Amicus Brief Successful in New Jersey Supreme Court
These cases highlight the intersections of family policing, the criminal legal system, and the inherent violence of mandated reporting.
Mothers Outreach Network Reaches Next Phase in Guaranteed Income Pilot
By ensuring families have direct, unconditional financial support, this initiative helps prevent unnecessary state intervention.
DC’s Militarization Shows How Policing Targets Black Youth
The current “takeover” of DC has led to federal agents terrorizing DC’s majority Black neighborhoods.
Reclaiming Safety for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Drawing on the wisdom of survivors, Asgarian posits powerful questions that challenge us to respond more humanely to child sexual harm in ways that prioritize youth agency, center healing, and hold promise for ending intergenerational cycles of harm, silence, pain, and shame.
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.
Reclaiming Safety for Children of Parents with Disabilities
Justice for parents with disabilities and their children first and foremost means power to exert lived experience expertise about one’s own situation, condition, and wellbeing.
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.
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.