Facilitated By: Nick Berkley, Kiyanna Baylock, & Andrea Ritchie

Audience: Open to Everyone

What does it take to build new worlds while transforming the conditions we live in now?

Our 90 minute experimental facilitation and container invites comrades and communities to explore Milwaukee Beyond Policing through a multi-issue, Black, radical community centered approach to community safety/deference, collective healing, and liberation. Grounded in the work of Black, Trans Organizers within Sun-Seeker MKE, we will explore how communities can build infrastructures of care and safety without the cops and address the interconnected conditions impacting our neighborhoods: from food access and crisis response to violence prevention, grief, and collective healing.

Using our hyperlocal, block by block framework, that activates and reinvest in radical political education and practical skills, participants will move through an interactive “Science Fair” featuring practical tools and approaches for community based safety and care. Fair stations include pod mapping and neighborhood relationship-building, Stop the Bleed, deescalation, harm reduction, and transformative/non-carceral justice practices. Participants will then enter a facilitated community grief space, learning the foundations of circle keeping and exploring how grief & care circles can support collective healing, accountability, and connection in their own communities.

We'll draw inspiration from Audre Lorde’s multi issue approach, recognizing that racial justice and liberation require us to build across interconnected struggles rather than addressing issues in isolation.Participants will leave with practical frameworks, skills, and questions they can bring back to their neighborhoods, pods, and communities as we reimagine and practice formations of safety and care beyond policing.