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SUMMARY:Intro to Transformative Justice: Community-Centric Responses
DESCRIPTION:This will be a practice space where folks can learn and experiment with Transformative Justice interventions\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIn this workshop participants will learn some of the origins of “Transformative Justice”\, how the work lives in our communities and how they can practice the values and unlearning needed to envision new futures. \nZoom link provided upon registration \nproceeds go to support Sowing Wildflowers and all of their work with Black survivors of patriacharchal and systemic violence. Learn more about Sowing Wildflowers on their website at www.sowingwildflowers.org
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/intro-to-transformative-justice-community-centric-responses/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Restorative Justice for Community Healing & Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Restorative Justice for Community Healing and Transformation\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nRuptured relationships create psychological trauma\, conflict\, and violence. Restorative Justice allows for truth-telling and repairing harm for healed\, just\, equitable relationships setting the stage for the possibility of reconciliation. Creating healed\, just\, equitable relationships is violence prevention. Restorative justice prevents violence and builds peace into our lives and communities. \nThe standard tuition for this training is $50. Because of our commitment to economic justice\, if you are facing financial hardship\, please make a donation of $5 or more. However\, no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. \nTraining Facilitators: \nCrixell Shell\, MS\, Certified STAR Trainer\, Executive Director\, Coming to the Table Racial Healing Talking Circles Facilitator\, Rule 114 Community Mediator \nDonna Minter\, PhD\, LP\, Certified STAR Trainer\, USA and International Experience Neuropsychologist\, Clinical Psychologist\, and Forensic Psychology Examiner\, Founder\, Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute \nTraining objectives: \n1. Learn the basic Restorative Justice philosophy\, principles\, and practices. \n2. Learn the differences between Restorative Justice and other types of justice. \n3. Discuss how to apply Restorative Justice concepts through a trauma-informed lens for community healing and transformation. \nRestorative Justice philosophy and principles have been practiced by Indigenous communities to address conflict and prevent violence since ancient times. Since the 1970’s Restorative Justice has been utilized as an alternative to the traditional retributive approach within western and colonized criminal legal systems. After the tragic events of September 11\, 2001\, Restorative Justice philosophy\, principles\, and practices were utilized as the foundation of an inclusive trauma-informed and resilience-oriented model called Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) to address individual and collective psychological trauma for truth-telling and repairing harm for healed\, just relationships toward the possibility of reconciliation in the USA and internationally. \nThis training is for laypeople\, paraprofessionals\, and licensed professionals. For licensed Minnesota mental health professionals\, teachers\, and nurses who want 2 hours of continuing education (CE) for this training\, choose the registration option that includes the $25 CE fee. \nIf you wish to receive a Certificate of Completion for this training\, please register with the option to pay the CE fee. Otherwise\, the post-training email that you receive soon after the training will serve as confirmation that you attended this training. We are unable to provide a Certificate of Completion without payment. \nPlease note: After you complete your Eventbrite registration\, the day before the training and the morning of the training\, our Communications Coordinator\, Gemma Eissa will email you PDF handouts in preparation for this training and the Zoom video conferencing online training link. Please check your Spam folder for an email from gemma@mnpeace.org if you cannot find these pre-training emails in your Inbox. \nPlease enjoy these Star Tribune articles about MN Peacebuilding: \nJanuary 17\, 2020 Minneapolis Star Tribune article about Peacebuilding’s approach to restorative justice. \nJuly 18\, 2020 Minneapolis Star Tribune article about Peacebuilding’s approach to racial justice\, healing\, and equity. \nCancellation Policy: Refunds for this training\, less a $10 administrative fee\, will be given if written cancellation is received from the registrant at least 24 hours during the Monday-Friday work week prior to the training . No tuition refund is offered after 48 hours prior to the training. Transfer of tuition to another online training is granted if written request is received at least 24 hours before the day of this training. Refunds or transfers are not available for no-shows. There is high demand for this training. If you realize you cannot attend\, please contact us immediately at info@mnpeace.org to let us know. This will open your spot to another attendee. Thanks! \nThis training and all of Peacebuilding’s trainings are available by contract arrangement for community groups\, educational institutions\, nonprofit organizations\, corporations\, and state and federal agencies. \nSome of the content of this training is based on the STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) Program\, Eastern Mennonite University\, Harrisonburg\, VA\, USA. www.emu.edu/cjp/star
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/introduction-to-restorative-justice-for-community-healing-transformation/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Abolition Retreat Day Two
DESCRIPTION:We’ll explore abolition as a vision\, practice & call to action as we reimagine communities that promote family safety\, well-being & justice\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nOn day one\, we will share stories\, learn about histories of oppression and resistance and share out collective experiences with the child welfare system. Day two will focus on healing-justice and abolitionist practices that we can all engage in to get us closer to the world we want to create. \nWe highly encourage you to attend both sessions- May 24th + June 2nd
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolition-retreat-day-two/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T070000
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SUMMARY:Abolition Retreat Day One
DESCRIPTION:We’ll explore abolition as a vision\, practice & call to action as we reimagine communities that promote family safety\, well-being & justice\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nOn day one\, we will share stories\, learn about histories of oppression and resistance and share out collective experiences with the child welfare system. Day two will focus on healing-justice and abolitionist practices that we can all engage in to get us closer to the world we want to create. \nWe highly encourage you to attend both sessions- May 24th + June 2nd
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolition-retreat-day-one/
LOCATION:Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T180000
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SUMMARY:National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth: Community Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join the National Week of Action Against Incarceration Youth! Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Community Conversation\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nA national week to end the incarcerating of all youth in the United States. #noyouthinprison managed and founded by Save the Kids. \nZoom information will be emailed to all attendees prior to the event. \nCoordinator\, National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth : Hailey King \nwww.savethekidsgroup.org
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/national-week-of-action-against-incarceration-youth-community-talk/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T150000
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SUMMARY:Abolition 101 Training with Benji Hart
