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Take Action! The DOJ just deleted the National Police Accountability Database!

03/03/25
In response to President Trump rescinding an executive order that created a national database for police misconduct, the Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. [1] Why is this important? This database helped ensure that officers with a history of...
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Community Safety Legislative Agenda 2025 Reintroduction

08/13/25
In a political landscape where excessive policing and military force are becoming routine, civil and human rights organizations from across the country are coming to Washington, D.C. to fight for public health and alternatives to policing. The Community Safety Working Group is a joint project of...
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RECAP: Supporting Immigrant Students and Families in Hostile School Environments Webinar

06/26/25
As national debates around immigration grow increasingly heated, schools, which should be sanctuaries of learning and belonging, can unintentionally mirror the hostility, fear, and discrimination seen in broader society. As parents, caregivers, and protectors of our children, we have a...
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Six PA House Democrats from across the state held a news conference at the state Capitol announcing
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Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Reform Advocacy Day

03/28/25
For Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ youth, the rates of incarceration are alarmingly higher than their white peers. Not because they commit more crimes but rather because they are criminalized at higher rates for the same infractions as their white peers. Nationally, Black youth...
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Schools and Communities Are Afraid Their Friends Will Be Deported. Here is How You Can Help.

03/03/25
Students, teachers, and families across the country are anxious and uncertain about the potential impact of President Trump's strict immigration policies. This fear is not unfounded. In his inaugural address, President Trump claimed he would send “millions and millions” of undocumented immigrants...
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Breaking Through: Executive Orders. Funding Freezes. Health Care. Child Care. Justice Reform, & How to Raise Your Voice.

02/03/25
On the radio show this week we dive into the confusion, harm, and chaos caused by Donald Trump's ridiculous Executive Orders and nominees, from a funding freeze that shut down Medicaid portals in all 50 states to the nomination of an unqualified, unfit, and utterly confused cabinet nominee in RFK...
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Tell Congress to Support the Counseling Not Criminalization Act

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/42296/?source=action">Tell Congress to Support the Counseling Not Criminalization Act</a>

We ALL want schools to be safe but we also must be clear that there is no evidence that increasing the number of police in schools actually improves school safety. Instead it takes critical resources from what actually keeps schools safe and helps ALL kids thrive.

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SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to support the Counseling Not Criminalization Act!

Tell President Biden to take Executive Action to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/15228/?source=action">Tell President Biden to take Executive Action to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty</a>

The death penalty is as cruel as it is ineffective in deterring crime. Revenge is not justice and murder for murder does not provide healing to families or society as a whole.

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Tell President Biden to take Executive Action to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty

Tell Congress to Support the Counselors Not Criminalization Act

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/14747/?source=action">Tell Congress to Support the Counselors Not Criminalization Act</a>

We ALL want schools to be safe but we also must be clear that there is no evidence that increasing the number of police in schools actually improves school safety. Instead it takes critical resources from what actually keeps schools safe and helps ALL kids thrive.

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Together we can END the criminalization of kids in schools. Tell Congress to support the Counseling Not Criminalization Act!

Demand Changes to Policing and Justice for Tyre Nichols!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/27916/?source=action">Demand Changes to Policing and Justice for Tyre Nichols!</a>

Tyre Nichols should still be here. Let's build a movement for life-affirming safety approaches — starting at the local level. Demand that the Memphis City Council institute substantive changes to policing!

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Justice for Tyre Nichols - Urge Memphis City Council action!