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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220314T120000
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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/
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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
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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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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
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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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220226T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220206T160000
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SUMMARY:The Graveyard Don't Lie: Stories from Families Affected by Police Violence
DESCRIPTION:The Graveyard Don’t Lie is an opportunity to hear from and support families who have been directly affected by police violence.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n“If we don’t change\, nothing changes.” – Kim Handy-Jones \nYou’ve read the headlines about police violence. But for every lost life that makes the news\, there are dozens who don’t. The Graveyard Don’t Lie is an opportunity to hear from and support families who have been directly affected by police violence. \nOn February 6\, Ms. Kim Handy-Jones will talk with people who have lost loved ones to police violence. \nCome hear the stories of their lives; bear witness to the human cost of the United States’ policing system; and learn how you can show up in the movement for justice. \nProceeds benefit the Cordale Q. Handy In Remembrance of Me Foundation\, providing headstones and financial assistance to families affected by police violence.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/the-graveyard-dont-lie-stories-from-families-affected-by-police-violence/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T090000
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SUMMARY:History of Black Abolition: The Struggle for the Abolition of Slavery
DESCRIPTION:Examine Black Abolitionist politics & actions leading up to the American Civil War (session 1/4)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” \n-Assata Shakur \nThis Black History Month join the Decolonize Your Classroom and Amplify RJ communities in pushing the conversation about abolition into more spaces! \nCarceral mindsets harm everyone\, but somehow we still rely on them in society. Learn the history of the political movements and actions of abolitionists who have come before us so we can help others imagine and build a world without the need for police and prisons. \nEvery Saturday in February (9-10am PST) DeMointé Wesley and other aspiring abolitionists will explore: \nFeb. 5: The Struggle for the Abolition of Slavery \nFeb. 12: Black Liberation\, State Repression\, and the Anti-Prison Movement \nFeb. 19: Police and Prison Abolition Today \nFeb. 26: A Black Abolitionist Future \nEach session will be accompanied by an asynchronous video lesson laying the ground work for the Saturday conversations. Saturday sessions will be recorded for those who are unable to attend live. \nBy buying a ticket here on Eventbrite you are signing up to attend the session on February 5 only: \nSession 1: Examining Black Abolitionist politics leading up to the American Civil War\, we will explore: \nThe essential role Black Abolitionists played in the abolition of chattel slavery? \nThe varying goals\, perspectives\, methods of different Black abolitionists of the time? \nHow the ideas and frameworks of early Black abolitionists laid the foundation for later Black Abolitionist politics & action? \nPricing: \nIndividual workshop on Eventbrite: $29/session \nIf you want to join the series each week\, save by joining the workshop series on Membervault (tiny.cc/abolition) \nFull workshop series on Membervault Early Bird (Until January 31): $89 (no fees) \nFull workshop series on Membervault Individual: $99 (no fees)
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/history-of-black-abolition-the-struggle-for-the-abolition-of-slavery/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Abolition. Feminism. Now.
DESCRIPTION:Join Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica R. Meiners\, and Beth E. Richie for an urgent conversation moderated by Mariame Kaba.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAs a politic and a practice\, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment — halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist — usually queer\, anti-capitalist\, grassroots\, and women of color — organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated from vibrant community based organizing\, Abolition. Feminism. Now. surfaces necessary historical genealogies\, key internationalist learnings\, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and futures. \nGet the book\, Abolition. Feminism. Now.: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1546-abolition-feminism-now \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.*** \nThis event is free but please donate money (even $5 makes a difference)\, learn from and with\, and support grassroots organizations which are making the world we need\, now. For example – support Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (https://p-nap.org/donate/); Love & Protect (https://loveprotect.org/); Critical Resistance (http://criticalresistance.org/). \n———————————————————————– \nSpeakers: \nAngela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. An activist\, writer\, and lecturer\, her work focuses on prisons\, police\, abolition\, and the related intersections of race\, gender\, and class. She is the author of many books\, from Angela Davis: An Autobiography (now available in a new edition from Haymarket Books) to Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. \nGina Dent (Ph.D.