Organizations Twin Cities
Twin Cities Organizations
All organizations listed in alphabetical order. They include a diverse array of opinions and actions focused on issues relevant to ifoughtthelaw.info. This page will be updated as new resources are discovered
COALITION FOR CRITICAL CHANGE, TWIN CITIES
Mission:• Identify key points of racial disparity, misrepresentation and other inequities in the Minnesota criminal/juvenile justices systems and related institutions;
• Educate and increase public awareness of racial disparity, misrepresentation and other inequities in the Minnesota criminal/juvenile justices systems and related institutions
• Take action locally, state-wide and when appropriate nationally, to address issues of racial disparity and other inequities in the criminal/juvenile justices systems and related institutions;
• Collectively, and when possible, in coalition, advocate for both reforms and transformative changes that reduce and re-imagine reliance on policing and punishment.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1442088142746371/1466350376986814/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
COP WATCH MINNEAPOLIS
Film the police! Demand badge numbers! Send us your videos! Copwatch
is a network of activist organizations in the United States and Canada
that observe and document police activity while looking for signs of
police misconduct and police brutality
COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
Communities United Against Police BrutalityTM is a Twin-Cities based organization that was created to deal with police brutality on an ongoing basis. We work on the day-to-day abuses as well as taking on the more extreme cases. Our overriding goal is to create a climate of resistance to abuse of authority by police organizations and to empower local people with a structure that can take on police brutality and actually bring it to an end. We provide support for survivors of police brutality and families of victims so they can reclaim their dignity and join the struggle to end police brutality.http://cuapb.org
OCCUPY SAINT PAUL
Occupy Saint Paul is a nonviolent
organization committed to a just and democratic society, and it stands
in solidarity with people around the globe who share this commitment.
Our values are borne from our conviction
that all people have human rights. Among these human rights are freedom
of speech and religion, the right of self-determination, the right to
privacy, the right to control their own bodies, to peacefully assemble,
and to be treated with dignity and respect.
http://www.occupysaintpaul.org/
http://savethekidsgroup.org/?cat=7
https://www.facebook.com/StudentsUnitedAgainstPoliceBrutality
SAVE THE KIDS TWIN CITIES
Save the Kids (STK) is a fully-volunteer national grass-roots organization dedicated to alternatives to and the end of incarceration of all youth and the school to prison pipeline.http://savethekidsgroup.org/?cat=7
STUDENTS UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
Students United Against Police Brutality (SUAPB) is a student group at the University of Minnesota that exists to help people who have been affected by police brutality and to foster a climate of resistance and activism against abuses of authority in all areas of the justice system. Between our experienced members and our parent organization Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB), we have access to expertise and resources to help survivors and victims get justice and to work to bring an end to police brutality.https://www.facebook.com/StudentsUnitedAgainstPoliceBrutality