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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Movement Law Lab: Mass Defiance: How Lawyers Can Get in the Fight to Defeat Authoritarianism
This event is hosted by Movement Law Lab, Advancement Project Pal Legal, Freedom Trainers, and National Immigration Project
We need to build a mass movement to stop the authoritarian advance but how? And what role can lawyers play? Join us for a 2-hour virtual training on non-cooperation, legal resistance, and mass defiance. We'll explore proven strategies to build a sustained civil resistance movement and the role lawyers can play in the fight against authoritarianism.
This session is designed for attorneys, legal workers, and legal-sector-adjacent organizers who want a practical roadmap of resistance strategies, a clearer read on the moment, and a chance to connect across geography.
Family Preservation Project : Keeping Families Together: A Family Regulation System 101 for Doulas Supporting Disabled Parents
This Event is hosted by Family Preservation Project
Keeping Families Together: A Family Regulation System 101 for Doulas Supporting Disabled Parents
This training focuses on supporting and advocating for Disabled people during pregnancy, birth, and parenthood who are impacted by the family regulation system.
Where? Virtual Via Zoon
When Wednesday, July 22 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
PROPUBLICA: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown
This event is hosted by PROPUBLICA
More than a year into Trump’s second term, immigration officials have stepped up enforcement. Groundbreaking investigations by ProPublica have uncovered the scale of this shift and its impact on children.
Our reporting found ICE is deporting an increased number of unaccompanied minors, thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 children were doused with chemical agents.
Join us for a virtual event where our reporting team will discuss what is driving the administration’s efforts and what lies ahead.
Where? Virtual
When? July 21 4PM EST
Intro to Direct Action
This event was hosted by Emergent Fund
This workshop offers an introduction to direct action and its implementation, affinity groups and their formation, security culture, and a discussion on self-care and community care. This workshop is meant to prepare participants to engage in or begin planning their actions.
Access info: Closed captioning and Language Interpretation will be available for this virtual 2 hour training.
Mirror Memoirs Abolition Book Club: How to End Family Policing
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:
July 19, 2026 (How to End Family Policing, with editor C. Hope Tolliver joining as our guest speaker)
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.
Maryland Families Together: B-Safe, B-More, B-Together
This event is hosted by Maryland Families Together.
Are you expecting to or trying to conceive, postpartum or maybe a concerned community member? Learn about the history of family policing and how to build community in Baltimore, MD with Maryland Families Together & Baltimore Baby Fund.
When: Wednesday, July 15th, 2026. 7PM-8PM EST
Google Meet joining info👇🏽
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/evb-bgxw-oco
Court Watch NYC: Intro to CWNYC
This event is hosted by Court Watch NYC
This is the first in a two-part series of CWNYC trainings, and covers a brief history of mass incarceration & abolition, the NYC court system, why court watching is important and how you can get involved!
After this training, you can provide court support, join our study group, our signal community and our events! You can also sign up for our tactical #BailWatch training, which goes into detail on the logistics of how to join our arraignments watching campaign. After you have completed that training, you can also sign up for arraignments watching shifts and/or help with logistics!
When? July 14th 7:30 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.
Sojourners for Justice Press: Reconstructing Black Women’s Lives from the Archive
This event is hosted by Sojourners for Justice Press.
This conversation on Saturday, July 11 at 4pm invites participants to consider how archival materials can be used to piece together aspects of a person’s life—not as a neutral act of recovery, but as an engagement with contested infrastructures shaped by power, access, and historical violence. Which stories rise to the surface, asking to be told? Which ones retreat into shadow, withheld or forgotten? And how do we learn to listen for both?
Drawing on Sojourners for Justice Press’s publication Searching for Joan, Neta Bomani and Mariame Kaba will explore how they engaged archival records to illuminate a constellation of moments from the life of freedom fighter and revolutionary Joan Bird. Moving beyond extraction, they will reflect on archival practice as a form of transformation: a way of participating in the making of collective memory, counter-record, and self-determined narratives.
In a moment emerging from a long history of censorship and rising authoritarianism, this conversation positions archival work as a necessary political act—one that asks us to see ourselves not only as subjects of archives, but as active participants in shaping what endures, what is remembered, and how.
Where? CARA, 225 W13th St. New York, NY 10011
When? Saturday, July 11 at 4PM