Community Calendar
A calendar of events hosted by Movement for Family Power, our movement partners, and aligned organizations.
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Movement Syncs
MFP’s monthly mass movement calls for family policing abolitionists to strategize and support our collective work toward freedom.
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
PowHerNY: The Reemergence of Pronatalism - A Threat to Gender and Racial Equity
This event is hosted by PowHer NY.
The Reemergence of Pronatalism: A Threat to Gender and Racial Equity will unpack the growing momentum of the Heritage Foundation backed “pronatalist” movement and how this movement, grounded in white supremacist ideology, advances the patriarchal, hetero- and repro-normative nuclear family model at all costs to push women into narrowly defined domestic roles and out of public spaces. These forces have a long history, and similar to the eugenics movement, have a singular vision for what a family looks like, as demonstrated by the aim and impact of pregnancy criminalization, the family regulation system, and immigration policy on Black and Brown families. Speakers will unpack the landscape as well as explain the threats associated with pronatalist ideology and policy, as well as opportunities to push back on this agenda here in New York. This briefing will additionally inform prospective voters about the role that pronatalism plays in rising fascism and equip them to ask questions of their candidates.
FEATURING:
Allie Bohm, Senior Policy Counsel, New York Civil Liberties Union
Georgana Hanson, Executive Vice President, Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts (PPESA)
Miriam Mack, Campaigns & Advocacy Director, Senior Counsel, Movement for Family Power
Katie O’Connor, Director of Federal Abortion Policy, National Women’s Law Center
Ashley Sawyer, Senior Policy Counsel, Pregnancy Justice
Can't make the event? Register using the form below to receive a recording post event. This event is part of the PowHer the Vote campaign. Learn more at powherthevote.org.
NYU Law Review: The Poverty of Family Law
This event is hosted by New York University Law Review.
There has long been a deep race and class divide in family law between “private” family law (read white, affluent families) and “public” family law (read economically disadvantaged and nonwhite families). The former dominates scholarship, along with pedagogy and advocacy, whereas the latter is discussed, if at all, mostly in clinical and poverty law scholarship. This divide puts many marginalized families and parents—affected by poverty, race, disability, immigration status, etc.—on the “public law” side, the ignored side, while the standard white, middle-class, heterosexual “American family”—about which most law students learn, on which policymakers focus, and which is legible to the public—holds the side with more access and resources.
The family law divide is not a new phenomenon. Nonetheless, its consequences are increasingly salient, for it has real and meaningful effects on families and the people in them, on the law itself, on law reform efforts, and on the ability of policymakers to achieve meaningful change.
Hosted by the N.Y.U. Law Review, The Poverty of Family Law symposium seeks to address this divide. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and community activists in different (and often siloed) legal fields, we aim to move beyond the academic conversation to one that tackles questions of sociological change. In particular, we will discuss gaps and disparities in family law scholarship and in the family law system, missing voices in the family law legal curriculum, the interplay between culture wars and democratic projects on parenting, and visions for the future.
Pregnancy Justice: Criminal Charges 3 Years After Roe Fell
Hear from the Pregnancy Justice research team, along with state-based advocates and practitioners, as we launch our latest findings on pregnancy-related criminal charges in the first three years after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Panelists:
Imaan Khasru, Pregnancy Justice
Michele Ko, Pregnancy Justice
Ashley Lidow, Women's Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN)
Carey Shofner, Palmetto State Abortion Fund
Madalyn Wasilczuk, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
Reale Justice Network: Standing On Business For Reproductive Justice
This event is hosted by Reale Justice Network.
This October, Reale Justice Network is bringing together survivors, directly impacted families, organizers, birthworkers, advocates, community health workers, movement leaders, young people, legal workers, artists, healers, and community members for two days of political education, honest conversation, accountability, community care, and collective action.
Together, we will examine the forces controlling our bodies, policing our families, and impacting the safety of our communities—from reproductive criminalization and fetal personhood to Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence, reproductive coercion, family policing, state violence, and qualified immunity.