DESCRIPTION:Loved ones of the incarcerated and community members\, join us for this Abolition 101 training with Benji Hart!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThe Coalition to Decarcerate IL(CDI) and our partners at Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS) invite you to join us for an Abolition 101 Training! \nThis event will take place on Wednesday\, May 4th\, from 5-7pm Central Time. All attendees must register to receive the Zoom Link via this Eventbrite. All are welcome to attend. Loved ones of the incarcerated and directly impacted people are encouraged to register and will be given priority. The Zoom link will be sent out on the day of the event. \nBenji Hart\, a Chicago-based author\, educator\, and artist whose work centers Black radicalism\, queer liberation\, and prison abolition\, will be facilitating this training. The first half will be an in-depth training with Benji on Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) abolition\, and the second half full of more intimate conversations surrounding police\, prisons\, abolition\, and transformative justice. This is meant to be a space of learning and community building! \nAll questions can also be directed to decarcerateilcoalition@gmail.com. \n  \n\n\nTo learn more about the Coalition to Decarcerate IL visit our website\, https://www.coalitiontodecarcerateil.com.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolition-101-training-with-benji-hart/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T113000
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SUMMARY:Abolition\, Activism\, and the University
DESCRIPTION:Practitioner Perspectives on Transformative Justice in Boston\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nGrassroots organizers in Greater Boston are at the forefront of ongoing statewide movements for a world without predatory policing and mass human caging. Join us for a virtual panel discussion with Transformative Justice practitioners in Boston and beyond. \nSpecial guest speakers\, Andrea James (Families for Justice as Healing)\, Beth Whalley (Building Up People Not Prisons Coalition)\, Eli Patterson (Black and Pink MA)\, and Derecka Purnell (Author of Becoming Abolitionists) will discuss how Abolitionist ideas and political visions inform community organizing\, and how Abolitionist activism in the streets should shape Abolition studies in the university. \nModerated by DeAnza Cook\, Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University. \n\n\nAbout the Organizers \nThis convening is organized by the Abolition Collaboratory and co-sponsored by the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship\, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History\, Royall House & Slave Quarters\, Phillips Brooks House Association\, Transformative Justice Initiative\, Prison Studies Project​​​​​​​\, and the Mahindra Humanities Center. The event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolition-activism-and-the-university/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T163000
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SUMMARY:Intimate Partner Violence and Abolitionist Safety Planning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively exploration of the concept of “abolitionist safety planning” and supporting survivors from feminists and abolitionists.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIn situations of domestic violence\, survival can become criminalized in unexpected and chilling ways. However\, because isolation is a central strategy of abuse\, many survivors lack the community and resources needed to find support for both the violence as well as the risks of criminalization. What can concrete support for intimate partner violence survivors look like from a prison abolitionist perspective? What can it look like in practice to support survivors while being acutely aware of both the dangers of abuse and the overwhelming violence of the criminal legal system? Join us for a lively exploration of the concept of “abolitionist safety planning” from feminists and abolitionists\, who will share their experiences\, challenges\, and lessons learned from supporting survivors in situations of active and ongoing violence. \n***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and live English and Spanish captioning will be provided\, as well as live ASL interpretation.*** \n———————————————————– \nSpeakers: \nMariame Kaba (moderator) is an organizer\, educator\, curator\, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial\, gender\, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization\, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Kaba is the author of We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice\, Missing Daddy\, See You Soon and Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators with Shira Hassan. \nAracelia Aguilar (she/her) is one of the Empowerment Directors at DeafHope\, providing direct services to Deaf DV/SV survivors. DeafHope recognizes the system barriers and institutional oppressions Deaf survivors navigate through to get to safety\, and Aracelia’s advocacy strongly focuses on putting the survivor at the center of the work. Aracelia has also received training under Sujatha Baliga and Mimi Kim to incorporate Restorative and Transformative Justice into the work of DeafHope. Aracelia provides Teen Dating Violence\, Consent & Boundaries\, and Sexual Violence presentations for Deaf teens at High Schools all over the Bay Area. \nRachel Caidor (she/her) has spent over 25 years providing direct service and organizational support to rape crisis and domestic violence survior support agencies in Chicago. She is a member of Love and Protect and supports the work of the Chicago Community Bond Fund. \nShira Hassan (she/her) is the founder\, co-creator and principal consultant for Just Practice\, a capacity building project for organizations and community members\, activists and leaders working at the intersection of transformative justice\, harm reduction and collective liberation. She is the former executive director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project\, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. \nHyejin Shim (she/her) is a Building Community Power Fellow at Community Justice Exchange. She has over a decade’s experience in supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence\, particularly immigrant\, refugee\, and criminalized survivors of abuse. Her work includes grassroots community organizing as well as formalized direct service work in domestic violence and sexual assault organizations. Hyejin is a co-founder of Survived and Punished\, a national organization dedicated to supporting criminalized and incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence. \n———————————————————– \nThis event is sponsored by Community Justice Exchange\, Survived and Punished\, Interrupting Criminalization\, and Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available\, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important organizing\, programming and publishing work.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/intimate-partner-violence-and-abolitionist-safety-planning/
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SUMMARY:Social Justice Solutions with Derecka Purnell (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we host Derecka Purnell\, author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police\, Protests\, and The Pursuit of Freedom\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin us as we host Derecka Purnell\, author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police\, Protests\, and The Pursuit of Freedom at the University of Houston for the Graduate College of Social Work’s (GCSW) Social Justice Solutions series.\nEach year\, we invite activists\, thought leaders\, and the community\, to explore action-oriented strategies to affect social change. Purnell’s work invites readers to envision new systems that work to address the root causes of violence and elaborate on the belief that abolition is not solely about getting rid of the police\, but a commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society. \nAs part of the GCSW’s as a critical framework to help realize our vision of achieving social\, racial\, economic\, and political justice\, all GCSW students received a copy of Becoming Abolitionists\, Purnell’s widely anticipated and acclaimed memoir. We are thrilled to present our students the opportunity to hear from the author whose work has served to deepen their understanding of abolition as part of their social work education. \nWe invite the community to journey with the GCSW as we continue learning about the imaginative work of abolition essential to dismantling systems in pursuit of true freedom and liberation for all. And we are excited to partner with Project Row Houses\, a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. They engage neighbors\, artists\, and enterprises in collective creative action to help materialize sustainable opportunities in marginalized communities. \nBecoming Abolitionists will be available for sale at this event\, or purchased in advance from Kindred Stories. \nDATE: Tuesday\, April 19\, 2022 \nLIVE STREAM:  \nTIME: 6:00 pm CST
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/social-justice-solutions-with-derecka-purnell-virtual/
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SUMMARY:Abolition. Feminism. Now.
