Critical Resistance 10: Strategies & Struggle to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex
Critical Resistance 10
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While you will be able to register for CR10 on-site during the conference all weekend long, we have closed pre-registration. You will be able to register for the conference by going to the registration station at the main entrance to Laney College (900 Fallon St. in front of the Adminstration Building). If you have pre-registered, you will be able to check in and get your conference packet at the same site. See you next week!
In September 1998, thousands gathered in Berkeley, California, for conference that founded Critical Resistance’s movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Each participant, with their own experiences of oppression and resistance, watched as diverse struggles were unified: by humanity, hope, and the shared vision of a different world. We witnessed a vision of a world with truly safe, healthy, and whole communities; a world with unconditional access to self-determination and dignity for all; and, critically, a world without imprisonment, policing, and other forms of punishment and control.
To celebrate 10 years of Critical Resistance, thousands will converge once more, September 26-28, 2008, in Oakland, California, for CR10, a 10th Anniversary Celebration and Strategy Session.
Over the past decade, the movement to eliminate the PIC has faced tremendous challenges. We have witnessed rising levels of imprisonment in the US and around the world. We have endured passage of the USAPATRIOT Act of 2001, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, increasing surveillance and policing in our lives. Meanwhile, US-led wars continue to ravage communities around the globe. We have witnessed the increased repression and criminalization of migrants and immigrants, people of color, young people, and queer communities. We have seen California prepare to embark on the biggest prison building project in history as the Gulf Coast region continues to struggle and to prevail in spite of ongoing neglect and militarization.
During this period Critical Resistance has also developed into a leading force fighting against the use of imprisonment, policing, and surveillance as responses to social, economic, and political problems. During the past 10 years we have:
- Brought the idea of the prison industrial complex (PIC) into mainstream conversations;
- Substantially increased collaboration of PIC abolitionists with organizers in environmental justice, anti-violence, and queer movements;
- Promoted prisoners, former prisoners, and their loved ones as the real experts on the system;
- Provided a platform and jumping off point for new organizations and organizing efforts; and
- Contributed to dozens of local and regional victories across the country.
START DATE: Friday September 26 TIME: 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM Location Details: Laney College
900 Fallon St.
Oakland, CA 94607
Event Type: Conference 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Taking It Down, Brick by Brick: Local Anti-Jail Campaigns
Community in Unity (NYC); Decarcerate Monroe County (Bloomington, Indiana); Critical Resistance-Los Angeles; Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (New Orleans); Suffolk County Anti-Jail Campaign (NY)
Organizing Community-Based Responses To Violence In Communities of Color (people of color only)
Alisa Bierria, INCITE!; Isabel Gonzalez, INCITE!; Xandra Ibarra, INCITE!
Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline Training (runs for 2 sessions)
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: Lessons Learned by Massachusetts
Ralph Hamm, former president, National Prisoners Reform Association; Edward Rodman, Canon Missioner Episcopal Divinity School; Robert Dellelo, former president, National Prisoners Reform Association, former prisoner, Walpole prison; Jamie Bissonette, Director of the AFSC New England Criminal Justice Program
Immigration Detention 101
Raja Jorjani, UC Davis Law School; Luissana Santibanez, Grassroots Leadership; Andrea Black, Detention Watch Network; Dana Kaplan, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
Getting Real about Alternatives to the Police
Rose City Copwatch, Portland OR: candace, maria, geoff and Colette
What is the prison industrial complex?
TBA
Prisons and jail is bad for your mental health
Dr. Terry Kupers, M.D. who wrote "Prison Madness"; Paul Boden of the Western Regional Action Project (WRAP); Michael Diehl, community organizer with Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency (BOSS)
Imagine What We Can Do Together
Kim Diehl, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Critical Resistance; Sarah Jarmon, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Critical Resistance
Youth Justice Roundtable at CR10
George Galvis, Barrios Unidos/All of Us or None; Marlene Sanchez, Center for Young Women's Development; Lateefah Simon, District Attorney Kamala Harris' Office; Alex Sanchex, Homies Unidos; Jay Imani, Ella Baker Center
Trans Awareness and the Prison Abolition Movement (runs for 2 sessions)
Dean Spade, Stefanie Rivera, Gael Guevara and Gabriel Arkles, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Cross-Border Resistance to State Terrorism
Yeni Solis (CISPES); Minister of Information JR (POCC, Block Report Radio); Heyward (CISPES); Black Alliance for Just Immigration; Kiilu Nyasha, Revolutionary Journalist and host of Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Critical Resistance Campaign and Projects Planning Workshop: The Fundamentals of Campaign Planning for Everyone
Robert "Kool Black" Horton, Campaign and Projects Director of Critical Resistance and a native and chapter member of Critical Resistance New Orleans, Rose Braz, Campaigns Director of Critical Resistance, one of the founding members of CR
The Struggle Inside: Legacies of Prison Activism from the 1970's
Tony Platt, Social Justice; Naneen Karraker, AFSC, has worked on prison abolition since the early 1970s; and others
Critical Negotiations
Dana Linda, UCSC alum Feminist Studies and Literature '07; Brianna Barnes, UCSC alum Literature (Creative Writing Program) and Art '08; translator Marcelo Garzo (UC Berkeley Student); Cindy Garcia
Silence into Speech: Prisoners Speak Out
Stephen Hartnett (University of Colorado-Denver) has taught poetry to inmates for over 20 years and regularly publishes their work; Bryan McCann (The Univeristy of Texas at Austin) is an anti-death penalty organizer in Texas; Karen Lovaas (San Francisco State University) teaches and mentors at San Quentin Prison.
