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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220207T120000
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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/
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T140000
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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/
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T173000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260530T190910
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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
DTSTAMP:20260530T190910
CREATED:20220113T010818Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T190910
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220117T130000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T143000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T173000
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SUMMARY:Policing Through the Words and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Policing Through the Words and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThis town hall\, presented in collaboration with the ACLU’s Smart Justice Campaign\, will honor Martin Luther King and will examine his work from a different standpoint. In keeping with our 2021 presentations on Racial Justice Through Reimagining Policing\, this town hall will examine Rev. King’s speeches and work that focus on Policing. Although Rev. King’s speeches focused on segregation through the lens of poverty\, labor\, global human rights and war\, his work also focused extensively on police brutality and structural discrimination. Clips from Dr. King’s speeches and from SDARJ’s 2021 presentations will be presented\, along with commentary from Haneef Salaam\, Director of the ACLU Smart Justice Campaign and Dr. James Nolan\, SDARJ’s expert on reimagining policing. \nIn addition\, there will be a short presentation from the SDARJ Legislative-Advocacy Committee previewing the upcoming legislative session.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/policing-through-the-words-and-work-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260530T190910
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T011958Z
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SUMMARY:Justice Matters to US - A social justice series
DESCRIPTION:A monthly series of workshops based on the four principles of social jusitice.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJustice Matters to US is a series of curated events discussing the practice of social justice within our communities\, as experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd uprisings. Each month will discuss 1 of the 4 principles of social justice framed around the theme of Covid-19\, with community leaders\, leading advocates\, and creative artists. Along with conversations\, there will be opportunities for interactive collaboration amongst attendees and facilitators through breakout groups. \nHuman Rights – Thurs. December 16\, 2021 – Speakers: Emerald Garner\, Founder of We Can’t Breathe and Stanley Mark\, Senior Staff Attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund \nEquity/Diversity – Thurs. January 13\, 2022 \nEngagement – Thurs. February 10\, 2022 \nAll events are from 6:30pm – 8:00pm via Zoom\, except for the last workshop will be in person at a location TBD. \n\n\nPast Event: \nAccess – Thurs. November 18\, 2021 – Speakers: Ramapo Munsee Lenape Chief Dewaine Perry and Rhode Island Indian Council Executive Director Darrell Waldron \n\nThe series Justice Matters to US is presented by the LES Social Justice Working Group; curated by the Black Gotham Experience; and sponsored by Henry Street Settlement.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/justice-matters-to-us-a-social-justice-series/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211213T183000
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SUMMARY:Racial Disparities in Policing
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, December 13 at 5:30pm\, join Occidental College Professors Seva Rodnyansky and Jorgen Harris on the presentation of the report: Glendale Arrests: Prevalence\, Racial Disparities\, and Implications\, An Analysis of Arrests From 2011 to 2019 in Glendale\, CA. Hosted by YWCA Glendale and Pasadena and the Coalition for an Anti-Racist Glendale. \n  \nAn engaging conversation and discussion on the potential reasons for arrest data differences between Glendale and Los Angeles: Glendale’s arrest trends stayed the same between 2011 and 2019 while neighboring Los Angeles’ have decreased by almost half during the same period. Glendale’s main arrest charges have not shifted much over time\, while Los Angeles has reduced arrests in Drug\, Property\, and All Other charges. \n  \nThe Coalition for an Anti-Racist Glendale will present its policy recommendations and a community story for how an anti-racist Glendale looks like. \n  \nAbout Data Gathering and Analysis \nSocial justice organizations in Glendale\, CA\, presented a formal request to City Hall on June 16\, 2020\, to access the Glendale Police Department’s arrest data for the past ten years. In 2021\, the founding organizations of the Coalition for an Anti-Racist Glendale partnered with professors and students at Occidental College to analyze the 10-year data logs. The report is the result of this partnership. \n  \nBy registering you agree to receive follow up communications from the organizers related to this webinar. \n  \nCoalition for An Anti-Racist Glendale Founding Members \nTara Peterson\, CEO YWCA Glendale & Pasadena Tanita Harris-Ligons\, Co-Founder Black in Glendale Elizabeth Vitanza\, Co-Founder Civic Sundays Dr. Shane Kinnison\, Senior Pastor First Baptist Church Michelle-Rojas Soto Policing Committee\, Coalition for an Anti-Racist Glendale.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/racial-disparities-in-policing/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260530T190910