DESCRIPTION:Aviah Sarah Day (Sisters Uncut) in conversation with Gina Dent and Beth Ritchie.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAbolition. Feminism. Now. is an urgent call for a truly intersectional\, internationalist\, abolitionist feminism. \nThe Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie’s new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. (published by Penguin). \nGina Dent and Beth Ritchie will be in conversation with lecturer\, activist and a member of the direct action group Sisters Uncut Aviah Sarah Day. \nAbout the book: \nAs a politics and as a practice\, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment\, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement\, in its demands for police defunding and demilitarisation\, and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. \nAs this book shows\, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state\, with its key role in perpetuating violence\, both public and private\, in prisons\, in police forces\, and in people’s homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times. \nIn this landmark work\, four of the world’s leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional\, internationalist\, abolitionist feminism. \n‘This extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I’ve ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition\, for the inseparability of gendered and state violence\, domestic policing and militarism\, the street\, the home\, and the world. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and organizational experience\, the authors offer a genealogy of the movements that brought us here\, lessons learned\, battles won and lost\, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice.’ ROBIN D. G. KELLEY\, AUTHOR OF FREEDOM DREAMS: THE BLACK RADICAL IMAGINATION \n‘In this powerful\, wise and well-crafted book\, filled with insight and provocation\, the authors make it patently and abundantly clear why abolitionist feminism is necessary . . . Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased\, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time\, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for. It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.’ SARA AHMED\, AUTHOR OF WILLFUL SUBJECTS \nAccessibility information: \nThis event will take place online. We will use Closed Captions to subtitle the event. Please get in touch at blackfeministreading@gmail.com with any questions or access needs you would like us to be aware of. \nTicket information: \nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans and the Black Feminist Bookshop then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and people who are experiencing economic hardship. \nBlack Feminist Bookshop Patreon members gain access to the book club as part of their membership. More information here. \nHow to access this event online: \nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the Black Feminist Bookshop. \n\n\nGina Dent is associate professor of feminist studies\, history of consciousness\, and legal studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and lectures and writes on African diaspora literary and cultural studies\, postcolonial theory\, and critical area studies. Her current project Visualizing Abolition grows out of her work as an advocate for transformative and transitional justice and prison abolition. \n\n\n\nBeth Richie is Professor of Criminology\, Law and Justice and Black Studies\, Sociology\, Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her most recent book is Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation. \n\n\n\nAviah Sarah Day can be found teaching and researching at Birkbeck\, University of London when working\, and organising in her East London community the rest of the time. She is involved in Sisters Uncut\, a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services and state violence as well as Hackney Cop Watch. She is co-author of the book Abolition Revolution with Shanice McBean\, which is due to be published by Pluto Press autumn 2022.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolition-feminism-now-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T150000
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SUMMARY:Abolitionists in Action: Transformative Justice and the University
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation on Transformative Justice\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIf abolition demands a world without police\, prisons\, or punishment\, transformative justice is the organized effort to imagine and enact the structures that will take their place. This work is rooted in the movement to end sexual violence and it is quickly gaining steam\, especially in schools and universities. \nWhat does it look like for a movement with DIY origins to be embraced by educational institutions so mired in the afterlife of slavery\, such as Harvard or Brown? Abolitionists in Action brings together an intergenerational panel of practitioners and theorists who have approached this work from different positions of institutional access. \nFeaturing Mariame Kaba (author of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us and founding member of Project NIA\, Survived and Punished\, and the Chicago Freedom School)\, Dara Kwayera Imani Bayer and Camila Pelsinger (both from Brown University’s Transformative Justice Practitioner Program)\, and Sofia Meadows (Unity Circles). \nThis program is hosted in collaboration with the Charles Warren Center For Studies in American History\, Mindich Program for Engaged Scholarship\, The Abolition Collaboratory\, Mahindra Humanities Center\, Phillips Brooks House Association\, Transformative Justice Initiative\, and Prison Studies Project. \n 
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolitionists-in-action-transformative-justice-and-the-university/
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SUMMARY:Rebel Bruja Series: Leveraging Privilege for Abolition Magic
DESCRIPTION:a community workshop and skill-share; exploring the intersections between magic and social justice\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThe Rebel Bruja Series is a collection of workshops that explores the intersections of magic & social justice\, and how we can use our individual and collective spiritual work and connections to support healing and activism efforts. \nThis gathering will begin to explore what our individual privileges look like\, and how we may dismantle and/or leverage them not only in the human world\, but within our magical and spiritual practice as well. We’ll learn ways in which we can face our privileges head on (rather than functioning from a place of guilt\, defensiveness\, avoidance\, etc.) so we can tap into our various magic and spiritual practices for our individual and collective healing and evolution. This workshop is another tool to support our social justice work and movements to be more interconnected\, whole\, and setting the foundations for the world we want and deserve! \nThis space is for folks at any stage or level of developing their magic/spirituality. All practices welcome! Magic comes in all forms and we invite you to join us even if you don’t feel you have a spiritual practice accessible to you at this time. \nThe priority of this space is to community build\, skill-share\, and start creating and dreaming for the future. \nIn this virtual space we will center the voices and experiences of those most marginalized by cultural and systemic oppression including\, but not limited to those who are Black\, Indigenous\, Queer\, Disabled\, Fat\, Transgender/Nonbinary\, Sex-worker\, “Immigrant” or “Undocumented\,” Neurodivergent\, Low-income\, Houseless. \nWe believe harm reduction is an important approach to healing\, and that those attending are the experts of what their needs are. If there is something you need to do to take care of yourself during this workshop\, please feel free! It is not mandatory to have screen or mics on. If you feel you cannot attend the workshop for any reason\, we can still send you a recording after so you don’t miss out.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/rebel-bruja-series-leveraging-privilege-for-abolition-magic/
LOCATION:Online
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T163000
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SUMMARY:Policing the Black Man: Arrest\, Prosecution\, and Imprisonment
DESCRIPTION:Continuing Education event featuring authors from the book Policing the Black Man: Arrest\, Prosecution and Imprisonment\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThis one-day continuing education event will feature authors from the book Policing the Black Man: Arrest\, Prosecution and Imprisonment (2017\, Pantheon) edited by Angela J. Davis\, Distinguished Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. The event will include a keynote presentation by Professor Davis with panel presentations by authors whose work appears in the book – Professor Kristin Henning\, Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law\, Ronald Wright\, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs and Needham Yancey Gulley Professor of Criminal Law at West Forest Law\, Renée Hutchins\, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law\, Roger A. Fairfax\, Jr.\, Dean and Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law\, Katheryn Russell-Brown\, Levin\, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law and Director of the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida Levin College of Law\, Tracey L. Meares\, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and co-Founding Faculty Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School\, Marc Mauer\, Senior Advisor and former Director of The Sentencing Project\, and Jin Hee Lee\, Senior Deputy Director of Litigation and Director of Strategic Initiatives at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The authors will discuss their chapters in Policing the Black Man\, their current work\, and how their work informs policy and practice in the criminal legal system. Participants will have the opportunity throughout the day to engage with the authors in Q&A and discussion. \n\n\nSponsored by the Seattle University Crime & Justice Research Center and the Criminal Justice\, Criminology & Forensics Department \nCo-Sponsored by the Seattle University School of Law and the College of Arts & Sciences
