We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
How We endUP Convening 2023
HOUSTON, TX + VIRTUAL
Tuesday, October 17
Join a national conversation about family policing abolition. Leave equipped to take action in your community.
Win up to $1,000
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.
Wear Your Support
Proceeds from upEND merch in our store will go directly toward helping us advance this movement.
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family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?
upEND Endorses Report to United Nations Human Rights Committee
This report aims to highlight for the Human Rights Committee key areas in which the U.S. government has failed to uphold its human rights commitments under the ICCPR regarding its separation of children from their parents and families, and the resulting harms inflicted on them by the immigration and family policing systems.
Keynote Conversation with Josie Duffy Rice & Alan Dettlaff
Josie Duffy Rice, journalist, writer, law school graduate, and podcast host will talk with Alan Dettlaff about his new book, “Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System.”
Supreme Court Upholds ICWA
ICWA is an essential tool to maintain the preservation of Indigenous families and to ensure tribal sovereignty is respected.
Subscribe to the upEND Newsletter