\, English and Comparative Literature\, Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Currently\, she is Faculty Fellow at the UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, working as a consultant for the Barring Freedom exhibition (San José Museum of Art) and as co-convener of the Visualizing Abolition series of events\, which includes the video collection Music for Abolition (https://visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu). \nErica R. Meiners is a professor of education and women’s\, gender\, and sexuality studies at Northeastern Illinois University. A writer\, organizer\, and educator\, Meiners is the author For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State\, coauthor of The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm\, Ending State Violence\, and a coeditor of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences\, Working Toward Freedom. \nBeth E. Richie is Head of the Department of Criminology\, Law and Justice and Professor of Black Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of her scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that race/ethnicity and social position affect women’s experience of violence and incarceration\, focusing on the experiences of African American battered women and sexual assault survivors. Dr. Richie is the author of Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation\, which chronicles the evolution of the contemporary anti-violence movement during the time of mass incarceration in the United States and numerous articles concerning Black feminism and gender violence\, race and criminal justice policy\, and the social dynamics around issues of sexuality\, prison abolition\, and grassroots organizations in African American Communities. \n————————————————————————— \nThis event is sponsored by 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/abolition-feminism-now/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Uprooting Racism Speaker Series: Conor Dwyer Reynolds\, Rochester PAB
DESCRIPTION:Free online talk with Conor Dwyer Reynolds\, Executive Director of the Rochester\, NY Police Accountability Board (PAB)\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nPlease join Uprooting Racism and the Rochester Zen Center for this free community event welcoming Conor Dwyer Reynolds\, Executive Director of the Police Accountability Board\, as our next speaker in the Uprooting Racism Speaker Series. \nWho is invited?\nAll are welcome\, RZC members and non-members\, Buddhist and non-Buddhist\, local and non-local to Rochester\, friends\, family\, and the curious alike. \nHow do I get the Zoom meeting information?\nPlease register for a free “ticket” to receive access to the Zoom meeting information in your email inbox. \nAbout Conor\nConor Dwyer Reynolds is a Rochester native and graduate of the University of Rochester and Yale Law School. Conor worked for President Obama at the White House and on the Obama-Biden campaign. In his legal career\, Conor has sued banks to protect homeowners from foreclosure\, served as a law clerk to the Hon. Carlton W. Reeves\, and ran Yale’s Environmental Protection Clinic. During his time at the Clinic\, Conor led a project to address the racist legacy of racially restrictive covenants in Monroe County. \nAbout the Police Accountability Board (PAB)\nIn 2017\, Rochester voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot referendum to create a city-specific entity with the task of evaluating community reports of excessive police violence and\, where appropriate\, enabling disciplinary action of offending officers. Today’s PAB has grown from that seed. \nFrom the PAB’s own website: “Our mission and vision are the driving forces that guide everything PAB does. Our mission\, set by an overwhelming majority of Rochester’s voters\, is to “ensure public accountability and transparency over the powers exercised by sworn officers of the Rochester Police Department.” Our vision\, set by the community members who serve on our Board\, is to reimagine public safety.” \nPlease click here to learn much more about the PAB’s history\, values\, and work. \nWho are the PAB board members?\nThe Police Accountability Board is run by nine unpaid\, volunteer Board Members. The Board’s role is to oversee the agency’s operations\, set the agency’s priorities\, and serve on panels during the Board’s investigatory process. \nOne Board Member is appointed by the Mayor. One Board Member is appointed by City Council for each of the four City Districts (East\, Northeast\, Northwest\, and South). The remaining four Board Members are selected by the PAB Alliance (to which the Rochester Zen Center sends representatives)\, a coalition of community members who helped create and continue to sustain our work. \nOur most recent Uprooting Racism speaker\, Rabbi Drorah Setel\, is also among the members of the PAB. \nThe law requires PAB Board Members to be city residents who “reflect the City’s diverse community.” No Board Member (or their family members) can have ever worked for RPD or represented someone suing RPD. Board Members generally serve three year terms\, though some members are serving out shorter preliminary terms. \nPlease click here to learn much more about the individual members of the PAB. \nWhat is Uprooting Racism?\nUprooting Racism is a Sangha Programs Office group at the Rochester Zen Center\, focused on antiracist work and practice. We offer a variety of events and activities year-round to keep the conversation about race\, racism\, whiteness\, and white supremacy active within our community. \nPlease click here to learn more about Uprooting Racism.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/uprooting-racism-speaker-series-conor-dwyer-reynolds-rochester-pab/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:UCLA Law Review Symposium: Toward An Abolitionist Future