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/policing-the-black-man-arrest-prosecution-and-imprisonment/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072042
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SUMMARY:Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court
DESCRIPTION:A conversation about criminal justice between Patrice Sulton\, founder of DC Justice Lab & Matthew Clair\, author of Privileg and Punishment.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIn this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite’s Black Book Discussions\, we partner with the DC Justice Lab to bring you a conversation with Dr. Matthew Clair\, author of Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. This conversation will be facilitated by Patrice Sulton\, the founder of the D.C. Justice Lab. \nAbout the Author: Matthew Clair is an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University\, where he holds a courtesy appointment at Stanford Law School. He lives in Palo Alto\, California. Twitter @mathuclair \nAbout the Book: Matthew Clair weaves stories from hundreds of criminal defendants and officials in the Boston criminal court system to show how social injustice runs rampant. Privilege and Punishment offers an in-depth\, humanizing look at how injustice operates within the courthouse and beyond and how to reform the system. In addition\, Clair exposes how the relationship between client and attorney can help or hinder justice. Often those who have less are worse off\, in many cases\, because they do not know how to communicate with their attorneys. \nThe Facilitator: Patrice Sulton is an attorney\, professor\, and criminal justice reform advocate based in Washington\, D.C. Her career is devoted to fundamentally changing how people think about whom we punish\, why we punish\, and how we punish. After working to advance racial justice in the courts and alongside grassroots movements for more than 15 years\, Patrice founded DC Justice Lab to advance community-rooted public safety reforms. She envisions\, writes\, and fights for sweeping changes to American criminal laws and policies. \nPatrice has represented clients in criminal and civil rights cases nationwide. In addition\, she served on the District of Columbia’s Criminal Code Reform Commission (comprehensively rewriting D.C.’s criminal code)\, Police Reform Commission (recommending an overhaul of D.C.’s approach to public safety)\, and Jails & Justice Task Force (publishing a plan to decarcerate by half and bring D.C.’s residents home to a safe environment). Patrice also teaches Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure and Trial Advocacy at The George Washington University Law School.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/privilege-and-punishment-how-race-and-class-matter-in-criminal-court/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072042
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SUMMARY:Abolitionist Toolbox - Mapping the Prison Industrial Complex
DESCRIPTION:Join Micah Herskind for a workshop about mapping the prison industrial complex.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMore people are talking about the prison industrial complex (PIC) than ever. Decades of abolitionist organizing and popular uprisings have led to a growing consciousness around the PIC and movements to abolish it. But what exactly is the PIC? How does it work? Who is involved? Is it mainly about companies that directly profit from incarceration? What does it mean for the PIC’s actors to be reliant on the punishment system? \nThis workshop will use a recent example of the PIC in Atlanta—whose actors promoted the construction of a massive police training facility despite overwhelming public opposition—to begin mapping the web of interests that make up the local PIC. Looking at the police\, government actors and elected officials\, corporations and developers\, media\, nonprofits\, and others\, we’ll draw connections between the many entities that perpetuate\, expand\, and rely upon the punishment system. We’ll ask what each of these actors’ stake in the punishment system is\, and highlight the resistance from #StopCopCity organizers who are still working to stop the construction. Attendees will leave with a tool to aid in mapping the PIC in their locality. \nRead the following article prior to attending the session: https://www.mainlinezine.com/cop-city-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-in-atlanta/ \nSpeaker Bio\nMicah Herskind is an Atlanta-based organizer and policy advocate. He is a member of the Georgia Freedom Letters core organizing team and a co-creator of the #8ToAbolition political education project. Micah has written about the prison industrial complex (PIC) and movements to abolish it and maintains a regularly updated resource guide on PIC abolition. \nTICKETS\nDonation-Based Tickets: One donation = One ticket \nCommunity Tickets: Please reserve free tickets for people of color and people with limited income only. We really mean this. Please don’t use a free ticket if you can afford to make even a small donation. \nIf you can afford to make a donation of any amount\, please do so. All funds raised will go towards the event (closed captioners\, interpreters\, support roles\, presenter). \nIf you are a youth worker in need of a free ticket\, please reach out to Erin at admin@interruptingcriminalization.org. \n  \nACCESS\nThis virtual event will include live closed-captioning and ASL interpretation. \nFor accessibility requests or questions\, please email Erin at admin@interruptingcriminalization.org. You can also message us on social @interruptcrim. \n— \nPresented by Project Nia as part of the “Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox: Everyday Resources for a Punishment-Free World” series
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolitionist-toolbox-mapping-the-prison-industrial-complex/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072042
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SUMMARY:UVA’s Center for Criminal Justice: Promoting Evidence-Based Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Timothy J. Longo\, Deirdre Enright\, Rachel Harmon\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nVirtual Event with Live Captioning \nUVA’s Center for Criminal Justice: Promoting Evidence-Based Reform \nJoin Lifetime Learning and University of Virginia Law School’s distinguished faculty\, Rachel Harmon and Deirdre Enright\, to learn about the Center for Criminal Justice. Harmon\, a leading scholar on policing\, is leading the Center that brings together faculty and students to gather research and data to inform policy on important issues facing our criminal justice system\, such as bail\, policing\, and parole reform. After years of investigating wrongful convictions and securing the freedom of numerous people through the Innocence Project\, Enright is leading the Project for Informed Reform. We will learn how the evidence-based recommendations coming out of the Center and its projects can help make systemic changes to some of the most significant criminal justice issues facing our country. \nTimothy J. Longo\, Sr.\, UVA’s Associate Vice President for Safety and Security and Chief of Police\, will moderate the discussion. \n\n\nSpeaker Biographies \nTimothy J. Longo (moderator)\, Associate Vice President for Safety and Security and Chief of Police\, University of Virginia \nTimothy J. Longo Sr. was appointed the University of Virginia’s associate vice president for safety and security and chief of police in November 2019. In this capacity\, Longo oversees the UVA Police Department\, the Department of Emergency Management\, Clery Act compliance\, and the Office of Youth Protection\, threat assessment\, and safety and security systems and technology. He brings more than 40 years of experience in law enforcement leadership and higher education to his role. \n\n\nDeirdre Enright\, Professor\, School of Law\, University of Virginia \nDeirdre Enright is a professor and director of the University of Virginia Law School’s new Project for Informed Reform\, which launched in the spring of 2022. She previously was the founding director of the Innocence Project at UVA Law. Before joining the Law School\, Enright worked at the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center\, where she represented clients and consulted on cases in all stages of capital litigation\, with primary focus on federal and state post-conviction proceedings and Supreme Court certiorari review. After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 1992\, Enright worked as a staff attorney at the Mississippi Capital Defense Resource Center. \n\n\nRachel Harmon\, Harrison Robertson Professor of Law\, Class of 1957 Research Professor of Law\, and Director\, Center for Criminal Justice at the University of Virginia Law School \nRachel Harmon is the Harrison Robertson Professor of Law and the Center for Criminal Justice director. Harmon is a leading scholar on policing and the laws that regulate police behavior. Her new casebook\, “The Law of the Police” (2021)\, is the first resource for students and others seeking to understand and evaluate how American law governs police interactions with the public. She also directs the Center for Criminal Justice\, which serves as a hub for research\, scholarship\, and activities involving criminal law at UVA’s Law School.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/uvas-center-for-criminal-justice-promoting-evidence-based-reform/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T170000
