Our vision is to inspire and restore power to those most affected by violence through leadership development and focusing on community.
Madison, Wisconsin
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5/5 Join us in the fight! Text PRC to 90975 to demand your representatives support true community safety. Visit m4blaction.link/PRA to take action now!
#THEPEOPLESRESPONSE #INDEFENSEOFBLACKLIVES
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4/5 88% of Black Americans support hiring mental-health professionals as non-police first responders to de-escalate mental-health crises. We’re building toward a system of public safety with a clear mandate from our people.
Hey FAN Fam - big news! 🧵
As we wrap up #aapimonth we celebrate the passage of the Hmong Education Bill as a chance to share our history and turn that knowledge into action.
Thank you to all those who help us achieve this win!
It's Freedom Wednesday! @serakoulabdara works to bring justice to Southeast Asia after U.S. warfare.
At FAN, we celebrate turning knowledge into action as we fight for teaching anti-imperialist Asian-American history and immigration justice.
#aapimonth #searac
It's Freedom Wednesday!
Beautiful words from Hmong American author @kaokaliayang resonate as we celebrate the passage of the Hmong Education Bill in WI 🎓
#freedomwednesday #aapiheritagemonth
It's Freedom Wednesday!
@cecilia_c_chung is no stranger to breaking borders as a transgender leader and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and HIV awareness.
#freedomwednesday #aapimonth #lgbtq
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Today, Chrystul was forced to plead guilty despite the WI law which protects trafficking victims' acts of self-defense. She now faces decades of incarceration.
Chrystul's story is the latest in a long history of criminalizing Black women and girls for defending themselves.🧵
It's Freedom Wednesday! This week we celebrate survivor and activist @nguyen_amanda who helped draft the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act.
#freedomwednesday #aapimonth
This May Day, we celebrate Rukia Lumumba's work against incarceration and for economic justice.
We recognize the deep connection between capitalist exploitation and the prison-industrial complex, and call for just working conditions everywhere!
#InternationalWorkersDay
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It's Freedom Wednesday!
From the 1977 manifesto by the Black lesbian feminist Combahee River Collective. From their belief in Black women's inherent value, their politics recognized the importance of loving and defending ourselves.
#defendblackwomen #survivedandpunished
Justice for Sade Robinson 🧵
Sade Robinson is a Black youth that should be here today.
Instead she was murdered by Maxwell Anderson after meeting him for a date. Sade is gone because of the inherent misogynoir in our society.
#justiceforsade #saderobinson #defendblackwomen
The Survivor's Agenda is a political plan that puts survivors of domestic and sexual violence first. Sexual violence is a public health issue and centering the needs of survivors is not only the right thing to do - it's good policy. 🧵
#sexualassaultawarenessandpreventionmonth
3) Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
30 states still emphasize abstinence in health class and only 7% of LGBT youth receive positive representation on queer topics. National standards for sex education that are representative and fact-based is key to prevention.