Whose Security is it Anyway ?
Guide sur la violence institutionnelle à l’encontre des racisé.e.s ou LGBT & « sécurisation » dans les centres sociaux/de soin
▻http://www.thepicis.org/whose-security
The non-profit industrial complex increasingly governs the lives of marginalized young people who are being criminalized by institutions like schools, hospitals, detention centers, and correctional facilities. Young people in group homes, at drop in centers, in homeless shelters, and recreational facilities are finding highly securitized spaces that are quick to punish and expel them. Our current social context is characterized by heightened racialized surveillance and increasing state violence particularly against people of color.
Institutional violence within community centers, healthcare organizations, and social services, in concert with the “helping” industry’s increasing collusion with and reliance on law enforcement, fuels the prison pipeline.
In response to pervasive institutional violence and increasing policing, surveillance, and targeting of queer and TGNB (trans and gender non-binary) youth of color, street-based youth, and youth experiencing homelessness, Project NIA created a toolkit to share strategies of resistance to the increased securitization of non-profit spaces. We hope our experiences, which are specific, activate organizations and the individuals working within them to reflect and take action, implementing both short- and long-term strategies to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence.
Working in collaboration with youth workers from across Chicago, this toolkit evolved from practicing violence prevention in complex spaces, youth and adult workshops, thousands of conversations, meetings convened from organizational crisis due to the impact of policing and surveillance, strategies used at the Broadway Youth Center (BYC), and research released by Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP) and Project NIA.
