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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T150000
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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:20260530T192334
CREATED: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T110000
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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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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
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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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CREATED:20211128T211528Z
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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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CREATED:20211119T024331Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210923T170000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Safety
DESCRIPTION:Community activists and abolition movement builders will explore reimagining communal safety and a life beyond police and prisons.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nHow do we co-create a world without prisons? We must cultivate the communities that support change\, empathy\, and accountability. Reimagining Safety gathers years of organizing wisdom through a conversation between Feedom Freedom’s\, Myrtle Thompson-Curtis\, and In Our Names Network member\, Cat Brooks moderated by Tawana Petty. Together we will learn how they are reimagining communal safety and reclaiming their healthy and safe communities without police. \nASL\, CART (English) provided \nFeaturing: \nCat Brooks is an artivist\, mother\, community leader\, and passionate public speaker. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project\, whose mission is to rapidly respond to and eradicate state violence in communities of color\, and Executive Director of the Justice Teams Network\, a statewide project that supports organizations working to radically transform the way communities of color are policed through organizing\, communications\, and policy. \nMyrtle Thompson-Curtis is a life-long Detroiter and the Co-Founder and Director of Feedom Freedom Growers\, a nonprofit that fosters health\, education and creativity through participation in an urban garden. She is a member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Council and serves on the Board of the Jefferson-Chalmers Farmers Market. She is currently working to promote community safety and accountability by hosting workshops for ‘Green Chairs\, not Green Lights\,’ as well as transforming a once-abandoned house into the 291 Manistique Kulture Hub. \nTawana Petty is a mother\, social justice organizer\, youth advocate\, poet\, and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy\, data\, and digital privacy rights education and racial justice and equity work. She is the National Organizing Director at Data for Black Lives and director of Petty Propolis\, a Black woman-led artist incubator primarily focused on cultivating visionary resistance through poetry\, literacy and literary workshops\, anti-racism facilitation\, and social justice initiatives.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-safety/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210921T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210921T100000
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SUMMARY:Public Safety & Criminal Justice: Repairing the Breach
DESCRIPTION:Leadership Indianapolis presents a three-part discussion series on Public Safety & Criminal Justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nOften\, conversations around public safety and criminal justice focus primarily on efforts to curb crime. \nHowever\, the experiences of those who seek to create collaboration\, reconciliation and progress in these areas present another valuable opportunity for discussion and excavation. \nLeadership Indianapolis’ Public Safety & Criminal Justice discussion series will center the perspective of citizens with lived experience and those working to create change in our community. \nAttendees will learn about programs created to prevent recidivism for the formerly incarcerated\, initiatives that provide community support in traumatic times and collaborative efforts around repairing the relationship between citizens and law enforcement. \n  \nPart 3: Repairing the Breach – September 21\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Ryan Mears (Marion County Prosecutor)\, Kia Wright (Founder/Executive Director\, VOICES Corp)\, Commander Catherine Cummings (Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department) \n  \nJoin us for other sessions in this discussion series. \n  \nPart 1: Freedom and Re-Entry – September 7\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Carlette Duffy (Director of Re-Entry\, Office of Public Health and Safety)\, Devi Davis (The Bail Project)\, Antonio Lipscomb (Indiana Re-Entry) \n(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-safety-criminal-justice-discussion-series-freedom-and-re-entry-tickets-163082601451) \n  \nPart 2: Public Grief and Community Healing – September 14\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Shonna Majors (Director of Community Violence Reduction\, Office of Public Health and Safety)\, DeAndra Yates (Purpose 4 My Pain) \n(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/163268415225)
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/public-safety-criminal-justice-repairing-the-breach/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210914T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210914T120000
DTSTAMP:20260530T192334
CREATED:20210824T224903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210824T225012Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagine Public Safety
