Anti-Racism Resources

On Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• What is a Progressive Stack?: Elevating marginalized voices in your meetings

• Disability/Access Organizing

• Why Class Matters in Organizing for Racial Justice

• Why Working for Racial Equity Benefits Everyone

• What is Systemic Racism?

• Take An Implicit Bias Test

• Disability Justice, anti-ableism and access resources

• Cross Class Capacity Tool

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On Arlington Town Governance

• An Introduction to Local Town Governance by AFR  (video: includes commentary from Town Meeting members who have run for office and submitted warrant articles)

• What precinct are you in? 

• Find your Town Meeting Members

• Town Directory (Lists current Board & Committee representatives & when their terms end)

• ABC’s of Town Government (Describes how our town works with a focus on the Town's management of its finances--composed by Envision's Fiscal ResourcesTask Group) 

• Town Organizational Chart (A chart outlining who reports to whom in our town, page 59) 

• What is the difference between a Warrant Article, a Warrant and a motion?

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On Racism in Housing

• ​Race and Voucher Discrimination in the Metro Boston Rental Housing Market, A 2020 study from Suffolk University, The Boston Foundation and Analysis Group

• "The State of Race: The Housing Gap", From WGBH and The Boston Globe

On Safe Communities

• ​The Emancipator, The Center for Antiracist Research & the Boston Globe Opinion Team.

• Reimagining Community Safety: A Discussion with Ronald Davis. Harvard Kennedy School, Malcolm Wiener Ctr.

• Defunding the Police Will Actually Make us Safer, ACLU

• 6 Reasons Why It's Time to Defund the Police, (video) American Friends Service Committee, A Quaker Organization

• What does ‘defund the police’ mean and does it have merit?, Brookings

• Stacey Abrams addresses the "defund the police" slogan (video) PBS

• Police Departments must take a hard line on insurrectionist and white supremacist cops, The Boston Globe January 17, 2021

“Police departments and police unions across the nation should make clear that the role of police is to protect and serve their communities, and draw a hard line by imposing zero-tolerance policies … departments can’t continue to make excuses when officers express hateful views or skirt their responsibility to improve policing culture. Mocking minority groups on Facebook or in a union newsletter isn’t harmless venting or a matter of free speech; it’s a clear indicator that an officer is unfit for the job.” 

• ​How One Mass Town Took Extraordinary Measures to Appease a Controversial Cop  ~ by Laura Kiesel, DigBoston, January 19, 2021

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• “[Police officers] have the responsibility to maintain the trust of the community. If they exercise their right to free speech but say things that would destroy the trust with the community, they can be terminated.”  ~ Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis talks to WBZ 4 CBS Boston about officers who may have participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

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