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Season 2 of the upEND Podcast Explores Questions of Solidarity
September 19, 2024
Let’s deepen our political education and bring new people to the fight for our collective liberation.
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Don’t Miss Our Keynote Conversation with Kelly Hayes and Maya Pendleton at upEND’s 2024 Convening
September 5, 2024
Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is the host of Truthout‘s podcast Movement Memos and co-author of the book Let This Radicalize You, with Mariame Kaba.
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Making Possible the Impossible: A Black Feminist Perspective on Child Welfare Abolition
In 1863, Harriet Tubman and eight of her trusted scouts orchestrated the Combahee River uprising in South Carolina. The uprising, which followed a year of planning and organizing, freed almost eight-hundred enslaved people, burned thirty-two planation buildings, and decimated the rice plantations that rested at the center of the state’s economy.[1] The Combahee River uprising […]
On the Road to Abolition: the upEND Movement Releases Three New Resources to Help Reimagine the Child Welfare System
Washington, DC and Houston, TX (September 17, 2020)—The US child welfare system has a long history of structural racism which has led to devastating consequences for Black, Native, and increasingly Latinx children and families. Despite decades of efforts aimed at reform, racism within the system persists. The upEND Movement works to create a society in […]
New Movement Seeks to upEND the Child Welfare System and Create Anti-Racist Supports for Children and Families
Announcing a collaborative movement aimed at protecting Black, Brown, and Native children and reimagining how we serve and support families.
upEND Featured In
CBS Sunday Morning
December 4, 2022
Houston Chronicle
November 11, 2022
How Is That Legal? Podcast
July 6, 2022
Buzzfeed News
April 27, 2022
What Did Child Welfare Learn From 2020?, January 15, 2021, Child Information Gateway Podcast
New upEND Publication Calls for Fundamental Transformation of Family Policing, July 27, 2021
CPS disproportionately takes custody of Black children, report says, July 26, 2021
Being with Family Is a Human Right: We Can’t and Won’t Deny It, A Second Chance, Inc., December 14, 2020
What It Means to Abolish Child Welfare As We Know It, the Imprint, October 24, 2020
Reimagining Child Welfare Services: A Call to UpEND Child Welfare as We Know It, Children’s Bureau Express, August/September 2020
University of Houston Launches upEND Movement (VIDEO), Fox 26 Houston, July 15, 2020
Now Is the Time for Abolition, the Imprint, June 22, 2020
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