INCITE!

ORGANIZING TOOLS & STRATEGIES

TO STOP LAW ENFORCEMENT VIOLENCE

AND BUILD SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES!

ORGANIZING STRATEGIES:

Share your story as a women of color and trans people of color who has experienced violence from law enforcement. Please contact us for more information.

Build coalitions between anti-police brutality/prison, immigrant rights, LGBT, and anti-violence grups to prioritize police brutality against women of color and trans people of color. For an example of coalitional work, visit the Critical Resistance-INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and The Prison Industrial Complex.

Organize with a national network of women of color and trans people of color to connect and strengthen our work on law enforcement violence and community accountability. Please contact us for more information.

Document violence by police, immigration officers, customs, drug enforcement agents, and the military against women of color and trans people of color using interviews, video, and other forms of participatory action research (PAR). Learn more about participatory action research.

Investigate ideas and tools for organizing community-based responses to violence in our homes and communities, such as domestic violence and sexual violence, so that we do not have to rely on police and prisons to create safety in our communities.

Collectively resist violence by law enforcement agents through base-building and direct action.

• Download anti-police violence organizing tool kit that has organizing tools and fact sheets for organizers who want to continue to develop this work. For a printed and CD version, please contact us.

• Download 4x6 anti-police violence palm card as a pdf file for distribution.

• Distribute more detailed 8.5x28.5 anti-police violence brochure/poster in your community to help share the analysis of law enforcement violence against women and trans people of color as a critical intersection of gender violence and state violence. Please contact us if you'd like to order for distribution in your community. Below are small graphic versions of the brochure/poster (artwork by Cristy C. Road):

ORGANIZING TOOLS (PDF DOCUMENTS):

• Resisting Law Enforcement Violence - Some Ideas

  • Making the Links - Sista II Sista - From Bushwick to Bagdhad!

  • Young Women In Brooklyn Speak Out Against Violence
    
  • Know Your Rights
  • Critical Lessons from the New Jersey 7 

• Organizing For Community Accountability
  

  • INCITE! Online Resources

  • Sista II Sista - Sistas Liberated Ground

  • Audre Lorde Project - Safe OUTside the System Collective (SOS)

  • SOS - Living Against Violence

  • CARA - Making Connections
    
  
  

• What Is Participatory Action Research?

  • Sista II Sista Community Survey & Fact Sheet

  • Still We Rise Community Survey

  • FIERCE! Community Survey

  • Coalición de Derechos Humanos Abuse Documentation Form
    

  • National Network of Immigrant & Refugee Rights: Hurricane

  • Safe Streets Community Survey

  • Different Avenues Survey

  
  

• Five Questions: Sample Workshop on Law Enforcement Violence Against Women & Trans People of Color

• Critical Resistance-INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex

• List of Resources & Organizations