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Law Review invites you to join us online for our 2022 Symposium\, Toward an Abolitionist Future.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThe 2022 Symposium aims to focus on the question of what is an abolitionist future and what it takes to get there. The UCLA Law Review aims to facilitate thought-provoking discussions around the role of law\, legal thinking and lawyers in an abolitionist future. In the summer of 2020\, we witnessed nation-wide social uprisings spurred by yet another tragic iteration of police violence that\, for many\, lay bare the scourge of structural racism as a relenting plague American society. Scholars and organizers\, like Angela Y. Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore\, have argued the prison industrial complex must be understood as part of a societal\, political\, and economic context that shapes the contours of the prison industrial complex and explains its expansive growth over the past several decades. These historical connections and political\, economic\, and societal context inform what Amna Akbar refers to as the “abolitionist critique\,” and we aim to build on the efforts of these scholars. \nThe Symposium will center discussions on the following themes: Law and Legal Institutions: Impediments to Change; Abolition and Community; Abolition\, Pleasure and Vice; Reimagining Public Safety; The Global Move Toward Abolition; Abolition and Technology. The Symposium will also feature a book talk with Derecka Purnell about her new book\, Becoming Abolitionists\, and a panel with local LA organizers on abolition\, moderated by Patrisse Cullors. \nView the program here: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/762816098/ \nJanuary 28\, 2022: 9:00am -4:05pm \nJanuary 29\, 2022: 9:00am- 2:40pm
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/ucla-law-review-symposium-toward-an-abolitionist-future/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T153000
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SUMMARY:What About the Rapists? An Abolitionist FAQ
DESCRIPTION:Join Eva Nagao and Mariame Kaba for a presentation about the zine they authored\, “What About the Rapists?”\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIf as Melanie Brazzell theorizes\, safety is “a toolkit to be deployed\,” then abolitionists want to increase the number of tools that are salutary and get rid of the tools that don’t actually serve us. \nWe want more safety for everyone. Yet when we tell people that we want to abolish policing and prisons\, they invariably ask…”what about the rapists?” \nPIC abolitionists don’t demand police and prison abolition in spite of “the rapists.” We demand abolition because the current system produces and reinforces sexual violence while using survivors to justify its existence. Fear of “the rapists” is weaponized as a justification for maintaining and reinforcing a system that creates significant violence for many people while focusing very little time on addressing sexual violence for those who are harmed. When something can’t be fixed\, the question is what can we build instead? \nEva Nagao\nEva Nagao(she/her) is an organizer based out of Los Angeles. Her work focuses on communications for grassroots organizations and resource development that supports community-based structures working to decrease reliance on policing and punishment. She started her organizing work in Chicago with groups like the Chicago Freedom School\, Project Nia\, and Liberation Library\, among others. Outside of her work with Interrupting Criminalization\, she is an active member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. You can follow her on Twitter @evanagao. \nMariame Kaba\nMariame Kaba (she/her) is an organizer\, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial\, gender\, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration\, and has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years\, including Survived and Punished\, the Just Practice Collaborative\, and Interrupting Criminalization. Mariame co-authored the guidebook “Lifting As They Climbed” in 2017\, and in 2019 she published her first children’s book\, “Missing Daddy.” \n  \nTICKETS\nDonation-Based Tickets: One donation = One ticket \nFree 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 interruptcrim@gmail.com for the promo code. \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. \nTOOLKIT\nWe encourage everyone to review the zine prior to attending the session. \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/what-about-the-rapists-an-abolitionist-faq/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T180000
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SUMMARY:Etan Thomas | POLICE BRUTALITY AND WHITE SUPREMACY with Yamiche Alcindor
DESCRIPTION:Join this NBA veteran as he discusses his book on the struggle for racial justice in America with Yamiche Alcindor on P&P Live!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\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. \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 co-hosts a weekly show with Dave Zirin called\, The Collision: Where Sports and Politics Collide. \nThomas will be joined in conversation with\, Yamiche Alcindor\, the moderator of Washington Week\, the Peabody Award-winning weekly news analysis series on PBS. Alcindor also serves as White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. At Washington Week\, Alcindor moderates the weekly round-table discussion of journalists on the program\, which broadcasts live each Friday at 8 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/etan-thomas-police-brutality-and-white-supremacy-with-yamiche-alcindor/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T163000
