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Trainers Webinar Now Available! 

On March 21st, 2017, PRT members Monica Trinidad and Debbie Southorn collaborated with American Friends Service Committee-Chicago to bring you a presenter-style webinar to fully share our new training manuals! The webinar video is now viewable here via YouTube. The webinar begins with a walk thru of Cop Watch 101 training, followed by a walk thru of the Bystander Intervention 101 training. Length of webinar: 1 hour and 24 minutes. ​Feedback always welcome! Email us here.

Training Manuals

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Our training manuals for Cop Watching 101 and Bystander Intervention 101 are now available for your communities to utilize! These training manuals were created by members of the People's Response Team. You are welcome to reprint or adapt these training manuals, under a Creative Commons Attribution - 4.0 International License, with credit to the original authors. We recognize that these trainings are not perfect, nor the only trainings that exist. We hope that our shared experiences and collective knowledge will assist you in taking the steps necessary to protect and defend your communities. Please email us with any questions, comments, or concerns at peoplesresponseteam [at] gmail [dot] com. 


Cop Watching 101

This training focuses on the basics of cop watching during instances of police harassment and violence. The goals of this training are to quickly train the average person in basic cop watching laws, methods and safety considerations and to promote cop watching as a method of bystander intervention. The workshop will utilize historical context, small and large group discussions, and role-playing to better equip workshop attendees to cop watch in their daily lives. 

Available in both English & Spanish! 
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Bystander Intervention 101

This training focuses on ways to intervene in public instances of racist, anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-Trans, and other forms of oppressive interpersonal violence and harassment while considering the safety of all parties. In addition to group discussion, the training utilizes role-plays as a primary tool in practicing intervention techniques and learning new ways to protect ourselves and our communities. 

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Winter 2016/17 Trainings

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Train the Trainers: Bystander Intervention & Cop Watching 101
March 11, 2017

w/ the People's Response Team

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Copwatching as Bystander Intervention
December 13, 2016

w/the People's Response Team
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​See article in the Chicago Reader covering the training.

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Bystander Intervention Part II
January 17, 2017 
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w/ the People's Response Team

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Bystander Intervention Part I
December 6, 2016
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​w/Black Lives Matter Chicago
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Policing & Militarization 
January 10, 2017
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w/ the People's Response Team
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Crypto Party: Securing our Communications 
January 3, 2017
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w/ the Lucy Parsons Lab 

Past Trainings

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Rapid Response to Fatal Police Shootings Training
October 22, 2016

​w/ the People's Response Team.

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Creating a Healing Justice Response to Police Shootings
February 13, 2016
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w/ Just Practice; formerly Young Women's Empowerment Project)
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Cop Watch Training for Community Members
October 1, 2016 

​w/ Organized Communities Against Deportations

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Cop Watch Training for Community Members
January 23, 2016
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w/ Miguel Rodriguez and Timmy Rose of the People's Response Team, utilizing Cop Watch training materials from the former organization We Charge Genocide. 
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Cop Watch Training for Community Members 
September 27, 2016

w/ Invisible 2 Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago 

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FOIA "Party": How to File a Freedom of Information Act on the Chicago Police Dept.
January 9, 2016
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w/ Eva Nagao (Exoneration Project) and Matt Topic (Loevy & Loevy Firm)
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From Oakland to Chicago: Rapid Response to Fatal Police Shootings
April 23, 2016
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w/ members of the Anti-Police Terror Project First Responders Team from Oakland, CA. 

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