Durham Beyond Policing

📣 Tell the Durham City Council NO to expanding surveillance in our city, NO to wasting taxpayer dollars!

📍 The next council meeting is this Monday, June 1st - 7pm at 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham, NC. We need community members showing up to let the council know that continuing to pour millions into surveillance is unacceptable. Please give public comment. You can signup in advance at tinyurl.com/durham-public-comment or arrive at 6:30pm to sign-up in-person. If you cannot speak please email your comments beforehand.

💵 Budgets are moral documents, continuing to invest more into policing instead of the people that make this city function is a shame. Our money should be prioritizing paying workers a livable wage, invest more into housing & other gaps our people desperately need support navigating.

❌ NO to more policing & ✅ YES to our people!

Join us for a community conversation on Saturday, May 16th from 3-5pm at (220 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701) to reflect on the HEART program & discuss the future of community-based safety in our city!

Learn with us at these 2 upcoming Community Design events focused on growing our capacities to care for one another!

⛑️ Sat., April 11th from 2-5pm at NorthStar Church (220 W Geer St, Durham, NC) | Gunshot Wound Workshop - learn how to respond to gunshot wounds

🧠 Weds., April 15th from 5:30-7:30pm at NorthStar | Wellness Wednesday - discuss what’s happening in our community and vision what wellness spaces can look like

Let’s grow our relationships with one another and build our skills for the sake of more safety in our communities! All ages welcome. Food and masks provided.

   

Join us tomorrow evening as we come together around the creation of a Real violence intervention plan that centers Community! We know what we need and How we need it.. and since the Mayor "doesnt know what to do"..lets make it clear for him! Food & childcare provided. Peace & Love, See You There💙✊🏾

Fact: Local elections matter & can most directly impact our daily lives here in Durham!

Fact: It’s the last week of Early Voting here in the Bull City!

Fact: Our Nothin But Facts Campaign is having a Community Block party this upcoming Tues, Sept.30th & Thurs, Oct.2nd, from 4-6pm at the East Durham Library (211 Lick Creek Lane, Durham). Come out to dance, chat with neighbors & enjoy free food from (we will be there rain or shine)!

The Nothin But Facts Campaign is an effort to let community know they have power in the local elections and to inform them of what’s going on in this election. We are not affiliated with nor are supporting any candidate.

🌍 We’re hiring!

Durham Beyond Policing is looking for a Co-Director to lead our organization. We want someone that has experience building & implementing narrative as well as fundraising strategies. 

🔹 Full-time
🔹 Durham, NC (Hybrid)
🔹$60K + (based on experience)
🔹 Rolling application, priority given to those received by September 5th

📧 Apply via Idealist at: bit.ly/DBP-CoDirector (link in bio)

Let’s build a Durham that’s beyond policing—together. ✊🏾

Israel’s ongoing deliberate starvation of over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza has created famine conditions that grow increasingly dire. Deaths continue to rise at an alarming rate. The U.S., despite having the power to stop the famine, continues to unabashedly support and permit the Israeli government to starve Gaza. We must respond with renewed, escalated action and calls for immediate restoration of the flow of humanitarian aid, and an end to the genocide.

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Durham Beyond Policing joins the Triangle chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace in a rolling solidarity fast and calls for Senator Thom Tillis to use his power as the chair of the Senate Human Rights Caucus to:

1. Vote to support S.Res.224 and SB898 to restore funding for UNRWA and deliver urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza, and
2. Prevent future weapons sales to Israel.

We are all obligated to speak up and cry out: LET GAZA LIVE.

Join us in taking action and/or joining our ongoing solidarity fast at the link in bio or: jvptriangle.org/letgazalive

 

🛼 Come roll with us on Tuesday, August 19th from 6-8:30pm at Wheels Durham (715 N Hoover Rd) for food, skating, & learning together!

Learn about our conversations with Durham neighbors about safety in our communities & inform how we implement solutions together. There will also be some back to school supplies so be sure to bring the kids. Save the date & share with those you know! 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

To save time, we encourage you to sign your waiver before you come to Wheels via unitedskates.com - you can also do so when you arrive.

   

✊🏾 Gather with us for fun & learning on Tuesday, June 17th from 6-8pm at Wheels Durham (715 N Hoover Rd)! Here we will have free food & skating for the 1st 100 youth. We will share more about what we’ve heard about community-led safety from our neighbors interviewed through the East Durham Community Design Project.

The themes of what came up focused on creating more youth programming, tending to gun violence & addressing the housing crisis in Durham. Do you have any ideas or resources related to any of these 3 themes? Share what you have in the comments below! 👀💬

Be sure to save the date & share with those you know!     

Gather with us for a Really Really Free Market for Kids this Saturday, May 31st from 10am-12noon at 305 East Main St, Durham, NC 27701. There will be toys, books, clothes & food!

Reach out to if you have donations to offer. Share this post, esp to any folks with kids you know!

Shoutout to the growing list of groups that are helping make this possible: