DC community organizer Eugene Puryear joins us for an in-depth discussion on the real alternative to policing that DC is trying out. Called the NEAR Act, the goal of this program is to put public safety in the hands of the people rather than the police who, in many DC neighborhoods, act as an occupying, racist and brutal force.
Eugene also dives into the importance of community self-defense and the gaps in the binary gun argument we love to have in this country. The real solution, he says, isn’t in the gun itself but the culture surrounding it.
Finally, Eugene dissects some systemic issues and outlines blueprints for how we might find and build alternatives - even in the midst of rising fascism.
