Abolition Event Calendar
A calendar of events focused on defunding the police, abolition, developing alternatives to police, and elimination of the carceral state.
These events are compiled from publicly available information and submissions, and are not associated with dontcallthepolice.com.
Please note! All events are listed at the time local to the organizer – please check time zones.
Hosted by @savesouthernblvd, a zoom event to talk about issues that impact young people and their communities, share learnings and resources, and brainstorm potential solutions. The Defund the Police/Fund the Community breakout session will feature a speaker from @btnewsroom who will walk attendees through where the money for the city budget comes from and how…
Part of the New Orleans Workers Group's monthly forum. Democrats & Republicans are two sides of the same capitalist coin. Neither party has ever provided: - Fully accessible healthcare - True living wages - An end to imperialist wars - Stopped police terror or environmental racism - Curbed climate change - Canceled college debt/made university…
Why defund the Honolulu Police Department? $32 million in CARES Act money was given to the Honolulu Police Department. What did the HPD spend it on? $13.8 million in over-time, about $2 million on vehicles, $4.6 million in contract positions, and $118,102 for riot training tools. What does that do to address our current health…
Join the SDIC in a panel event discussing alternatives to police in Salt Lake City, Utah. Speakers from Utah Against Police Brutality, March for Our Lives, and PSL. This event is virtual. Please use this link to access the event on October 15. You can email diversity@westminstercollege.edu with any questions.
Moderated by K. Wayne Yang, Provost of John Muir College, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UCSD Featuring: DJ Kuttin Kandi , Founding Core Member and Organizer, Asian Solidarity Collective Rachel Kuo , Founder and Co-Leader, Asian American Feminist Collective Phal Sok , Organizer, Youth Justice Coalition The interlocking crises we face today--COVID-19, the climate crisis, the…
Abolish the Police, Increase Resources We will be discussing the terror that the police inflict on our communities and its roots in white supremacy. This will also be a time to brainstorm together what an America without police would look like. The link to the Zoom event will be sent to participant emails on the…
In an era of Big Data, police databases transform racialized discourses about crime, terror, and belonging into permanent records with real implications for individuals and communities. This project examines Big Data policing as a site for the production, circulation, and deployment of racialized state knowledge. Yet abolitionist movements in Chicago are refusing criminalized archetypes and…
Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent, noted antiprison activists, scholars, and educators, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts, visual culture, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote. Visualizing…
Calls to reimagine community safety have been driven by the knowledge that, for low-income communities of color, at least, policing inflicts harms that are consistent, persistent, and seemingly resistant to change. To help us imagine alternative approaches to policing that might significantly reduce the harms currently inherent in policing, we have invited Barry Friedman, Jacob D.…
A conversation with Eddie Conway and Jose Saldaña. Between them, they served 82 years in prison and saved hundreds of young lives • moderated by Susie Day, author of The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution (Haymarket Books) Register here
What is abolition? Come learn in community with SURJ @ Sacred Heart on Saturday, October 24, 2020 from 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM. We’ll start by reading Derecka Purnell’s article, ‘How I Became a Police Abolitionist’, together. Then, we will spend time in your choice of a guided breakout reflection session: Writing, Conversation, or Art-making.…
Note: time entered in U.S. Pacific time, but event is in UK We will build our collective understanding of what violence in public space looks like, and how we can intervene and respond in safe ways. About this Event Together we will build our collective understanding of what violence in public space looks like, and…
Founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art, culture, and activism. Bryan Stevenson Images, Memory, and Justice October 27,2020, 4-5:30 p.m. Online event: Registration is required REGISTER HERE Bryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed…
Even if the penal system were transformed in such a way as to eliminate racial disparities rooted in racism, racial disparities in criminal legal outcomes would almost certainly persist. To better understand why, we have invited David Garland, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and also Professor of Sociology in…
Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link At a moment when American Democracy was characterized by record levels of political division, inequality, and institutional distrust, it was hit by the perfect storm of the COVID-19 health crisis, an economic crisis of soaring unemployment and economic dislocation, and a civic crisis of…
To submit your event, please send the event name, description, instructions for registration and/or attendance, the organizer’s name, and organizer’s website to: calendar@dontcallthepolice.com
