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WHAT
Join APTP, Critical Resistance, and our featured partners from The Defund Police Coalition for an afternoon/evening of speakers and art making where we can collectively support the movement to defund police and refund our communities.

WHY
As part of the Defund Police Coalition’s effort to redirect millions of dollars from policing and into community programs, we want to engage as many community members as possible. We believe we can create safer communities if we are willing to have the openness to reimagine public safety in Oakland and the financial investment to match. Let us invest as aggressively in proven, community-based alternatives as we have in punitive and violent policing and incarceration.

WHO
The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) five years ago and has evolved to include Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Bay Rising, Black Organizing Project, Causa Justa Just Cause, Community Ready Corps, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, Critical Resistance, East Bay Alliance for A Sustainable Economy, Ella Baker Center, Oakland Rising, and the Urban Peace Movement.

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