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Audre Lorde Project Audre Lorde Project Collective Safe OUTside the System System Collective Because everyone deserves to be safe! safe! to be deserves The Safe OUTside the The Safe a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, r People of Color center of Color r People d economic justice. Com- d economic About the Audre Lorde Project About the Audre The Audre Lorde Project is Audre Lorde The Two Spirit and Transgende for community organizing,focusing onNew the York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building,work for communitywe wellness and progressive social an to we seek differences, across mitted to struggling responsibly represent reflect, andour serve various communities The Safe OUTside the System Collective OUTside the System The Safe C/o the Audre Lorde Project 85 S. Oxford St. 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11216 22 (718) 596– 0342 x Phone (718) 596-1328Fax: Email: [email protected] Please Please

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The Safe OUTside the System Collective works to challenge hate and police violence that affects Coalition Work: We were a founding mem- The Safe Neighborhood Campaign seeks to LGBTSTGNC people of color. We are guided ber of the people of color led Coalition empower community members to be proac- by the belief that strategies that increase the po- Against Police Brutality (CAPB). tive in preventing anti-lgbtst violence, inter- lice presence and the criminalization of our com- vene when violent situations arise, and build munities ( i.e. hate violence legislation) do not Through CAPB we participated in People’s stronger relationships between LGBTST create safety because they do not change behav- Justice 2000 – 41 days of direct action in people of color, our allies and the commu- ior. Therefore we believe in building stronger wake of Diallo & Louima nity as a whole. relationships within our communities and with our allies to prevent, intervene, and challenge Racial Justice Day – an annual event where The first phase of the Safe Neighborhood violence. family members speak out against police Campaign is to challenge community institu- brutality and murder (through CAPB) tions (restaurants, schools, churches, com- munity organizations, businesses, etc) to Third World Within (TWW) – citywide become safe spaces. Safe Spaces would be History coalition of people of color led community- visibly identified spaces that pledge to be based organizations free of violence and sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist language and be- The Safe OUTside the System Collective LGBT War on Terrorism National Meetings havior. (formerly known as the Working Group on Po- WGPV worked with other LGBT organiza- lice & State Violence) began in 1997 in response tions to build a national voice against the war The second phase of the Safe Neighborhood to a rash of hate violence, increasingly repres- and created the LGBT Statement Against War Campaign entails the leadership develop- sive law enforcement tactics, an increase of po- on Terrorism. ment phase during which time community lice violence, and the “Quality of Life” policing members and owners/employees from the practices of the Giuliani administration. We Racial Justice 911 – National Coalition of designated Safe Spaces will receive training changed our name to the S.O.S. Collective in POC groups against War on Terror. A coor- on homophobia, transphobia, how to be an 2005 in order to reflect our shifting focus on dinated day of action which included a Com- effective ally, community organizing across community based strategies to challenge vio- munity Speakout, and multiple days of direct differences, and other basic community or- lence outside of the criminal justice system action during the Republican National ganizing trainings. Convention. Summary of Past Work The third phase of the Safe Neighborhood Advocacy: We secured legal support for JaLea Operation Homeland Resistance – 3 days of Campaign will have empowered community Lamot a Trans Woman of color who, along with civil disobedience in protest of occupation of members and Safe Space advocates recruit- her family, was brutally attacked and then ar- Iraq and war at home and abroad ing additional community members, institu- rested by NYCHA police. tions, and public figures into the cam- paign. At this juncture, we will organize Organizing: After two youth were arrested various community events in order to bring while marching with us at the Heritage of Pride additional attention to the campaign and help Parade in 2006 we organized several demonstra- it to grow exponentially across all areas of tions, secured legal representation, and organ- Brooklyn. ized community support to challenge the NYPD’s excessive policing practices at Heritage The Safe Neighborhood Campaign will of Pride. launch in the Fall of 2007 with a Stop the