October 23–24, 2026 | Kansas City, Missouri
Travel days-October 22nd & 25th
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporting: Title IX, Mandated Reporting, and Survivor Autonomy
This event is hosted by Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporting.
Many of us work alongside young people and families in roles where we are mandated to report to systems of family policing. at the same time, many of us are also part of university communities as students, faculty, or staff, where we navigate another set of mandatory reporting policies under Title IX. Some of us have also personally experienced the impacts of Title IX mandatory reporting.
Join us for our monthly Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporting (MRaMR) meeting and processing space where we'll be joined by guest speaker Maeve Allen, whose research examines how mandatory reporting policies are understood, implemented, and experienced within institutions of higher education.
Together, we'll explore the connections between Title IX, mandatory reporting, and family policing while building community among students, researchers, educators, advocates, survivors, and others invested in creating systems of care that center the autonomy, needs, and desires of people impacted by violence.
Thursday, November 5
4–5:30 PM PT | 6–7:30 PM CT | 7–8:30 PM ET
All are welcome, whether you're navigating these policies professionally, personally, or both.
Mirror Memoirs Abolition Book Club: We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition
This event series is hosted by Mirror Memoirs.
You are invited to Mirror Memoirs ABC (Abolition Book Club)! We will meet on Zoom 3 times, on Sundays (1:00-3:00pm PST / 3:00-4:00pm CST / 4:00-6:00pm EST), to discuss different texts that explore interruptions to child sexual abuse and other forms of intimate violence that do not rely on prisons or police, and ways to prevent this violence.
This book club is open to anyone! We are offering free copies of the books to the first 50 QTIBIPOC child sexual abuse survivors living in the US who request them, intended to offset the expense for folks who need the financial assistance obtaining these books.
We are grateful to be partnering with the publisher of our 2026 picks, Haymarket Books, who has given Mirror Memoirs a discounted rate so that we can provide these copies. Here are our upcoming meetings:
November 8, 2026 (We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, with editor Maya Schenwar joining as our guest speaker) We will send the Zoom registration link for these meetings to everyone who RSVP's.
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
ACLU of North Carolina: The History and Power of Zines in Activist Movements
Zines are, and have been, a historical and integral way that individuals and communities have expressed their thoughts, motivations, and feelings about things that directly impact them.
Regardless of time and place, zine utilize artistic expression to not only get a message across but to also connect with its audience, to find a way to bring us all together, to recognize ourselves in each other.
For this Zine Worshop, we will be focusing on young Southern voting power amidst a chaotic year of numerous attacks on voting rights, specifically in our Southern states.
When: Thursday, October 8, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Where: Virtual on Zoom. The link will be provided to those who sign up.
Who: Anyone and everyone! Zine making is not just for people who are artsy or crafty. It's for anyone who as something to say!
Why: For centuries, art has influenced culture, societies, and our way of understanding each other and the world. Now it's your turn!
Join us to learn about how zines have been used for art advocacy, hear about our The Future Echoes zine project, and spend some time exploring your own ideas for a zine page. You'll leave with inspiration you can use whenever you're ready to start advocating using art.
Gender-Affirming Care Is Being Called Child Abuse: Why it Matters | Accountable Communities Consortium
This event is hosted by Accountable Communities Consortium
How Attacks on Trans Youth Normalize Family Policing
From attacks on trans kids in sports to undermining access to gender-affirming care, trans people are experiencing a strategic and coordinated attack. But why?
Organizers increasingly use the term “family policing” rather than “child welfare” to recognize how the system surveilles, punishes, and separates families, especially Black, Indigenous and low/no income families. Rather than providing for their well-being, the family policing system is one of many anchors of the prison industrial complex.
Attacks on trans communities aren't separate from the family policing system. Anti-trans policies and legislation across the United States use the family policing system to control and criminalize trans people and our families.