CREATED:20211204T012705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211204T012705Z
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SUMMARY:Prison abolition issue: Listening party and reflective writing workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us to listen to the recorded voices of prisoner-writers featured in Briarpatch’s Prison Abolition issue\, followed by a writing workshop\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nOne of the basic goals of a prison is to isolate prisoners and cut their ties to the outside world. Yet prisoners have always found ways to build connections with creative and political communities outside of prisons\, and raise their voices in the struggle for liberation. \nIn keeping with the long tradition of prisoner writing\, in September 2021 Briarpatch Magazine\, in collaboration with Free Lands Free Peoples and the Inreach Committee of AbolitionTO\, published a special issue on the topic of prison abolition. It featured the writing\, art\, and poetry of people imprisoned across Turtle Island. \nPlease join us on Sunday December 12\, 2021 from 3-5 p.m. ET as we collectively listen to the pre-recorded voices of some of these authors\, either reading excerpts from their Briarpatch publications or speaking about writing while imprisoned. After listening to the audio recordings\, workshop participants will be invited to write a response to a specific author\, or a message of solidarity to all the authors. Briarpatch will then collect and mail these responses to authors. We hope to build concrete connections with prisoners and share with them the immense value and importance of their writing. \nSpeakers\nThe listening party will featuring recordings from Cory Charles Cardinal\, C. Ojore McKinnon\, Christophe Lewis\, Tamina Hamid\, Trenton Tompkins\, Jessie Milo\, and Anonymous. \nAnn Hansen\, urban guerilla\, author\, and former prisoner at the Kingston Prison for Women\, will also speak about the history of women prisoners’ writing and its role in the abolitionist movement. \nAccessibility information\nAutomated live transcription will be available\, and all recordings will include subtitles. The first half of the event may be recorded and posted on Briarpatch’s social media\, but the reflective writing workshop will not be recorded or posted. \nThis is a free event\, but we will be accepting donations to the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project’s Prisoner Emergency Support Fund.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/prison-abolition-issue-listening-party-and-reflective-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Race and Policing in the Americas Closing Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Race and Policing in the Americas Closing Roundtable \nThursday December 9th\, 2021 12:30-2.00 PM EST / 5.30-7.00PM BST \nOn Zoom: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95255686838 \nIn this roundtable discussion (Via Zoom)\, Sonia Das (Linguistic Anthopology\, NYU)\, Gabriella Johnson (English\, NYU)\, Stuart Schrader (Africana Studies and Program in Racism\, Immigration\, and Citizenship\, Johns Hopkins) and Nikhil Singh (Social and Cultural Analysis\, History and Prison Education Program\, NYU) will share their research on race\, policing\, mass incarceration and prison abolitionism in the United States and beyond. The panelists will explore how research undertaken and disseminated in different contexts (both within and outside of universities in the wake of Black Lives Matter movement and other protest movements) and across diverse approaches (policing\, carceral studies\, technology\, prison education\, literary and cultural studies\, and scholar-activism) can contribute to raising critical awareness of police violence and mass incarceration. \n  \nSonia Das (New York University) \nSonia is Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at New York University and Co-Editor-In-Chief of the flagship Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. She is the author of Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Oxford UP 2016)\, a study of the migration and diasporic experiences of Tamil-speaking Indians and Sri Lankans since the 1840s. Her current research examines how the big data of body-worn camera and predictive policing perpetuates racial inequities in U.S. law enforcement. https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/sonia-das.html \nGabriella I. Johnson (New York University) \n  \n  \nGabriella I. Johnson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at NYU\, where her research and teaching focuses on African American literature\, Black feminist theories\, and prison abolitionist thought. She is currently writing her dissertation on 20th-century African American women’s fiction as a prison abolitionist imagination. \n  \nStuart Schrader (Johns Hopkins University) \nStuart is Associate Research Professor in the Center for Africana Studies and the Associate Director of the Program in Racism\, Immigration\, and Citizenship. He is the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (U of California Press\, 2019) which looks at the relationship between US projections of power overseas and the rise of the carceral state at home. His new project examines the political activities of police in the United States since the 1960s\, via professional organizations and unions. https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/stuart-schrader/ \n  \nNikhil Singh (New York University) \nNikhil is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History and Faculty Director of NYU’s Prison Education Program. A historian of race\, empire\, and culture in the 20th-century United States\, Singh is the author of Race and America’s Long War (U of California Press 2017) and the award-winning\, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard UP 2004). A new book Exceptional Empire: Race\, Colonialism and the Origins of US Globalism is in-progress\, and forthcoming from Harvard University Press. https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/nikhil-singh.html \n  \nModerated by Patrick Deer (New York University) \nPatrick Deer is Associate Professor of English at NYU and co-organizer of the NYU Cultures of War and the Postwar research group. He published a scholarly book about war writing and war culture in World War II\, Culture in Camouflage: War\, Empire and Modern British Literature (Oxford University Press\, 2009; paperback ed. 2016). His current book project is We Are All Embedded: Understanding American War Culture Since 9/11. https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/patrick-deer.html \nHosted by the Cultures of War research group at NYU. https://wp.nyu.edu/culturesofwar/
