Event Calendar
A calendar of events focused on reimagining public safety, developing alternatives to police, anti-racism, and social justice.
These events are compiled from publicly available information and submissions, and are not associated with dontcallthepolice.com.
Please note! All events are listed at the time local to the organizer – please check time zones.
Join Eva Nagao and Mariame Kaba for a presentation about the zine they authored, "What About the Rapists?" About this event If 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…
The UCLA Law Review invites you to join us online for our 2022 Symposium, Toward an Abolitionist Future. About this event The 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,…
Free online talk with Conor Dwyer Reynolds, Executive Director of the Rochester, NY Police Accountability Board (PAB) About this event Please 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. Who is invited?…
Join Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie for an urgent conversation moderated by Mariame Kaba. About this event As 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…
Examine Black Abolitionist politics & actions leading up to the American Civil War (session 1/4) About this event “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." -Assata Shakur This Black History…
The Graveyard Don't Lie is an opportunity to hear from and support families who have been directly affected by police violence. About this event “If we don't change, nothing changes.” - Kim Handy-Jones You’ve read the headlines about police violence. But for every lost life that makes the news, there are dozens who don’t. The…
Race, the Nation State, and Policing ft. El Jones - a panel on Abolition and Transformative Justice About this event "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…
A live interactive virtual discussion to address Systemic Anti-Black Racism in the area of Community Safety & Justice. About this event Durham 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…
Live From the Ninth Floor presents Christopher Harris -Black Grammar: Repertoires of Abolition's Future, Present, and Past About this event Presenting 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…
Poets Abiodun Oyewole & Pharaoh In Conversation with Etan Thomas About this event Get the Book Details ETAN 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…
Join us on February 28th for, Leading with Abundance: Transformative Justice as a Framework for Change. About this event WomenatthecentrE'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 Conversation with Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade About this event Abolitionists 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…
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