2022 Recap & January Sneak Peek 👀

[Sandra Bernabei]

From: upEND Movement <in...@upendmovement.org>
Date: December 15, 2022 at 5:00:39 PM EST
Subject: 2022 Recap & January Sneak Peek 👀
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December 2022 Newsletter

View this email in your browser December 2022 Newsletter Dear friends, As this year closes, I want to personally thank you for supporting the upEND Movement as we continue to work in community toward abolishing the family policing system. This month marks my anniversary as upEND’s program director, and along with our new communications manager Sydnie Mares, I’m so grateful for your solidarity. In the last year, we’ve been researching, writing, sharing, and collaborating with all of you to shape a world where families stay together in safe and thriving communities. We created conversations around carceral logic as it relates to family policing and published them in our “Help Is NOT On The Way” resource. We joined other abolitionist organizers and impacted families at the 2022 Black Mother’s March on the White House. We facilitated our largest convening yet, with keynote speakers Angela Davis, Joyce McMillan, and Mariame Kaba. We contributed to a national conversation about the need to repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and we were featured in a national CBS news segment where many Americans heard the term “family policing” for the first time. upEND is committed to providing all of our resources and events free to the public, so if you feel empowered by what we do and want to share it with others, I want to invite you to make a donation through our website to keep this momentum going and expand our reach. As we continue to envision how upEND can grow and better serve those most impacted by the family policing system, we look forward to a new year filled with projects that help the public learn more about the family policing system and invite us all to imagine a new way forward where families are supported and empowered. In Solidarity Josie Pickens, upEND Program Director CBS Sunday Morning Mothers Vanessa Peoples and Samantha Mungai bravely shared their stories with a national audience. Dorothy Roberts and Alan Dettlaff made a case for the dismantling of the family policing system. Watch Launching in January 2023 Here’s a sneak peek of the new framework tool that we will launch in mid-January. We gave you a preview of it during our convening in October, and we want to thank you for your feedback so far! We look forward to sharing more about this in the new year. Read PDF Make a donation in honor of a loved one upEND is entirely donation and grant funded, so every gift helps us sustain the movement. Give towards a future without family policing, and start conversations with your loved ones about a movement you care about. Here’s how. Make a tax-deductible donation through our online portal. Complete this form to create your own printable card or e-card to share with a loved one. Donate Copyright (C) 2022 upEND Movement. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: upEND Movement 3511 Cullen Blvd Rm 110HA Houston, TX 77204-4013 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe