History of Community Control
Name an example of community control from the past
Black panther party school
Freedom schools
underground groups
Free breakfast
What is the main goal of CC?
Shift decision making power to the community, end harm
Who has decision-making power under CC?
The People, the community, most-impacted, Black folx
Why do we need the ability to make decisions?
Shift power, end violence
You must live in the community in order to practice CC
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What community group is credited for creating CC and making it popular among the people?
Black Panther Party for Self Defense
In addition to police and schools, what else can we have CC over?
local budgets, economies, land, safety, health, laws, policies, ideas
What does CC allow you to do?
start from scratch, change systems, keep things the same.
Name three systems of harm that make CC necessary
Aniblackness, white supremacy, queerphobia, capitalism, etc
The work is done one we get CC?
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What was Freedom Inc's first Community Control Campaign?
Community Control over the Police
Name a healthy critique of community control
Not abolition, Never can control police, assumes the best case scenario will play out, gives more resources to cops
What educational qualifications does one need for CC?
none. Anyone can get down.
How can CC shift power?
open-ended
CC was started by the Black Liberation Army
F, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
In what year did a Black radical community group propose community control as an idea to the people?
1969
Name two types of change that CC can fall under?
Reform
Abolition
Who/what is banned from practicing CC?
Corporations, companies
Who is most impacted?
Black folx, nonblack folx of color, women, girls, queer folx, people surviving poverty, etc
Community Control must be focused on most-impacted youth
Truth
Who wrote the CC article we learned about today?
M. Adams and Max Rameau
What type of control should be practiced under CC?
Democratic, people-centered
Name one way that power is shared equally under CC.
Rotating board, youth-focused, must live in community, compensation, limited conflicts of interest. Meeting needs, transportation, food, etc
What is a hidden goal of CC?
Abolition.
Community Control gets in the way of abolition
Both-Trick question