In February 2022,Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Texas Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) directing them to utilize the family policing system to investigate gender-affirming care for young people as child abuse. While Texas was one of the first states to be so explicit in their use of the family policing system, they certainly weren't the last.
Family policing abolition is trans liberation! Join host Shannon Perez-Darby and panelists Charity Tolliver, Laurien Moore, Sebastian Margaret & Sully Sullivan as we explore the connections between these harmful systems and build strategies to abolish family policing and support the safety and liberation for trans people of all ages.
Registration is sliding scale $1-25This workshop will be presented in Zoom webinar format with opportunities for questions. We will be using zoom generated captions.
Brought to you by How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project and Accountable Communities Consortium.
For questions please reach out to Shannon@accountablecommunities.com
When? Thursday, October 1st
3-5pm PT/5-7pm CT/6-8pm ET
Where? virtual
MFP, YFJCo & Partners: 3 Faces of Power
This event is hosted by Youth First Just Collaborative, Movement for Family Power, the Community Resource Hub, and Grassroots Power Project.
Join us on September 30th from 3-5pm EST / 12-2pm PT for a virtual session that will explore the “Three Faces of Power” framework by the Grassroots Power Project to help community-based organizations understand and build power through direct action, infrastructure development, and ideological influence. It promotes a strategic, justice-oriented approach to power-building that goes beyond resistance to foster long-term, values-driven systemic change.
Kidnapping Cartel Documentary : Kidnapping Cartel San Bernardino Premiere & Townhall
This event is hosted by Kidnapping Cartel Documentary
Join parents, advocates, and concerned citizens for a powerful community event focused on awareness and action.
Kidnapping Cartel — San Bernardino Premiere Screening
Join us for a powerful premiere screening of Kidnapping Cartel, bringing together affected parents, advocates, community leaders, professionals, and everyday people who want to better understand the systems impacting children and families.
This event is more than a film screening. It is an opportunity for people with lived experience and those newly entering the conversation to gather in one room, hear one another, build community, and confront the ideas, policies, and institutions that have caused deep and lasting harm.
For parents who have experienced the child-welfare or dependency court system, this is a space to be seen and heard. For advocates, it is a chance to connect with others doing the work. And for community members who may know very little about these issues, the film offers an entry point into a conversation that affects far more families than many realize.
For many families, involvement with the child-welfare system begins during pregnancy, at the hospital, or in the first months of a baby’s life. This premiere will also bring attention to prenatal and postnatal support, maternal well-being, and the need for better community support that help mothers, fathers, and babies remain healthy, supported, and together.
We believe this gathering represents an important moment: families, advocates, and communities coming together to challenge systems that divide families and to imagine something better.
Come experience the film, and townhall, meet others in the community, hear from advocates and partners, and be part of a growing conversation about family, parental rights, child protection, accountability, and change.
Admission is free, but RSVP is required.
All are welcome. You do not need to have personal experience with CPS or family court to attend—only a willingness to listen, learn, and be part of the conversation.
This event is in collabration with our commuunity partners, SafeHaven Foundation, Starting Over Inc, and the F.R.E.E. Project.
When? Sunday, September 27 • 1 PM - 5 PM
Where? California University of Science and Medicine Colton, CA
Ideas into Action 2026, Shaping a Just Future for Families : CSSP Hub
This event was hosted by: CSSP Hub
As children and families across the country face deepening economic uncertainty and mounting threats to their health and well-being, now is the time to come together and mobilize around ideas for how government can re-commit to families and to its responsibility to effectively provide the opportunities all families deserve.
The Center for the Study of Social Policy’s fall summit, Ideas into Action 2026, Shaping a Just Future for Families, will bring together leading voices, including: policymakers, researchers, service providers, funders, organizers, young people, and families who are directly impacted by public policies and systems for engaging conversations and practical workshops to advance policy and system change efforts that will set a new course and shape a just future for families across the country.
