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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T143000
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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/
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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/
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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:20260530T200014
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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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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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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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:20260530T200014
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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
DTSTAMP:20260530T200014
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T160000
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CREATED:20201009T001815Z
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Making Abolition Geographies: Stories from California
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nThis talk explores how visions of abolition guide and connect organizing across a range of social justice struggles. Gilmore will highlight examples relating to environmental justice\, public sector labor unions\, farm workers\, undocumented households\, criminalized youth\, and community based approaches to prevent and resolve gender and interpersonal violence. The vivid California stories she will present reveal how abolition is a practical program for urgent change grounded in the needs\, talents\, and dreams of vulnerable people. Audience Q&A will follow. \nRuth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place\, Culture\, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project\, Critical Resistance\, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network\, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Recent publications include “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet\, Camp and Heatherton\, eds.\, Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futures of Black Radicalism\, Lubin and Johnson\, eds.\, Verso); a foreword to Bobby M. Wilson’s Birmingham classic America’s Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); and a foreword to Cedric J. Robinson on Racial Capitalism\, Black Internationalism\, and Cultures of Resistance (HLT Quan\, ed.\, Pluto). Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket); and (co-edited with Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/living-democracy-talk-making-abolition-geographies-stories-from-california/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T174500
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Community Safety #8: A Discussion with Alex Vitale
DESCRIPTION:For many\, reimagining community safety means reimagining communities that achieve safety without the assistance of police. We have asked Alex Vitale\, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing\, to join us to discuss what community safety\, reimagined\, might look like\, as well as the extent to which and how this can be achieved without police as central players. \nWednesday\, November 18\, 2020\n4:30pm-5:45pm (Eastern)\nZoom Registration Link \nAlex Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society\, Police Practice and Research\, Mobilization\, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist\, whose writings have been published in The NY Times\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, Vice News\, Fortune\, and USA Today.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-community-safety-8-a-discussion-with-alex-vitale/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T173000
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SUMMARY:Visuality and Carceral Formations With Nicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray\, Nicholas Mirzoeff
DESCRIPTION:The third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques of film\, television\, advertisements\, and other media to ask how dominant visions of the world—and the visual regimes that regulate what people see and what remains hidden from view—are materialized in the prison industrial complex. \nVisualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations\nNicole Fleetwood\, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff\nNovember 17\, 2020\, 4-5:30 p.m.\nOnline event: Registration is required\nREGISTER HERE  \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. \nNicole Fleetwood is a writer\, curator\, and professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press\, 2020)\, On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (Rutgers University Press\, 2015)\, and Troubling Vision: Performance\, Visuality\, and Blackness (University of Chicago Press\, 2011).  Fleetwood has curated exhibitions and events on art and mass incarceration at MoMA PS1\, Andrew Freedman Home\, Aperture\, Cleveland Public Library\, Zimmerli Art Museum\, Mural Arts Philadelphia\, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site\, and the Urban Justice Center. \nHerman Gray is Emeritus Professor Gray of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in media and television studies\, cultural theory and politics and Black cultural studies.  Gray has published widely in scholarly journals like American Quarterly\, International Journal of Communication\, Cultural Studies and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies\, and Television and New Media in the areas of black cultural politics\, media and television studies.  His books on jazz\, television\, and black cultural politics include Producing Jazz\, Watching Race\, and Cultural Moves. He co-edited Toward a Sociology of the Trace with Macarena Gomez Barris and The Sage Handbook of Television Studies with Toby Miller and Milly Buonanno. His most recent book is co-edited with Sarah Banet Weiser and Roopali Mukherjee called Race\, Post Race published by Duke University Press. \nNicholas Mirzoeff  is a visual activist\, working at the intersection of politics\, race and global/visual culture. In 2020-21 he is ACLS/Mellon Scholar and Society fellow in residence at the Magnum Foundation\, New York. Among his many publications\, The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011); How To See The World (2015/16); and The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (2017/18). Since the 2017 events Charlottesville\, he has been active in the movement to take down statues commemorating settler colonialism and/or white supremacy and convened the collaborative syllabus All The Monuments Must Fall\, fully revised after the 2020 events. He curated “Decolonizing Appearance\,” an exhibit at the Center for Art Migration Politics (September 2018-March 2019). A frequent blogger and writer\, especially for the art magazine Hyperallergic\, his work has appeared in the Nation\, the New York Times\, Frieze\, the Guardian\, Time and The New Republic. \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/visuality-and-carceral-formations-with-nicole-fleetwood-herman-gray-nicholas-mirzoeff/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T170000
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CREATED:20201022T022813Z
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SUMMARY:Post-Election Prostest for a People's Mandate!