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/race-and-policing-in-the-americas-closing-roundtable/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T203000
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SUMMARY:Building Racial Justice through Allyship/Accompliceship - 4 Part Series
DESCRIPTION:This is a four part series on the 1st Tuesday of the month on how to become a white ally/accomplice to BIPOC\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nNOTE: You may sign up for the remaining three sessions even if you missed the first one\, but you must have attended either Session 1 or Session 2 to register for sessions 3 and 4 \nAs white people\, we have a responsibility to work on eliminating structural racism in partnership\, accountability and alongside BIPOC activists (Black\, Indigenous\, and other People of Color). In order to change culture\, policies\, and practices we need to organize out of mutual interest\, and work to do our own internal and external work in a climate free of blame\, shame and guilt. Participation in this series will create a community of learners who will support each other’s movement along a continuum that deepens our ability to invest in Black lives and work in true solidarity. In this series\, we will explore what it means to be an anti-racist white person and to support each other to become not only an ally but also an accomplice. The series topics include: Understanding the Landscape\, Knowing Yourself: privilege and exclusion in allyship work\, Interpersonal and Structural Interventions\, and Moving Towards Accompliceship. \nGoals: \n1. To develop a common language for talking about power\, privilege\, and difference. \n2. To identify practical strategies for implementing and facilitating change collectively. \n3. To build alliances and networks \n4. To develop shared understandings of the critiques of some forms of white allyship by activists of color. \n5. To discuss our own barriers to working in full solidarity with people of color\, and strategies for breaking those barriers down or shifting how we perceive them to function. \n6. To build a collective set of actions toward allyship/accompliceship that we can support each other in and hold each other accountable to. \nSERIES SESSIONS \nSession one: Understanding the Landscape September 7\, 2021\, 6:30-8:30 pm \nIn this workshop\, we will discuss why self-work and knowledge are essential for effective allyship and accompliceship actions. We will learn about the Dominator Model that constructed a system that has shaped our histories and current experiences and unveils how power structures affect us. As a community of learners\, we can start with the tools of language and words that will create a climate talking about racism and other differences. \nSession two: Knowing Yourself: Privilege and Exclusion in Allyship work October 5\, 2021\, 6:30-8:30 pm \nThis session returns to and deepens our discussion of allyship and self-work. We will discuss how our own experiences of exclusion can become rich tools to strengthen our allyship. Understanding how we have learned to be both oppressed and oppressors and how it hurts all of us on both sides. \nSession three: Interpersonal and Structural Interventions. November 2\, 2021\, 6:30-8:30 pm \nThis session uses tools from bystander intervention models to navigate various effective approaches to responding to and preventing racist actions\, structures\, and policies. \nSession four: Towards Accompliceship December 7\, 2021\, 6:30-8:30 pm. \nThis session returns to the concept of Accompliceship discussed in session one. We will talk about community and trust building\, as well as how we make choices about where and how to participate in the dismantling of white supremacy. This session will introduce terminology related to systemic anti-racist change including concepts like abolition\, transformative justice\, and land back movements.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/building-racial-justice-through-allyship-accompliceship-4-part-series/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211130T173000
DTSTAMP:20260530T190910
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SUMMARY:Lessons in Liberation: Abolitionist Organizing and Education
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is about organizing against [youth] criminalization and exploring how political education can be used for campaigns and projects to maximize their liberatory potential. How does political education help build political unity\, increase organizing power\, and help people change their everyday lives and conditions?This is the final webinar in the series for in the fall 2021 K12Abolitionist Educator webinar series. This series explored and uplifted key points and lessons from Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators\, co-edited by CR K12 Abolitionist Educators and the Education for Liberation Network\, and published this fall by AK Press. \nModerated by: \nMelissa Burch\, Critical Resistance \nFeaturing: \nZachary Clarke\, Black Organizing Project \nChristopher R. Rogers\, Police Free Penn \nSally Lee\,Teachers Unite \nStephen Wilson\, imprisoned educator and columnist of The Abolitionist.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/lessons-in-liberation-abolitionist-organizing-and-education/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Critical Resistance":MAILTO:crnational@criticalresistance.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211130T173000