DESCRIPTION:A community conversation with advocates\, artists\, and organizers about the future of public safety in Minneapolis.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMinneapolis is asking itself big questions about the future of public safety. It’s clear that the current system of policing doesn’t serve our communities in equitable\, constructive\, or healing ways. What’s less clear is where we go from here. \nThe answers will come not from a singular source\, but through examining the layered histories\, needs\, and experiences that shape community expectations of public safety. \nJoin Pollen and Pillsbury United Communities on September 14 to hear from advocates\, artists\, and organizers who are asking the hard questions\, finding answers from within\, and imagining a better path forward. Together\, we’ll explore community perspectives on policing\, public safety\, city budgets\, and what we can do at the community level to turn imagination into action. \nBefore the event\, be sure to catch up on our Reimagine Public Safety story + video series\, created in partnership with Pillsbury United Communities. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \nErika Thorne | Showing Up For Racial Justice Twin Cities \nD.A. Bullock | Reclaim The Block + Bully Creative Shop \nMJ Carpio | Coalition of Asian American Leaders \nRodolfo Gutierrez | HACER \nModerated by Ruby Oluoch\, Pollen \n\n\nPROGRAM \n10:30am | Welcome + Performance \n10:45am | Panel Conversation + Q&A \n11:30am | Small Group Conversations \n\n\n\nThis event is part of our Reimagine Public Safety story and video series featuring different community perspectives on public safety in Minneapolis. Read the four features (or revisit them if you read them already) before our event on September 14th. \n#ReimaginePublicSafetyMN \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY \nLive captioning is available\, and ASL interpreters are available upon request. When registering\, please let us know what you need to fully experience the event. \n\n\nSPECIAL THANKS \nThe Reimagine Public Safety series is made possible by The Minneapolis Foundation. \n\n\n\nPollen’s events programming is presented by the Bush Foundation with additional support provided by Software for Good\, Hiring Revolution\, Eide Bailly\, and Clockwork.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagine-public-safety/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210914T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210914T220000
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CREATED:20210824T224152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210824T224152Z
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SUMMARY:Public Safety & Criminal Justice: Public Grief and Community Healing
DESCRIPTION:Leadership Indianapolis presents a three-part discussion series on Public Safety & Criminal Justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nOften\, conversations around public safety and criminal justice focus primarily on efforts to curb crime. \nHowever\, the experiences of those who seek to create collaboration\, reconciliation and progress in these areas present another valuable opportunity for discussion and excavation. \nLeadership Indianapolis’ upcoming Public Safety & Criminal Justice discussion series will center the perspective of citizens with lived experience and those working to create change in our community. \nAttendees will learn about programs created to prevent recidivism for the formerly incarcerated\, initiatives that provide community support in traumatic times and collaborative efforts around repairing the relationship between citizens and law enforcement. \n  \nPart 2: Public Grief and Community Healing – September 14\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Shonna Majors (Director of Community Violence Reduction\, Office of Public Health and Safety)\, DeAndra Yates (Purpose 4 My Pain) \n  \nJoin us for other sessions in this discussion series \n  \nPart 1: Freedom and Re-Entry – September 7\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Carlette Duffy (Director of Re-Entry\, Office of Public Health and Safety)\, Devi Davis (The Bail Project)\, Antonio Lipscomb (Indiana Re-Entry) \n(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-safety-criminal-justice-discussion-series-freedom-and-re-entry-tickets-163082601451) \n  \nPart 3: Repairing the Breach – September 21\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Ryan Mears (Marion County Prosecutor)\, Kia Wright (Founder/Executive Director\, VOICES Corp)\, Commander Catherine Cummings (Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department) \n(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-safety-criminal-justice-repairing-the-breach-tickets-163268611813)
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/public-safety-criminal-justice-public-grief-and-community-healing/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Public Safety & Criminal Justice - Freedom and Re-Entry
DESCRIPTION:Leadership Indianapolis presents a three-part discussion series on Public Safety & Criminal Justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nOften\, conversations around public safety and criminal justice focus primarily on efforts to curb crime. \nHowever\, the experiences of those who seek to create collaboration\, reconciliation and progress in these areas present another valuable opportunity for discussion and excavation. \nLeadership Indianapolis’ upcoming Public Safety & Criminal Justice discussion series will center the perspective of citizens with lived experience and those working to create change in our community. \nAttendees will learn about programs created to prevent recidivism for the formerly incarcerated\, initiatives that provide community support in traumatic times and collaborative efforts around repairing the relationship between citizens and law enforcement. \nPart 1: Freedom and Re-Entry – September 7\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Carlette Duffy (Director of Re-Entry\, Office of Public Health and Safety)\, Devi Davis (The Bail Project)\, Antonio Lipscomb (Indiana Re-Entry) \n  \nJoin us for other sessions in this discussion series. \n  \nPart 2: Public Grief and Community Healing – September 14\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Shonna Majors (Director of Community Violence Reduction\, Office of Public Health and Safety)\, DeAndra Yates (Purpose 4 My Pain) \n(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/163268415225) \n  \nPart 3: Repairing the Breach – September 21\, 2021 \n• Speakers: Ryan Mears (Marion County Prosecutor)\, Kia Wright (Founder/Executive Director\, VOICES Corp)\, Commander Catherine Cummings (Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department) \n(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-safety-criminal-justice-repairing-the-breach-tickets-163268611813)
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/public-safety-criminal-justice-freedom-and-re-entry/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T170000
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SUMMARY:Who Gets to Define Public Safety?
