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Community Accountability

Community Accountability

Community Accountability (CA) strategies aim at preventing, intervening in, responding to, and healing from violence through strengthening relationships and communities, emphasizing mutual responsibility for addressing the conditions that allow violence to take place, and holding people accountable for violence and harm. This includes a wide range of creative strategies for addressing violence as part of organizing efforts in communities when you can’t or don’t want to access state systems for safety.” – The Audre Lorde Project, National Gathering on Transformative and Community Accountability, 9/2010

From Incite! Women of Color and Trans People of Color Against Violence (2012):
Community accountability is a process in which a community – a group of friends, a family, a church, a workplace, an apartment complex, a neighborhood, etc – works together to do the following things:

  • Commit to ongoing development of all members of the community, and the community itself, to transform the political conditions that reinforce oppression and violence
  • Provide safety & support to community members who are violently targeted that respects their self-determination
  • Create and affirm values & practices that resist abuse and oppression and encourage safety, support, and accountability
  • Develop sustainable strategies to address community members’ abusive behavior, creating a process for them to account for their actions and transform their behavior
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For Tasha Amezcua, Safety Starts by Not Calling the Cops

by Madhuri Sathish Original article found here BROOKLYN, New York (WOMENSENEWS)— Tasha Amezcua identifies herself as a “queer, femme, Chicana survivor of violence . . .

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Community Accountability Factsheet

by Incite! Please visit | Original article found here  

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The NYC Punks Who Built a Support Network for Sexual Assault Survivors When the Justice System Failed Them

by Ok, Merritt Original article found here America has a rape problem. For every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 310 are reported — and from the investigation stage to

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10 Strategies for Cultivating Community Accountability

by Ann Russo Original article found here My commitment to prison abolition grows daily in part because I see the possibilities for responding to abuse and

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Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability

by Crimethinc. Original article found here This article is from Rolling Thunder #8, a quarterly journal by Crimethinc.  Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability “They” is used

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The Revolution Starts at Home Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities Zine

by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Original article found here

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A Stand Up Start Up by Philly’s Pissed – Philly Stands Up

by Philly Stands Up! Original article found here

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Getting Called Out: Why Acknowledging Oppression Matters More Than Your Hurt Feelings

by Erin Tatum Original article found here It’s a natural desire to want to give your opinion on something. We all want to think that our

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Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable

by Ngọc Loan Trần Original article found here I started having conversations on this practice of “calling in” after attending Race Forward’s Facing Race Conference

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6 Signs Your Call-Out Isn’t Actually About Accountability

by Maisha Z. Johnson Original article found here No matter how long you’ve been politically conscious, you’ve probably figured out by now that activists are

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Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet

by Mia Mingus for the BATJC, June 2016. Original article found here During the spring of 2014 the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) began

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9 Ways to be Accountable When You’ve Been Abusive

by Kai Cheng Thom Original article found here As I sit in my bed and begin to type (beds are my favorite typing places), there

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BUILDING ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITIES

Featuring | Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby

Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm?

Tags: videos, anti-violence, kiyomi fujikawa, shannon perez-darby, community accountability Ethan Viets-VanLear is a part of Circles & Ciphers

Tags: restorative justice, circles, circles and ciphers, ethan viets van lear, harm, healing
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Community Accountability for Safety: Building Capacity to Make Sexual and Domestic Violence a Community Responsibility

by | CALCASA

Tags: webinar, criminalization, domestic violence, non profit, service, liberation, first responders
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Don't be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

By | BCRW and members of Project NIA

Created by BCRW and members of Project NIA, this video offers an abolitionist approach to bystander intervention that does not rely on the police.
The United States has a long history of violence against People of Color, disabled people, Muslims, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. In the current political moment, white supremacists and white nationalists have been emboldened. As a result, public attacks are on the rise. Many people aren't sure how to respond if they witness a racist or transphobic attack. This video provides some tips.
Connecting individual acts of violence to a broader systemic analysis, this video is intended to be a resource for activists, students, educators, and anyone who wants to interrupt the violence of white supremacy and anti-blackness.
Narrated by Aaryn Lang. Directed and produced by Lewis Wallace and Hope Dector. Tags:
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Creatively intervening in interpersonal and state violence

By | Dulwich Centre Foundation with Rachel Herzing
Rachel speaks from a community organizing perspective. She speaks about work that she has done to intervene in interpersonal harm as well as to end the violence of imprisonment and the violence of policing in the United States. She also talks about the liberation of black people.
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Case Studies

By | The Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

Your Friend Has Been Abused: What Do You Do?

By | A.V. Flox

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List of Resources on Rape and Accountability

List Compiled By | Anna

compiler's note: i created this resource list because i want transformative justice work to be sustainable, and i want to give credit to the healers that have come before me. the scope of this list is resources which are focused on the creation of new structures for dealing with rape and rape culture. if you have concerns, additions, questions, etc., contact me at anya.kark@gmail.com

On creating a world where we can hold each other accountable for sexual misconduct - PDFs

List Compiled By | Anna

compiler's note: i created this resource list because i want transformative justice work to be sustainable, and i want to give credit to the healers that have come before me. the scope of this list is resources which are focused on the creation of new structures for dealing with rape and rape culture. if you have concerns, additions, questions, etc., contact me at anya.kark@gmail.com

Resources for Organizing

By | INCITE!

INCITE! HISTORY: In 2000, INCITE! founders organized the “The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color” conference held at University of California-Santa Cruz on April 28-29. The primary goals of this conference were to (1) develop analyses and strategies around ending violence that place women of color at the center; (2) to address violence against women of color in all its forms, including attacks on immigrants’ rights and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, militarism, attacks on the reproductive rights of women of color, medical experimentation on communities of color, homophobia/heterosexism, and hate crimes against queer women of color, economic neo-colonialism, and institutional racism, and (3) to encourage the antiviolence movement to reinsert political organizing.

Summary Statement Re: Community Accountability Process (March 2017)

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Whose Security?

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Love the People Webinar Series

Webinar by | Aorta

AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training, and planning. We base our work on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression. For more on our framework, check out our Theory of Change.

Tags: sexual abuse, trauma, intervention, healing, community based strategies, harm

Overview of Just Beginnings Collaborative & PreventConnect Web Conference Series

By | PreventConnect

In January 2019, PreventConnect hosted a 3-part web conference series highlighting the work the Just Beginnings Collaborative fellows do to prevent child sexual abuse. The conversations that occurred during these web conferences hold immense value for the field of prevention. To facilitate continued learning, PreventConnect, along with Eb. Brown of the Just Beginnings Collaborative and the guest presenters from this web conference series, summarized key highlights and takeaways in the document “Overview of Just Beginnings Collaborative & PreventConnect Web Conference Series.”

Tags: community accountability, process, restoration, harm, accountability, sexual assault, chicago

artist protection network

By | Catherine Hernandez

As an author, Catherine Hernandez has endured countless incidents of stalking and harassment. While touring her book, she began speaking to her colleagues about her experiences and found out she was not alone. The members of this unfortunate club decided enough was enough. The Artist Protection Network is comprised of numerous international artists and event organizers who work together to create braver and safer spaces for artists to showcase their work, free from stalking and harassment.
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