DIRECT ACTION COORDINATING COMMITTEE

The Direct Action Coordinating Committee (DACC) is a group invested in fighting for black and indigenous liberation within the framework of the prison abolitionist movement. DACC aims to foster a network of branches and affiliated organizations at colleges and universities across the United States whereby students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members near these institutions can leverage the power of higher education within a unified and organized movement structure. We understand that the financial, intellectual, and spatial resources of academic institutions have been unjustly accumulated through legacies of genocide and enslavement. We-founders and early members of DACC-seek to utilize and redistribute these resources to help achieve the goals of the abolitionist movement. Founded by Amherst College students of color upon horizontalist principles, DACC is committed to fostering and sustaining a legacy of broad-based, anti-racist, anti-imperialist resistance... 1. It is..

Also known as: DACC, Direct Action