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Collective Reconnection: An Interview with Sophie Lewis

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Collective Reconnection: An Interview with Sophie Lewis

January 23, 2024

Sophie Lewis came to speak at the BCRW Feminist Freedom School in June. She brought an extraordinarily calm and humble demeanor as she entered…

It’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization

Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Timmy Châu, and Dean Spade

March 20, 2023

ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as…

Abortion as Abolition

Rafa Kidvai (Repro Legal Defense Fund, founder)

February 7, 2023

The goal of this event is to bring light to activists and scholars dealing with the increased criminalization of abortion care and pregnancy outcomes,…

Abolition on the Ground: Reporting from the Movement to #DefundthePolice

Angélica Cházaro, Erica Perry, and Andrea Ritchie, moderated by Dean Spade

January 18, 2022

Join us for a conversation with abolitionist organizers and lawyers leading this work to talk about lessons learned in #defundthepolice mobilizations, how this work…

Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 3): Skills for Abolitionist Practice

December 9, 2021

A workshop with Dean Spade on giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.

Survival and Resistance: Mutual Aid in Disastrous Times

Naomi Klein, Dean Spade, adrienne maree brown, Klee Benally, and Chandan Reddy (moderator)

April 30, 2021

As we face cascading crises caused by the extractive systems that still determine the material conditions of our lives, mutual aid is proliferating and…

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

Victoria Law and Andrea J. Ritchie

March 1, 2021

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

Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future

Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim

October 1, 2020

Shira Hassan and Mimi Kim will join us for a conversation about the history and development of transformative justice, its importance in current movements…

Care Not Cops: Youth Safety Planning in a World Without Policing

June 18, 2020

Safety planning skill-share focusing on how to use the Bay Area Transformative Justice Pod-Mapping Tool

Introduction to Mutual Aid

June 17, 2020

What is "mutual aid," and how is it different from charity, philanthropy, and state social services?

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration

May 8, 2020

Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.

On the Road to Abolition: Archiving Resistance to the Carceral State

Simon Balto and Emily Thuma, moderated by Mariame Kaba

June 5, 2019

Emily Thuma and Simon Balto, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss histories of resistance to prisons and policing, offering roadmaps and lessons for…

Participatory Defense Campaigns as a Strategy for Freedom

March 2, 2019

Video from Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures panel featuring organizers, including criminalized survivors and their loved ones, exploring survivor defense campaigns as a strategy for…

Organizing for Freedom Across Prison Walls

March 2, 2019

Video from a Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures workshop identifying strategies to build relationships and strengthen coalitions for freedom and safety across prison walls.

Building Accountable Communities: Online Event

October 26, 2018

Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby joined us for an online discussion moderated by Mariame Kaba to explore models for building accountable communities for the…

Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law

April 14, 2018

Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she's fighting for the freedom of women…

Homes for All, Cages for None: Housing Justice in an Age of Abolition

October 10, 2017

A conversation between Christina Heatherton and Craig Willse

Invisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times

Barbara Smith, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tourmaline, Mariame Kaba & others

August 7, 2017

This conference is the first in a series of events taking place in the midwest, south, and west coast to explore and support ongoing…

Andrea Ritchie: Invisible No More (Preview)

May 23, 2017

Excerpt from a lecture by Andrea Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.
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