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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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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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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
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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
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
CREATED:20210824T225532Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
CREATED:20210824T225320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210824T225320Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
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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:20260530T194457
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
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210907T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210907T100000
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210429T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T160000
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CREATED:20210414T214709Z
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SUMMARY:Educators Re-imagining School Safety Beyond Police
DESCRIPTION:Educators from the Chicago Public School system who are working to build safer and stronger classrooms and communities without policing.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nWe invite you to participate in a zoom discussion on Thursday\, January 28th 4:30 – 6:00 PM: Educators Reimagining School Safety Beyond Police. \nThis event is being coordinated by the Chicago Teachers Union\, Alternatives\, and Northeastern Illinois University (MACTL Program). \nThis webinar centers Chicago educators from the Chicago Public School system who are working to build safer and stronger classrooms and communities without policing. Participants will offer concrete examples from their practices and campaigns about how they are building safety in classrooms and schools without policing. \nThe panel will involve approximately 1 hour of facilitated dialogue and 30 minutes of engaging questions surfaced from attendees. \nOur goal for this discussion is to invite other Chicago educators to grow their practices and to connect the defund policing movement to their classrooms and schools.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/educators-re-imagining-school-safety-beyond-police/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T160000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration with Reuben Jonathan Miller
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nWhile more people are incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation in the history of the western world\, the prison is but one (comparatively) small part of a vast carceral landscape. The 600\,000 people released each year join nearly 5 million people already on probation or parole\, 12 million who are processed through a county jail\, 19 million U.S. adults estimated to have a felony conviction\, and the staggering 79 million Americans with a criminal record. But the size of the U.S. carceral state is second in consequence to its reach. Incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48\,000 laws\, policies and administrative sanctions upon release that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets\, in the culture and civic life of the city\, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to\, and shoulder responsibilities other people are not expected to shoulder. They live in a “supervised society\,” a hidden social world we’ve produced through our laws\, policies and everyday practices\, and in fact\, occupy an alternate form of political membership—what Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.” \nJoin Professor Miller as he examines the afterlife of mass incarceration\, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of American Democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago\, Detroit\, and New York—we will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Audience Q&A will follow. \nReuben Jonathan Miller is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA). His research examines life at the intersections of race\, poverty\, crime control\, and social welfare policy. He is the author of Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (February 2021)\, based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men\, women\, their families\, partners\, and friends.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/living-democracy-talk-halfway-home-race-punishment-and-the-afterlife-of-mass-incarceration-with-reuben-jonathan-miller/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T160000
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SUMMARY:Abolitionist Feminisms: Beth Ritchie\, Erica Meiners\, and Sonya Clark
DESCRIPTION:Beth Richie\, University of Illinois\, Chicago\, Erica Meiners\, Northeastern Illinois University\, and Soyna Clark\, Amherst College\, Western Massachusetts\, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer\, anti-capitalist\, grassroots\, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event. \nAbolitionist Feminisms\nw/ Beth Ritchie\, Erica Meiners\, and Sonya Clark\nFebruary 23\, 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. \nBeth Richie is the Head of Department of Criminology\, Law and Justice; Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies and the University of Illinois and Chicago. The emphasis of Beth Richie’s 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. Beth is the author of ​Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation (NYU Press\, 2012) which chronicles the evolution of the contemporary anti-violence movement during the time of mass incarceration in the United States. \nWriter\, educator and organizer\, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences\, Working Towards Freedom (Haymarket Press 2018) and For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State (University of Minnesota 2016). A Distinguished Visiting Scholar at a range of universities and centers – including University of Pittsburgh\, Trent University\, CUNY Graduate Center\, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute\, and Chicago’s Leather Archives and Museum\, her work has been supported by the Illinois Humanities Council\, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation\, and a Soros