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in viewing thought-provoking TED Talks on this issue\, followed by a moderated audience discussion. Due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases\, this event will be virtual on Zoom. \nThere is no charge for the Salon\, but pre-registration is required. Enrollment is limited to 75. \nLegal scholars define public safety as “the protection of the general public.” Local governments form policies to protect people’s physical welfare\, and they often focus efforts on combating crime to help community members feel secure. Recently\, though\, grassroots organizations have advocated for spending more public monies on resources to break the cycles that may lead to crime in the first place. \nWho should decide how public safety is achieved? How much input should community members have into how their neighborhoods are protected?
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/who-gets-to-define-public-safety/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210825T150000
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SUMMARY:Police Accountability: A Matter of Life\, Death\, and Integrity
DESCRIPTION:Join the International Wrongful Conviction Day Committee for an interactive discussion of police accountability and wrongful convictions.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWho Are We? \nOctober 2nd is an internationally observed day to celebrate and raise awareness for innocent individuals who have been wrongfully convicted. Recognizing the hardship of those who are exonerated and of those who are still in prison today\, IWCDC works towards the creation of informative advocacy and strives to understand the positions we hold to create change. \nEvent Description \nPolice accountability has been at the forefront of many conversations recently and is an important issue to discuss on the basis of public safety and wrongful convictions. Officers are our first contact within the criminal justice system so it is no surprise that they also play a prominent role in wrongful convictions. Police misconduct has occurred within 39 percent of exoneration cases. There are many aspects of misconduct that can occur through tunnel vision\, racial and criminal profiling and police brutality. Moreover\, youth interrogations can result in coercion and false confessions. While having many responsibilities\, officers lack training to work with individuals suffering from mental health issues and can make decisions that are not suited for the person they have been called for. \nDuring the event\, we will be having an in depth discussion of the above issues\, taking a dive into the cases of those who were wrongfully convicted due to the misconduct of law enforcement. A panel of professionals working in various areas of the justice system will be interviewed. Additionally\, attendees will have the ability to ask questions during a Q&A period. \nSpeaker Lineup \nIWCDC Members \nDavid Shellnutt\, Founder at The Biking Lawyer\, LLP \nAdrienne Lei\, Lawyer at Dewart Gleason\, LLP \n\n\n\nDAVE SHELLNUTT \nDave is managing partner of The Biking Lawyer LLP and a dedicated advocate for individuals who have suffered injuries and injustice. Dave has 8 years of personal injury and human rights law experience\, on top of 4 years of human rights work in post-conflict countries. \nIn addition to helping injured cyclists\, Dave and his firm have dedicated themselves to assisting those who have suffered state violence and discrimination. From cases of police anti-Blackness to serious injuries sustained inside correctional facilities\, Dave and his team have a strong track record of standing up against state violence. \nHelping individuals is critical\, but Dave believes that real solutions are to be found in radical systemic changes. Therefore\, Dave is active in supporting mutual aid efforts\, movements and activists who struggle tirelessly to upend oppressive systems. \n\n\n\nADRIENNE LEI \nAdrienne is a founding member of Dewart Gleason\, and she continues to be the key partner and leading authority in several areas of practice. \nAdrienne practices in all areas of law at Dewart Gleason. She represents trade unions in all types of litigation\, and she has appeared as counsel in civil and commercial litigation at all levels of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. She leads her firm’s immigration law group and she is key to their police accountability practice. Adrienne has extensive trial and tribunal experience\, and acted as lead counsel in the infamous G-20 police discipline proceedings on behalf of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and several personal complainants.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/police-accountability-a-matter-of-life-death-and-integrity/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T130000
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SUMMARY:Decarceration for All: Why people serving life sentences should come home