As we look ahead, we must forge a collaborative approach and ground our work together in a deep understanding of how public systems work today and what children, youth, and families want and need, so that we are poised and ready to implement change that meaningfully delivers for families.
Over two days, we will explore bold policy proposals and practical tools to address some of the most urgent challenges facing children and families today—from growing economic instability to making childcare more affordable to safeguarding child and family well-being amid immigration enforcement and preventing involvement with the child welfare system.
Thoughtful and inspiring speakers will motivate us toward a shared vision.
Summit panel sessions will offer ambitious and forward-looking discussions, while addressing the practical policy challenges of today.
Workshops will offer concrete skill-building and tools to help participants advance their work in support of family well-being, centered in today’s challenges and opportunities.
Join us and help build a future where all children and families can thrive!
When? Wed, Sep 23, 2026 8:00 AM - Thu, Sep 24, 5:00 PM CDT
Where? Virtual
NYU School of Law: Pink Crime Book Talk
This event is hosted by New York University School of Law Review of Law & Social Change.
Join us for a book talk on “Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity.”
Today, women and queer people are increasingly prosecuted for pregnancy loss charged as murder, parents are losing custody over positive drug tests, and wrongful convictions are built on junk science and bias.
Hosted by the Review of Law & Social Change at New York University School of Law, Miriam Mack of Movement for Family Power will join author Valena Beety or a discussion about how the criminal legal and family policing "child welfare” systems intersect to surveil, punish, and separate families–and what it will take to build a future grounded in reproductive justice.
When? 1PM ET - September 23, 2026
Where? New York University School of Law - Furman Hall, Room 212 - 245 Sullivan Street New York, NY 10012
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Drug Policy Alliance: Research, Journalism, and Data about Alcohol and Drugs
This event is hosted by Drug Policy Alliance.
For many years, research about drugs and alcohol largely lived behind the paywalls of academic journals and conferences, occasionally reaching the public if the findings managed to grab the attention of an editor or reporter. With a recent U.S. directive requiring studies and data that result from federally funded research to be made freely available upon publication, plus the growth of online publishing and social media, data has gone from inaccessible to overwhelming.
As part of a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship, Susan Stellin, MPH, created Covering Drugs (www.coveringdrugs.org), a free 140-page reference guide for research and reporting about alcohol and drugs. Organized around key topics and questions people ask, it lists major surveys, reports, data sets, studies, research hubs, and other information useful to journalists as well as people working in research, policy, education, and direct service roles.
This webinar will address how research can reach a wider audience and more effectively inform public understanding, policy, and practice. Panelists will discuss examples of their work sharing data beyond academia, how researchers and journalists can better understand each other’s professional practices, and ways to improve the impact of research and reporting in an era of information overload and mistrust in media and science.
Pregnancy Justice: From the Delivery Room to the Courtroom: Evaluating and Challenging Drug Test Evidence in Pregnancy and Birth
This event his hosted by Pregnancy Justice.
Drug tests of pregnant people often become central evidence in child welfare and criminal proceedings despite important scientific and clinical limitations. This multidisciplinary webinar brings together physicians, forensic science experts, and attorneys to explain how drug tests are ordered, performed, interpreted, and introduced in court.
Participants will learn where errors and misunderstandings occur, how to critically evaluate toxicology evidence, and practical strategies for examining and challenging drug test evidence in litigation, while also understanding the harmful consequences for mothers, babies, and families, as well as the broader implications for patient care and public policy.
Panelists:
- Miriam Mack, Campaigns & Advocacy Director, Senior Legal Counsel, Movement for Family Power
- Lisa Montanez, Forensic Science Policy Advisor, Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law
- Melissa Moore, Civil Systems Reform Director, Drug Policy Alliance
- Dr. Mishka Terplan, Co-Founder, Doing Right By Birth
When? September 15th from 3 - 4:30pm
Where? Virtual
The US Govt Just Legalized AI Generated Child SA Material: Accountable Communities Consortium
This event was hosted by Accountable Communities Consortium
How did this happen + Where do we go from here?
