In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas

We are a QTBIPOC-led coalition in defense of Black lives against police and racial terror. 📣

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[Jerry G @JerryLEADS]

There are communities in Dallas WITHOUT GROCERY STORES.

[Our City, Our Future @ocofdallas]

📢 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.

[Ohun Ashe 🌻🌼🌞 @Ohun_Ashe]

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.

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @ForgeOrganizing]

.@MerQueenGangsta & @saintcedes (@byp100 + @TXWFP @InDefenseDallas, respectively) talk about how to center and support Black leadership, why we need to build state-wide power, and what it will take to win in the long term. #TheUprisingsIssue
https://t.co/eNsWuJWreb

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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.

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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.

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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?

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

ABOLITION IS A PRESENCE, NOT AN ABSENCE: this is the note we are starting on this budget campaign season! #BlackLivesMatter #defunddpd

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

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?

[In Defense Of Black Lives Dallas @InDefenseDallas]

Ben says “Having pathways to actually address harm. End of state violence. End of punishment and cages.”