10, (11, 12 or 13) things You Can Do Instead of the Calling the Kkkops

p10, (11 or 12) Things you can do to Not ever call the PoLice , CPS and APS - (the beginning of a life-long list created by POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/Homefulness family./p p strong1. DegentriFUK (degentrify) Yournbsp; Individuated Life/strong-If your family of origin is safe and has space go home. Explanation- If you have bought into the Away-Nation - cult of Independence as we call it at POOR Magazine- so rigorously drummed into your head from the time you leave the womb in kkkapitalist amerikkklan- and systems telling you to move away from your language, parents, community of origin, even if it is a safe and loving place- begin the long process to resist this capitalist notion of individalism and separation- (POOR Magazine offers a href="http://www.racepovertymediajustice.org"PEopleSkool /aseminar in Decolonization and DegentriFUkation to help you with this). Ifnbsp; your home, community / town of origin is not a safe place work long and hard ( and its VERY hard to build your circle of support with your chosen family/p pstrong2. Launch, Create, Work toward a creating a Circle of Support/strong- complete with a text/phone tree of phone numbers of friends, supporters, family members who agree to be called by each other in a case of an emergency- expand on this to include community elders, spirit and prayer-bringers, advocates, lawyers, therapists and healers./p p strong3. De-Racialize/ De-kkkapitalize your world-view /strong- Shake ALL as much of the wite-supremacy notions of ldquo;cleanrdquo; spaces defined by kkkorporate world-views of cleanlinessrdquo; out of the deep recesses of yo mind - in other words if you see an unhoused person sitting on the sidewalk - on your street- please realize this isnrsquo;t something to automatically pathologize, be scared of, consider to be dangerous. Look into your heart and subconscious and think back when you got that message. Similarily, if you are a non-black person of color, or white person deconstruct your own tendencies to feel ldquo;unsaferdquo; at the site of a Black or melanin -rich person./p p strong4. Begin repeating a mantra - Calling 911 doesnrsquo;t mean help,/strong support or safety and replace it with 911 means possible death and create a phone tree/ phone text listnbsp; with your support networks ofnbsp; chosen family, friends, care-givers, peoples you trust who are willing/able to come thru/p p strong5. Research,/strong strongbecome involved /strongin groups like Critical Resistance, ATPT and resources like Concern (mental hellth crisis) and other anti-police terror work/p p strong6. kkkop-Watch ANYTIME you can/strong- - stand by and watch, report and call in as many people as possible whenever you see anyone being stopped, frisked, questioned, harassed by the paid murderers/p p strong7. Teach your families, elders, communities about the myth of 911,/strong de-racialization and decolonizationnbsp; and the ideas you learned here today/p p strong8. Un-fund Adult Protection Services/Stop calling APS/strongnbsp; except when elder abuse by Eviction is happening- Take care of your elders and your community even if it takes time - capitalism and death and criminalization takes time -/p p strong9. Un-Fund Child Protection Services /stop calling CPS - /strong- Cuz it attacks poor families of color- and educate yourself in the Transubstative error of cross-cultural differences- stop pathologizing poverty , houselessness and cultural differences - if you are a teacher, educator or counselor - work with restoration models instead of separation models-/p p strong10. Read How to Not Call the kkkops EVER a href="http://www.poormagazine.org/node/5464"article/a, come to next training offerred by POOR Magazine on july 15th 2018 or invite us to your town, city, school or barrio (email us at a href="mailto:poormag@gmail.com"poormag@gmail.com/a for more information/strong- and stay tuned to the upcoming release of emPOVERTY scholarship - A PeoplesTextBook - poor people-led theory, art, words and tears across mama earth/em/p p strong11./strong strongSupport POOR, indigenous and POC led movements /stronglike Sogorea Te Land Trust, Community Ready Corps, Homefulness, Idirss Stelly Foundation and education and support models outside of non-profit industrial complex models of ldquo;safety./p p strong12. Support/ become involved in mediation clinics/strong like Berkeleyrsquo;s SEEDS and/or get trained in mediator skills -/p p strong13 Learn about Community Reparations, African Peoples and Indigenous Peoples Land reclamation and Reparation Movements/strong and become an active reparations,nbsp; land and hoarded resources redistribution (more about this from movements like Zapatistas in Chiapas, Shackdwellers Union in South Africa and Homefulness) nbsp;/p pstrong14. Call the Fire Department directly-/strong they have their own phone numbers in every city in the US if you are looking for parmedic or other emergency services./p p15. strongCall MHFirst- a powerFULL grassroots movement to support people PoLice free without EVER calling the kkkops-/strong reach them at 510-999- 9MH1 or MH1Oak on facebook, Instagram and Twitternbsp;br / strongResources/strong/p pa href="http://strategycampsite.org/"strongStrategic Institute for Intersectional Policy/strong/abr / Black Disability Youth Coalition in Chicagobr / Critical Resistancebr / AntiPoLice Terror Projectbr / Community Ready Corpsbr / Peoples Community Medics/p pstrongPoor Peoples Security Team at POOR Magazine/strong (ww.poormagazine.org) @Poormagazine on IG, Fb Twitternbsp;/p p nbsp;/p