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SUMMARY:Facilitating conversations with community and public safety officials
DESCRIPTION:A joint partners alumni microgrant workshop\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nFacilitating conversations with community members and public safety officials\, is a workshop designed to provide you with tools to lead meaningful conversations with parties in conflict around difficult topics towards action and restoration. Learn how to honor our emotions and feelings in a way that keep all parties at the table. We will explore the following conversation. \nDuring the workshop\, we will explore the following case study – Woodbury Public Safety Director Lee Vague interview with Pastor Timothy Brewington II \nNote to participants: Please fill out this pre survey if you plan to register. Thanks! \nAbout your Host: \n  \nShawn Sorrell \nShawn Sorrell currently serves as the Hennepin County Diversity Equity and Inclusion Department manager. Also\, serving as Hennepin County Disparities Reduction Justice Domain coordinator. Current responsibilities include coordinating and overseeing county-wide strategic initiatives\, develop and track metrics of progress of change and research best practices\, benchmarks\, and tools for summary reports and recommendations. Provides facilitation and consultation on cross-cultural effectiveness and organizational strategic planning. Formally studied chemical engineering at Drexel University\, sociology and psychology at the University of Delaware and is a native of Baltimore\, MD. He spent several years working with community groups and religious organizations in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania and Wilmington\, Delaware cultivating violence prevention programs and mentoring youth from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds. \nExperienced in consultation and collaboration with public and private entities to design and implement organizational change strategies and training programs. Certified Technology of Participation Methods (ToPs) Facilitator/Trainer and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Qualified Administrator. Community and non-profit board participation with Avenues for Youth Board of Directors Vice-President\, Volunteer Lawyers Network (VLN) Board of Directors member\, Woodbury YMCA community board President and Woodbury Public Safety Multicultural Advisory Committee member. Nexus Community Partners Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) 2020-2021 Fellow and MDHS Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council member. \n  \nGuest: Pastor Tim Brewington \nPastor Tim Brewington\, Senior Pastor of Preaching & Vision Fellowship Church\, is an advocate for students with special needs and for staff who support special-needs students. He previously served as a citizen representative to review the body-worn camera policy for the Department of Public Safety. Former director of corporate accounts for The Alden Group. Formally studied biology and chemistry at Xavier University of Louisiana and Master of Divinity at Luther Rice College & Seminary. Community and non-profit board participation with Nexus Community Partners Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) 2019-2020\, Woodbury Public Safety Multicultural Advisory Committee member\, Woodbury’s Parks and Natural Resources Commission and former interim Stillwater School board member.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/facilitating-conversations-with-community-and-public-safety-officials/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211130T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211130T153000
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SUMMARY:Magic Actions and Abolitionist Organizing: Politics after George Floyd
DESCRIPTION:A panel of activists reflects on the George Floyd Rebellion and its impact on emancipatory politics a year later.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIN HIS RECENT PIECE\, “MAGIC ACTIONS\,” on the George Floyd Rebellion\, writer and scholar TOBI HASLETT writes of prison and police abolition\, “Behind even the most sparkling policy initiatives lies the knowledge that a world without police and prisons can only follow from ruthless criticism and transformation of every piece of the social whole. This is a revolutionary project.” As part of the RACE & POLITICS series at the Andrea Mitchell Center for Democracy\, Haslett joins #CopsOffCampus organizer DR. CHARMAINE CHUA and Police Free Penn members JAKE NUSSBAUM and ANDRÉS GONZÁLES-BONILLAS to talk about the rebellion a year later and the future of abolition. The conversation will focus on the role of black struggle in politics today\, the emancipatory vision of abolitionist politics\, and the role of campus organizers in these struggles. This event will be moderated by M. EDITH SKLAROFF.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/magic-actions-and-abolitionist-organizing-politics-after-george-floyd/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T190000
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SUMMARY:The U of A presents Robyn Maynard: “Policing Black Lives: 5 Years Later”