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SUMMARY:Centering Rehabilitation: Reevaluating Prisons and Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Join WBEZ’s Natalie Moore for an event on Finland’s prison philosophy and America’s criminal justice system.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWBEZ’s Race\, Class and Communities reporter Natalie Moore recently traveled to Finland to learn more about the country’s open prisons and the philosophy that guides its unique approach to punishment. Her reporting highlighted the stark contrasts between the Nordic and American criminal justice systems. \nJoin WBEZ and the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government for an event exploring different models of prisoner rehabilitation and the potential for local reform. Natalie will share her experience inside Finland’s open prisons and provide an inside look into her reporting. The event will also feature a panel discussion about the future of the American criminal justice system. \nVirtual attendees will have an opportunity to explore alternative models of incarceration\, share their thoughts on prison reform\, and engage with each other on the subject matter through questions posed during the event. \nAbout Natalie: Natalie Moore is a 2021 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race\, housing\, economic development\, food injustice and violence. Natalie’s work has been broadcast on the BBC\, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition\, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Natalie is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation\, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise\, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. \nAbout the Center for Effective Government (CEG): Founded in 2019 within the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy\, the CEG aims to strengthen democratic institutions and improve the government’s capacity to solve public problems.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/centering-rehabilitation-reevaluating-prisons-and-punishment/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220123T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220123T150000
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SUMMARY:Systems and Social Justice: Justice and Safety Community Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Storytelling & community conversation event for Black folks & others uniquely impacted by the last two unprecedented years in U.S. history.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThe theme for this series is “Systems and Social Justice” and part 4 of the series is JUSTICE AND NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY. The 2020 double pandemics of COVID and racial uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd awakened the world to racial disparities BIPOC and especially Black folks have known about for centuries. 2021 intensified the explosion of exposed systemic injustice with a polarizing presidential election\, the Capital insurrection and continued COVID-related community disparities. This series will center and uplift the lesser known but true\, lived experiences of residents in Ohio. The series will serve as a convening space\, particularly for Black and other BIPOC folks uniquely impacted by the last two arguably unprecedented years in U.S. history. This community conversation series is in partnership with the Equity Now Coalition and the Ohio History Connection will serves as its oral history partner.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/systems-and-social-justice-justice-and-safety-community-conversation/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T170000
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SUMMARY:Let's Talk... Conversations on Race\, Equity\, & Belonging
DESCRIPTION:Our nation has been re-awakened to the systemic racism that exists. How do we start to VALUE DIFFERENCE in the workplace… Let’s Talk…\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThere is still SO MUCH to talk about when it comes to systemic racism and often times there is not a safe space with which to have these conversations\, ask questions\, self reflect\, learn from others and identify the next action step. \nLet’s Talk…Conversations about Race\, Equity & Belonging is a SAFE space for all colors\, all races\, and all ethnicities in which to grow ourselves and our community to create a more inclusive world. \nWe ask that you come to the conversation with: \n\nAn open heart\nAn open mind\nRespect for others\nConfidentiality – when in small breakout groups.\n\nGandhi said it best when he said: \n“Be the change you wish to see in the world”.\nThis platform is an opportunity for all of us to be the change! \nSo\, Let’s Talk… and then TAKE ACTION! \nJoin us every month as we will discuss various topics as it relates to systemic racism\, identity\, equity\, and belonging. We will have guest facilitators\, panelists\, speakers\, along with breakout rooms for more meaningful and intimate discussion and connection. \nIn November we will discuss what it takes to be an Ally for marginalized identities.\nHear from incredible experts on their experiences not only being an ALLY but an Accomplice in supporting the representation of voices and positions in the workplace and beyond.\nLet’s Talk….\n\nJoin us for our next conversation “DEI UNFILTERED” where you will hear from experts on strategies that can help support you in this space. \n\nMixed Race – May 2021\nMixed Race- Part 2 – Unintentional Harm – June 2021\nCode Switching- July 21\, 2021\nLGBTQIA+ : August 18\, 2021\nOvercoming Toxic Work Environments: Sept 22\, 2021\nDEI – Unfiltered: Oct 20\, 2021\nAllyship and Beyond: Nov 18\, 2021\nMental Health\nHair\nColorism\nPrivilege\nPolitics\nBias
