The Covid-19 pandemic has propelled conversations about healthcare disparities and distrust in BIPOC communities to the national stage. For this session, we are inviting Professor Subini Annamma, LaShyra Nolen, Asanni Armon, and Dave Rini, to lead us in a conversation about the intersection of critical race theory and healthcare disparities in BIPOC communities. Professor Subini […]
The movement against the family regulation system is relatively new, but the connections between it and other harmful and more well-known systems (carceral, medical, legal) are endless. This session, with Erin Miles Cloud, Desseray Wright, and Miriam Mack, will build understanding of the system and its connection to policing, surveillance, and racism while creating space […]
The new global university model, based on distance learning, may well expand access to quality education and research across caste/ class/ race barriers. On the other hand, why must individual students be compelled to stay in their home countries even when they may prefer to come to (and remain in) the Global North? Why is […]
"A lawyer's either a social engineer, or he's a parasite on society," wrote Charles Hamilton Houston. Join community organizers Joyce McMillan and Angela Burton in discussing the challenges and strengths of working with lawyers against the family regulation system. Participants will learn how lawyers can strengthen the voices of those most impacted by it, and […]
Advocates Nicole Ramos, Guerline Jozef, and Charlene D’Cruz will be jointly leading a workshop on unjust U.S. border policies like MPP and Title 42, especially through a racial justice lens. Nicole is the Director of the Border Rights Project at Al Otro Lado. Guerline is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance. […]
This workshop with Susan Maze-Rothstein focuses on the fundamental principles of restorative justice as paradigm that could enable freedom dreaming. Of particular interest is the relationship of traditional or indigenous approaches to justice in responding to the question of why, when and where does justice begin. A community restorative justice concept currently forming in local […]