Know any Black 15-24 year olds looking for a cool summer paid opportunity that gets us closer to Black liberation in Dallas? Share with a teen the Dallas Freedom Summer app with @InDefenseDallas now! https://t.co/ZcRFfTOLxt
📢 Dallas the clock is ticking! ⏰
We need everyone to sign up to speak and let City Council know what WE NEED AND DESERVE. Deadline to sign up to speak is TUESDAY!!! 🗓
Hit up our https://t.co/sRiNji9QeK for all the info and our OCOF HOW TO SPEAK TO CITY COUNCIL VIDEO.
I honestly don’t know how the world doesn’t stop every year on August 9th and honestly, it’s probably my own reflection because my world stops. Mike Brown Jr’s death completely shifted this earth. Do y’all remember what life was like August 8, 2014? I mean really remember.
ACTION NEEDED: Please fill out our community survey today! Use it as a chance to talk through community care and dreams for #Dallas with your fam. Can’t wait to read your thoughts and get to know our followers a bit better. #dallaswedeserve https://t.co/HO0ixSTAuy
If you or a loved one are in a mental health crisis, the work of finding low-cost or no-cost help in North Texas takes too much energy and time. Here is a simple list with phone numbers. Please share. #CareNotCops#mentalhealth#dallas#communitycare
The @CityOfDallas should be funding mental health programs instead of feeding the police budget. In the meantime, we’ve rounded up some of the scant free to low-cost options available close by. #carenotcops#dallaswedeserve#defunddpd
https://t.co/wzTYc3c66T
Resource Center Dallas is a foundational LGBTQIA+ service org with varied services including counseling.
Now accepting new patients on a sliding scale. 214.528.0144.
The @CityOfDallas should be funding mental health programs instead of feeding the police budget. In the meantime, we’ve rounded up some of the scant free to low-cost options available close by. #carenotcops#dallaswedeserve#defunddpd
https://t.co/wzTYc3c66T
The Jewish Family Service Center of Greater Dallas offers play therapy, specialized addiction counseling, and services for kids, teens, and adults.
Sliding scale includes no-cost care. All are welcome. 972.437.9950.
This office will consider social, emotional, and mental health resources as means of public safety. It will be formed around the decriminalization of poverty, homelessness and sex work. It will NOT be run by cops. #carenotcops
This is the video we shared in our teach-in today that explains so powerfully why we are demanding the City of Dallas replace policing with an Office of Violence Prevention run by a civilian. Share it! https://t.co/pKSlfk8Wqd #defunddpd#BlackLivesMatter#DefundThePolice
some overheard fears:
“rapists and murderers going free”
“concern for private property”
“white supremacist paramilitaries”
“the worst of the worst”
here’s the thing:
those are already happening. police don’t stop crime & the legal system does not promise justice for victims
Even if you’ve experienced carceral violence, our comrade Ben says, it can take so much unlearning to grasp the idea that police don’t keep us safe and that there are much better ways to care for each other. What are your fears around abolition?
We are live for the #dallaswedeserve campaign kickoff. Our comrade Dominique just began with this question: What is one thing that excites you or are curious to know about abolition?