DESCRIPTION:Why should folks convicted of violent crimes come home?\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nThis is the third of a three part series on the experiences of incarcerated folks and their families.. Part 1 here and Part 2 here. \nWhy should folks convicted of violent crimes come home? \n76% of people incarcerated in California were convicted of violent crimes\, and the majority of them are Black and Non-Black People of Color. If we continue to ignore this population\, we will never dismantle mass incarceration and the racist legacy of slavery. \nWe know that long term sentencing is ineffective\, no matter the crime of conviction. Research shows that those released from life sentences are very unlikely to return to prison\, and often represent a group of people who have made profound and genuine changes in their lives. UnCommon Law and ChangeLawyers will walk you through the concept of decarceration for all. Our panelists will discuss how bringing people home from life sentences is the only way to create a humane criminal justice system.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/decarceration-for-all-why-people-serving-life-sentences-should-come-home/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210511T173000
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SUMMARY:FUTURES: SORA HAN\, ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN AND SAVANNAH SHANGE
DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Abolition\, the year-long program featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition\, concludes with a conversation on strategies\, activism\, and liberatory futures with Sora Han\, adrienne maree brown and Savannah Shange. \nFutures\nw/ Sora Han\, adrienne maree brown and Savannah Shange\nMay 11\, 2021\, 4-5:30 p.m.\nOnline event: Registration required (Link TBA) \nVisualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent and featuring artists\, activists\, and scholars united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will instead take place online. The events accompany Barring Freedom\, an exhibition of contemporary art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. To accompany the exhibition\, Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement is on view at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \nSora Han is the Director of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program at UC Irvine\, and an Associate Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society with courtesy appointments in the School of Law and African American Studies. Her first book\, Letters of the Law (Stanford University Press 2015)\, extends the theoretical insights of critical race theory to produce new readings of American law’s landmark decisions on race and civil rights. She is also the co-author of the law casebook\, Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law\, Third Edition (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020). She is currently working on two books: Slavery as Contract: A Study in the Case of Blackness\, which brings together poetics\, contract law and afro-pessimist theory to think beyond the property metaphor of slavery; and Mu\, the First Letter of an Anti-Colonial Alphabet\, an experimental text on the “anagrammatic scramble” (Nathaniel Mackey) of the unconscious materiality of abolitionism. Recent publications on these new lines of research include “Slavery as Contract\,” in Law and Literature (2016) and “Poetics of Mu” in Textual Practice (2018). \nadrienne maree brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good\, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change\, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. \nSavannah Shange is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and serves as principal faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her research and teaching interests include state violence\, late liberal statecraft\, multiracial coalition\, ethnographic ethics\, queer politics\, and abolition. Her book\, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition\, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke 2019) is an ethnography of the afterlife of slavery as lived in the Bay Area. \nVisualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust\, Ford Foundation\, Future Justice Fund\, Wanda Kownacki\, Peter Coha\, James L. Gunderson\, Rowland and Pat Rebele\, Porter College\, UCSC Foundation\, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. \nPartners include: Howard University School of Law\, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Jessica Silverman Gallery\, Indexical\, The Humanities Institute\, University Library\, University Relations\, Institute for Social Transformation\, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, Porter College\, the Center for Cultural Studies\, the Center for Creative Ecologies\, and Media and Society\, Kresge College.