Racial Justice Action Team-Why Are We Here?
General Principles:
1. We seek to make our community safer and counter white supremacy, via reimagining public safety and encouraging police reform.
❖ Support the demilitarization of police & sheriff departments, via enactment and implementation of national, California and local legislation. The key focus this year is to support the implementation of the Care First, Jails Last Policy in Alameda County, Interfaith Movement prison reduction campaign and the implementation of the CA law AB 481.
❖ Support meaningful law enforcement reform that shifts police and sheriff resources and function to better meet the public safety needs of the community. (Care not cops- using mental health services is one example).
❖ Support reimagining public safety efforts across the area served by BFM, including the Berkeley Reimagining Public Safety Task Force, to ensure implementation and accountability.
2. We sponsor racial justice education and engagement, including book study, study in action, workshop/forums, threshing sessions, and regular Team meetings.
3. We oppose deportation of undocumented persons (including the family separation) residing in the USA, support severance of cooperation between local detention facilities and ICE, including holds, notification, and transfers by local law enforcement; and support closure of prisons and jails as immigration detention facilities.
4. We support advocacy for immigrant rights in the USA.