Support Abolition Across the Country! CHICAGO FOR ABOLITION: A SUMMIT ON ORGANIZING AND STRATEGY
NOV. 8-12, 2017
This weekend, we are joining with over 50 local organizations and groups in Chicago to build a stronger national abolitionist movement. This summit will be completely free to all attendees.
Not in Chicago, but value abolition? Can you make a gift to support this summit and the work of Critical Resistance?
A Conversation with Angela Y. Davis and Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, moderated by Beth Richie **SOLD OUT**
Pre-Event Youth Workshop 6-6:50pm: Assata's Daughters will be hosting a workshop before the "No Easy Victories: Fighting for Abolition" to introduce young people to the evening's themes and speakers.
ALL OF THE EVENTS BELOW ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, November 9
Abolition and Rethinking Education
Description: Organizing to get police out of your school? Working on responses to harm in the classroom and staffroom that do not involve criminalization? Want a curriculum that creates possibilities to imagine and build a world without prisons and borders? Building to protect students and families from immigration enforcement (ICE)? Come to this panel discussion with K-12 educators, youth advocates and abolitionist organizers that will deepen learning between and across these constituencies and identify needed tools and resources.
Location: First Defense Legal Aid, 601 S. California Ave, Chicago, IL 61612 Date: Thursday Nov. 9 Time: 6:30-8:30 PM
Featuring:
Ayanna Banks Harris - Chicago Math Teacher and Dean of Instruction, Love & Protect
Beatriz Beckford - MomsRising
Cyriac Mathew - Uplift Community High School
Muhammad Sankari - Arab American Action Network
Moderator: Charity Tolliver, Black on Both Sides/BYP 100
Friday, November 10
Beyond One Chicago: Resisting the Divisions of the Prison Industrial Complex
Description: An event on resisting criminalization, gang databases, and policing. We will feature the launch of a critical new report on the use of gang databases in Chicago. Community organizers will discuss past efforts to fight policing and criminalization. Together we will build abolitionist visions of expansive sanctuary in Chicago. Featuring BYP 100, CR, OCAD, and Mijente. Location: University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Services Building (1200 W Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607) Conference Rooms B & C Date: Friday Nov. 10 Time: Doors open at 6pm, Start at 6:30
Saturday, November 11
Fight to Win: Shrinking Prisons & Jails / Strengthening Communities
Description: An event on organizing against imprisonment and strategies to strengthen our fight for a world without cages. We will explore and discuss successful campaigns around stopping jail construction, ending money bail, advocating for prison closure, and for supporting prisoner-led struggles. This event is hosted by Chicago Community Bond Fund, Critical Resistance, Free Write Arts & Literacy, Nehemiah Trinity Rising, The Next Movement. Location: Trinity United Church of Christ (400 95th St, Chicago, IL 60628) Date: Saturday Nov. 11 Time: 12pm-2pm Facebook event here. Please share widely!
Thank you to the Chicago for Abolition partner organizations: Asset's Daughters, Black on Both Sides, BYP100, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Chicago Freedom School, Education for Liberation, FIST - Formerly Incarcerated Students Together, Free Write Arts and Literacy, Love & Protect, Mijente, Nehemiah Trinity Rising, Organized Communities Against Deportation (OCAD), People's Education Movement, Teachers for Social Justice, and Trinity United Church of Christ.
Thank you to the Chicago for Abolition sponsoring organizations!
Broadway Youth Center, Chicago National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Decarcerate Marion County/No New Jail Coalition, Familia Trans Queer Liberation, For the People Artists Collective, Illinois Deaths in Custody Project, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Jewish Voice for Peace, John Marshall Law School- National Lawyers Guild, Lifted Voices, Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration (MUAVI), National Black Food & Justice Alliance, PASO- West Suburban Action Project, People's Response Team, Project NIA, The Next Movement, Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois, and Village Leadership Academy.
For more information about Chicago for Abolition: A Summit on Organizing and Strategy, please visit www.criticalresistance.org/Chicago2017, contact Critical Resistance (510.444.0484) or email jess-at-criticalresistance.org
