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Abolition movement to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable intervention. upendmovement.org
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upEND Movement @upendmovement.org · Nov 22
Catch up on recently released episodes of The upEND Podcast Season 2!

We have one more episode premiering next week before we take a winter break. upendmovement.org/podcast/
The upEND Podcast thumbnail features illustrations of different parents on a blue and green background. The first episode of the season is Becoming Internationalists with Nadia Ben-Youseff and Tarek Ismail. The second episode is The Real Cost of Prisons with Bianca Tylek. The latest episode is a live recording of the podcast called In Solidarity that featured guest host Corey Best.
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And… we’re on Substack!

We’re in the process of migrating our newsletter to Substack so we can expand our reach and make our work more easily accessible. Check out our first post and subscribe to our new email newsletter!

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New Zine Explains Family Policing Abolition
January 2026 Newsletter
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February 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Bringing back this older episode The upEND Podcast with @silkys13.bsky.social because we need to stay really clear about our demands for #Abolition. #AbolishICE
Unbuild Walls | The upEND Podcast Season 2, Episode 4 - upEND Movement
Season 2, Episode 4
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January 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Season 3 of The upEND Podcast starts NOW featuring an introduction by our friend and co-author Angela Burton!

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Reclaiming Safety | The upEND Podcast Season 3, Episode 1 - upEND Movement
Season 3, Episode 1
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January 30, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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We love seeing our zine out in the wild! It can be made with one sheet of paper, scissors, and staples. It’s a colorful way to start conversations with friends about what true safety can look like without the #FamilyPolicingSystem. upendmovement.org/zine
A gloved hand holds copies of upEND’s zine in front of a little library on the sidewalk. The interior of the library box holds zines, books, and a flyer for a fundraiser for Gaza families where people can purchase books, crafts and more.
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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The same structures that separate families through incarceration and ICE are connected to the #FamilyPolicingSystem. The whole carceral web needs to be dismantled for our communities to be safe and whole. #AbolishICE #Abolition

Read the full zine: upendmovement.org/zine 🔗
The family policing system is just one part of the carceral web. From incarceration to borders to family policing, we oppose the surveillance and state-sanctioned separation of children from their families in all forms. Collage image shows a Black mother with an infant, a police officer, and an illustration of a watchful eye.
January 18, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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The child welfare system doesn’t help families. We more accurately call it the family policing system.

Read the full zine: upendmovement.org/zine/
The child welfare system doesn’t help families. We more accurately call it the family policing system. This collage features news articles about the child welfare system tearing families apart and shows a picture of a Black mother holding an infant.
January 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Check out our new zine, “Abolish the Family Policing System.” ✂️ A printable version is available on our website for sharing with friends and neighbors. upendmovement.org/zine/
New upEND Zine! You can read it in a few minutes. Download a printable copy. Get an intro to family policing abolition. upendmovement.org/zine The cover of the zine says Abolish the Family Policing System in a collage style with lime green and black and white elements.
January 15, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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upEND Movement, MJCF Coalition, and Mothers Outreach Network signed onto an amicus brief to appeal the decisions in the State v. Nieves and State v. Cifelli, and the appeal was upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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Amicus Brief Successful in New Jersey Supreme Court - upEND Movement
These cases highlight the intersections of family policing, the criminal legal system, and the inherent violence of mandated reporting.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Join Zoe Bambara and Dr. Mali Collins to discuss framing the Reproductive Jusice Movement for 2026. Dr. Collins is the author of Scrap Theory which discusses how the archival erasure of Black motherhood is an urgent concern.

December 13, 6:30pm
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November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Join @haymarketbooks.org for a virtual book launch of "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action” with featured speakers Dorothy Roberts, Andrea Ritchie, and Erin Miles Cloud.

📅 December 1
🕐4-5:30 pm ET
🔗 Register: www.howtoendfamilypolicing.com/events
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Despite the struggles the community faces at Montrose Grace Place, it’s a JOYFUL place. ❤️ Love is contagious there.

