Posts in 'Policing and Community Safety'

To support the archiving and documenting of La La Lil Jidar's organizing of community experiences to shift harmful narratives around Palestine and foster healing.

To teach aspiring organizers how to shift prevailing narratives around policing and mass incarceration through workshops, abolitionist media production training, and the development and distribution of the multimodal Abolition Journal.

To continue the Philly Movement Media Fellowship that supports young storytellers from marginalized communities impacted by the criminal legal system to be in control of their own stories and reinvent the media narrative around policing.

To advance and produce empathetic, ethical, and impactful reporting on community firearm violence grounded in trauma-informed journalistic practices, the lived experiences of impacted community members, and public health research.

An immersive, verité style film, "Kempis Coming Home" sets out to tell the story of how Kempis Songster—a man sentenced as a teenager to spend the rest of his life in prison— grapples with the responsibilities and possibilities of his extraordinary second chance in the years after his release.

To create two mini-documentaries highlighting mobile crisis units and the commutation process, and to craft narratives of people who are serving death by incarceration.

To distribute "No Way Out," a short documentary that complicates narratives of victims wanting retribution, and season 2 of the "Move It Forward" podcast exploring gun violence and its root causes.

To support an urban street media campaign and local activism in solidarity with Palestine.

For narrative work in support of Palestinian liberation

To integrate a suite of abolitionist media production, archiving, and media-based organizing methods into the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School curriculum.