Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People The American Friends Service Committee reports that Native women in small communities in Maine were routinely profiled as prescription drug abusers, and, as a result, when detained in a Maine jail were...
Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research What is Participatory Action Research?   …and what does it have to do with stopping police brutality against women and trans people of color? Participatory Action Research, or “PAR”, is a way of collecting...
Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Organizing Tools & Strategies

Organizing Tools & Strategies Organizing strategies   Share your story as a woman of color and trans person of color who has experienced violence from law enforcement. Please contact us for more information. Build coalitions between anti-police...
Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Khaki and Blue: A Killer Combination

Khaki and Blue: A Killer Combination U. S. police brutality abroad   An Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib after being arrested without charge in July 2003. Law enforcement violence is not limited to...
Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Immigration Policing & Border Violence

Immigration Policing & Border Violence On September 3, 1993, Juanita Gomez and her female cousin crossed the border between Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona to meet two male friends to go shopping. Larry Selders, a Border Patrol Agent, stopped all four...