DESCRIPTION:Robyn Maynard is the best-selling author of “Policing Black Lives” ( Fernwood\, 2017). She will revisit her book in this free online event.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nFREE ONLINE EVENT! \nThe University of Alberta Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights annually invites individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution in the field of human rights and human rights protection to deliver a major public lecture in Edmonton. Its 2021-2022 edition has the pleasure of hosting the Black feminist writer\, activist and educator Robyn Maynard and her talk Policing Black Lives 5 Years Later: On the limitations of reform\, and the expansive terrain of liberation \nIn this talk\, Maynard will discuss new currents in the political and cultural terrain since the publication of Policing Black Lives in 2017. Taking stock of the realities facing Black communities in Canada and globally in the wake of a global pandemic and the historic uprisings in defense of Black lives\, she examines the contemporary conjuncture in order to ask: what next? Maynard will highlight some of the carceral continuities and ongoing forms of racial violence facing Black people in North America and worldwide under the policies of Trump\, Biden\, and Trudeau. She suggests that both liberal and conservative political programmes are fundamentally unable to achieve meaningful transformations toward Black people’s liberation. In their stead\, she will turn toward alternative models of governance offered from past and present traditions of Black struggle. Forwarding some lessons from global Black anti-colonial struggle\, transnational Black feminisms\, and abolitionist movements\, Maynard will consider the multiplicity of roadmaps toward re-ordering society and creating more liberatory futures for all. \nAbout Robyn Maynard \nRobyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017). The book is a national bestseller\, designated as one of the “best 100 books of 2017” by the Hill Times\, listed in The Walrus‘s “best books of 2018”\, shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award\, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction\, and the winner of the 2017 Annual Errol Morris Book Prize. In fall 2018 the book was published in French with Mémoire d’encrier\, titled NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage\, répression et violence d’État au Canada. Translated by Catherine Ego\, it recently won the 2019 Prix de libraires in the category of “essais” \nHer current project is an epistolary book co-written with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, titled Rehearsals for Living\, under contract with Knopf Canada and Haymarket’s “Abolitionist Papers” series\, edited by Lynn Henry and Naomi Murakowa\, forthcoming in June of 2022. The book will also be translated and published in French at the same time by Mémoire d’encrier. \nMaynard is the winner of the “2018 author of the year” award by Montreal’s Black History Month and was nominated for Writer’s Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She has published writing in the Washington Post\, World Policy Journal\, the Toronto Star\, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies\, Canadian Woman Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, Scholar & Feminist Online\, as well as an essay for Maisonneuve Magazine which was the “most-read essay of 2017”. Her writing on borders\, policing\, abolition and Black feminism is taught widely in universities across Canada and the United States\, including her most recent peer-reviewed publication “Police Abolition/Black Revolt”\, published in TOPIA. Her expertise is regularly sought in local\, national and international media outlets and she has spoken before Parliamentary subcommittees\, the Human Rights Committee of the Senate\, and the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. \nRobyn Maynard is a PhD candidate\, Vanier scholar and SSHRC Talent Award winner at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/the-u-of-a-presents-robyn-maynard-policing-black-lives-5-years-later/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T103000
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SUMMARY:Who's Policing the Police? One rule for us\, one rule for them.
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr Proudman and a range of guests as we discuss institutional misogyny\, women’s safety\, and the relationship between women & the police
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/whos-policing-the-police-one-rule-for-us-one-rule-for-them/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T110000
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SUMMARY:"We keep us safe": Exploring the role of community in public safety
DESCRIPTION:We Keep Us Safe”: Exploring the role of community in public safety\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n14th October\, 5.30-7pm (UK) \nSet against the backdrop of the Institute for Community Studies’ landmark research agenda Safety in Numbers?\, which last year unveiled safety to be the overwhelming number one concern for communities across the UK\, join us this October for a lively virtual discussion around where safety and community meet. \nDuring the event\, we’ll explore the need to talk about safety now\, the potential pitfalls of tackling the issue of safety head-on\, what the opportunities are to embrace the power of community as a response to safety fears\, and how we can bring communities to the forefront of these discussions. \nAs part of the discussion\, we’ll be joined by Zach Norris\, the pioneering US-based public safety campaigner\, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, and author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities. In the book\, he lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for families and communities. It sets out a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. Zach will help us explore what his insights might mean in a UK context. \nThe conversation will be co-chaired by Jon Alexander\, Fellow at The Young Foundation and Director of the New Citizenship Project\, and Emily Morrison\, Head of the Institute for Community Studies\, who led the research agenda Safety in Numbers? They will lead a participatory discussion\, seeking to tap into the collective intelligence of everyone who attends – do come ready to share your own insight and experience. To kick things off\, they will be joined by an array of exciting contributors\, including Professor Donna Hall\, Chair of New Local\, the independent think tank on a mission to unlock community power. More guests to be announced…
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/we-keep-us-safe-exploring-the-role-of-community-in-public-safety/
LOCATION:Online
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