Care Not Cops Community Wellness Festival

CARE NOT COPS Community Wellness Festival starts a 3 day convening with an evening of music, culture, healing, and community in Oak Park, Sacramento. This intergenerational gathering will feature live performances by Sol Development, Spear of the Nation, Jenn Johns, M’ster Lewis, Junior Toots, Reach Back Retain, spoken word by Andru Defey, and uplifting selections from the Peace and Justice Choir.

Hosted by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Justice Teams Network, this gathering will explore what it means to create safety through healing, accountability, collective care, and community power.

The festival will also include local vendors, food, art activities, community resources, Healing Justice services, free NADA ear seed acupressure trainings, and blessing bag giveaways supporting unhoused community members. Come celebrate collective care, culture, and the power of community as we open the weekend together.

This event is FREE - ALL AGES & Open to the Public!

MORE ABOUT CARE NOT COPS

CARE NOT COPS is a three-day international convening bringing together organizers, healers, artists, impacted families, movement leaders, cultural workers, youth organizers, and practitioners building real alternatives to punishment and policing.

DAY 1: Community Wellness Festival — Friday, June 26 4-9pm in Oak Park

DAY 2 & 3: Healing Justice & Alternatives Conference  — Saturday, June 27 & 28th

June 27th & 28th is the Healing Justice and Alternative Conference held both virtually and in person at Aggie Square -  4480 2nd Ave in Sacramento, CA. Registration is required as space in-person space is limited. Secure your FREE tickets : 

This 2-day convening features keynote speakers and movement leaders, including:

• Cat Brooks - co-founder and executive director of Anti-Police Terror Project and Justice Teams, host of Law & Disorder on KPFA, and a long-time performer, organizer, and activist. 
• Malkia Devich Cyril -  @mediajustice co-founder | @radical_loss founder | writer | grief worker | Leftist | movement & narrative strategist | 13th Film 
• Erica Woodland — facilitator, consultant, psychotherapist and healing justice practitioner with more than 20 years of experience working at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans & queer justice. Woodland and Cara Page are editors of the anthology ‘Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care and Safety’ (North Atlantic Books, 2023).

Across the weekend, participants will engage powerful conversations, strategy spaces, healing activations, and workshops rooted in Healing Justice, abolition, and collective liberation. Panels and sessions include:

Foundations & Community Care

• Healing Justice as Resistance: California-Based Models for Organizing & Collective Care
• Art as Medicine: Culture, Creativity & Collective Healing
• Mental Health Beyond the System: From Pathology to Collective Care
• No Peace Without Justice: Healing-Centered Responses to Domestic Violence

Crisis Response, Accountability & Restoration

• Life After Harm: Abolition, Reentry & the Work of Coming Home
• We Remember, We Rise: Families Healing from State Violence
• The Power is Ours—Reclaiming Healing for Trauma & Substance Use
• Beyond Borders, Beyond Policing: Global Pathways to Abolition & Healing

Power, Policy & Movement Building

• From Extraction to Investment: Budget Justice & Resourcing Our Futures
• Young People Lead the Way: Organizing, Healing & Collective Power
• We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid, Abolition & People Power
• Safety Without Policing: Reimagining Public Safety & Alternative Community Responses

Featured panelists and participating organizations include members of:

• Critical Resistance
• CURYJ
• MH First Sacramento
• National Compadres Network
• Kataly Foundation
• Poor People’s Campaign
• Asian Prisoner Support Committee
• Youth Together
• All of Us or None
• and many more movement partners, healers, organizers, and impacted community leaders.

In addition to panels and strategy sessions, the convening will include:

• Healing Justice practice spaces
• Community acupuncture & bodywork
• Art activations & cultural performance
• Herbal medicine & blessing bag stations
• And more

This gathering is for those asking: What becomes possible when we choose care over punishment? How do we build safety without policing? What does healing look like in practice, policy, and movement?

We hope you will join us in building, imagining, and practicing the world we deserve. Register here today

In solidarity,
CARE NOT COPS Convening Team

Justice Teams Network + Anti Police-Terror Project

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