Join Accountable Communities Consortium and Mirror Memoires for a conversation with Ayanna Dozier and Chanelle Gallant where we’ll explore how this happened and what the history of obscenity laws reveal about the shifting borders of the First Amendment.
This will be a free virtual event utilizing zoom generated captions. The video recording will be available to those who register for one month after the event. Registration link in bio.
Co-Sponsors:
Accountable Communities Consortium supports people, organizations and communities to be in right relationship. We utilize transformative justice principles to help communities navigate domestic and sexual violence, conflict, the family policing system, mandatory reporting harm reduction and more. https://accountablecommunities.com/
Mirror Memoirs is a national storytelling and organizing project creating a world where Black + Indigenous gender non-conforming children (+ all children) are free from sexual violence. https://mirrormemoirs.org/
When? Thursday, September 10 • 4 PM - 5:30 PM
Where? Virtual
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work: Organizing Social Workers for Abolition
This event is hosted by Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work.
Join us for a pre-conference summit for social workers to come together toward organizing for abolition. We are an emerging coalition of grassroots social work organizations who see the need for social workers to build nationwide power to change the conditions in which we work. Our hope is to embolden social workers to participate in and alongside social movements struggling for freedom and safety for everyone.
At this summit we will strategize how best to organize social workers toward realizing the power necessary to enact abolitionist politics, build relationships in service of that organizing, and identify actionable steps for sustainable coalition building. Current and future social workers, and anyone who is social work adjacent are encouraged to attend.
The summit is in person only. Our intention is to strategize together and at the moment we don’t have the capacity or technology to do that hybrid. Following this in-person meeting, a virtual meeting will be scheduled to report back what was learned and next steps.
This summit is organized by the Social Work Activist Collective, the Network to Advance Abolition in Social Work, upEND, the Abolitionist Social Change Collective, and Social Work for Palestine in collaboration with the Socialism Conference and Haymarket Books.
Where? Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago - 2233 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive Chicago, IL 60616
When? Friday, September 4 • 10 AM - 2 PM
Abolition Black Augst And You(TH) : Peer Fefense Project
This event was hosted by Peer Defense Project
Participants will gain a practical understanding of prison abolition. We will explore the historical context of slavery, prison, and Anti-Blackness and provide insight into building a liberated present and future. We will answer key questions like:
▪️What is prison abolition?
▪️What is black august?
▪️Why is abolition important and necessary?
▪️How do we fight for abolition?
When? August 31, 2026
Where? Virtual
Stop Taking Our People,” moderated by BAJI’s Executive Director, Nana Gyamfi (She/Her). : We make them stop.
This event was hosted by We make them stop
The Bodysnatchers are coming for our communities — and every day, their reach is growing. Dr. Fatima Ameaka. Sister Leticia Ugboaja. Cleon “Uncle Lou” Williams. Daphy Michel. Emmanuel Damas. Imam Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir. Know their names. They are our neighbors, our coworkers, our family members, our faith leaders, our scholars, our artists, our elders, and the people who make our communities what they are.
We refuse this because our humanity cannot depend on our immigration status. Our freedom cannot depend on whether this regime considers us useful, compliant, or deserving. And our right to live cannot depend on the mercy of the same machinery built to police, cage, and deport us.
STOP Taking Our People! Join BAJI's ED, Nana Gyamfi lead a discussion on how we can prepare and protect our communities.
When? Aug 27 6PM EST
Where? Virtual
Hope is a Narrative Strategy: Lessons from Our Movements. :Rad Comms
This Event was hosted by RAD COMMS
Across so many of our movements, we see a gap between how much people support our solutions and how little they believe change is possible. Bridging this “hope gap,” as coined by BLIS Collective, is a defining narrative challenge of our time — and a critical approach for organizing people in a time of despair and disillusionment.
