Event Calendar
A calendar of events focused on reimagining public safety, developing alternatives to police, anti-racism, and social justice.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Calls for Protests the Day After The November Presidential Election (November 4, 2020) After the election, the peoples mandate for change must…
The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing…
For many, reimagining community safety means reimagining communities that achieve safety without the assistance of police. We have asked Alex Vitale, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End…
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
