The People’s House: On Abolitionist Organizing in Oakland
In 2023, Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project opened The People’s House, a community center for abolitionist organizing. For this episode, I spoke to two key APTP organizers: Cat Brooks, the group’s co-founder, and Guadalupe Chavez, its healing programs coordinator. From them, you’ll hear about Mental Health First, the APTP’s non-carceral crisis response team, and then about healing justice and its relationship to abolition.