Justice Fellowship. The Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor at Northeastern Illinois University\, Erica is a member of her labor union\, University Professionals of Illinois\, and she teaches classes in justice studies\, education\, and gender and sexuality studies. Most importantly\, Erica has collaboratively started and works alongside a range of ongoing mobilizations for liberation\, particularly movements that involve access to free public education for all\, including people during and after incarceration\, and other queer abolitionist struggles. A member of Critical Resistance\, the Illinois Death in Custody Project\, the Prison Neighborhood Arts / Education Project\, and the Education for Liberation Network\, she is a sci-fi fan\, an avid runner\, and a lover of bees and cats. \nBorn in Washington DC to a psychiatrist from Trinidad and a nurse from Jamaica\, Sonya Clark’s work draws from the legacy of crafted objects and the embodiment of skill. As an African American artist\, craft is a means to honor her lineage and expand notions of both American-ness and art. She uses materials as wide ranging as textiles\, hair\, beads\, combs\, and sound to address issues of nationhood\, identity\, and racial constructs. Clark is a full professor in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College in Western Massachusetts. Clark’s work is exhibited in museums and galleries internationally\, and she is the recipient of several awards including an Anonymous Was a Woman Award\, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. \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/abolitionist-feminisms-beth-ritchie-erica-meiners-and-sonya-clark/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T160000
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SUMMARY:Prisons\, Histories\, and Erasures: Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar\, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:For the next Visualizing Abolition event\, Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar\, and Kelly Lytle Hernández join us to discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of prisons\, jails\, and detention centers in the United States. Together\, these influential artist and historians will talk about what is made visible when the settler colonial politics that sustain the prison industrial complex come into focus. \nPrisons\, Histories\, and Erasures\nw/ Joanne Barker\, Maria Gaspar\, and Kelly Lytle Hernández\nJanuary 19\, 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. \nJoanne Barker is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians). She is professor and chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently serving on The Segora Te Land Trust Board and The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Board. Barker is the author of Native Acts: Law\, Recognition\, and Cultural Authenticity\, and the editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. \nMaria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify\, mobilize\, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Through installation\, sculpture\, sound\, and performance\, Gaspar’s practice situates itself within historically marginalized sites and spans multiple formats\, scales\, and durations to produce liberatory actions. Gaspar’s projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund\, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship\, the Creative Capital Award\, the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant\, and the Art Matters Foundation. Maria has received the Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Mexican Art\, and the Chamberlain Award for Social Practice from the Headlands Center for the Arts. Gaspar has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum\, Houston\, TX; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, IL; the African American Museum\, Philadelphia\, PA; and the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, NY. \nKelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History\, African American Studies\, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History. She is also the Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race\, immigration\, and mass incarceration\, she is the author of the award-winning books\, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press\, 2010)\, and City of Inmates: Conquest\, Rebellion\, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press\, 2017). \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/prisons-histories-and-erasures-joanne-barker-maria-gaspar-and-kelly-lytle-hernandez/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Justice\, Equity\, and Anti-Oppression – Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:Meeting every other Sunday (2nd and 4th Sunday in a month starting 11/29)\, join Sunrise Movement Providence to read and discuss writings on race\, social economics\, and what it means to be anti-racist and anti-bias. \n“These conversations will cultivate insight both individually and as a community so that we can organize in a more equitable way.” \nRegister here
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/justice-equity-and-anti-oppression-discussion-series-4/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunrise Movement Providence":MAILTO:rachaelbaker@sunrisepvd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201227T190000
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
CREATED:20201129T222320Z
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UID:3409-1609095600-1609095600@dontcallthepolice.com
SUMMARY:Justice\, Equity\, and Anti-Oppression – Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:Meeting every other Sunday (2nd and 4th Sunday in a month starting 11/29)\, join Sunrise Movement Providence to read and discuss writings on race\, social economics\, and what it means to be anti-racist and anti-bias. \n“These conversations will cultivate insight both individually and as a community so that we can organize in a more equitable way.” \nRegister here
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/justice-equity-and-anti-oppression-discussion-series-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunrise Movement Providence":MAILTO:rachaelbaker@sunrisepvd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201213T190000
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CREATED:20201129T222158Z
