NAARPR is a mass defense organization that defends the rights of Black people and all oppressed peoples to unite, organize and fight for freedom, justice and equality. We were founded in 1973 and our parent organization was National United Committees to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. Today we see the police occupation of communities and mass incarceration as the two greatest obstacles to our fight for democracy and liberation.
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NAARPR 2025 Conference Call to Action:
Build the Movement to Defeat Trump's Agenda & Win Community Control of the Police!
Chicago, IL
November 14 - 16, 2025
We issue this call for our fourth National Conference since our refounding in 2019. The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression (NAARPR) was founded as a blacksled, mass defense organization dedicated to defending the people’s movements. Today, we see the need to build an even stronger unity against the racist and reactionary agenda of Donald Trump and everything he represents. We call on all branches of NAARPR, our affiliate organizations and all sections of the people’s movement to join us in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Teachers Union Hall on November 14th-16th for our fourth National Conference.
Every day, we see the attacks launched by the Trump administration on basic democratic rights. From the administration targeting immigrants, federal workers, continued assaults on indigenous rights, healthcare and welfare funding, diversity, inclusion and equity programs, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights along with continuing the genocide abroad in Palestine, we see a deliberate attempt to disarm our movements for human dignity and rollback gains so many have fought for. We see the rise of white supremacist vigilantism and an ever-increasing police and prison state that seeks to curtail our efforts.
However, as NAARPR, we have been on the front lines through it all, demanding community control of the police, uniting with families to win justice along with fighting to free political prisoners and the unjustly incarcerated. We have stood with our immigrant comrades to fight back against the unlawful and illegal deportations from ICE along with continuing to stand with the movement to stop the genocide in Gaza. We have and shall continue to fight back against the police and prison state. We have grown to well over thirty branches and affiliate organizations across the U.S., with new branches forming daily.
We organize on the basis of the slogan Unity + Organization + Struggle = Victory, and our movement has had several significant victories in the two years since our last conference. The Tampa 5, activists targeted by the University of South Florida with felony charges for standing up to Ron DeSantis's attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, had those charges dropped as a result of a successful mass defense campaign. Leonard Peltier, the longest serving political prisoner in U.S. history, whose defense campaign the National Alliance has been involved in since the 1970s, was finally brought home by executive pardon this year. In Chicago, over 200 wrongfully convicted people were freed by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office under Kim Foxx due to our movement's continuous organizing efforts, and Kevin Jackson had his sentence reversed by the appellate court, the first of the survivors of crooked sergeant Brian P. Forberg to be freed. These victories remind us that organizing works, and we have the tools to build the movement needed in this moment of heightened repression.
It is obvious Trump represents a clear and present danger to our communities. His movement is rooted in white supremacy and at its core rides the backlash of the Floyd rebellion in 2020, a rebellion that we took a clear part in advancing. There have even been conversations within the administration to pardon killer cop Derek Chauvin. Police killings continue with impunity, while so many of our communities remain under occupation. We understand that through fighting side by side with the families who are victims of police terror, we are able to organize against the cutting edge of racist national oppression, building stronger ties in our communities and advancing the people’s agenda.
It is clear that solidarity and organization remain our biggest weapon to defend our movements and communities and to defeat Trump's agenda.
This conference will be a space to organize, strategize, and mobilize. Together, we will continue to grow, learn from each other and build a movement for black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples. Join us this November.
Hundreds took the streets of Chicago on Sunday May 25 during a national day of action to demand justice for all those murdered by police, the passage of the ordinance for the Community Power Over Policing referendum, and to fight back against Trump’s racist agenda and Executive Order 14288, which would unleash the police on the people.
A MESSAGE FROM FRANK CHAPMAN ON THE NEED TO MOBILIZE FOR MAY 25TH!
We have never lived in more momentous times than the present time.
This is a moment in our history where we face serious dangers and challenges to democracy, to our democratic right to organize and protest and struggle.And where we're called upon by the suffering of our people, by oppressed people and the working class. We're called upon to respond to these attacks and these threats with enthusiasm, determination, and dedication to bring to an end this threatened and real political terror that Donald Trump and his minions are imposing upon our country and the world.
So, this is a call to action in response to one of the most recent executive orders having to do with law and order, but it is also a response to the last 100 or so days of Trump issuing a whole barrage of executive orders that clearly and unequivocally are designed to undermine every semblance of democracy in this country and to bring an end to any and all organized protest for justice and against the status quo.
Most recently, since the April 28th Executive Order 14288, Trump issued another order called "Establishing Project Homecoming" which instructs the Secretary of Homeland Security to contract with and deputize local and state law enforcement to increase the immigration enforcement and removal operations force by a minimum of 20,000 officers in the next 60 days. So, what do we do?
Clearly these people have turned the government against the people.
Clearly they have put in their crosshairs the destruction of everything in this society that benefits the masses of people in terms of housing, jobs, doing away with injustices, the precious rights of people to speak out and challenge the powers that be.
So, this is not just another protest against just another infraction.
This is a protest which must have a very loud, clear, and unequivocal message to Donald Trump. And that message must be, as Chicago Mayor Johnson put it on May 1st, that we will not bow down, we will not give in, we will not surrender, to these fascist-like measures the government is taking against our people. That we will fight, not just in Chicago, not just in New York, not just in Miami, not just in Jackson, Louisiana, or Seattle. We're not just talking about a fight in these cities. We're talking about fighting everywhere in the country, from big cities to small towns, everywhere. We've got to get the people to rise up everywhere.
We can look at this not as a maiden voyage, but as critically embarking on a journey whose destination has to be the end of Donald Trump. Bringing to an end as quickly as possible this era of racist and political repression that he is trying to impose upon us by executive fiat. So, it's important in this moment that, despite our differences, whether you believe fascism is already here or that it's coming, that it's an imminent threat or whatever. What's most important now in this moment is that we act. The best thing we can do now is to start this fight, to start this resistance everywhere. That's why our organization has called a national day of protest. That's why we're saying to all the strands of the people's movement that it's necessary to be a part of this protest.
If you stand against Trump, then you've got to stand with us.
While this day of action is being sparked by the 5th anniversary of the George Floyd Rebellion and this executive order, it's a spark that needs to further ignite a movement that is saying "END DONALD TRUMP'S RIGHT WING RACIST TERRORIST AGENDA!" Him wanting to be a king, him wanting to destroy every semblance of democracy that we have in this country in order to carry out his program, the program of billionaires, to loot the government, to rob the country, to economically enslave the people. We have to demand that this stop and stop now, and we have to demand that Congress act and act now. But we the people have to act first, we have to go into the streets and let it be known that this mode of government that you're talking about is totally unacceptable to us.
We are not going to stand for it.
WELCOME TO THE RESISTANCE:
STOP THE TRUMP AGENDA!
On Inauguration day, we united with a coalition of 80+ organizations committed to fighting back against Trump's reactionary agenda and against the ongoing genocide in Palestine, as well as to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Our points of unity are:
with Trump's commitment to ramp up repression, we need to forge the broadest unity we can in order to defend our movements
We unite around the demands to Fight the Racist & Reactionary Republican Agenda, Defend & Expand Immigrant Rights, Stand with Palestine, Defend the Right to Unionize & Strike, Stop Police Crimes, Defend Women’s, LGBTQIA+ & Reproductive Rights, and Defend Education & Academic Freedom
It is only by uniting the combined forces of our movements to fight for all of our demands that we can not only defend our communities, but win greater power
The People, united, will never be defeated!
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The People, united, will never be defeated! 〰️
RECENT STATEMENTS FROM CAARPR
A statement from FRANK CHAPMAN & the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
THE TRIIBE: An open letter to the movement on the need for unity
UPCOMING MEETINGS, ACTIONS, AND COURTDATES
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In addition to these actions, meetings and court dates, we also mobilize to our monthly District Council Meetings in our respective districts. These meetings are essential for coming together with our neighbors and District Counselrs to address public safety and any police misconduct or violence in our communities. Please view this calendar to see when your District Council monthly meeting takes place.
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