Caribbean Equality Project is a proud member of the Queens Partners Against Hate Coalition. In 2022, the coalition launched an unprecedented “Anti-Hate Survey” across the borough of Queens to gauge personal experiences of hate violence, identify strategies for collective action, and create allyship.

Purpose: To expand already existing efforts by coalition members like Caribbean Equality Project and Voces Latinas’ Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression Taskforce, which strives to be an inclusive and equitable community in which everyone is included, supported, and belongs where each individual is and feels understood, respected, and valued.

The coalition members aspire to create and promote an environment that is socially conscious, responsive, and empathetic and work towards dismantling structural barriers and social constructs such as racism, oppression, sexism, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant policies. By addressing, educating, and developing policies and procedures as well as safe spaces for staff, clients, and community, we collectively aim to create ethical engagement to provide accountability and sustainability of Voces Latinas' core anti-racist and anti-oppression framework values. Ultimately, the Queens Partners Against Hate Coalition seeks to promote equity and well-being for all by actively listening and responding to feedback as a tool for knowledge, growth, and change.

Goals:

• Establish a steering committee of service providers/community leaders to create the first Queens Coalition against Hate Violence.

• Develop a community survey to gauge personal experiences of hate violence to create strategies and barriers that exist in specific communities, identify collective action, and build allyship.

• Provide Undoing Racism training facilitated by The People Institute to coalition members.

• Discuss collective action to develop strategies and solutions to community, cultural, institutional, and systemic barriers to racial justice.

• Hold roundtable/healing circle discussions with various racial and ethnic groups.

• Create a calendar of events throughout the year and the next steps.

The 2022 Queens Anti-Hate Survey was available in the following languages: English, Spanish, Bengali, Korean, Chinese