Friday, September 18, 7 pm eastern

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Thursday, September 24th, 4pm

Protesting Police Worldwide: American Policing, Mass Incarceration, Empire, and Mapping the Possibilities of International Solidarity

The uprising against racist police violence in the United States has ignited protests around the world—everywhere from London to Seoul, to Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, and Palestine. This international mobilization seems to be about more than solidarity with the US Black Lives Matter movement. It’s also about protesting against police brutality in each respective country, colonialism and white supremacy worldwide, and the ever expansive carceral systems that are modelled after US policies.

From Colonialism, to the Cold War, to the War on Drugs, to the War on Terror the crisis of policing and incarceration in the United States cannot be decoupled from protecting US imperial interests across the world.  What exchanges are there between US policing strategies and technology and policing strategies and technology in other countries? What role does the US government have in developing police and prisons abroad? Are there movements like Black Lives Matter in other countries? What connections have been or can be made between social movements here and across the world?

Join us for a discussion on these questions and more as we look at Black Lives Matter and the defund the police uprisings through an international lens.

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Confirmed Panelists:

Stuart Schrader is the Associate Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and a Lecturer in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, published by University of California Press in 2019. He has also recently published articles in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and Artforum.

Dr. Baz Dreisinger is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Executive Director of the Incarceration Nations Network (INN)–a global network and think tank tackling mass incarceration worldwide–and founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which offers college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in the US and South Africa. Prof. Dreisinger, a Global Fulbright Scholar and current Fulbright Specialist Scholar, also writes for such publications as The New York Times, produces radio segments for NPR, directs documentaries and is the author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World and Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture.

Victoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2009), and co-author of the forthcoming Prison By Any Other Name (New Press 2020). She frequently writes about the intersections between mass incarceration, gender and resistance. 

Tuesday, Sept 29, 4:30-6 pm

Tuesday, Sept 29, 7 to 8:30 pm

Study & Struggle 2: Abolition, Intersectionality & Care

Join Dean Spade, Andrea Ritchie, Pauline Rogers and me for a conversation about what it means for abolition to be intersectional and how abolition demands a reimagination of what it means to be in community and to care for one another.

Prisoners and Formerly Incarcerated Persons v the USA