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SUMMARY:The Deep History of Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney sketching the outlines of prison in the ancient Mediterranean world.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWe live in the age of mass incarceration. The US accounts for only 4% of the global population\, yet it holds a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Black people and people of color are dramatically targeted among the US carceral population. \nA new wave of critical prison studies has emerged in response to this problem\, aimed at investigating the past and present of incarceration\, and attempting to imagine a more just future in prison reform or abolition. Michel Foucault’s work casts a long shadow over the field\, especially in his claim that penal and reformatory incarceration is an early modern invention; that the prison was “born” only recently. Such a claim\, however\, is wrong and misleading. \nThis lecture will explore the deep history of incarceration\, focusing on sites and experiences of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean world. We will see spaces of incarceration through 3D models\, and we will read the words of people imprisoned thousands of years ago as preserved in their papyrus letters requesting food\, clothing\, and release from captivity. The lecture will highlight the troubling resonances between ancient and modern carceral practices\, along with clear points of departure that help to denaturalize some modern prison policies that appear to many as obvious or necessary. An incomplete vision of the prison’s past hinders our ability to envision a more just future. \nDidier Fassin’s recent\, influential Prison Worlds begins with the assertion “Prison is a recent invention.” If this common notion is false\, then a new framework is needed in efforts to mobilize history in our attempt to move beyond our era of mass incarceration. This lecture will sketch the outlines the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world\, suggesting a number of ways in which modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique. \nImage credit: Photograph Friedrich Rakob. Negative D-DAI-ROM-NA-RAK-37320”  \nImage detail: In the foreground of the photo is an excavated Roman military prison\, while a 19th century French colonial prison stands in the background. Inmates at the French prison were the laborers who excavated the Roman site\, an oddity whose story and implications Larsen and Letteney will address in their lecture.  \nAbout the speakers \nMark Letteney is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. His work covers the history of incarceration\, the history of epistemology\, and the archaeology of military occupation. \nMatthew D. C. Larsen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. His current research centers on the history of incarceration. \nAccessibility \nLive transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to skreitzb@barnard.edu. \nThis event is free and open to all. RSVP here. \nStreaming information will be provided closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/the-deep-history-of-incarceration/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T173000
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SUMMARY:Intro to Transformative Justice: Beyond Punishment & the Carceral State
DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the principles & practices of transformative justice & abolition for police & prison free futures!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThis workshop introduces participants to the core values and principles of transformative justice\, centering the most vulnerable members in our communities through a framework of community accountability is at the core of the session. Participants will explore some practical tools for interpersonal and community interventions as well as reflections on punitive justice and cultivating a toolkit for collective liberation through self reflection\, mutual responsibility and healing. The workshop uses the anti-oppressive framework to explore power dynamics and the socio-political conditions that facilitate and amplify harm. \nASL | Live Captioning | Note Taker \nPlease indicate accessibility needs upon registration.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/intro-to-transformative-justice-beyond-punishment-the-carceral-state/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T072042
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SUMMARY:Race\, Abolition\, and Transformative Justice
DESCRIPTION:“Race\, Abolition\, and Transformative Justice” ft. Dylan Rodriguez & Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n“Race\, Abolition\, and Transformative Justice” ft. Dylan Rodriguez & Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the second virtual event from the UBC Social Justice Institute’s speaker panel series on Abolition of Police and Prisons\, entitled “Just Futures: Thinking Through Abolition and Transformative Justice” \nUBC’s Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Association invites you to a panel series on Abolition and Transformative Justice. This series was created to engage with the broader UBC community around anti-Black racism following recent instances of racial profiling on campus\, and to consider how UBC must divest from policing and surveillance practices that are rooted in systemic racism. We hope that through this free speaker panel\, reading group\, and creative dialogue series\, we can invite UBC students and faculty as well as communities from so-called Vancouver to learn about Abolition and bring these conversations into our communities so that we can end racial profiling on campus for good. \nThe event series is free and intends to help the UBC community at-large gain tools to combat anti-Black racism on campus as we reflect on Canada’s histories of colonialism\, surveillance\, policing\, and incarceration. \n\n\n\nDr. Dylan Rodriguez is a teacher\, scholar\, and activist. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and is Past President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021). He has worked as a Professor at the University of California\, Riverside since 2001 \nDylan is the author of three books\, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press\, 2021). He is a founding member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and Critical Resistance\, a leading carceral abolitionist organization. He is part of the Abolition Collective and Scholars for Social Justice\, and continuously works in and alongside various radical movements and collectives. \nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan\, Irish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books\, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival; Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement\, Tonguebreaker\, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\, and Bodymap. A Lambda Award winner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times\, they are the 2020 Jean Cordova Award winner “honoring a lifetime of work documenting the complexities of queer experience” and are a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow. Raised in rustbelt central Massachusetts and shaped by T’karonto and Oakland\, they currently make home in South Seattle\, Duwamish territories. brownstargirl.org \n  \nThis event was funded by the AMS Global Fund and UBC Asian Canadian Migration Studies. \nAccessibility Note: ASL Interpretation will be available at the event. \n—— \nJust Futures: Series Schedule \nFEB 7th: Race\, the Nation State\, and Policing ft. El Jones & Vicki Chartrand \nMARCH 14th: Race\, Abolition\, and Transformative Justice Dylan Rodriguez & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha \nMARCH 21st: When Things Fall Apart: Conflict\, Crisis\, and Collective Healing in Activist Movements Kai Cheng Thom (in person at Green College\, UBC) \nAPRIL 4th: Decolonizing Justice ft. Michaela McGuire \n—— \nLand acknowledgement: \nThis panel series is organized on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/race-abolition-and-transformative-justice/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T160000
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SUMMARY:Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem Film Screening & Panel
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by WIN Recovery\, the Women’s Justice Institute and Brave New Films & Featuring a live panel with State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin WIN Recovery\, the Women’s Justice Institute (WJI) and Brave New Films for a virtual screening of RACIALLY CHARGED: American’s Misdemeanor Problem followed by a live panel discussion about the harmful impacts of misdemeanors on women of color\, as well as solutions. \nThis event will stream LIVE on Brave New Films’ Facebook page and YouTube channel. \nThe Panel \nThe panel will be moderated by WIN Recovery Founder Bethany Little\, and will center on firsthand narratives of women with lived experience and their perspectives on transformative responses. \nFeatured Panelists include: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx\, WJI Reclamation Project Director Colette Payne and other leaders of the Reclamation Project\, a mutual support and advocacy collective of system-impacted women leaders collaborating to end women’s mass incarceration. \nThe Film \nRACIALLY CHARGED: America’s Misdemeanor Problem\, a documentary film from Brave New Films\, exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of power within the justice system. 13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are caught in this system. \nTold through parallel first-person accounts of those charged under the Black Codes of the Reconstruction Era\, to the heartbreaking stories from people caught up in the system today\, the film brings to light the unfolding of a powerful engine of inequality and profit that personifies the birth of Black Lives Matter while shedding new light on our history of wrongful convictions with deadly consequences. \nIn addition to the first-person accounts\, the film showcases key analysis from experts in the fields of law\, criminal justice\, and historical racism. \nFEATURING \nMahershala Ali – 2-time Academy Award winner for Moonlight and Green Book \nDemario Davis – NFL linebacker for the New Orleans Saints \nAlexandra Natapoff – Author of the book\, Punishment Without Crime\, which serves as the inspiration for the documentary \nKhalil Gibran Muhammad – Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of\, The Condemnation of Blackness \nDouglas Blackmon – Pulitzer Prize winning author of the book\, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II \nPaul Delano Butler – Law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and author of\, Chokehold: Policing Black Men \nGaye Theresa Johnson – Associate Professor of African American Studies at UCLA \nIrene Oritseweyinmi Joe – Professor of Law\, UC Davis School of Law
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/racially-charged-americas-misdemeanor-problem-film-screening-panel/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220308T203000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Safety: What happens when we defund the police?
