Join us, Sunday March 12th from 4-7pm, at the Independent Media Center for a unique event!
As the tide of alt-right repression is on the rise, the new political landscape calls for those of us involved with social justice movements to come together. But what does it mean to build sustainable and intersectional solidarity across a wide spectrum of community groups? As an organization that focuses on state violence and criminalization, Build Programs Not Jails would like to invite the many communities and organizations we work with to join together for a critical discussion about the future of criminalization in the U.S.
What will a Trump presidency mean for various communities and how they are criminalized? How do we begin to build the kind of solidarity that can help us fight back sustain our resistance beyond the age of Trump?
This event will examine how education, surveillance, incarceration, borders, and alternatives to incarceration are increasingly impacted by heightened criminalization and state violence. We will hear briefly from individuals working on the ground in CU who are dealing with ICE raids as well as from Muslim community members reaching out ins solidarity. Several community organizations will be present to showcase their own work and to help us get plugged in to resistance already in action.
In addition to critical discussion and strategizing, this event will include performances by DJ Pelmore, Trey King, and Patricia Bradford.
Refreshments will be served.
Together, we will identify some concrete next steps in addressing this repression locally and nationally.
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