Weekly Digest: July 8th
What’s up!!!
We are less than a week away from our Community Picnic on Saturday, July 13th from 10am-2pm at Hargraves Community Park (216 N Roberson St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516)! Bring a friend! Carpool! We miss your faces! We will have snacks and drinks.
Opportunities/Upcoming Events/Ways to Get Involved
Join El Futuro es Nuestro, SAF, and Durham Revolutionary Study Group for Ni Una Vida Mas on Sunday, July 14th from 1:30-5:30pm at the People’s Solidarity Hub in Durham, an afternoon of community, food, and discussion about farmworkers’ rights after heat-related deaths and labor abuses in North Carolina’s agricultural fields. There will also be a collection drive for ibuprofen, reusable ice packs, bandanas, pedialyte, and liquid IV — supplies needed to make heat protection care packs.
Prison Books Collective, a community partner sending free books to incarcerated folks in North Carolina and Alabama, is in need of monetary donations to support their work. They use these donations for postage, supply costs, utilities, special book requests, and data storage. You can support them through Venmo @prisonbooks.
Durham Workers: Durham Workers are calling on Duke to pay $50 million in lieu of property taxes they don’t pay in the form of voluntary payments to Durham to redress longstanding wrongs and address underpaid public schools, city workers, and ongoing displacement. Sign their petition at dukerespectdurham.org
RAD Arts NC is hosting an interactiveworkshop on leveraging Art and Oral History for Activism on Sunday, July 14th from 3-4pm at RUMAH (Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub).
CH Community Fridge: Do you know anyone interested in hosting a 24/7 access community fridge outside of their building? The Mutual Aid Working Group at the Campus Y is looking for a location to expand their fridge system to. The fridge will be maintained weekly by volunteers. Contact unc.mawg@gmail.com or @chcommunityfridge on Instagram.
Support the African National Women’s Organization’s Liberation center, and their need to raise $15,000 by the end of July. Their work supports working-class African women and organizing against the oppression of African women. Learn more and donate at bit.ly/ANWOCenter1.
Join Tabadul Collective for Aflam al Sudan, a short films screening and fundraiser event for Sudan on August 5th from 6-9pm at Perfect Lovers in Durham. 100% of ticket and merch sales will benefit the Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA)! Link to register is in their bio on instagram.
Mutual Aid Requests
Black man in the gentrified south seeking housing aid after surviving incarceration. Venmo/Cashapp: deerbythetree
Support Oshun, a neurodivergent Black trans woman and community member being displaced by gentrification in NYC. Cashapp: $boom3rbows3r
Local Happenings & Recent Events
On July 4th, community members gathered at Dorothea Dix Park to distribute educational materials and protest the fireworks show organized by Gregory Poole Equipment Company, the sole CAT Construction Equipment dealer in North Carolina. CAT is a BDS target and directly arming the genocidal state of israel with equipment needed to demolish Palestinian homes.
We have also previously compiled a list of resources related to abolition and community care; feel free to access it here if you would like to learn more.
As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, do not hesitate to reach out to us through email, groupme, and/or DM ❤
Peace, Love, & Abolition,
CJAA Exec
CJAA (Community Justice, Abolition, & Antiracism collective) is an abolitionist, student-led movement agitating against the carceral state, prison-industrial complex, zionism, policing, white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism, and all forms of oppression — in UNC, Amerikkka, and abroad. We are dedicated to local action and community justice as tools for building a world in which carcerality is obsolete. We hold firmly that our criminal legal system is the result of a white supremacist state that is not broken but is working precisely as intended. As a community of Queer, BIPOC, and marginalized peoples, we work to actively dismantle this white supremacist system, while creating equitable systems of justice and a world based in empathy and compassion. We hold true that awareness is most powerful when acted upon. We are committed to not only calling on people in positions of power, but on ourselves to do the work necessary to change our immediate community. We aim to cultivate a space that allows for vulnerability and growth while acknowledging the value of impact over intentions. CJAA views itself as a movement within the larger movement for liberation around the world, and we acknowledge that our work is interconnected in the fight against all forms of oppression)