DESCRIPTION:It’s hard to imagine a world without policing\, but Black and Indigenous organizers in our communities are already doing the work.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIn the context of our communities\, our panelists will share their wide array of experience in stepping up where police currently miss the mark\, and share their imaginings of a safer future. Join us in discussion with: \nEl Jones \nMarlihan Lopez \nAmy Edward \nJessica Quijano \nView additional details on our website \n*This is a webinar. Link to be provided ahead of the event. \n**This event is brought to you by the Reimagining Safety team from Concordia’s School of Public Affairs\, in partnership with the Black Student Union and the Sustainability Action Fund. Additional partners may be added prior to the event that are not visible here. They will\, however\, be visible across our platforms\, including our website and social media pages.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-safety-what-happens-when-we-defund-the-police/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T133000
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CREATED:20220223T012158Z
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SUMMARY:Visions Beyond Prisons: Discussion w/ Authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now.
DESCRIPTION:Join the Social Justice Initiative Portal Project for a virtual conversation with the authors of the new book\, Abolition. Feminism. Now.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin the Social Justice Initiative Portal Project for a conversation with the authors of the new book\, Abolition. Feminism. Now. \nCombining decades of scholarship and activism\, Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth E. Richie have co-written a powerful\, provocative\, and timely book outlining the feminist roots of abolitionists thought and practice. All four authors are affiliated with The Portal Project and we are proud to host this event moderated by Dr. Stacey Sutton\, and Hashim Benford of the Grassroots Policy Project. \nMore about the book: \nAbolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work\, a movement genealogy\, a call to action\, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. \nIn this remarkable collaborative work\, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica R. Meiners\, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer\, anti-capitalist\, internationalist\, grassroots\, and women-of-color-led feminist movements\, struggles\, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century. \nThis pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community-based organizing\, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages\, key internationalist learnings\, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/visions-beyond-prisons-discussion-w-authors-of-abolition-feminism-now/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T130000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Patrisse Cullors
DESCRIPTION:Join Mother Jones in Conversation with Patrisse Cullors\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAs the Black Lives Matter movement continues to expand politically and evolve culturally\, so too does Patrisse Cullors\, the author\, artist\, and educator who co-founded the movement’s global network 10 years ago. Since leaving the organization\, Cullors has stayed focused on another title she’s embraced in hopes that others will as well: abolitionist. In her new book\, An Abolitionist’s Handbook\, Cullors offers 12 steps for practicing abolition of unjust systems in day-to-day life. \n  \nJoin Cullors and Mother Jones deputy editor James West as they discuss the evolution of the racial justice movement\, a reimagining of what reparations might look like\, and Cullors’ boldly innovative and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. \n  \nClick here to purchase an exclusive signed copy of An Abolitionist’s Handbook from Marcus Books. \n  \nPlease note: \n\nLinks to view the event will be emailed to those registered 24 hours before the event.\n\n\nAll donations help fund Mother Jones’ smart and fearless journalism. Thank you for making our work possible!\n\n 
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/in-conversation-with-patrisse-cullors/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T173000
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SUMMARY:From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition
DESCRIPTION:Join abolitionist organizers connecting the dots between surveillance capitalism\, border imperialism\, and neoliberal prison reforms.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n  \nHow do we organize resistance against the growing number of ways that data is used to reinforce and expand criminalization? Join abolitionist thinkers and organizers connecting the dots between surveillance capitalism\, border imperialism\, and neoliberal prison reform. \nA dominant mode of our time\, data analysis and prediction are part of a longstanding historical process of racial and national profiling\, management and control in the US. In a new report\, From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition\, Community Justice Exchange examines the interlocked machineries of migrant surveillance and describes processes of “data criminalization:” the creation\, archiving\, theft\, resale and analysis of datasets that mark some of us as threats and risks\, based on data culled about us from state and commercial sources. \nAs all facets of daily life become datafied\, governments and corporations work together formally and extra-legally to instrumentalize the most mundane and revealing data sets created about us. As these surveillance systems expand from formally criminalized spaces like prisons and detention centers to encompass less-carceral and non-carceral spaces like parking lots and personal cell phones\, the technologies themselves also become more aggressive\, utilizing mood prediction\, behavior control and relationship-mapping practices rather than simple data cross-checking to criminal legal records. \nHow might we fight data criminalization on our terms? Rather than being drawn into arguments about privacy\, accuracy\, or the theatrics of consumer consent and regulatory oversight\, we assert that these datasets are inherently illegitimate\, and creation and use of them should be abolished. What if we organized our resistance based on that premise? \n***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and live captioning will be provided.*** \n———————————————————————— \nSpeakers: \nJ. Khadijah Abdurahman is an abolitionist whose research focus is predictive analytics in the US child welfare system and the Horn of Africa. They are the founder of We Be Imagining\, a public interest technology project at Columbia University’s INCITE Center and The American Assembly’s Democracy and Trust Program. WBI draws on the Black radical tradition to develop public technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations. \nJacinta González is a senior campaign organizer with Mijente and leads their #NoTechforICE campaign. Previously\, she worked at PODER in México\, organizing the Río Sonora River Basin committees against water contamination by the mining industry. Jacinta was the lead organizer for the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice Congress of Day Laborers (2007-2014). In Louisiana Gonzalez helped establish a base of day laborers and undocumented families dedicated to building worker power\, advancing racial justice\, and organizing against deportations in post-Katrina New Orleans. \nSarah T. Hamid (she/her/no preference) is an abolitionist and organizer working in the Pacific Northwest. She leads the policing technology campaign at the Carceral Tech Resistance Network: an archiving and knowledge sharing network for organizers building community defense against the design\, roll-out\, and experimentation of carceral technologies. Sarah co-founded the inside/outside research collaboration\, the Prison Tech Research Group\, and helped create the #8toAbolition campaign—a police and prison abolition resource built during last