Event Calendar
A calendar of events focused on reimagining public safety, developing alternatives to police, anti-racism, and social justice.
These events are compiled from publicly available information and submissions, and are not associated with dontcallthepolice.com.
Please note! All events are listed at the time local to the organizer – please check time zones.
Note: time entered in U.S. Pacific time, but event is in UK We will build our collective understanding of what violence in public space looks like, and how we can intervene and respond in safe ways. About this Event Together we will build our collective understanding of what violence in public space looks like, and…
Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link This 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…
Accessibility: ASL + Spanish translation provided We 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…
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. Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley December 1, 2020, 12-1:30 p.m. Online Event: Registration is required REGISTER…
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…
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. Abolitionist Feminisms w/ Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark February 23, 2021, 4-5:30 p.m. Online…
Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link While 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…
Educators from the Chicago Public School system who are working to build safer and stronger classrooms and communities without policing. About this Event We invite you to participate in a zoom discussion on Thursday, January 28th 4:30 - 6:00 PM: Educators Reimagining School Safety Beyond Police. This event is being coordinated by the Chicago Teachers…
How has intergenerational trauma contributed to the mass incarceration of Black and Non-Black People of Color? About this Event This is the first of a three part series on the experiences of incarcerated folks and their families. Part 2 here and Part 3 here. How has intergenerational trauma contributed to the mass incarceration of Black and Non-Black People…
Why are Black people nearly 3 times less likely to be granted parole on average? About this Event This is the second of a three part series on the experiences of incarcerated folks and their families. Part 1 here and Part 3 here. Why are Black people nearly 3 times less likely to be granted parole on average?…
An online reading group for learning and thinking about prison abolition About this Event Not sure what prison abolition is? Wondering if it’s a good idea? Or how it connects to ideas of social justice? Recently, there are been a huge uptake in interest in abolitionist ideas. More and more people are questioning whether prisons…
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. Futures w/ Sora Han, adrienne maree brown and Savannah Shange May 11, 2021, 4-5:30 p.m. Online…
To submit your event, please send the event name, description, instructions for registration and/or attendance, the organizer’s name, and organizer’s website to: calendar@dontcallthepolice.com