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/futures-sora-han-adrienne-maree-brown-and-savannah-shange/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Abolitionist Futures Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:An online reading group for learning and thinking about prison abolition\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nNot sure what prison abolition is? Wondering if it’s a good idea? Or how it connects to ideas of social justice? \nRecently\, there are been a huge uptake in interest in abolitionist ideas. More and more people are questioning whether prisons are the best response to harms in society and whether the police actually function to bring about a safer society. Some people are worried that defunding and prison abolition sounds like immediate closures. Instead we might ask – how might we need to alter our thinking\, practices and social institutions to build a world without prisons and policing? \nPrison abolition has long and diverse tradition of thinking and organising around these questions. Abolition has been influenced by the radical black tradition\, indigenous organising\, marxist and anarchist ideas\, queer and feminist analysis. And at their most successful\, abolitionist principles embed themselves within all political struggles: disability activism\, housing and welfare campaigns\, feminist organising\, environmental justice\, anti-war and anti-border struggles to name a few. \nIn London there are currently 8 prisons\, including a complex of 3 prisons in Thamesmead in our neighbouring borough of Greenwich. They are largely invisible to most of us – “out of sight out of mind”. \nIn six monthly meetings\, we will follow a reading list set out by Abolitionist Futures\, a collaboration of community organisers and activists in Britain and Ireland. The selected readings are short and accessible and will be shared online in advance. They will introduce you to ideas via introductory texts\, podcasts and videos chosen to offer a variety of perspectives and to cover some key concepts and themes. Using questions and prompts\, we will think about how lessons learned in other contexts might be useful in thinking about the UK situation. \nThis reading group is led by members of Lewisham Arthouse artists’ cooperative. It is free and open to all\, no previous knowledge of the subject is necessary. The meetings will take place on Zoom until further notice. \nThe full reading list can be found here: www.abolitionistfutures.com/reading-lists \n6.30-8pm on the last Thursday of every month. \nThursday 25th March – Intro to Abolition \nThursday 29th April – What’s Wrong With Reform? \nThursday 27th May – Feminist\, Queer\, Anti-racist Abolition \nThursday 24th June – Transformative Justice \nThursday 29th July – Abolitionist Mutual Aid \nThursday 26th August – Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police \n 
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/abolitionist-futures-reading-group/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Race as a proxy for risk: How parole undermines BIPOC communities
DESCRIPTION:Why are Black people nearly 3 times less likely to be granted parole on average?\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nThis is the second of a three part series on the experiences of incarcerated folks and their families. Part 1 here and Part 3 here. \nWhy are Black people nearly 3 times less likely to be granted parole on average? And why is the Board of Parole Hearings – the body that decides who comes home and who stays in prison – staffed almost entirely with people from law enforcement backgrounds? \nBetween 60% and 70% of people serving life sentences are Black and Non-Black People of Color. And despite preliminary research showing race as a key indicator in parole outcomes\, the Board of Parole Hearings and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have fought releasing additional data that would allow researchers to determine the extent of the parole board’s improper reliance on race as a factor in determining someone’s “risk to the public.” UnCommon Law and ChangeLawyers will walk you through the ins and outs of parole. Our panelists will discuss how we can build new and better ways for people to come home safely. \nPresented as a special collaboration between ChangeLawyers and UnCommon Law.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/race-as-a-proxy-for-risk-how-parole-undermines-bipoc-communities/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T120000
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SUMMARY:How to dismantle mass incarceration:Healing our systems and ourselves
DESCRIPTION:How has intergenerational trauma contributed to the mass incarceration of Black and Non-Black People of Color?\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nThis is the first of a three part series on the experiences of incarcerated folks and their families. Part 2 here and Part 3 here. \nHow has intergenerational trauma contributed to the mass incarceration of Black and Non-Black People of Color? How can healing be used to dismantle the criminal punishment system? \nMany experts have linked the over-incarceration of Black and Non-Black People of Color directly to the devastating legacies of slavery: intergenerational trauma\, cycles of poverty\, and systemic racism. These effects on communities of color have been profound; research shows that people incarcerated for violent crime have experienced 4 times the rate of childhood trauma compared to the general population. Join UnCommon Law and ChangeLawyers as we explore whether our society is willing to offer healing to those who are both survivors and perpetrators of violence.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/how-to-dismantle-mass-incarcerationhealing-our-systems-and-ourselves/
LOCATION:Zoom
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