Support our Community Safety and Cop-watch Patrols

We Must Control Public Safety in our Communities Support CMB - Community Open House [View this email in your browser]( [Support CMB's work! Donate now or become a sustainer for $10 a month.]( [Support our Community Safety and Cop Watch Patrols]( to create an environment that fosters self-determination, unity, and love. Patrols will provide an opportunity for community members to get to know and work with each other, and to develop leadership and conflict prevention/de-escalation/resolution skills. Patrols will also prevent police harassment by shining a spotlight on policing activities, by raising community member’s awareness and assertion of their rights and creating a buffer that reduces entanglement with the criminal justice system. CMB’s Patrols are a necessary component of our advocacy for community control over policing in poor and working-class Black communities in southwest Atlanta and beyond. Our goal is for CMB Patrols to be a replicable model for all of our chapters and other organizations seeking to facilitate community control over public safety. We are raising resources to train and hire young adults from the community in our Safety Patrols. Our vision, once the Patrols have become stable is to create an elected board of residents to govern the program, giving the community direct power over public safety in their neighborhood. [Why We are Doing It]( We believe the key to combatting police violence and enhancing safety is local community control over public safety. The missing equation in most efforts to transform the criminal justice system is the shifting of power to community members. Our project initiates and supports community members’ direct involvement in aspects of public safety in order to reduce and eliminate the reliance on external forces. Patrols will shift the perception of and reduce the likeliness of harmful behavior in the community. Patrols will also identify and address emerging conflicts, thus reducing the reliance on external policing institutions. We also believe that we must foster the internal conditions necessary to enhance safety as we shift control over institutions that govern and police the community. Thus, CMB also works to enhance overall wellness in the community. Our mutual aid programs increase access to fresh produce, toiletries, and recreational activities. This project will enhance community wellness by grounding community safety in methods that include de-escalation, conflict resolution, trauma recovery, harm-reduction, and effective communication. The Patrols will model respectful communication and collaboration between community members. Who Are We We are an independent and autonomous national formation with chapters in Atlanta, Dallas, and Detroit. We don't expect the entities that have caused our problems to fix them, instead, with your investment we will create our own solutions and model them for our larger community. - [Anti Gentrification Campaign]( - [Siafu Youth]( - [Farmers Market]( - [Community Garden]( - [Community House/Mission]( - [Renegade Culture Podcast]( - [Community Stabilization Fund]( The communities we are based in is in the early stages of [gentrification](. Without strong programs and organizing the community will not be able to fight this trend. We organize our own Afrikan rights of passage program for youth called [Siafu Youth Corps]( We have a farmers market and community garden as part of our[food sustainability program](. The CMB community house also hosts community organizations and meetings, work-force housing for Black urban-farmers; a home-schooling program for youth, [AJCLLC]( A food cooperative the [West Atlanta food-cooperative]( The development of our podcast [Renegade Culture](. [Remember Your Donations Go to Support Self-Determining Work]( Sincerely yours, Kamau Franklin, Founder of Community Movement Builders [Support CMB's work! Donate now, or become a sustainer for $10 a month.]( [Support CMB's work! Donate now, or become a sustainer for $10 a month.]( [Visit us on Facebook!]( [Visit our website!](www.communitymovementbuilders.org) [Email us!](mailto:communitymovementbuilders@gmail.co) [Instagram]( Copyright © 2019 Community Movement Builders, Inc., All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](