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SUMMARY:Justice\, Equity and Anti-Oppression - Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:Meeting every other Sunday (2nd and 4th Sunday in a month starting 11/29)\, join Sunrise Movement Providence to read and discuss writings on race\, social economics\, and what it means to be anti-racist and anti-bias. \n“These conversations will cultivate insight both individually and as a community so that we can organize in a more equitable way.” \nRegister here
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/justice-equity-and-anti-oppression-discussion-series-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunrise Movement Providence":MAILTO:rachaelbaker@sunrisepvd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T174500
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Community Safety #9: A Discussion with Tracie Keesee
DESCRIPTION:Some contend that at the heart of safe communities are strong partnerships between community members and the police that are founded on trust. From this partnership\, community safety is co-produced. We have invited Dr. Tracie Keesee\, Senior Vice President of Justice Initiatives and Co-Founder of the Center For Policing Equity (CPE)\, to explain what conditions are needed to allow for such partnerships to develop and co-production of safety to emerge\, to the benefit of all communities\, including those that have historically been marginalized. \nWednesday\, December 2\, 2020\n4:30pm-5:45pm\nZoom Registration Link \nTracie Keesee is the Senior Vice President of Justice Initiatives and Co-Founder of the Center For Policing Equity (CPE). This critical position expands upon the core mission of CPE\, “justice through science.” She oversees all law enforcement relationships and program implementation. Additionally\, she works closely with communities to ensure their representation and participation in the co-production of public safety. Prior to her return to CPE she served as the first ever\, Deputy Commissioner of Equity and Inclusion for NYPD. As the Deputy Commissioner of Equity and Inclusion\, Dr. Keesee was responsible for overall organizational development and implementation of the NYPD’s Equity and Inclusion strategic framework. She also served as an advisor to the Police Commissioner on the implementation of accountability systems that monitor training\, recruitment\, employee opportunities\, and complaints in order to help increase the organization’s ability to attract and retain an inclusive and diverse workforce. \nShe also served as the Deputy Commissioner of Training for NYPD\, and during her tenure with the Training Bureau\, Dr. Keesee directed the implementation of the paperless police academy\, the expansion of in-service training capabilities through NYPD University\, the restructuring of the recruit curriculum\, the expansion of CIT and integrated tactics training\, as well as the creation of the Credible Leadership Initiative for UMOS\, just to name a few. Additionally\, Dr. Keesee is the co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity (CPE)\, which promotes police transparency and accountability by facilitating innovative research collaborations between law enforcement agencies and empirical social scientists. The CPE also seeks to improve issues of equity both within law enforcement agencies and between the communities they serve. \nDr. Keesee is a retired 25-year veteran of the Denver Police Department and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Metropolitan State College-Denver\, academic certifications in Public Policy and Public Administration and a Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Colorado at Denver\, and a Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Denver\, and a Diversity and Inclusion Certification from Cornell University. She is also a graduate of the 203rd Session of the FBI National Academy at Quantico\, Virginia. Dr. Keesee has published numerous articles across a variety of collected anthologies and peer-reviewed scientific journals.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-community-safety-9-a-discussion-with-tracie-keesee/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T170000
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CREATED:20201129T224334Z
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SUMMARY:Mutual Aid in Abolitionist Practice and the #CopsOffCampus Movement
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a roundtable discussion on Tuesday\, December 1 with scholar-activists Angélica Cházaro\, Chandan Reddy and Dean Spade about Spade’s new book\, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) (Verso\, 2020). According to Spade\, “Mutual aid is a term used to describe collective coordination to meet each other’s needs stemming from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. Those systems\, in fact\, have often created the crisis\, or are making things worse.” Mutual aid projects have proliferated during COVID-19\, and have been core infrastructure in the current uprising against racist policing and vital on the front lines of fires\, floods and storms caused by climate change. The roundtable will discuss the role of mutual aid in the current and coming crises\, reflecting on lessons learned in the movements for migrant justice\, police and prison abolition\, and climate justice. Even as we face unprecedented times\, this discussion will offer insights rooted in friendship and solidarity to help us build collective power and the relationships we need as we look to 2021. \nDean Spade has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law\, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!\,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. \nChandan Reddy is Associate Professor in the Departments of Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington\, Seattle. He is co-editor of the special issue\, “”Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity\, Race\, Capitalism\,” Social Text (Spring 2018) and the author of Freedom With Violence: Race\, Sexuality and the U.S. State (2011) from Duke University Press. He is a core organizer with Decriminalize UW\, a call to defund armed campus policing and invest in intellectual communities of color and community health resources. \nAngélica Cházaro is Assistant Professor in the Law School at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She teaches courses on critical race theory\, poverty law and immigration law. She is author of the paper\, “The End of Deportation\,” in press with UCLA Law Review. She is a core organizer with Decriminalize Seattle and the coalitional work to replace punitive policing with community-based public safety programs. \nSponsored by the University of Washington: Geography Department\, Comparative History of Ideas Department (CHID)\, Gender Women & Sexuality Studies Department (GWSS)\, and the Coalition to Decriminalize UW. \nASL and CART services will be provided. Please email any access needs to mybarra@uw.edu. \nThis event is free and open to all. \n\n\nBuy the book and support Seattle’s radical\, independent bookstore\, Left Bank Books: https://leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails.php?isbn=9781839762123