In this RadSession, we’ll hear key lessons drawn from climate, reparations, and housing justice movements that have faced this challenge head on. Organizers will share research, campaign tactics, and ideas for how to seed narratives of hope that activate our people and grow our movements. Join us to learn, dream, and scheme for making a better future possible for all of us!
Co-hosts: Ashley Fairbanks, Cory Fischer, and Justin Morgan
RadSessions are peer-to-peer learning sessions that help social-justice communications workers cultivate skills and build cross-movement knowledge. RadComms partners with members of the network and outside experts to offer webinars to an international audience of communications, advocacy, and organizing professionals at all stages in their careers. You can watch previous RadSessions here.
We hope to see you there!
In community and service,
The Radical Communicators Network
When? Aug 26 1PM - 1PM ET
Where? Virtual
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Black August Art of Abolition Workshop : Peer Defense Project
This event was hosted by Peer Defense Project
Join us on Saturday, August 22nd at 4PM to engage your radical imagination through a political education and an art workshop.
Learn about the damaging effects of mass incarceration and the liberative potential of prison abolition. Then, draw, sculpt, and collage as a practice of radical imagination as we imagine worlds outside the bounds of oppression.
100% of ticket proceeds go towards supporting organized youth who are facing legal repression.
NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funds)If you cannot donate to support PDP, you are still able to come to this event. email sareal@peerdefense.org if you have any questions.
Suggested donations:
Students $10
Adult Ally $25
Corporate Ally $100
When? Augst 22 ,2026 4PM - 6PM
Where? 2984 Decatur Avenue Scottdale, GA 30079
YFJCo : No Kids In Prison
This event is hosted by Youth First Justice Co
Join us in New York for a special event honoring the creativity, vision and leadership of young people impacted by incarceration.
This free, public exhibition and workshop will showcase the art, writing, analysis and editorial contributions of more than 50 currently and formerly incarcerated youth featured in the No Kids In Prison magazine.
Get connected to the youth justice movement and learn more about how art can fuel
collaboration, build community and challenge punitive systems.
PRESENTED BY
Youth First Justice Collaborative
Center for Art & Advocacy
Artistic Noise
FEATURING
Pop-up exhibition of the magazine
We’ll have enlarged artwork, photography and writing on display from the magazine, exploring themes of freedom, abolition and transformation. Don’t forget to take home your free copy!
Textiles Workshop with Samantha Cortez
Samantha Cortez is a Bronx-based mixed-media artist, who will help participants create textile pieces inspired by the magazine, youth justice and their own lived experiences. Samantha is the Arts & Community Engagement Manager at Artistic Noise, the inaugural youth fellow at Center for Art & Advocacy and a contributor to the magazine.
Letters to incarcerated young people
Join us in sharing messages of hope and solidarity with young people at Nassau County Juvenile Detention Center in Westbury, NY. Letters help young people stay connected to the outside world during a very isolating chapter of their lives.
Where? 2185 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd
Harlem, New York
When? August 22 2 to 5 PM
Elephant Circle: Liberty & Birth Justice for ALL
This event is hosted by Elephant Circle.
Come out and support Elephant circle as they will be the official non profit of the game September 21st seeing the New York Liberty take on Atlanta Dream. Elephant circle will be recognized on the court while tabling on the main concourse. Grab your tickets while available as the deadline is May 15th.
Power Researching Elected Officials with LittleSis
This event is hosted by Emergent Fund.
Elected officials are often the key decision makers that organizers focus on when trying to create change in their communities. But who are the key players behind our politicians? In this training, we’ll show how to power map an elected official, how to research their campaign donors, and provide examples of how organizers have used research on politicians to sharpen their strategy.
BEAM: What Black Folks Need to Know About Psychiatric Care in Georgia
This event is hosted by Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective.
Heart Space is a healing circle that provides a space for Black folks to decompress and connect. This Atlanta Heart Space Healing Circle centers BEAM's What I Wish My People Had Known, The Psychiatric Green Book: A Guide for Black Folks as a tool for learning, reflection, and community conversation. Together, we'll explore how Black people can navigate psychiatric crises and mental health systems with greater knowledge, care, and support while honoring the long tradition of Black communities creating pathways to healing outside of systems that have often caused harm. Using the Green Book as our guide, participants will discuss practical strategies for supporting themselves and their loved ones, share experiences, and deepen their understanding of community-based care.
Where? 561 W Whitehall St SW Atlanta, GA
When? Tuesday, August 18 • 6 PM - 8 PM
In Our Names Network: Centering Survivors Wellness Event for Daphy Michel
This event is hosted by In Our Names Network
You’re invited to our Centering Survivors wellness event in Pittsburgh, PA! It’s an evening designed for Black girls, women, femmes, trans, and non-binary survivors of police violence to pause, reconnect, and pour back into themselves.
Join In Our Names and Take Action Advocacy Group as we honor the life of Daphy Michel, a Hatian asylum seeker who was tragically killed days after detention by local police and an ICE monitoring release in Pittsburgh.
She was targeted, criminalized, and surveilled based on her racialized & gendered identity, and in this moment of crisis - her citizenship status.
The expansion of power of ICE & Homeland Security impacts us all and ultimatley increases harm of our communities. This is why we fight to abolish policing in all its forms. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
We will center meaningful conversations around wellness, survivorship, and self-care. Enjoy:
✨Siblinghood & networking
✨Haitian bites & juices
✨Konpa music & social dancing
✨Yoga & breathwork
✨Somaflow massages (limited spots!)
When? Saturday, August 15th 4:30PM - 8PM
Where? Location emailed after RSVP
Advancement Project: The State of Black and Brown Education
This event is hosted by Advancement Project.
As families prepare to head back to school, we're drawing a national spotlight on escalating threats facing Black and brown students and the right to free, public education. Join us for a virtual press briefing with a coalition of civil rights advocates, grassroots organizers, and movement leaders as we discuss ICE enforcement near schools and its impact on student safety, attendance, and family stability; school privatization and its disproportionate effects on Black and brown communities; police-free schools and the push to reimagine school safety without law enforcement presence.
Where? Virtual
When? August 13th, 1PM ET
Press ON: Movement Journalism201: A Virtual Training
This event is hosted by Press ON.
The workshop will be facilitated by the fantastic Tina Vasquez. Tina is the Features Editor at Prism, the Freedomways Reporting Fellowship Coordinator at Press On and a Southern movement journalist with over 15 years of experience reporting & editing.
Attendees will learn how to sharpen what the industry vaguely refers to as “news judgement.” Considered a core editorial process, how newsrooms discern what is newsworthy is anything but objective. Using the principles of movement journalism, attendees will determine how to hone in on the story they want to tell, examine inventive reporting formats for centering the most impacted, learn creative strategies for safely reaching impacted sources outside of nonprofits and other organizations, and receive training on how to navigate sticky issues that often arise in reporting.
This training is intended for participants who already have an understanding of movement journalism principles & commitments. If you would like to review them, they are broken down in Press On’s Movement Journalism 101 zine.
To ensure the future of our Level Up popular education program, we ask that each registrant make a sliding-scale contribution ($1-$125), but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. English live captioning and language interpretation provided by request. Please name your accessibility needs on the registration form.
Hope to see you there.
When? Wednesday, August 12
Where? Virtual
National Youth Justice Network : Embodied Abolition Intro to Restorative Justice
This Event is Hosted by National Youth Justice Network
A special workshop on restorative justice facilitated by DayOneNotDayTwo! Guided by the commitment to developing self-determined communities, this webinar will explore how restorative justice can help people stay connected through healing, relationship building, and the fight for liberation. This workshop is a lead-up for a restorative justice circle that DayOneNotDayTwo will be facilitating at our upcoming Annual Forum.
