End Police Violence Collective

Authors of the @PublicHealth statements on (1) police violence & (2) carceral systems. Abolition is public health.

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

Our policy statement on carceral systems and on abolition as a public health strategy has PASSED 86% - 14% and is now PERMANENT POLICY of @PublicHealth. We know that abolition is public health, and now it's official! #APHA2021

Read the policy here: https://t.co/qVsWykPagM

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

Are you at #APHA2024? Join this rally for Palestine TOMORROW, Sunday, Oct. 27 at 12 pm in front of the Minneapolis Convention Center. Tell @PublicHealth that genocide is a public health crisis & we cannot be silent!

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

We need to #StopCopCity all across the US -- and here's why, from a public health perspective:

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

New research alert ‼️ Our latest research uncovers the severe public health threats posed by the proliferation of militarized police training facilities, or “Cop Cities,” across the US. Read the full report at https://t.co/cvQgVJnuJH

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

Complete the survey by THIS Monday, September 30th to help us understand the impact of @MHFirstOak & @MHFirstSac & to get the chance to win a $20 gift card!

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

✨Bay Area & Sacramento residents: we need your help!

Fill out our community survey to help us understand community perceptions of @APTPaction's MH First program: https://t.co/SqflRHQG5r

Once you've filled out the survey, please share with others in your community!

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

✨We have 10 spots left in this semester's cohort of the Abolitionist Public Health Student Network. Get your application in by THIS FRIDAY!

Apply: https://t.co/zKG4b8Odcw

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

It's here! We're launching the 6th cohort of our Abolitionist Public Health Student Network! This semester, participants (capped at 30) will be paired with incarcerated organizers to read Let This Radicalize You by @MsKellyMHayes & @prisonculture.

Apply: https://t.co/zKG4b8Odcw

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

📅Register today for @CHRankings's webinar on #policing as a #publichealth issue, feat. HIP's Health Instead of Punishment Program Director Christine Mitchell discussing racism x incarceration, alternatives to policing, + more 🐦‍⬛ #HealthNotPunishment.

https://t.co/H7alZpXFPs

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

This bill passed favorably out of committee and is on to the legislature to pass it before the end of the session. Please sign on & spread the word: public health demands an investment in #HealthNotPunishment!

>>sign here: https://t.co/frbyVSTbYW

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

Public health evidence is clear: communities are safest & healthiest when we invest in the social determinants of health, not in carceral settings. Sign on to this public health advocacy letter in support of a prison & jail construction moratorium in MA: https://t.co/frbyVSTbYW

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

We hope you'll all show up for this policy statement in the same ways you showed up for ours over the last several years. Let @PublicHealth know that the occupation of Palestine & the genocide of Palestinians are urgent public health crises that cannot be ignored. #FreePalestine!

[Yara Asi, PhD @Yara_M_Asi]

As co-chair of the Palestine Health Justice Working Group of @PublicHealth, we are disappointed to report that our Palestine health justice policy proposed for the 2024 annual meeting has just been voted down by the policy committee and will not be up for a vote next October.

[Truthout @truthout]

Public health advocates label incarceration a crisis and push for prison abolition as the solution, urging for community healing over harm.
https://t.co/gP60H1Gxb0

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

"The End Police Violence Collective... had to work hard behind the scenes to educate skeptics that abolition & public health are, in effect, two sides of the same coin."

Check out this piece in @_inquest_ about folks working for abolition & public health!
https://t.co/xv0YvAJcR6

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

THIS SATURDAY, 10 am PT // 12 pm CT // 1 pm ET: Join Transform Public Health for a teach-in on the Palestinian occupation as a public health crisis. Register here: https://t.co/RB71rayeOP

[William D. Lopez @lopez_wd]

Alert! Abolitionist Public Health Student Network organized by @HumanImpact_HIP is taking applications for campus groups! Circulate widely. @FlemingPaulJ @campusabolition @endpolviolence https://t.co/3DuHsy43el

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

Don't forget -- get your applications in for the Spring 2024 cohort of the Abolitionist Public Health Student Network by next Friday, December 15!

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

👇Public health folks: apply!👇

[Health in Partnership @HumanImpact_HIP]

We’re back again with the Abolitionist Public Health Student Network for Spring 2024! This cohort will be focused on the development of abolitionist campaigns on members’ campuses. More info & application: https://t.co/x3KCdFRtM0 #HealthNotPunishment

[Gaza blog in bio @comrade_sweezy]

🚨🚨Calling all public health professionals, healthcare workers, and medical researchers (and anyone else) !! Join the APHA Palestine Health Justice Working Group to jam Congressional phone lines for permanent ceasefire 🇵🇸 Register here: https://t.co/ggiLC8aj3S

[End Police Violence Collective @endpolviolence]

Big big gratitude to all of the organizers, researchers, writers, & public health workers who poured their energy into making this happen. @PublicHealth calls for a ceasefire in Gaza!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

American Public Health Association Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza https://t.co/u0xb61Ehgm

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

American Public Health Association Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza https://t.co/u0xb61Ehgm