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prisons make us safer

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“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration

Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie

What dangerous myths are driving criminalization, policing, and incarceration? What steps can we take to abolish prisons?

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“Pilgrim” and “Crow Requiem”: Screening and Talk with Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith (filmmaker, Professor, California Institute of the Arts) in conversation with Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University) 

Cauleen Smith’s short films “Pilgrim” (2016) and “Crow Requiem” (2015) offer two journeys through Black presence, life, culture, and history, provoking viewers into an experience of time and place that exceeds habitual borders. 
beyond survival book

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Transformative Justice in the Apocalypse: Beyond Survival One Year Later

Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, RJ Maccani, India Harris, YaliniDream, and Woods Ervin, moderated by Kenyon Farrow

What are the tools, conversations, and actions we need to take in this moment of transformative justice and abolition work?
Tameca Cole, Locked in a Dark Calm, 2016.

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Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration

Nicole Fleetwood

Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.
june jordan

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“And what shall we do, we who did not die?”: A Reckoning with June Jordan

Asha Futterman (BC '21), Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Evie Shockley, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

During this harrowing year, many of us have returned to June Jordan and her contemporaries in our search for wisdom, as well as provocation, to guide us through the calamities our time.
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