The upEND Podcast Season 2

New Episodes Releasing Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

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Reclaiming Safety 

Essays answering frequently asked questions about family policing abolition.

Introduction to Family Policing Abolition

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family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?

Black History Month: More Than Commemoration—A Blueprint for Liberation

Throughout history, Black people have resisted not only through direct action against oppressive forces but also by creating systems of care that ensured collective survival.

Evaluating Texas’ “Active Efforts” Reform Using an Abolitionist Framework

Proposed Texas Senate Bill 620 would amend the Family Code by replacing all references to “reasonable efforts” with “active efforts” to reunify families separated by the family policing system and establishing a clear definition of the term. We acknowledge that SB 620 may reduce some harms currently inflicted by the child welfare system, and we […]

Season 2 of the upEND Podcast Explores Questions of Solidarity

Let’s deepen our political education and bring new people to the fight for our collective liberation.

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