Videos
We envision a society in which families are free of violence not because they are surveilled and separated, but because they are supported and strengthened.
Recent Videos
How Reproductive Justice Demands Freedom from Surveillance
upEND Reads: A Conversation with Roxanna Asgarian
Freedom to Dream: A Future Without Family Policing
How We endUP 2022 Convening
Angela Davis in Conversation with Joyce McMillan
Angela Davis and Joyce McMillan of JMAC for Families discuss connections between prison abolition and the family policing system.
Help Is NOT on the Way: How Family Policing Perpetuates State-Directed Terror
This session is moderated by Lexie Grüber-Pérez and includes upEND contributors Victoria Copeland, Maya Pendleton, Brianna Harvey, and Emma Peyton Williams.
“Somatic Abolitionism: In Collective Practice” with Richael Faithful
Richael Faithful leads a session grounded in liberatory traditions. The goal is to provide a dedicated space to prepare our hearts, minds, and bodies for imaging and creating a “new logic” for the world we will build with our freedom dreams.
“Imagining in the Non-Carceral Space”
This session is moderated by Maya Pendleton, and includes insight from Melody Webb, Reiko Boyd, Jeanette Vega, and Angela Burton.
Video Resources
Video Brief: Surveillance of Black Families in the Family Policing System
Maya Pendleton and Victoria Copeland, upEND consultants and authors of Surveillance of Black Families in the Family Policing System, discuss their work with upEND Program Director Josie Pickens.
Derecka Purnell and Dorothy Roberts Keynote Discussion on Becoming Abolitionists | How We endUp Convening 2021
Derecka Purnell and Dorothy Roberts keynote discussion on Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and The Pursuit of Freedom for the upEND Movement’s second annual convening of organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders who are committed to dismantling the family policing system,* a system predicated on the subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment of mostly poor Black and Native children and families.
Recorded October 26, 2021.
*The upEND Movement has adopted the term family policing system to refer to the child welfare system.
Panel on Repeal Mandatory Reporting Laws | How We endUp Convening 2021
The upEND Movement’s Panel on Repeal Mandatory Reporting Laws for the second annual convening of organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders who are committed to dismantling the family policing system, a system predicated on the subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment of mostly poor Black and Native children and families.
Panel Participants:
• Maya Pendleton
• Victoria Copeland
• Brianna Harvey
• Elenda Gormley, MSW
• Joyce McMillian
Recorded October 26, 2021.
Adoption and White Saviorism | How We endUp Convening 2021
An upEND Conversation on Adoption and White Saviorism with Kathryn Joyce and Bill Bettencourt for the second annual convening of organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders who are committed to dismantling the family policing system, a system predicated on the subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment of mostly poor Black and Native children and families.
Recorded October 27, 2021.
Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) | How We endUp Convening 2021
The upEND Movement’s Panel on Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) for the second annual convening of organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders who are committed to dismantling the family policing system, a system predicated on the subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment of mostly poor Black and Native children and families.
Panel Participants:
• Ashley Albert
• Bishop Marcia Dinkins
• Kelis Houston
• Vonya Quarles
• April Lee
• Kathleen Creamer
Recorded October 27, 2021.
How We EndUP: Black Feminist Dreams for the Future
Abolishing the family policing system requires the creation of another world and the reimagining, or remembering, of care. As Black feminism instructs, the liberatory project of abolition requires the making of a society that is free of all systems of oppression. Thus, this webinar will address how Black feminist theory and understandings, including reproductive justice, guide us toward the abolition of the family policing system and the creation of (envision) a society where children, families, and communities are no longer over surveilled by state systems and have the power and resources for what they need to live freely and abundantly.
Speakers:
• Victoria Copeland
• Chelsea Williams-Diggs
• Maya Pendleton (moderator)
Recorded May 18, 2021.
Laura Briggs
CSSP Senior Fellow Bill Bettencourt is joined by Laura Briggs, Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, College of Humanities & Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In this video, they discuss what Dr. Briggs calls American Terror—the history in this country of the child welfare system taking children and its evolution into policing and surveillance. Further, how this historical and current structure makes the solid case for abolition of the child welfare system.
Recorded August 11, 2020.
NOTE: At the 4:59 mark, Laura references the 14th Amendment as the Amendment that abolished slavery; it was the 13th Amendment.
Marlon Peterson
Alan Dettlaff, Dean of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston speaks with Marlon Peterson for this conversation on upENDing systems. Marlon hosts the Decarcerated Podcast and is an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity. He is also the founder and chief re-imaginator of The Precedential Group, a social justice consulting firm, and a 2015 recipient of the prestigious Soros Justice Fellowship.
Recorded July 17, 2020.
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