Healing the Block: An Alternative Approach to Crisis Response is a powerful community panel rooted in healing justice, mutual aid, and collective care. Together, we will explore how everyday people can respond to mental health crises, de-escalate harm, and strengthen wellness in our communities without relying on punishment or policing.

Grounded in Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of collective liberation, this conversation centers practical strategies for community-based crisis intervention and care.

Panelists include:
Veronza Bowers, Former Black Panther, Richmond Chapter
Diego, Senior Manager of Healing Justice Programming, APTP
Margaret, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Joey, MSW Intern, Cal State East Bay
Miss Charlie, MSW Intern, Cal State East Bay

Register here:
bit.ly/Heal-The-Block

Join Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of Wake, for a spirited workshop series where she will guide participants on how to read deeply, and how to develop an effective annotation system that works for you to help you retain crucial knowledge. We will study Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, a foundational text that reveals the history and consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and how it shaped Africa, which ultimately made it easier to colonize and then exploit that continent. This book provided a crucial intervention into the concept that colonization provided anything but destruction to Africa. They might have built roads, but they all led to the Sea, Rodney pointed out.

Workshop 1: Introducing the book, and learning Dr. Hall’s Meta-Reading method, which includes an annotation structure. Dr. Hall will provide seminar-style discussion questions, that will guide your engagement with the text.

Workshop 2: discussion of the first half of the book. Students will actively use the annotation structure to prepare for discussion. Dr. Hall and students will develop the seminar-style discussion questions that will guide our engagement with the next half. Students and Dr. Hall co-create other annotation systems for other meta-approaches to reading non-fiction.

Workshop 3: Discuss the second half of the book. Discuss meta-reading and creative approaches for advanced non-fiction literacy. Celebrate a new superpower!

THIS IS A THREE PART EVENT: SUNDAYS, FEBRUARY 1, 15, AND MARCH 1.

THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK. Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS.

REGISTER HERE

An in-person event organized by ACLU NorCal to learn about the history of Sacramento's racists traffic stops, understand the impact of racial profiling and pretext stops on our communities of color, and launch a campaign to end racist pretext stops in Sacramento. Register here.

Join Oakland educators for a rally at the OUSD school board meeting (1050 2nd Ave) on 1/28 at 4:30. Support OEA's demand for Student Centered Budget and a fair contract.

MLK Didn’t Just Dream. He Organized.

This MLK Day, we’re honoring Dr. King by organizing for real safety, dignity, and freedom in our communities.

Sacramento County is in the middle of a Jail System Master Planning process that could shape the future of incarceration in our region. The County’s consultant will be making recommendations to the Board of Supervisors, and community voices must be part of that process.

We’re inviting our community to:

Sac County's Jail System Planning Listening Session

📅 Monday, Jan 26

🕒 6 pm

🏢 7001-A East Parkway, Sacramento

RSVP: tinyurl.com/SacJailPlan (link in bio)

Space is limited. RSVP required.

This is our opportunity to push for reducing the jail population, real alternatives to incarceration, and safety without cages. Let’s pack the room and make our voices heard

As part of our 12th Annual week(s) of Action to Reclaim the Radical Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Join APTP in continuing to highlight how Black Power Trumps Fascism through our Stay Ready political education training series. We are joined for a series of movement strategtist gathering thought the weeks of acton at BAM House.

Tickets are $10-20 sliding scale and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Get tickets here.

As part of MLK Action Week, we invite you to participate in the Mental Health First Community Crisis Training on January 24th from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM. This virtual training is designed to empower community members with crucial skills for responding to mental health crises, supporting those in distress, and fostering healing justice within our neighborhoods. Participants will learn practical strategies for crisis intervention, de-escalation, and promoting wellness, all grounded in the spirit of collective care and Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of liberation. Join us to strengthen your ability to make a lasting, positive impact in your community.

Register here

The Bay Area Black Migrant Solidarity group and partners invite you to join us for ‘Dinner without Borders’, a Cross-Diaspora Community Dinner & Celebration as part of the 12th Annual Week of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy.

Date and Time: Saturday, January 24th 6:00–9:00pm

The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) Norcal will be partnering with Critical Resistance and Liyang Network for a joint political education session. This event is a kickoff for ICHRP Global's Free Them All campaign (https://ichrp.net/FreeThemAll/) and will focus on the conditions of political repression and imprisonment in both the Philippines and the "United States", exploring how these issues are interlinked across borders.

The session will include a viewing of a recent Webinar on the urgent situation of political prisoners in the Philippines, followed by a discussion and collective letter-writing activity to practice international solidarity. RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/Jan24FTA

As part of MLK Action Week, we invite you to participate in the Mental Health First Community Crisis Training on January 24th from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM. This virtual training is designed to empower community members with crucial skills for responding to mental health crises, supporting those in distress, and fostering healing justice within our neighborhoods. Participants will learn practical strategies for crisis intervention, de-escalation, and promoting wellness, all grounded in the spirit of collective care and Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of liberation. Join us to strengthen your ability to make a lasting, positive impact in your community.

Register here

Join the family of Steven Taylor, community members, and the City of San Leandro for the official ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Steven Taylor Sanctity of Life Pavilion at Marina Park.

This public ceremony honors Steven’s life and affirms the community’s commitment to dignity, remembrance, and the sanctity of life. The pavilion stands as a permanent space for reflection, healing, and accountability.

On January 23, 2026, 7PM–9PM, we’re uniting Oakland for a night of music, culture, and movement at BAM House (1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612).

