2025 reminded us of a truth we know well: when systems fail, our people do not.
This year, our communities have faced everything from ICE and immigration violence, structural neglect from the increased criminalization of Black communities and caregivers, to deep cuts to vital support systems that many depend on simply to survive. At every turn, our longstanding institutions have showed us that they were not built with our healing or our freedom in mind.
Across Los Angeles County, thousands of families are feeling the impact of delayed and underfunded SNAP benefits this holiday season. The people hit hardest are the same community members already carrying the long-term weight of incarceration, police violence, economic instability, and shrinking social services.
We organized food distributions when families went hungry.
We advocated and fought back when our neighbors were targeted.
We supported people coming home from incarceration as they rebuilt their lives.
We created spaces for rest, joy, healing, and collective power.
This is abolition in action, not a future theory, but a practice we live every single day.
Still, we remain committed.
Showing up for our people is our practice of transformative justice.
It is how we help create healing in communities harmed by state violence and under resourcing.
Our DPN community is facing a wane in resources. We need your support to close this gap.
This moment is urgent.
This Giving Tuesday, the call to help us help others couldn’t be louder.
