Categories: All - empowerment - education - awareness - advocacy

by Gill Paawan 6 years ago

179

Police Brutality Activists

Several organizations are committed to combating police brutality and racial injustice through various methods of advocacy, education, and community empowerment. The Dream Defenders in Florida focus on shifting African-American culture by organizing and empowering Black communities to disrupt oppressive policies.

Police Brutality Activists

Police Brutality Activists

Baltimore United For Change (Maryland) Baltimore United For Change aims to combat injustice in Baltimore city through grassroots efforts, promoting African-American economic empowerment and educating the community on ways to take action towards building a better future.

Baltimore United For Change relates to our project by how they educate the community on ways to take action towards building a better future. We will also be doing something similar. We are educating others on their rights to help prevent some unnecessary Police Brutality and more.

Black Women’s Blueprint (New York/National) The Black Women’s Blueprint organization seeks to empower Black women and young girls by ensuring that the issues they face are included in the conversations, plans of action and forward movement with regard to the fight against racial injustice.

Black Women's Blueprint Talks to independent Black women and young girls. They talk about real lifer issues and what to do and what not to. Simalar to us, we will be talking to not just Black women and young girls but everyone and also using real life situations to help them understand what to do and whatnot to, what is their right and what it not.
One thing that the Black Women's Blueprint can do to make their organization a little bit more friendly is to change their name. They focus on all races not just the black women and girls. I feel like their name really stops a lot of people to come and ask for help.

Communities United Against Police Brutality (Minnesota) CUAPB takes an approach to fighting police brutality that involves dealing with the overall issue by targeting day to day incidents, as well as working towards ways to bring resolve in ongoing cases through a variety of methods including educating communities, demanding legislative action and advocating for justice on behalf of victims and families affected by police brutality.

Communities United Against Police Brutality relates to us by how they help others. They teach others in their communities to help them with either their on going cases or to prevent these incidents. We also help. We will also teach the community about their rights to help in their situations.
One thing the Communities United Against Police Brutality can do to help their organization is to start helping people with their problems not only in person but have an option available for them to talk to someone online maybe through a Direct Message or through a phone call. This way people who cant make the time to come out to their workshops they can still get the help they need.

The Dream Defenders (Florida) The Dream Defenders is a justice-seeking organization aiming to cause a shift in African-American culture through organizing, advocating and empowering Black communities to bring about disruption of oppressive political and economic policies.

The Dream Defenders organize, advocate and empower black communities to help cause a shift in the African-American Culture. They talk to the communities and help them get through their situations without violating rights. We will be doing the same.

Black Youth Project 100 (National) The main goal of Black Youth Project 100 is to create justice and freedom for all Black people through leadership development, direct action organizing and education.

The Black Youth Project 100 uses different methods of educating their communities. One of which we will also be doing which is Educating them on their rights.

Safety Beyond Policing (New York) This organization advocates against the use of taxpayer dollars for the hiring of NYPD officers who target communities of color and demands that those resources instead be used to better those communities through increased funding elsewhere.

Safety Beyond Policing ...

Books & Breakfast (Missouri) The Books & Breakfast program is an extension of Hands Up United that seeks to cultivate an environment that encourages dialogue about social justice and educational development in African-American communities.

The Books and Breakfast program is an extensive of Hands Up United that help each other get to their goals. They each have different methods of getting their information out to their target audience.

Local NAACP Chapters (National) Your local NAACP chapter is an excellent resource for staying in the know about the latest happenings and learning about ways to stay involved in the fight to end the police brutality epidemic terrorizing the Black community.

Local NAACP talks about recent incidents that happened in their communities and tlak about it. They talk about how it was caused and how to prevent it, which is what we are doing.

Race Forward (California/New York) The Race Forward organization seeks to advance the fight for racial justice through building awareness, working towards solutions and assisting with leadership development within communities of color.

Race Forward wants to fight against racial injustice. One of the ways they are doing that is through building awareness. This is also something we will be doing. We will teach them about all forms of awareness, which they can use to anywise if either you are the officer are violating any rights.

We Are Here Movement (National) The We Are Here Movement is dedicated to fighting racial injustice, oppression and hopelessness in America while taking steps towards creating a world community based on true equality.

We Are Here Movement wants to fight racial injustice but while doing that they are also creating a world community based on true equality. We will be talking to groups and while we talk to them about the different ways to prevent this injustice we will be showing them ropes on how to also be equal which is kind of helping the We Are Here Movement create that true equality community.

Movement for Black Lives/BLM (National) The Movement for Black Lives is dedicated to uniting communities across the globe for the purpose of advocating for an end to all forms of state violence against Black people and against the war on Black lives.

Movement for Black Lives /BLM Helps others all around the world to teach them how to put an end to all these forms of violence against black people. We will also be helping others on how to help put an end to all this police brutality.