The Strategic Safety Plan: A Future for Local Community Control

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Given the recent events in places like Minneapolis to defund and disband the police department, police reforms are not a solution for our liberation. They create opportunities for police killings, abuse and unaccountable police unions, which only cause further harm to our people. We’ve seen it. You’ve seen it. They must be abolished now!

The goal is to abolish the institution of policing and establish the complete autonomous community control of our public safety.

We must continue to call for this reality.

Briefing from 10/22/2020

Intro briefing recorded on Soundcloud for AdAstra Collective's Movement Cycle sessions introducing our Strategic Safety Plan v1.0 framework and the political conditions we are facing during this election period, the pandemic, and unstable economy. Featuring Dhoruba Bin-Wahad formerly of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, Carmen Dixon Organizer, Educator, and Impact Producer formerly of NAACP-LDF and Faith in Action - NY and Tia Oso, Communications Strategist and Cultural Producer, formerly of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Hosted by Allen Kwabena Frimpong, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of AdAstra Collective. (37 min recording)

Recording from 10/22/2020 Intro briefing for AdAstra Collective's Movement Cycle sessions introducing our Strategic Safety Plan v1.0 framework and the political conditions we are facing during this election period, the pandemic, and unstable economy. Featuring Dhoruba Bin-Wahad formerly of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army speaking on historical context for facism in America and around the global and the Strategic Safety Plan framework (3:18), Carmen Dixon Organizer, Educator, and Impact Producer formerly of NAACP-LDF and Faith in Action - NY talks about situational awareness and scenario planning given our current conditions (16:20), and Tia Oso, Communications Strategist and Cultural Producer, formerly of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration lays out next steps for visible organizers and activists to consider in their safety planning during this period(29.47). Hosted by Allen Kwabena Frimpong, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of AdAstra Collective. (37 min recording)