CR Portland and the Care Not Cops coalition are igniting the people’s vision and sparking their skills to resist policing this year. Our powerful spring campaign season compelled a Portland City Council member to boldly adopt and propose one of our main demands—defunding the Portland Police Bureau’s Gun Violence Reductions Team (formerly named the Gang Enforcement Team, a violent tool of policing that targets Black and Brown youth in Portland).

To continue to sharpen our readiness for abolition, we partnered with community groups to kick off a Building Beyond Policing series. Events so far have included workshops on overdose prevention training, community resource mapping, and alternatives to policing practices—we’ll have one more early 2020! Your donations help us build power in this vital campaign to eliminate racist anti-gang programs and build beyond policing in Portland.

CR Oakland: Boosting Anti-Policing Strategies
and Stop Urban Shield final victory
 

When the local Sheriff attempted to steamroll ahead with another militarized SWAT training and weapons exposition this year, CR Oakland and the Stop Urban Shield coalition mobilized powerfully and defended our victory against the largest SWAT training in the world. Our organizing blocked his ill-intended plans and stopped Urban Shield for good!