summer’s uprisings against state violence. \nPuck Lo (she/they) is the Research Director of Community Justice Exchange\, an abolitionist organization that supports organizers to fight all forms of incarceration and social control. They spent the last year examining Department of Homeland Security’s data regimes and other expanding systems of corporeal theft and predictive criminalization. \nHarsha Walia (moderator) is the author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism and an organizer rooted in migrant justice\, abolitionist\, antiracist\, feminist\, anti-imperialist\, and anticapitalist movements for over two decades. \n———————————————————————— \nThis event is sponsored by Community Justice Exchange and Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available\, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/from-data-criminalization-to-prison-abolition/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Angélica Cházaro\, Erica Perry\, and Andrea Ritchie\, moderated by Dean Spade\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAbolitionists have been working for centuries to oppose the growth of systems of racially targeted criminalization. The 2020 uprising against police violence and anti-Black racism brought the conversation about abolition to the mainstream\, and prompted campaigns in cities and counties across the US to defund the police and shift public resources toward meeting basic human needs like housing\, healthcare\, and childcare. For almost two years\, local organizers around the country have been rigorously working to transform city and county budgets\, and their work has made significant changes in local\, state\, and national politics. Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned since June 2020\, how this work fits into the larger abolitionist vision for a world without cages or borders\, and the key strategic questions facing the movement now. \nAccessibility \nLive transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to skreitzb@barnard.edu. \nThis event is free and open to all. \nStreaming information will be provided closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolition-on-the-ground-reporting-from-the-movement-to-defundthepolice/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220228T093000
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SUMMARY:Leading with Abundance: Transformative Justice as a Framework for Change
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 28th for\, Leading with Abundance: Transformative Justice as a Framework for Change.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWomenatthecentrE‘s latest webinar\, Leading with Abundance: Transformative Justice as a Framework for Change\, will explore Transformative Justice values through presentations from WomenatthecentrE\, presented by Alison Morrison\, and WAVAW\, presented by Felix Gilliland. This will be followed by a panel exploring how we conceptualize and embrace Transformative Justice values in our work\, facilitated by Nneka MacGregor\, and featuring Jeff Carolin\, Dalya Israel\, Marlihan Lopez\, and Dr. Rachel Zellars! \nAlison Morrison (she/her) is a Project Coordinator at WomenatthecentrE\, primarily working on WomenatthecentrE’s Transformative Accountability & Justice Initiative. She joined WomenatthecentrE first as a placement student in January of 2020 while completing her MA in Criminology & Social Justice. Alison is inspired by the values of Transformative Justice\, and is passionate about learning through collaboration. \nFelix Gilliland is a white\, trans settler living on the territories of the Lekwungen speaking peoples of the Esquimalt and Songhees nations. They work at WAVAW Rape Crisis Center as the Manager of Social Change\, where their work has included developing practices for trans-specific feminist support services\, piloting transformative justice for survivors\, and restoring relationships between feminists and sex workers. Felix has a background in mental health and addictions services in Vancouver’s downtown east side which informs their work to increase access for all survivors. \nNneka MacGregor is the Executive Director of WomenatthecentrE\, a unique non-profit created by and for women and trans survivors of gender-based violence globally. She is an Expert Advisory Panel Member of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability and sits on several Advisory Boards and Committees\, including the Family Law Committee of the Board of Legal Aid Ontario. She is a member of the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee. She was a recipient of the 2019 PINK Concussions Awards and is also the recipient of the YWCA Women of Distinction 2020 award for Social Justice. \nMarlihan Lopez is a Black feminist community organizer tackling issues surrounding anti-blackness\, gender-based violence and its intersections. She coordinated the EDI (equity\, diversity\, inclusion) division for the Quebec Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres\, where she did advocacy work and raises awareness on how gender\, race\, class and ability intersect in the context of sexual violence. She has also organized with movements such as Black Lives Matter around issues such as racial profiling and police brutality. She is currently co-Vice-President for la Fédération des femmes du Québec and Program and Outreach Coordinator at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She is also cofounding member of Coalition to Defund the Police\, based in Montreal. \nDalya Israel (she/her) is WAVAW’s Executive Director. Dalya began her journey at WAVAW in 2002 as a volunteer and later went on to join the Victim Services Program in 2005. For the past 16 years she has had the honor of supporting survivors as they navigated systems after sexual violence and harm while also amplifying survivors voices in circles of influence in order to make substantive changes that reflect the lived experience of survivors WAVAW serves. Dalya believes deeply that feminism\, feeding our spirit and connection is the antidote to rape culture and that we must all continue to dream of the world we want for survivors in order to create it. \nJeff Carolin is a criminal defence lawyer\, conflict transformation facilitator\, and father of two small children based in Toronto. Jeff opened his law practice after receiving the gold medal at Osgoode Hall Law School for achieving the highest standing in his graduating class. Jeff’s practice was initially dedicated to defending clients who had been marginalized due to poverty\, mental health differences\, and racism\, and has since broadened to include a focus on restorative and transformative justice. He is inspired by the possibility that trials and jails need not be the only result of harm and wrong-doing\, and that transformation\, healing\, and hope can emerge from the darkest of moments. Representing Marlee Liss\, the survivor of a serious sex assault\, in one of the first restorative justice processes in Toronto for a crime of this magnitude has been a pivotal moment in his journey. \nDr. Rachel Zellars is a lawyer\, Senior Research Fellow\, and Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s University in the Department of Social Justice & Community Studies. Dr. Zellars also holds a master’s degree in Africana Studies from Cornell University and a doctorate in education from McGill University. In 2020\, Dr. Zellars co-founded the Black Lives Matter Solidarity Fund in Nova Scotia\, a mutual aid fund responding to the realities of COVID-19\, which has raised and distributed over $300\,000 to date. Additionally\, she co-founded the African Nova Scotian Freedom School in Halifax in 2020 to honour the rich legacies of African Nova Scotian freedom fighters\, educators\, and community leaders throughout the province. As an organizer for the last 20 years\, Dr. Zellars’ community work is committed to supporting survivors of GBV through transformative justice approaches to healing and responding to harm. \nPlease connect with Alison Morrison\, alison@womentthecentre.com\, or Kelsy Dundas\, kelsy@womenatthecentre.com\, for any questions! We look forward to you joining us on February 28th\, 2022!