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/lets-talk-conversations-on-race-equity-belonging/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220117T120000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Police Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining Police Surveillance: Protecting Activism and Ending Technologies of Oppression\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n  \nRegistration is required for this event. The panel will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link for this panel will be sent on the day of the event\, to the email address provided at registration. Schedule of events can be found below and on our website. \n— \nMonday – Panel 1 – The History and Overview of Police Surveillance in America \nMonday\, January 17\, 2022 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET | Virtual Zoom Room \nPanel discussion of what police surveillance technologies are and the historical context of their use within the United States justice system. \n\nAndrea L. Dennis\, John Byrd Martin Chair of Law\, University of Georgia School of Law\nMatthew Guariglia\, Electronic Frontier Foundation Policy Analyst\nDaanicka Gordon\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology\n\nTuesday – Panel 2 – The Expansion of Police Surveillance Technology \nTuesday\, January 18\, 2022 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET | Virtual Zoom Room \nPanel discussion of how and why certain technological innovations are adopted by police for surveillance efforts\, and how the consequences—both intended and unintended—of technology-driven solutions to the problem of crime. \n\nNathan Freed Wessler\, Deputy Director\, ACLU Speech\, Privacy\, and Technology Project\nCatherine Crump\, Clinical Professor of Law & Director of Samuelson Law\, Technology and Public Policy Clinic\, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology\nElizabeth Joh\, Professor of Law\, UC Davis School of Law\nEmily Tucker\, Professor of Law & Director of Research and Advocacy\, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law\n\nWednesday – Panel 3 – Surveillance of Social Movements and Public Protest \nWednesday\, January 19\, 2022 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET | Virtual Zoom Room \nPanel discussion on how police and federal agencies utilize their extensive resources to track\, identify\, and surveil public protest. \n\nJack Schulz\, Counsel Representing Detroit Will Breathe\nLinda Sarsour\, Co-Founder and Executive Director at MPower Change\nRachel Levinson-Waldman\, Deputy Director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program\nAlbert Fox Cahn\, Founder and Executive Director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project\n\nThursday – Panel 4 – Ending Targeted Police Surveillance of Communities of Color \nThursday\, January 20\, 2022 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET | Virtual Zoom Room \nPanel discussion on how digital surveillance tools such as facial recognition technology\, predictive algorithms\, and social media monitoring\, among others\, are heavily relied upon by police during investigations\, despite evidence that the technology is flawed and disparately impacts people of color. \n\nEric Williams\, Managing Attorney for Detroit Justice Center\nHarvey Gee\, Attorney for the San Jose City Attorney’s Office & Contributing Author to Symposium Volume 55.4\nAngel Díaz\, Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law\n\nFriday – Panel 5 – Reform Discussions \nFriday\, January 21\, 2022 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET | Virtual Zoom Room \nSpeakers will explain what “reform” of police surveillance technology means to them\, current reforms they endorse\, proposed reforms of which they believe we should be suspicious\, activist efforts worth endorsing\, and what they envision as the best path forward. Speakers will also accept questions from participants and discuss new ideas as they emerge. \n\nJumana Musa\, Director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers\nAndrew Guthrie Ferguson\, Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law\nBennett Capers\, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School & Director of Center on Race\, Law & Justice\nHamid Khan\, Founder of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-police-surveillance/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T093000
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Bars LA 2022 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Bars is a convening of system-impacted people engaged in the international decarceration movement.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nBeyond the Bars Los Angeles (BTB-LA) is a convening of system-impacted people\, scholars\, activists\, educators\, policymakers\, and artists engaged in the international decarceration movement. Organized by BTB-LA Fellows — system-impacted people and community partners — in collaboration with university students and faculty. The conference brings together a diverse range of allies\, artists\, activists\, advocates\, and academics to engage in global initiatives aimed at ending incarceration. \n  \nBeyond the Bars has been running for the past 10 years at Columbia University’s Center for Justice and more recently\, through the Prison Education Program at UCLA. UCLA’s Prison Education Program mission is to make postsecondary education accessible to women and young people who are currently incarcerated\, and to bring UCLA faculty and students to learn alongside them\, thereby challenging bias\, discrimination\, and injustice in a shared and collaborative learning experience. \nSchedule and zoom links will be sent shortly before the conference dates. Be on the lookout!
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/beyond-the-bars-la-2022-conference/
LOCATION:Online
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