0000446719 00000 n 0000029802 00000 n 0000020328 00000 n Editor’s note: Jayla Butler and Jordan Coley are editors on the Student Life staff. “I’m starting to question whether or not the education and the name of Wash. U. is enough to justify the cost, and I think a lot of people my age are also weighing that cost in their own personal lives, whether it’s deciding to take a gap year or take a semester off and work or just considering not coming back to school after this,” Morganfield said. 0000452614 00000 n Who “deserves” to be safe? 0000055847 00000 n . Watch the full webinar here. . “I think this is a really important moment for universities to assert that they have value and that they are committed to their students and their students’ pursuit of learning during this time, because I don’t think a lot of students are convinced that that is true.”. 0000056346 00000 n USGS Science to Keep Us Safe: Floods and Drought Release Date: September 23, 2020 The scarcity or overabundance of water presents some of the most dangerous, damaging and costly threats to human life, ecosystems and property in the form of drought, floods and debris flows. 0000002639 00000 n .
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This is a thoughtful book that takes a look at different tried and successful approaches to how we can keep all members of communities safe.
“We thought thought it was important to have some money stashed away in case things got difficult for Black students, so that they wouldn’t be faced with either homelessness or not having food, or—even if they got COVID—bills so that they could focus on school,” Allen-Coleman said.
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Norris draws on an amazing array of ideas and resources to show us that it is not walls and jails we need more of, but care, connection, and community.” - Annie Leonard, executive director, Greenpeace US, “A powerful book that is very much in the tradition of Ella Baker’s radical humanitarianism. Zach Norris outlines the difficulties and problems that have thwarted our safety in various avenues of daily life, justice, mental health, prison systems, rehabilitation, housing scarcity and educational divides. We Keep Us Safe identifies the roots of our fear, insecurity and vulnerability, offers a way forward together, and provides practical, workable strategies for public policy change. Them. “We Keep Us Safe” by Zach Norris Photo: Beacon Press In 2020, you’d be hard-pressed to find an American who doesn’t believe our country is broken in one way or another. Them PART I: THE UNSAFE WORLD CHAPTER 1 Who and What Harms Us CHAPTER 2 The Framework of Fear PART II: A VISION OF SAFETY CHAPTER 3 Addressing Harms CHAPTER 4 Preventing Harms PART III: REIMAGINED REALITIES CHAPTER 5 Allen and Durrell CHAPTER 6 Marlena and James CHAPTER 7 Anita CONCLUSION We the People Acknowledgments Notes Index, “An urgent call for safer, more inclusive communities for everyone . In recent months, dozens of new funds have popped up across the nation as communities seek to care for their own during the pandemic. 0000015929 00000 n 0000446646 00000 n “In his excellent new book, Zach Norris writes with insight, inspiring stories, and a vision that includes everyone—just what we need to move from fear to caring, and from a system of punishment to one of transformative justice. Adrienne Davis, vice provost of faculty affairs & diversity and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, said that she was “touched and inspired” that Allen-Coleman, Butler, Coley and their teammates took such initiative to serve their community.
Rejecting fear-based, revenge-based models of ‘justice,’ Norris’s work pays homage to an entire generation of activists who are not only clear about what they are against but who are collectively creating a vision and a practice of what the future could look like. A mutual aid fund run by and for Black students at Washington University has raised over $5,000 to alleviate financial pressures exacerbated by the pandemic. 0000448767 00000 n 0000041618 00000 n
Mutual aid funds have played an especially critical role in supporting activists of the Black Lives Matter movement. Middle school suggestion: Ask the students the question: “When we think of our lives, who keeps us safe?” Students at this age group will be able to discuss more intensive roles of the same people. 0000454821 00000 n 0000004252 00000 n 0000455003 00000 n Morganfield supported the mutual aid fund by collecting donations on her social media account. “I think that it’s an acknowledgement of the importance of community care and a spirit of collectivism that I don’t think has been super prominent on college campuses,” sophomore Kennedy Morganfield said.
The Free African Society, one of the first mutual aid funds in the United States, was formed in 1787 to provide aid to newly freed Black people so that they could gather strength and develop leaders in their community. We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities. He shows us the world that might be possible when we lead with empathy, when we humanize rather than criminalize each other, and when we seek restoration rather than retribution.
. The team of six received $2,200 after just one day of campaigning on the mutual aid fund’s Instagram page (@blackstudentmutualaidfund). %PDF-1.5 %���� “As an institution…we really try to pride ourselves on ensuring that all of our students have what they need to be not only academically successful, but to live thriving lives where food, housing and security are not something they have to really deal with or address while they are here.”. And perhaps most importantly, he gives us hope that it’s a world in which we might one day live.” - Jennifer Siebel Newsome, First Partner of California, filmmaker, and founder of the Representation Project, “Zach Norris [is] among the most promising leaders and thinkers of our time, wrestling with pressing questions at the intersection of racial and economic justice from a human rights perspective. We Keep Us Safe powerfully demonstrates that safety, freedom, and justice come from relationships, resources, and real accountability—not more punishment, police, and prisons.” - Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, “Zach Norris’s powerful book offers an inspiring blueprint for justice beyond prisons and courts—and paints a picture of a brighter future for all of us.” - Sally Kohn, author of The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity, “We Keep Us Safe is a profoundly important contribution to our thinking about what safety is, what’s undermining it, and how to advance it.
0000056700 00000 n “Because as a minority on campus, and as a minority in general, a lot of times our needs aren’t met and [are] not put at the forefront.”. We Keep Us Safe identifies the roots of our fear, insecurity and vulnerability, offers a way forward together, and provides practical, workable strategies for public policy change.
0000035893 00000 n He reaches back in time—how did we get here?—and he reaches forward, envisioning a compassionate future that promises much greater safety, particularly for all those who are most vulnerable in today’s world.” - From the foreword by Van Jones, author of Rebuild the Dream, Price:
We Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. 0000452237 00000 n 0000023255 00000 n “At the end of the day, they have certain bills they’re trying to pay…That’s not necessarily to pass judgement on the individual administrators of Wash. U., but to speak in general about the way capitalism works, is that it [prioritizes] profit over people at all times and…that is an inherently unsustainable existence, especially for the most marginalized.”. This is where real safety begins.We Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The University has increased its tuition by 3.8% for the 2020-21 school year as well as increasing room and board expenses, while failing to provide any additional financial aid to students since the Crisis Response Fund for Students ended in early May. Following the announcement of the “WashU Together” plan on July 31, which left many upperclassmen suddenly facing a lack of housing security for the fall, sophomore Aaliyah Allen-Coleman organized a group of fellow Black students to create the Black Student Mutual Aid Fund (BSMAF). The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized, so they can participate fully in life, in society, and in the fabric of our democracy. 0000014555 00000 n 0000044283 00000 n 0000454887 00000 n “It was important to me personally that this was a Black student mutual aid because that meant that I knew that Black students who are in vulnerable positions were being taken care of [and] they were the priority,” Allen-Coleman said. 0000458396 00000 n We Keep Us Safe identifies the roots of our fear, insecurity and vulnerability, offers a way forward together, and provides practical, workable strategies for public policy change.
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