DESCRIPTION:The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Calls for Protests the Day After The November Presidential Election (November 4\, 2020)\nAfter the election\, the peoples mandate for change must be carried out.\nIn this triple pandemic of racism\, COVID-19\, and recession our National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is issuing a call to all the democratic forces presently engaged in the struggle against racist injustice\, the economic slaughter of our communities and the utterly unspeakable failure at all levels to use its full capacity to stop the death march of the corona virus across the land.\nWe\, as a country\, have a greater capacity in terms of wealth and technology than most other countries to stop the spread of infections and death but unmitigated\, capitalist greed\, putting profits before people\, has made us the leading country in COVID-19 infections and death. The pandemic has hit African American and other oppressed communities the hardest.\nWe are going all out in this election to defeat Trump because it is unequivocally clear that this administration’s racist\, anti-people and anti-working class policies have already eroded every semblance of democracy and brought us to the brink of the worst economic disaster in U.S. history with no plan whatsoever to provide relief for our suffering people. This recession has hit women\, and in particular Black women the hardest\, snatching away years of progress.\nWin or lose in the elections we are calling for mass protests the day after the election to highlight the fact that Trump’s scorched earth policies have left the political landscape almost as barren and bleak as COVID-19 and the police-state style racist repression used against tens of thousands of protesters\, leaving thousands injured and jailed and some dead. Trump has openly sided with racist\, right-wing\, violent elements to attack the movement against police crimes.\nTrump losing the elections will create greater organizing space for turning this page of history writ large with sickness\, death and mass rebellion to embark upon the road for freedom\, justice and equality and ending the plundering of the monopoly capitalist bosses.\nBiden’s victory is important in this moment of history we do not deny that in the least. Yet we must face the sober reality that his victory will not necessarily provide the path to freedom\, justice and equality for our people\, for the 140 million poor\, for the homeless\, the sick\, hungry and working class masses. We\, the people’s movement is the vehicle we must drive up freedom’s road.\nWe are also well aware that Trump has said that he would not leave power. His administration has already tried to disrupt the election by undermining the Post Office and attacks on mail-in voting. Trump could try many things during and after the election such as trying to stop the vote count (a tactic that pro-U.S. forces in other countries have done to fix elections) or call out right-wing shock troops.\nThe fundamental truth at the core of this national call for protests the day after the November Presidential election is that the great historical lesson of the moment we are in is best characterized by the fact that over 22 million rebelled against racist injustice in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd. The social energy of this great rebellion is the same energy propelling us to call this protest. Join us and let us\, the people united\, open a new era of struggle for our liberation dedicate to never returning our country to like it was. We are fighting for a new day to dance with great jubilee in the sunlight of freedom.\nOur Demands\nStop Police Crimes! NAARPR calls for Community Control of Police!\nExtend and expand economic relief for the unemployed! Stop the evictions and utility shut offs!\nProtect the health care that we have\, we want health care for all! Fight the pandemic!\nStop the racist attacks on immigrants and harassment of Asian Americans!\nJustice for Linden Cameron! Justice for all victims of police crimes!\n–MARCH ROUTE TBA–
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/post-election-prostest-for-a-peoples-mandate/
LOCATION:Utah State Capital\, 350 N. State St.\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: From the Embers of Crisis: Creating Equitable and Deliberative Democracy with Archon Fung
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nAt a moment when American Democracy was characterized by record levels of political division\, inequality\, and institutional distrust\, it was hit by the perfect storm of the COVID-19 health crisis\, an economic crisis of soaring unemployment and economic dislocation\, and a civic crisis of reckoning with deep racism and police abuse. What would it take to create from the embers of these crises a deeper\, more egalitarian and deliberative democracy in America? Many lay their hopes in a change of Presidential administration in the coming election. But long before Donald Trump\, our government had already failed to create a system that shared the fruits of prosperity justly. Our government was unresponsive to the wishes of many Americans\, especially people of color and non-wealthy Americans. A return to the pre-Trump half century encompassing Reagan\, Bush\, Clinton\, Bush\, and perhaps Obama — of relatively narrowly bounded disputes between the center-left and center-right — would not address those deeper failures. Delivering on the promise of American democracy — the promise of inclusion\, equality\, deliberation\, and self-government — requires more fundamental political reorganization: new leaders with relationships of mutual understanding and accountability to the communities that they are meant to represent; powerful new popular groups and organizations; and electoral structures that enable all Americans to participate meaningfully in politics. Audience Q&A will follow. \nArchon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies\, practices\, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses upon public participation\, deliberation\, and transparency. He co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and leads democratic governance programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School. His books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press\, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). He has authored five books\, four edited collections\, and over fifty articles appearing in professional journals.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/living-democracy-talk-from-the-embers-of-crisis-creating-equitable-and-deliberative-democracy-with-archon-fung/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201028T163000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Community Safety #6: A Discussion with David Garland
DESCRIPTION:Even if the penal system were transformed in such a way as to eliminate racial disparities rooted in racism\, racial disparities in criminal legal outcomes would almost certainly persist. To better understand why\, we have invited David Garland\, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law and also Professor of Sociology in NYU’s Department of Sociology\, to remind us of the institutional foundations of strong\, vibrant\, stable and safe communities. \nWednesday\, October 28\, 2020\n4:30pm-5:45pm (Eastern)\n Zoom Registration Link \nDavid Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law at the School of Law and also Professor of Sociology in NYU’s Department of Sociology. Garland is the author of a series of award-winning books\, including Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (1st edition\, 1985; new edition 2018); Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990); The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001); and Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010). He has been elected to membership of learned societies in both the US and the UK\, being a Fellow of the British Academy\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Garland has been a Davis Fellow at Princeton University’s History Department (1984-85)\, a J. S. Guggenheim Fellow (2006-07) and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study (TBA). He has been awarded doctorates honoris causa by the Free University of Brussels (2009) and Oslo University (2017). In 2012\, the American Society of Criminology awarded him the Edwin H. Sutherland Prize for outstanding contributions to theory and research. He was Shimizu Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in 2014 and is currently a Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University Law School. His current work focuses on comparative explanations of America’s distinctive use of punishment and on the genealogy of the idea of the ‘welfare state.’ His most recent book\, The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) was published in the spring of 2016.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-community-safety-6-a-discussion-with-david-garland/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T160000
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SUMMARY:Images\, Memory\, and Justice with Bryan Stevenson
DESCRIPTION:Founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition\, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art\, culture\, and activism. \nBryan Stevenson \nImages\, Memory\, and Justice\nOctober 27\,2020\, 4-5:30 p.m.\nOnline event: Registration is required\nREGISTER HERE \nBryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has\, over the last two decades\, tirelessly worked to challenge the racial and economic injustices of mass incarceration in the United States. Stevenson has also been at the forefront of the creation of two cultural sites\, The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. For Visualizing Abolition\, Stevenson will discuss how those institutions relate to his legal social justice initiatives. The wide-ranging conversation with Professor Dent will focus on the role images\, art\, and culture can have in how people see and understand the legacies of history\, as well as how re-envisioning history can enliven contemporary struggles against racial inequality and the criminal justice system. \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. \nBryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)\, a human rights organization in Montgomery\, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor\, the incarcerated\, and the condemned. Under his leadership\, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing\, exonerating innocent death row prisoners\, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill\, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. Mr. Stevenson and his staff have won reversals\, relief or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced. Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the U.S. Supreme Court\, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. Mr. Stevenson has initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts that challenge inequality in America. He led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in 2018\, The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The new national landmark institutions chronicle the legacy of slavery\, lynching and racial segregation and the connection to mass incarceration and contemporary issues of racial bias. Mr. Stevenson’s work has won him numerous awards including over 40 honorary doctorates\, the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize and the ABA Medal\, the American Bar Association’s highest honor. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government and the author of the award winning New York Times bestseller\, Just Mercy\, which was recently adapted as a major motion picture. \nGina Dent\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies\, UCSC is a committed activist\, scholar\, and educator\, Dent’s current book project\, Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and author of numerous articles on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art. \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/images-memory-and-justice-with-bryan-stevenson/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Becoming an Active Bystander with Cradle Community
DESCRIPTION:Note: time entered in U.S. Pacific time\, but event is in UK\n\nWe will build our collective understanding of what violence in public space looks like\, and how we can intervene and respond in safe ways.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nTogether we will build our collective understanding of what violence in public space looks like\, and how we can intervene and respond to this violence in safe ways. As abolitionists\, our work comes from a perspective that centres community accountability and survivor-centered approaches. \nCradle is a collective of facilitators\, organisers\, educators and artists finding ways to make space for curiosity\, compassion and creativity. In our mission to build a world with transformative justice responses to violence\, we believe we all need to develop the skills to support radical approaches to collective care and healing in our communities. As a collective of individuals with complex identities and ancestries\, we hope to reach beyond borders and binaries with this work and the legacies we follow as we pursue it. \n— \nAccess Information About This Event\nThis event is for ages 16+ and will be held online. You will need a good internet connection and a laptop/computer/mobile device to join us. \nThere will be 50 attendees maximum\, and the event will feature comfort breaks. \nAccess links will be sent to attendees in advance of the event. For any technical problems\, please email glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com \nIf you have any specific access requirements please indicate when reserving a ticket and we will do our best to meet any requests within our limited budget. We are more able to meet requests made at least two weeks in advance. Events may be recorded for access reasons. \nIn order to make our events more accessible to those on a low income\, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£12 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your economic circumstances – you can read more about our ticketing system here: https://glasgowzinelibrary.com/ticketing \nOur ticket sales go towards running our spaces and supporting DIY makers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it\, please contact us to let us know here: glasgowzinelibrary@gmail.com \nAll events will adhere to our safer spaces policy\, which you can learn about here. \nJoin the GZL Patreon and support the library on a monthly basis: http://patreon.com/glasgowzinelibrary
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/becoming-an-active-bystander-with-cradle-community/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Intro to Abolition Workshop
DESCRIPTION:What is abolition? Come learn in community with SURJ @ Sacred Heart on Saturday\, October 24\, 2020 from 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM. \nWe’ll start by reading Derecka Purnell’s article\, ‘How I Became a Police Abolitionist’\, together. Then\, we will spend time in your choice of a guided breakout reflection session: Writing\, Conversation\, or Art-making. \nWe’re excited to learn with you! Sign up here to receive the zoom link.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/intro-to-abolition-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201021T163000
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SUMMARY:Incarcerated Elders: Black Panthers and Young Lords Mentoring Behind Bars
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Eddie Conway and Jose Saldaña. Between them\, they served 82 years in prison and saved hundreds of young lives • moderated by Susie Day\, author of The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life\, Politics\, and The Revolution (Haymarket Books) \nRegister here
