Road To Abolition

The New Justice Project runs a campaign focused on deep-canvassing, political education, and community healing. The aim of the program is to build a base of everyday Black Minnesotans committed to organizing around community safety, pushing for decreases in public safety budgets at the city, county, and state level, and organizing their community to win the gains they see necessary to build thriving communities. We do this through data collection as well as an organizing model that seeks to combine a diverse array of black community members into a cohort/committee focused on learning about police abolition and its principles, organizing for public safety budget decreases, and imagining a new vision of community safety.