For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re sharing books that affirm Black life, challenge oppression, and help us imagine freedom.

Read Black women. Keep their stories in circulation. Find our full reading list on Instagram @harrietsdreams. Which Black woman writer changed how you see the world?

We deserve a DC where our people are safe and free.

Come to The Power Is Ours Summit + Festival for cop watch training and connect with 50+ organizations doing the work + a TOB concert

Oct. 12 @ The Wharf 11AM-6PM
www.antiracistdc.org/thepowerisours

Join Chocolate City Free DC tonight at 6:30 PM for a conversation about Home Rule, Black political power, and how to get involved.

Food provided during the first hour, plus Free DC T-shirts for the first 20 through the door!

RSVP for location: bit.ly/freedc_cc

Defending DC means defending our right to determine our future.

Join Chocolate City @freedcproject.bsky.social with Cora Masters-Barry & Leslie E. Redmond for a conversation on Black political power, voting rights & DC Home Rule.

Oct. 5, 6:30 PM
bit.ly/freedc_cc

When we don’t answer our jury summons, the decisions still get made. They just get made without us.

Learn about the power jurors hold, why your voice and lived experience matters in the jury room.

Jury Information Project Training
TODAY, Sept. 28th @ 6 PM
Register: BIT.LY/JURY-PROJECT
#Juryduty

What does abolition really mean? Join us for Abolition 101: Break the System, Not the Vibe. Learn why we fight to abolish systems of punishment, not reform them.

Tues. 9/8 @ 7PM | Virtual
Register: www.mobilize.us/hwd/event/608453/

The lockup list is steadily increasing, and we know what can happen when there are no community eyes in the courtroom.

Join our virtual #CourtWatchDC training TONIGHT at 7 PM to learn how to observe, document and bear witness.

No legal experience needed.

Register: mobilize.us/hwd

One year into the federal occupation of DC, we know what the state brings: more police, more surveillance, more arrests, more cages.

Join us TODAY, 8/15 @ 1 PM, for Copwatch Training.

Get skilled up to watch the watchers. Copwatch is community defense.

Register: mobilize.us/HWD