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/incarcerated-elders-black-panthers-and-young-lords-mentoring-behind-bars/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Community Safety #5: A Discussion with Barry Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Calls to reimagine community safety have been driven by the knowledge that\, for low-income communities of color\, at least\, policing inflicts harms that are consistent\, persistent\, and seemingly resistant to change. To help us imagine alternative approaches to policing that might significantly reduce the harms currently inherent in policing\, we have invited Barry Friedman\, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law\, author of the forthcoming article\, “Disaggregating the Police Function.” \nWednesday\, October 21\, 2020\n4:30pm-5:45pm (Eastern)\nZoom Registration Link \nBarry Friedman serves as the Faculty Director of the Policing Project at New York University School of Law\, where he is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Politics. The Policing Project is dedicated to strengthening policing through ordinary democratic processes; it drafts best practices and policies for policing agencies\, including on issues of technology and surveillance\, assists with transparency\, conducts cost-benefit analysis of policing practices\, and leads engagement efforts between policing agencies and communities. Friedman has taught\, litigated\, and written about constitutional law\, the federal courts\, policing\, and criminal procedure for over thirty years. He serves as the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s new Principles of the Law\, Policing. Friedman is the author of Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, February 2017)\, and has written numerous articles in scholarly journals\, including on democratic policing\, alternatives to police responses to 911 calls\, and the Fourth Amendment. He appears frequently in the popular media\, including the New York Times\, Slate\, Huffington Post\, Politico and the New Republic. He also is the author of the critically acclaimed The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009). Friedman graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
URL:https://dontcallthepolice.com/event/reimagining-community-safety-5-a-discussion-with-barry-friedman/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
DESCRIPTION:Join Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent\, noted antiprison activists\, scholars\, and educators\, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts\, visual culture\, and abolition. This is the first in a series of events that questions what it means to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social\, economic\, and political worldviews that prisons promote. \nVisualizing Abolition\nAngela Y. Davis and Gina Dent\nOctober 20\, 2020\, 4-5:30 p.m.\nOnline event:  Registration is required\nREGISTER HERE \nFor the 2020/21 academic year\, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent\, feminist studies\, has organized a year-long series of online events featuring artists\, activists\, scholars\, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Originally\, Visualizing Abolition was being planned as an in-person symposium\, bringing together artists\, lawyers\, scholars\, and other thinkers to challenge the dominant ways people see and understand issues of mass incarceration\, detention\, and policing in the United States and beyond. Due to the ongoing pandemic\, the panels\, artist talks\, film screenings\, and other events will now take place online\, emphasizing with ever more urgency the importance of envisioning alternatives to ongoing injustices. \nThe events of Visualizing Abolition accompany Barring Freedom\, a bi-coastal exhibition of art featuring Sonya Clark\, American Artist\, Dread Scott\, Deana Lawson\, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun\, Sharon Daniel\, Sanford Biggers\, and other artists whose practices creatively confront the failure of many to see the racist biases within the criminal justice system or to comprehend the economic and social problems that the system serves to obscure. Barring Freedom will be on view at San José Museum of Art October 30\, 2020-March 21\, 2021. Simultaneously on view at UC Santa Cruz is Solitary Garden\, a public art project about mass incarceration and solitary confinement. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15\, 2021. \nAngela Y. Davis\, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies\, UCSC\, is a renowned activist and scholar. For decades\, Dr. Davis has been at the forefront in our nation’s quest for economic\, racial\, and gender equality and social justice. She is the author of nine books\, including her most recent book of essays called The Meaning of Freedom. \nGina Dent\, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies\, UCSC is a committed activist\, scholar\, and educator\, Dent’s current book project\, Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and author of numerous articles on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art. \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/visualizing-abolition-with-angela-y-davis-and-gina-dent/
LOCATION:Zoom
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