Posts in 'Policing and Community Safety'

To support the “Black Mama's Bail Out Storytelling Campaign,” which will amplify stories of people formerly incarcerated, pre-trial in Philadelphia, through short videos that will serve as the centerpiece of their community education and advocacy work for their annual Black Mama's Bail Out campaign in Spring 2026.

To expand "Defining Safety," a collaborative public art and documentary project that urgently amplifies Philadelphians’ voices on safety, and strengthens campaigns for budget transparency, equity, and community-driven alternatives to policing and incarceration.

To support Free Press' Philadelphia Safer Journalism Project and the creation of the Philly Latine Media Collaborative.

To create and implement comprehensive distribution and publicity plans for media projects amplifying the voices of incarcerated people and people impacted by a lack of mental health infrastructure.

To support Prison Health News, a platform that expands access to health information to people who are incarcerated and amplifies personal narratives around prison abolition, health justice, and tools for surviving prison.

To support the Writing Heals project, which trains family members of people lost to homicide to write and reframe the narratives of their loved ones' lives and call for social change.

To support the Restorative Justice Filmmaking Program, where young people impacted by the juvenile justice system will be trained to use filmmaking to share their stories.

To produce a documentary in partnership with Black youth and adults impacted by the carceral system that deconstructs the myth of individual culpability and highlights how to holistically address cycles of criminalization in Philadelphia.

To support "Let Them Only See Us," a multimedia initiative documenting the work of Black women fighting for education justice and Black workers' rights.

To support "We Free Us," a storytelling project for currently and formally incarcerated women and transgender and gender nonconforming people in Philadelphia jails to share their stories and build power towards large-scale decarceration.