We’re organizing in a moment of escalating harm. The current administration is attacking the very communities we protect, and many traditional funders have stepped back. That makes grassroots liberation work more essential than ever.

APTP stands on the frontlines of that work: healing trauma at the root, reducing state violence, and building real safety led by the people, not the state.

Hostile political climate or not, we fight back and we win.

This concert is part of our 12th Annual Reclaim MLK March & Week of Action, honoring Dr. King’s radical legacy through two weeks of organizing, healing, and resistance.

Featuring: Luv Phenomena with members of Alphabet Soup

Hosted by: Cat Brooks

Tickets are sliding scale $25–$100
No one turned away for lack of funds
Come for the music. Stay for the people. Leave fueled for the fight.

Get tickets here

Our community is coming together to support Guillermo, a beloved San Jose tattoo artist and community organizer who has lived in the U.S. since he was six. Now, ICE wants to detain him again, despite knowing the trauma he carries and the serious toll this takes on his mental health. His re-detention is not only deeply unjust, it is a cruel response to someone who has already survived detention, institutional violence, and retaliation for speaking out. Since his release on bond in March 2023, Guillermo has continued advocating for immigrant rights, actively participating with community organizations, working as a carpenter, and building his tattoo business from the ground up. We need to fill the courtroom wall-to-wall and make our presence visible on the streets to show the judge that Guillermo is loved, valued, and deeply rooted in our community.

Modern law enforcement in the US have long been shielded from transparency and accountability when they abuse their powers to terrorize or kill the people they're sworn to protect. When California passed and strengthened the 2018 “Right to Know Act”, journalists and data scientists came together to provide the public the right to see records from nearly 700 law enforcement agencies from city police and county sheriffs to California highway patrol and district attorneys--stripping away decades of secrecy surrounding serious uses of force, officer-involved shootings, and law enforcement misconduct.

Register here!

Guest Speakers include:

- Uncle Bobby X: activist and community organizer, and advisory member of the POST Accountability Advisory Board that makes decertification recommendations

- Jack Glaser: UC Berkeley professor of Public Policy and advisory member of the POST Accountability Advisory Board

- Cat Brooks: activist, community organizer, artist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project

- Amanda Majail-Blanco: student, youth organizer, and family liaision of Alternatives in Action supporting systems' impacted families in Oakland and the Bay Area

Sponsoring organizations:

- Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP)

- Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)

- Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

- Community Law Enforcement Accountability Network (CLEAN)

- National Police Index (NPI)

Authors Jerome Scott and walda katz fishman in conversation about their book Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries

Presented by: Convergence Magazine, Parenting is Political, The League of Revolutionaries for a New America, Center for Political Education, and Generation Common Good

As part of our 12th Annual week(s) of Action to Reclaim the Radical Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Join APTP in continuing to highlight how Black Power Trumps Fascism through our Stay Ready political education training series. We are joined for a series of movement strategist gathering thought the weeks of acton at BAM House.

Tickets are $10-20 sliding scale and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Get tickets here

We need care, not cages.

As part of our 12th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy Week of Action, we’re hosting a Jail Support Training for anyone ready to show up for incarcerated community members in real, material ways.

You’ll learn how jail support works on the ground, how we connect incarcerated folks to resources, and how mutual aid rooted in abolition saves lives and builds real community safety.

Register here

We will be in the streets of Oakland from 11AM–3PM for the 12th Annual Reclaim MLK March, rooted in Rev. Dr. King’s uncompromising vision for anti-capitalist, anti-war, racial and economic justice.

Meet us at 11am at Oscar Grant Plaza, see you in the streets!

Accessible Audiencing and Hybrid Community Support

Disability Justice community gathering, food, music, art, vendors, performances, films, art making, body workers, tattoo, altar building, interactive discussion, march prep!

On January 14, 2026 from 6PM–9PM, we’re going deep in movement strategy and political education at BAM House, 1540 Broadway, Oakland.

We’re honored to learn from Kalonji Jama Changa — organizer, movement strategist, and founder of the FTP Movement. His life’s work centers Black power, community survival, and accountability, reminding us that liberation is a discipline, not a moment.

This training series continues to uplift a core truth: Black Power Trumps Fascism.

We study, organize, and build because our people deserve more than symbolism. We deserve power, safety, and self-determination.

✊🏿 Tickets: sliding scale $10–$20
✊🏿 No one turned away for lack of funds
✊🏿 Masks + rapid tests required and provided on site.

Don’t wait. Get your tickets NOW before it’s sold out.

Space fills fast.

➡️ Register + Tickets: bit.ly/4aKbp27

APTP’s Healing Justice team has advanced models that interrupt criminalization and expand what real public safety can look like. The reopening of The People’s Detox continues that commitment by offering holistic support for individuals in crisis, recovery, and healing.

Services available every Monday, 4PM–7PM:

Community acupressure and body-based care

Peer support from trained, non-police crisis responders

Trauma-informed care circles supporting emotional and psychological safety

Support for substance dependency, PTSD, psychiatric and mental health needs

We are currently accepting referrals and direct intakes for individuals seeking non-carceral support with:
✔ Substance use and dependency care
✔ PTSD and trauma support
✔ Mental health crisis assistance
✔ Psychiatric emergency planning
✔ Safety planning for survivors

Walk-ins are welcome. Appointments are available. Support is ready when you need it.

✊🏿 Access services or schedule your visit:
➡️ bit.ly/PeoplesDetox