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June is Stolen Children’s Month

June 17, 2026

Stolen Children’s Month calls for the abolition of all systems that steal children and separate families.

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.

We declare June 2025 the first annual Stolen Children’s Month

Stolen Children’s Month is a time to uplift the voices of stolen children and their families, and to demand action towards abolishing family policing, youth incarceration, and immigrant detention and deportation.