#SafetyIs Caring For Our Community! Report-back from #NOSL2017

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On Tuesday August, 1st, Enlace joined dozens of organizations from across the country to participate in the Night Out for Safety and Liberation (NOSL), a community-driven alternative action to the National Night Out—a police-centric event that highlights "police-community partnerships" as the pathway to safety. From coast-to-coast, the Enlace community came…
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What is Freedom?

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Nicholas Fraser (@downgoes.fraser) This July 4th, 2017 we passed 241 years of “independence”. It is important that we reflect on how this independence was made and on whose land we are on. Even at this late date you can still find out who’s land/tribe you are living on based on the city…
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Freedom

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Yesterday was the fourth of July, when many Americans celebrate the value of freedom as part of Independence Day. But are we truly free? What did you celebrate on fourth of July? What if you are one of the every three people sitting in jail that has not been convicted…
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#FreedomCities MayDay in NYC

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We have been working with the Freedom Cities movement because we know that none of us are free until ALL of us are free! We demand #FreedomCities because economic injustice and criminalization march hand in hand. Check out this video on how New Yorkers are organizing and building power for a FreedomCity!  #FreedomCities  
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We Need a Freedom City

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We all need a Freedom City. Since the invention of cities, they have been multicultural sites where opportunity, knowledge, and the arts draws those from monocultural communities nearby and afar. Today, our cities are not doing enough to protect the people who live there. Police forces unfairly criminalize Black/Brown bodies…
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