline for Submissions
Afrofuturist Art, Call for Submissions
upEND Movement invites you to submit Afrofuturist-inspired visual art, poetry, and short works of
How We endUP Convening 2023
Tuesday, October 17
Join a national conversation about family policing abolition. Leave equipped to take action in your community.
Listen to The upEND Podcast
Season 1 will be releasing episodes biweekly starting in September. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
An upEND Syllabus
Take a self-guided course on family policing’s history, present, and abolitionist future. This is a companion to The upEND Podcast.
Abolitionist Framework Tool
Do proposed reforms to family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?
Deadline Extended for Afrofuturist Art Submissions
The deadline for art, poetry, and short fiction submissions has been extended to January 31, 2024.
2023 Convening Recap
There is a place for all of us to resist family policing and carcerality, through practice, policy, and language.
upEND Demands Ceasefire and a Free Palestine
We stand in solidarity with Palestinians and the masses all over the world who are rising up, demanding freedom for Palestine and ultimately, for us all.
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