The upEND Podcast Season 2

New Episodes Releasing Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

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A Vision of Grace

 

An upEND Movement Film

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Socialism 2025

The Socialism 2025 Conference will be a vital gathering space for organizers and activists to sharpen analysis, hone strategy, and build community.

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July 3-6  |  Chicago
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“A Vision of Grace” Virtual Screening

Join us for a virtual screening of the short film “A Vision of Grace”, and learn more about hosting a screening in your community.

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Thursday, July 10, 6:30 PM CDT  |  Virtual

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policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?

Reflections on upEND’s 5th Birthday

Five years ago, around Juneteenth—a celebration of delayed but hard-won freedom—a small collective of insiders-turned-abolitionists planted the seeds of upEND.

upEND Demands the Abolition of ICE and Immigration Detention

Family policing abolition includes immigrant justice, and upEND demands the abolition of ICE and an end to immigrant detention, deportation, and surveillance.

Breaking Down Family Policing Copaganda in the New ‘Lilo & Stitch’

Set in Hawai’i, against the backdrop of violent family separation of Indigenous families by the child welfare system, the film is poised to impact the way millions of people think about family policing and the termination of parental rights. 

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