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/mutual-aid-in-abolitionist-practice-and-the-copsoffcampus-movement/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T133000
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CREATED:20201018T182235Z
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SUMMARY:Abolition Then and Now: Isaac Julien and Robin D. G. Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Abolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien\, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, is the next event in Visualizing Abolition. \nAbolition Then and Now\nw/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley\nDecember 1\, 2020\, 12-1:30 p.m.\nOnline Event: Registration is required\nREGISTER HERE \nAbolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison industrial complex. This event coincides with the presentation of Julien’s Lessons of the Hour\, 2019\, a ten-screen film installation that explores the legacy of Frederick Douglass and his vision for abolition in relationship to contemporaneity\, at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. A composite version of that moving and monumental artwork will be screened for 24-hours online prior to the event. \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. \nIsaac Julien\, Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California Santa Cruz\, is a British artist whose work draws from and comments on a range of artistic disciplines and practices (film\, dance\, photography\, music\, theatre\, painting and sculpture) and uniting them in dramatic audiovisual film installations\, photographic works and documentary films. Born in London in 1960\, Julien was a founding member of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective formed to expose the racialised unconscious of British Society in the Thatcher years\, and subsequently of Normal Films established to produce queer cinema in a UK context. Julien is represented in museum and private collections throughout the world\, including the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, Tate\, the UK Government Art Collection\, Centre Pompidou\, the Guggenheim Museum\, the Hirshhorn Museum and the Brandhorst Museum. \nRobin D.G. Kelley is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA and Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History. His research has explored the history of social movements in the U.S.\, the African Diaspora\, and Africa; Black intellectuals; music; visual culture; contemporary urban studies; historiography and historical theory; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; constructions of race; Surrealism\, Marxism\, nationalism\, among other things. His essays have appeared in a wide variety of professional journals as well as general publications\, including the Journal of American History\, American Historical Review\, Black Music Research Journal\, African Studies Review\, New York Times (Arts and Leisure)\, New York Times Magazine\, The Crisis\, The Nation\, The Voice Literary Supplement\, Utne Reader\, New Labor Forum\, Counterpunch\, to name a few. \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/abolition-then-and-now-isaac-julien-and-robin-d-g-kelley/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260530T194457
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SUMMARY:Justice\, Equity\, and Anti-Oppression - Discussion Series
DESCRIPTION:Meeting every other Sunday (2nd and 4th Sunday in a month starting 11/29)\, join Sunrise Movement Providence to read and discuss writings on race\, social economics\, and what it means to be anti-racist and anti-bias. \n“These conversations will cultivate insight both individually and as a community so that we can organize in a more equitable way.” \nRegister here
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/justice-equity-and-anti-oppression-discussion-series/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunrise Movement Providence":MAILTO:rachaelbaker@sunrisepvd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201215T153000
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SUMMARY:"Pandemic as Portal" The Abolitionist #33 Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:Accessibility: ASL + Spanish translation provided \nWe are pleased to announce that our latest Issue of The Abolitionist (#33) is finally being mailed out to our readers right now! Come celebrate the issue and learn about Critical Resistance’s longest standing project. Hear from some of our authors of Issue 33 and subscribers from inside and outside of prison walls discuss the project and its importance in building an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). \nPanelists Include: \n\nSarah T. Hamid\, who’s piece in Issue 33 explores the origins of contact tracing in disease control and the dire implications of using a policing and surveillance strategy in public health;\n\n\nLinda Evans\, sharing her insights on peer prisoner support during the HIV/AIDS crisis and lessons for resisting the COVID-19 pandemic as discussed in her interview with Kathy Boudin and Crystal Mason with Emily K. Hobson and The Abolitionist Editorial Collective’s Rory Elliott;\n\n\nKatie Tastrom\, who voices an urgent call for disability justice in the abolitionist movement\, especially during the pandemic;\n\n\nand Yunuén Torres\, speaking on the 2011 Cherán uprising for self-determination and what self-determined COVID-response can look like.\n\nThe webinar will also include participation from imprisoned columnist of The Abolitionist\, Stephen Wilson.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/pandemic-as-portal-the-abolitionist-33-launch-event/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Critical Resistance":MAILTO:crnational@criticalresistance.org
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