REP is an abolitionist tool and strategy built on our shared love of our people, Black liberation and a commitment to ending all forms of oppression.

Twin Cities Dakota homelands
Joined March 2021
BREAKING🚨: Edgardo Mejia, 39, died at the Rikers Island jail complex at about 5 pm today becoming the 19th person to die this year after being held in the city’s jails. Detainees notified officers that he was unwell. Narcan was administered. He had been at the jail for 2 months.
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Welcome to Black August, a time for reverence and appreciation for Black revolutionaries of present and past. Throughout the month we will be uplifting Black folks who have fought against the state and carceral violence.
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For the first time in 2 years, we gathered to hear from our grantee partners on the front lines and to celebrate our donor community. We heard from grantee partners @AwoodMpls and @REPforMN and greeted community after 2 years apart. We hope you can join us for future events!
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@REPforMN is accepting applications through 7/14 for its CARER (Community Aid Resourcing & Emergency Response) training program. REP is an “abolitionist strategy that supports neighbors in moments of crisis.” For more information, kindly visit: linktr.ee/REPMN
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Liberated to the Bone by @SusanRaffo 

 Newest title in the Emergent Strategy, this book addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our relationship within systems and structures that are shaped by violence.

 akpress.org/liberated-to-the…
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In honor of #SAAM2022, please join us & @projectnia this Thursday, April 28 at 6:30 PM ET for this workshop facilitated by @prisonculture on using poetry as an anti-violence intervention. Close captioning & ASL interpretation provided. Register: eventbrite.com/e/giving-name… #SAAM2022
Great opportunity to work with some great people repformn.org/get-involved/wo…
REP is seeking to build 2 MORE ROLES to support us for showing for community members with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of others guided by our core values. If that feels aligned with you or someone you know, check it out: repformn.org/get-involved/wo…
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Explore questions like: What is justice? How can we address violence in non-punitive ways? How do carceral systems impact people who cause harm & who have been harmed? Check out resources from the "Two Sides of Justice" curriculum #BYAT session: abolitionist.tools/Two-Sides… #SAAM2022
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Curious about the work @REPforMN is doing to build safe, resourced, and connected communities? Join them this month to learn about Radical Ecosystem Pods, connect with community, and workshop safety scenarios thru an abolitionist lens! Register: eventbrite.com/e/root-studio…
dear beloved community, REP is holding our first spring Root Studio. As a reminder these are opportunities to connect with community and engage in the work. Tickets here : eventbrite.com/.../root-stud…. Limited space to foster great conversations.
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In the 1980s, the United States saw a boom in the War on Drugs. Since its inception, Black people of all genders have been incarcerated at obscene rates due to drug related offenses.
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REP ForMN retweeted
"The community-based approach centers those closest to and most impacted by harm, honors their expertise, and builds collective knowledge and power as the solution to violence.” - from the @CIToolkit; more in the interview:
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Less than half of #DV survivors ever call or report to the police in the first place, and that # is even lower for survivors of sexual assault. Reliance on policing leaves most survivors behind; worse, it further harms & criminalizes survivors. bit.ly/DVPolice #SAAM2022
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On this day in 1967: Black leaders in Pittsburgh create Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances. It became a nationwide model. Now imagine if we could get the cops out of all the other tasks that don't need a badge and a gun, too...
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This is how I’ll continue to travel! Those mandates mean nothing when it comes to me and mine. 💯 Two masks.
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"The hypothesis is simple. We can do it better and we know that the state's been doing it horribly." -Signe Harriday of @REPforMN #1MExperiments
The latest episode of our #1MExperiments podcast with @projectnia and @airgoradio, features a conversation Signe Harriday of @REPforMN, an abolitionist network showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect. Tune in: bit.ly/1MEPodcast
The latest episode of our #1MExperiments podcast with @projectnia and @airgoradio, features a conversation Signe Harriday of @REPforMN, an abolitionist network showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect. Tune in: bit.ly/1MEPodcast
Abolition is the only justice. #AmirLocke
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Don't forget to join us this weekend, April 8-10, for the Abolition is Feminism, Feminism is Abolition conference! Free and open to the public, but you must register. Please register for each day separately: eventbrite.com/cc/abolition-… For the full lineup: colleges.claremont.edu/ifc/a…
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Our latest release! Vol 6 provides an overview of @REPforMN, whose work emerged as a community crisis response. Grounded in Black liberation, radical consent, and ancestral knowledge, REP's vision is that "all communities thrive when our needs are met." bit.ly/1MEZine6
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