When? August 12, 2026 12 - 2 PM
Where? Virtual
Stolen Children's Month: Huddle Up
This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.
Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases.
Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies.
This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.
Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.
Undocumented Women's Fund: Summer Feminist Film Series
This event is hosted by Undocumented Women’s Fund in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, NYC- DSA Latinos Socialistas, and Movement for Family Power.
Our Summer Feminist Film Series continues! ☀️🎬 Join us for the second screening of our annual series and a conversation on the film's relevance to UWF's work and our present moment.
This time, we're screening Split at the Root (2022) directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, a powerful documentary that follows the journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and a grassroots initiative that aims to reunite those families.
Description:
Split at the Root follows the emotional journey of mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families. When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under the Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mom in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the US refused to stand by quietly. Immigrant Families Together was born - a rapid response group committed to doing what the government couldn't - or wouldn't do: reunite parents with their children separated by the Zero Tolerance Policy.
Where? Acacia Gardens – Community Room, 409 E 120th Street, New York, NY 10035
When? Saturday, August 8th, doors open at 6, film starts at 7
Family Matters 1st: Community Talks
This event is hosted by Family Matters 1st and Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Have you been impacted by DCF, foster care, adoption, kinship care, or family separation?
Join Family Matters 1st and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau for a powerful community conversation where impacted parents, adoptees, former foster youth, advocates, and family members can connect, learn about their rights, and share their experiences.
🗣️ We especially want to hear from adoptees and former foster youth. Your lived experiences matter and deserve to be part of the conversation as we work toward a child welfare system that prioritizes family preservation, support, and dignity.
📅 July 2nd
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST
💻 Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/84034398864
🔑 Meeting ID: 840 343 98864
Families should not be separated simply because they are facing poverty related reasons . Enough of this legacy of family separation and kidnapping black children from their families. Join us as we discuss solutions, advocacy, and ways to elevate the voices of those most impacted by the system.
📧 Questions? familymattersboston@gmail.com
✨ Please share with parents, adoptees, foster alumni, advocates, social workers, attorneys, and community members.
Advancement Project: Beyond 250: We Build Power
This event is hosted by Advancement Project
Join us for a timely conversation on the right to protest as a necessary practice of collective survival and how ongoing threats jeopardizing our rights to dissent, organize, and build power, are connected to the same fight for power ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Throughout, we'll explore the long history of Black and Indigenous solidarity and why young people are leading the way.
We'll be joined by Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights; Nailah Summers-Polite, Dream Defenders; and Gia Loving, GSA Network, as we examine how dissent keeps democracy alive.
The United States built its power on stolen land, enslaved labor, and systemic exclusion. And yet, we are still here. Our people continue to organize and resist in the face of injustice. Every major advancement in our democracy, including the expansion of who belongs, who gets to vote, and who gets to be free, were claimed by everyday people who took to the streets and refused to be quiet.
The First Amendment is not a suggestion. The right to assemble, dissent, and demand better is the truest expression of a free and safe democratic society; however, this right is facing a coordinated authoritarian attack as lawmakers across the country decide who gets protected when they dissent and who gets criminalized for it.
Where? Virtual
When? Thursday, July 30, 2:00 PM ET
PATH: A Way Forward Webinar Series Bridging The Gap: How Parents, Youth & Community Can Lead Together
This event is hosted by PATH
What happens when parents and youth are not just invited to the table, but help lead it? Join the TFSC Florida Team as they share how they built a restorative, community-led model that moves beyond tokenism to authentic shared leadership. Participants will explore practical strategies for creating spaces that build trust, elevate lived expertise, strengthen partnerships, and foster meaningful collaboration. Attendees will leave with practical tools and a replicable framework for fostering authentic collaboration and shared leadership in their own communities.
Where? Virtual
When? July 29 4PM CST