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/leading-with-abundance-transformative-justice-as-a-framework-for-change/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Poets Abiodun Oyewole & Pharaoh In Conversation with Etan Thomas\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nGet the Book Details \n  \n  \nETAN THOMAS\, an eleven-year NBA veteran and lifelong advocate for social justice\, weaves together his personal experiences with police violence and white supremacy with multiple interviews of family members of victims of police brutality like exonerated Central Park Five survivor Raymond Santana and Rodney King’s daughter Lora Dene King; as well as activist athletes and other public figures such as Steph Curry\, Chuck D\, Isiah Thomas\, Sue Bird\, Jake Tapper\, Jemele Hill\, Stan Van Gundy\, Kyle Korver\, Mark Cuban\, Rick Strom\, and many more. \n  \nThomas speaks with retired police officers about their efforts to change policing\, and white allies about their experiences with privilege and their ability to influence other white people. Thomas also examines the history of racism\, white supremacy\, and the prevalence of both in the current moment. He looks at the origins of white supremacy in the US\, dating back to the country’s inception\, and explores how it was interwoven into Christianity–interviewing leading voices both in and outside of the church. Finally\, with prominent voices in the media and education\, Thomas discusses the continued cultivation of these injustices in American society. \n  \nPolice Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. It offers practical solutions to work against the promotion of white supremacy in law enforcement\, Christianity\, early education\, and across the public sphere. \n  \nFeaturing original interviews with: Steph Curry\, Chuck D\, Yamiche Alcindor\, Isiah Thomas\, Jemele Hill\, Craig Hodges\, Stan Van Gundy\, Mark Cuban\, Jake Tapper\, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf\, Sue Bird\, Kyle Korver\, Rick Strom\, Cenk Uygur\, Tim Wise\, Chris Broussard\, Breanna Stewart\, Rex Chapman\, Stephen Jackson\, Kori Mccoy\, Lora Dene King\, Chikesia Clemons\, Raymond Santana\, Alissa Findley\, Amber And Ashley Carr\, Michelle And Ashley Monterrosa\, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.\, Abiodun Oyewole\, Marc Lamont Hill\, Officer Carlton Berkley\, Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr.\, Officer Joe Ested\, Captain Sonia Pruitt\, and Bishop Talbert Swan. \n  \nAbout the Author \nEtan Thomas\, a former eleven-year NBA player\, was born in Harlem and raised in Tulsa\, Oklahoma. He has published multiple books including: We Matter: Athletes and Activism (voted a top ten best activism book of all time by BookAuthority)\, More than an Athlete\, Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge\, and Voices of the Future. Thomas received the 2010 National Basketball Players Association Community Contribution Award as well as the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation Legacy Award–both honoring his advocacy for social justice. He is a senior writer for BasketballNews.com and a regular contributor to the Guardian and The Undefeated. He can frequently be seen on MSNBC as a special correspondent and cohosts a weekly show with Dave Zirin called\, The Collision: Where Sports and Politics Collide.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/police-brutality-and-white-supremacy-the-fight-against-american-traditions/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T104000
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SUMMARY:Live from the Ninth Floor—Black Lives and Reparative Justice Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Live From the Ninth Floor presents Christopher Harris -Black Grammar: Repertoires of Abolition’s Future\, Present\, and Past\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nPresenting the vast and diverse scholarly repertoires of contemporary Black Studies\, Live from the Ninth Floor Spring 2022 will foster conversations with visiting scholars on processes of racialization\, Black diasporic life\, Black death\, transformative justice and the limits and possibilities of resistance and repair. \nSpeaker: Christopher Harris \nPresentation Title: Black Grammar: Repertoires of Abolition’s Future\, Present\, and Past \nChristopher Paul Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. His first book\, To Build a Black Future: Blackness and Social Movement in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter\, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nFunding for this event was provided by a grant from the Office for the Advancement of Research at John Jay College as well as support from John Jay College’s Office of Undergraduate Studies\, Student Council\, and the Departments of Africana Studies\, Anthropology\, and Political Science. \nhttps://jjay-cuny.zoom.us/j/81822555202?pwd=c3RmVVJvRkJGcmRaMXJHM1NzelFMdz09
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/live-from-the-ninth-floor-black-lives-and-reparative-justice-symposium/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Anti-Black Racism Forum: Community Safety & Justice
DESCRIPTION:A live interactive virtual discussion to address Systemic Anti-Black Racism in the area of Community Safety & Justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nDurham Black Network presents our Anti-Black Racism Forum on Thursday\, February 10\, 2022 at 7pm – 9pm Est. Our Anti-Black Racism Forum is a live interactive virtual discussion to address Systemic Anti-Black Racism in the area of Community Safety & Justice. Speakers (Criminal Lawyer- Peter Thorning\, Politician – Jennifer French Oshawa MPP\, Activist Emma Bower and Police- Durham Region Police Services) and Q & A. Our Forum is free\, runs for 2 hours and host by Greg Frankson.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/anti-black-racism-forum-community-safety-justice-2/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T133000
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SUMMARY:“Race\, the Nation State\, and Policing” ft. El Jones
DESCRIPTION:Race\, the Nation State\, and Policing ft. El Jones – a panel on Abolition and Transformative Justice\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n“Race\, the Nation State\, and Policing ft. El Jones” is the first virtual event from the UBC Social Justice Institute’s speaker panel series on Abolition of Police and Prisons\, entitled “Just Futures: Thinking Through Abolition and Transformative Justice” \nUBC’s Social Justice Institute’s Graduate Student Association invites you to a panel series on Abolition and Transformative Justice. This series was created to engage with the broader UBC community around anti-Black racism following recent instances of racial profiling on campus\, and to consider how UBC must divest from policing and surveillance practices that are rooted in systemic racism. We hope that through this free speaker panel\, reading group\, and creative dialogue series\, we can invite UBC students and faculty as well as communities from so-called Vancouver to learn about Abolition and bring these conversations into our communities so that we can end racial profiling on campus for good. \nThe event series is free and intends to help the UBC community at-large gain tools to combat anti-Black racism on campus as we reflect on Canada’s histories of colonialism\, surveillance\, policing\, and incarceration. \nThe series will include panels and presentations from guest speakers\, and ‘Creative Dialogues’\, which will be designed to bring the themes of Just Futures into our communities. The ‘Creative Dialogues’ will include reading groups\, teach-ins\, film discussions and artistic workshops held in-person (adhering to COVID-19 guidelines) at UBC and in other venues off campus to engage with the themes presented by speakers. Our ultimate goals with the series are to: 1) Bring more attention to how carceral systems impact the experiences of students at UBC (particularly Black and Indigenous students); 2) Provide students\, faculty\, staff\, and community members with tools to organize around anti-racism and make campus a more inclusive environment; 3) Bring together students from a variety of disciplines across campus who are interested in justice\, liberation\, equity and inclusion. \n—— \nLand acknowledgement: \nThis panel series is organized on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/race-the-nation-state-and-policing-ft-el-jones/
LOCATION:Online
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