390 27th St
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
5:30pm: Happy hour + food
7pm: Event
Critical Resistance (CR) invites you to join us for “Profiles in Abolition: Strong Communities Beyond Policing” featuring Asha Ransby-Sporn of Black Youth Project 100, CR co-founder Dylan Rodriguez, and Naomi Murakawa (author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America). Moderated by Lara Kiswani of Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).
This event will sharpen our vision to eliminate reliance on policing and increase our community power and wellbeing without law enforcement and prisons. We are excited to feature organizers and scholars from across the country who have been fighting the violence of policing with dedicated campaigns, writing, and Black, radical, queer and internationalist imaginations. Our speakers will engage in lively conversation about lessons learned and strategies to uplift as we build for a world beyond policing. The event will feature cultural performance and contributions from inside organizers that raise the spirit of liberation.
“Strong Communities Beyond Policing” is the third event in Profiles in Abolition, a national series highlighting the ongoing struggle to abolish the prison industrial complex. We are excited to bring together a community audience of organizers and freedom fighters who have worked so hard to bring us to this opportune political moment. Proceeds will benefit Critical Resistance and our grassroots organizing for abolition and community self-determination. www.criticalresistance.org/abolition
VENUE INFO: Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible and this event is fragrance free. Please come scent free to respect participants with chemical sensitivities.
Wheelchair users enter from 411 28th Street. Front doors of building are 390 27th Street.
Parking info: http://www.humanisthall.net/DIRECTIONS.html
Public transit: Humanist Hall is close to many Bus Stops at Broadway/29th St and Telegraph/27th St.
It is .7 miles from the Downtown 19th St BART station.
If you have any further questions about the event, please contact: jess@criticalresistance.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