Gender Justice 101 for Abolitionists
Maria Nakae, Alliance Building Coordinator, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice; Miss Major , Organizing Director, Transgender, Gender Variant, & Intersex Justice Project; Vanessa Huang, Campaign Director, Justice Now; Gael Guevara, Organizing Support Team Coordinator, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Purposeful Design: The Destruction of California's Indigenous People
TBA
How to write Letters to the Editor and Op Eds in a way that increases their chances of being published
Nancy Oliveira
We Are at War! Grounding Abolition in Revolutionary Liberation(s)
Viviane Saleh-Hanna; Ashanti Alston; Giselle Dias; Suzanne Joseph
Media Justice, Criminal Justice
Nick Szuberla, Thousand Kites, Center for Media Justice, and Lisa Rudman, National Radio Project
Grassroots Fundraising
Ari Wohlfeiler and Ivonne Florez, Critical Resistance
Gender, Militarism, and the Prison Industrial Complex
Nada Elia, Anisha Desai
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Theater as Activism--Lucasville: the Untold Story of a Prison Uprising
Gary L. Anderson: Co-playwright and Artistic Director of American Legends Theatre Works; Four actors from the September 25-27 Oakland theatre production of Lucasville - The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising
Community Based Approaches to Sex Work
Robyn Few and Starchild, Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP); Carol Stuart, co-founder St. James Infirmary; Stacey Swimme, Desiree Alliance; Maxine Doogan, Erotic Service Providers Union (ESPU); Carol Leigh, BAYSWAN/COYOTE; Rachel West, USPROS; Gloria Lockett, CAL-PEP; Stephanie Adraktas; Dr. Rita Nakashima
Stopping the School to Prison Pipeline Training (continued from last session)
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
What is Abolition?
TBA
Being Safe OUTside the System, LGBTSTGNC People Of Color Challenging Hate and Police Violence
Audre Lorde Project
Criminalization of Mental Illness and the Prison Industrial Complex
Mary Dougherty (Co-Coordinator/Community Organizer, RIPPD); Leah Gitter (member, RIPPD); Gregory James (member, RIPPD); Lisa Ortega (Co-Coordinator/Community Organizer, RIPPD); Kyle Nesbitt (member, RIPPD); Nafis Rashed (member, RIPPD); Alexandra Smith (Soros Fellow and member, RIPPD)
Building a New Civil Rights Movement
Dorsey Nunn, All of Us or None; Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, The Ordinary Peoples' Society, Alabama; Norris Henderson, Safe Streets, Strong Communities, New Orleans LA; Steven Huerta, All of Us or None Texas
The Open Wounds of our Mother Earth
TBA
Basic strategies for getting support and information to pregnant women in prison
Faith Groesbeck
Trans Awareness and the Prison Abolition Movement (continued from previous session)
Dean Spade, Stefanie Rivera, Gael Guevara and Gabriel Arkles, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Prospects for Mumia's Freedom
Pam and Ramona Africa; Laura Herrera; Tom Lacey; Merle Woo
Ending Sexual Violence in Detention: An Abolitionist Analysis
Jason Lydon
Long Term Isolation in California
Laura Magnani, AFSC Kim Carter, CFP
Abolition and the Self
Christy Hall, Co-founder and Development Coordinator, Birth Attendants Collective; Julie Imonti, former staff person, Birth Attendants Collective
Envisioning the end of LWOP: A Roundtable Discussion
Hosted by Fight For Lifers Inc./ Fight For Lifers West of PA
Etta Cetera, Kristi Brian (co-moderators); Donna Pfender (mother of lifer & FFL West President); Anita Colon (sister of lifer, PA); Mae Hadley (mother of lifer, PA); Hakim Ali & William Goldsby (FFL, Inc. organizers and former prisoners); Harriet Washington (Mother of lifer, PA) ; Deion Morrison (Youth organizer, PA); Lea Green (mother of a lifer MD); Maura Taub (Prisoner-rights activist, NM); Yvonne Edwards (loved one of lifer, AZ); HR 4300 activist/lobbyist
Beyond These Prison Walls: How Families and Children of Incarcerated Loved Ones are Fighting Back
Maisha Quint & Robin Rederford of LSPC; Anna Wong & Jennifer Lucatero of Project W.H.A.T.!
Alternatives to Incarceration on the Ground in California
Facilitator: Marina Sideris, Critical Resistance; Presenters: Ali Riker, San Francisco Homeless Pretrial Release Program; Kathleen Connolly, UCSF Citywide Case Management Forensics Project; Nora Rahimian, Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos
Let Freedom Ring: Political Prisoners in the United States
PANELISTS: Ashanti Alston, Jericho Amnesty Movement; Bo Brown, Prison Activist Resource Center; Masai Ehehosi, International Committee to Support Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin; Jose Lopez, National Boricua Human Rights Network; MODERATORS Meg Starr, Resistance in Brooklyn; Dan Berger, Resistance in Brooklyn, author, Outlaws in America
The Southern Criminalization Strategy
Southern Center for Human Rights
Steps Toward Change
Tina Reynolds, WORTH, Moderator; Jeanine Cummings, Lift Every Voice; Elizabeth Leslie, WORTH; Maxine King, WORTH; Davian Reynolds, NY Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Law Enforcement Violence Against Women and Trans People of Color
Andrea Ritchie, Nada Elia, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
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