And we hope you’ll get to experience it through the portrait of the youth featured in upEND’s short doc #AVisionOfGrace. buff.ly/EtK0G9t
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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International experts are now echoing what U.S. communities have been saying for generations: children and families deserve support, not surveillance. Read the full report:
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November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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"One of the most important systems of control and mass separation is hidden in plain sight: the child welfare system.” @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/ice...
ICE Agents Are Using Family Separation Tactics Central to US State Violence
The US’s family policing system honed many of the tactics now being used by ICE agents in Chicago.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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upEND advocates for the complete #Abolition of what you many know as the 'child welfare system'. But we understand it more accurately as the #FamilyPolicingSystem because that’s how it functions.
Abolish the Family Policing System. Features images of Black and Latine families with a greyscale image of a woman holding a clipboard. The child welfare system doesn’t help families. It separates, surveils, and punishes them. That’s why we more accurately call it the family policing system. Image features a judges gavel with a lime green X crossing it out.
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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upEND’s Josie Pickens writes for @newsoneofficial.bsky.social about a Michigan mother charged with “food stamp fraud.” When a mom trying to feed her kids gets criminalized, that’s not justice. That’s surveillance, control, and punishment wrapped in the language of “help.” newsone.com/6490272/mich...
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Ten Books to Get To Know Me (upEND edition) 📚

And if you want to learn more about #FamilyPolicing and #Abolition, we have a whole #syllabus on our website. upendmovement.org/syllabus/
1. Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition by Alan Dettlaff 2. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts 3. The School for Good Mothers: A Novel by Jessamine Chan 4. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian 5. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell 6. We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba 7. We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson 8. Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts 9. The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice by Geoff K. Ward 10. Border and Rule by Harsha Walia
October 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Introducing Kyra Lewis from the Healthy and Free Tennessee Youth Council. 🎤 We are energized by the passion and ideas these young people have for building a future without #FamilyPolicing! #Abolition
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Yesterday we joined the Healthy and Free Tennessee Youth Council for a Family Policing Abolition 101 workshop. The brilliance and courage of these young leaders reminds us how important it is to listen to and learn from youth who are system impacted. ❤️ 🔥
September 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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This year Haywood County, NC ADDED over $1 million to its #FamilyPolicing budget. Imagine what that money could do to support families instead. #Defund
The kids aren't OK: Foster care costs rising with no end in sight
This year Haywood added over $1 million to its foster care budget, by far the biggest increase in county expenses, but the reason is anything but simple.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A federal suit was filed against Georgia's Department of Human Services on behalf of Annalinda Martinez, a mother who lost custody of six daughters in 2018. Since then, the state has charged her nearly $500 a month to keep them in the foster system.
Legal Challenge in GA Targets Billing Parents for Foster Care
A Georgia mother whose poverty led to the loss of her children is challenging the state’s practice of billing poor parents for foster care.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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New Mexico will become the first state in the country to begin offering free universal child care. Starting in November, the state will offer child care, or reimbursement for child care costs, to every family in the state, regardless of income.
New Mexico to become the first state to offer universal child care
The program may offer a blueprint for other states on an issue that was prominent during the 2024 campaign.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Decades before the pandemic made isolation and alienation a mainstream concern, it was already central to how my family and countless other families had experienced the family policing system,” writes Courtnie McMillan.
Pandemic Lockdown Traumas Were Temporary. Child Welfare Traumas Have Lasting Effects. — Center for New York City Affairs
The isolation and alienation so many faced during Covid-19 are all too familiar to families entangled in the child protective system.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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"No pasarán!" Check out this collection of resources from @interruptcrim.bsky.social on keeping ICE out of schools. 🚌🍎📚 buff.ly/C36wrwb
No Pasaran, ICE out of our schools and communities
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Once again the thing that always works wherever it's tried works in the place where it was tried.
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A guaranteed income program has been life-changing for Philly moms.

“It would stop DHS from taking our children. Because by us not having the money, they consider us in poverty, so they’re saying it’s neglect, and they’re taking our kids." resolvephilly.org/gih/philly-j...
A guaranteed income program has been life-changing for Philly moms. If expanded, it could change lives in Germantown. - Resolve Philly
The Philly Joy Bank gives pregnant moms $1,000 a month to ease financial strain and improve birth outcomes. Should Germantown be next?
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September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Reminder: most adoptees and foster youth are removed from their families due to racism and classism, not abuse.

Not unwanted.

Stolen.
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A guaranteed income program has been life-changing for Philly moms.

“It would stop DHS from taking our children. Because by us not having the money, they consider us in poverty, so they’re saying it’s neglect, and they’re taking our kids." resolvephilly.org/gih/philly-j...
A guaranteed income program has been life-changing for Philly moms. If expanded, it could change lives in Germantown. - Resolve Philly
The Philly Joy Bank gives pregnant moms $1,000 a month to ease financial strain and improve birth outcomes. Should Germantown be next?
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September 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM