Policing Through the Words and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About this event This town hall, presented in collaboration with the ACLU’s Smart Justice Campaign, will honor Martin Luther King and will examine his work from a different standpoint. In keeping with our 2021 presentations on Racial Justice Through Reimagining Policing, this town…

Beyond the Bars is a convening of system-impacted people engaged in the international decarceration movement. About this event Beyond the Bars Los Angeles (BTB-LA) is a convening of system-impacted people, scholars, activists, educators, policymakers, and artists engaged in the international decarceration movement. Organized by BTB-LA Fellows — system-impacted people and community partners — in collaboration…

Reimagining Police Surveillance: Protecting Activism and Ending Technologies of Oppression About this event   Registration is required for this event. The panel will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link for this panel will be sent on the day of the event, to the email address provided at registration. Schedule of events can be found…

Our nation has been re-awakened to the systemic racism that exists. How do we start to VALUE DIFFERENCE in the workplace... Let's Talk... About this event There is still SO MUCH to talk about when it comes to systemic racism and often times there is not a safe space with which to have these conversations, ask questions, self reflect,…

Storytelling & community conversation event for Black folks & others uniquely impacted by the last two unprecedented years in U.S. history. About this event The theme for this series is “Systems and Social Justice” and part 4 of the series is JUSTICE AND NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY. The 2020 double pandemics of COVID and racial uprisings sparked…

Join WBEZ's Natalie Moore for an event on Finland's prison philosophy and America's criminal justice system. About this event WBEZ’s Race, Class and Communities reporter Natalie Moore recently traveled to Finland to learn more about the country’s open prisons and the philosophy that guides its unique approach to punishment. Her reporting highlighted the stark contrasts…

Join this NBA veteran as he discusses his book on the struggle for racial justice in America with Yamiche Alcindor on P&P Live! About this event Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. It offers practical solutions to work against the promotion of…

Join Eva Nagao and Mariame Kaba for a presentation about the zine they authored, "What About the Rapists?" About this event If as Melanie Brazzell theorizes, safety is “a toolkit to be deployed,” then abolitionists want to increase the number of tools that are salutary and get rid of the tools that don’t actually serve…

The UCLA Law Review invites you to join us online for our 2022 Symposium, Toward an Abolitionist Future. About this event The 2022 Symposium aims to focus on the question of what is an abolitionist future and what it takes to get there. The UCLA Law Review aims to facilitate thought-provoking discussions around the role of law,…

Free online talk with Conor Dwyer Reynolds, Executive Director of the Rochester, NY Police Accountability Board (PAB) About this event Please join Uprooting Racism and the Rochester Zen Center for this free community event welcoming Conor Dwyer Reynolds, Executive Director of the Police Accountability Board, as our next speaker in the Uprooting Racism Speaker Series. Who is invited?…

Join Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie for an urgent conversation moderated by Mariame Kaba. About this event As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment — halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape…

Examine Black Abolitionist politics & actions leading up to the American Civil War (session 1/4) About this event “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains." -Assata Shakur This Black History…

The Graveyard Don't Lie is an opportunity to hear from and support families who have been directly affected by police violence. About this event “If we don't change, nothing changes.” - Kim Handy-Jones You’ve read the headlines about police violence. But for every lost life that makes the news, there are dozens who don’t. The…