From Juntos (http://vamosjuntos.org/):
It was almost exactly a year ago that Juntos launched our Community Resistance Zone (CRZ) in the heart of South Philadelphia. We envisioned what a CRZ could be—an entire neighborhood that knew their rights and was committed to defending the rights of their neighbors in the event of a raid by ICE or misconduct by police.
Over two weekends, we trained and mobilized hundreds of committed volunteers—community members and allies—to go door to door, block by block, speaking to neighbors and building resistance against abuse by police or ICE.
Soon other communities across the state and the country were reaching out, wondering how to create Community Resistance Zones in their cities. We partnered with Casa San Jose in Pittsburgh to lead trainings and others across the state, including our partners Vietlead and Asian Americans United. With the demand to build resistance, we knew we needed to publish our Community Resistance Zones Training Manual.
We wrote and designed—and freely share—this training curriculum in hopes that it can help build community power anywhere where racial profiling, unjust raids and police brutality threaten our neighborhoods.
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