Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders

A Virtual Gathering

April 14-17, 2021

~ Announcing Our Keynote Speakers ~

Wednesday 14 April 2021 ~ Abolish Wars

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8:00 - 8:50 am Welcome: Meet the Organizers

9:10 - 10:00 am Session 1: Abolish Carceral Genders

10:30 - 11:30 am Keynote 1: Professor Joy James on "Until the Next (Up)Rising" (with ASL)

11:30 - 12:30 pm Wellness Break Renewing Emotional Reserves When Doing Hard Work with Melanie Marsden

12:30 - 1:30 pm Roundtable 1: Stories of Injustice

1:50 - 3:05 pm Session 2: Abolish the Military Industrial Complex

3:25 - 4:55 pm Workshop 1: Volunteer Collective: 'Alternative Justices Project' (with ASL)

5:15 - 6:30 pm Workshop 2: The Bail Debt Dispute Tool

6:50 - 7:50 pm Workshop 3: The Trauma of Incarceration

8:10 - 9:25 pm Session 3: Abolish Carceral Affects

Thursday 15 April 2021 ~ Abolish Prisons

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8:00 - 9:30 am Workshop 4: Fostering Transformative Justice Practice for Yourself

9:50 - 10:35 am Workshop 5: Theory to Action: using research to strengthen the prison abolitionist movement

10:55 - 12:10 pm Session 4: African and Black Radical Tradition: Co-opted (with ASL)

12:30 - 1:30 pm Keynote 2: Professor Alex Vitale on "Abolition in Practice: Responding to the mobilization of violence talk by police apologists" (with ASL)

1:45 - 2:20 pm Keynote 3: Stevie Wilson pre-recorded message

2:20 - 3:00 pm Wellness Break Renewing Emotional Reserves When Doing Hard Work with Melanie Marsden

3:00 - 4:00 pm Panel Discussion 1: Currently Incarcerated Folx -- CANCELED

4:20 - 5:45 pm Session 5: Abolish Civilizing Violence

6:05 - 7:35 pm Workshop 6: How to Not Call the PoLice EVER (with ASL)

7:55 - 8:45 pm Session 6: Abolish Crime and Intent: its roots and social construction

9:05 - 9:35 pm Conference Critiques

Friday 16 April 2021 ~ Abolish Borders

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8:00 - 9:00 am Film Discussion 1: Brown Cotton Outreach presents "Bucket Jail"

9:20 - 10:50 am Film Discussion 2: Prison Project: Little Scandinavia

11:20 - 12:25 pm Keynote 4: Harsha Walia on "Abolish Border Imperialism" (with ASL)

12:30 - 1:30 pm Wellness Break An hour of introspection with Kyeisha Hodge

1:30 - 3:10 pm Session 7: Abolish the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

3:20 - 4:40 pm Workshop 7: Building Community in the Wake of Incarceration (with ASL)

5:00 - 6:30 pm Roundtable 2: Navigating Abolition Geographies

7:00 - 7:30 pm Keynote 5: Reflections on abolition from Albert Woodfox

7:50 - 9:05 pm Session 8: Abolish the Medical Industrial Complex

Saturday 17 April 2021 ~ Abolish New Carceralities

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8:00 - 9:15 am Session 9: Abolish Carceral Imaginations

9:35 - 10:50 am Session 10: Abolish Carceral Theories, Research Methods & Praxis

10:50 - 11:50 am Wellness Break Renewing Emotional Reserves When Doing Hard Work

11:50 - 12:50 pm Keynote 6: Jalil Muntaqim on "Imagining a non-incarceral state" (with ASL)

1:10 - 2:10 pm Roundtable 3: Beating Parole Boards with Mutual Aid

2:30 - 3:30 pm Workshop 8: Writing Workshops, Art, and Community in COVID-19

3:50 - 5:05 pm Workshop 9: tearing shit apart in the California Abolition Movement

5:25 - 6:25 pm Panel Discussion 2: Abolitionist Praxis and Labour in the Carceral Continuum

6:45 - 7:35 pm Session 11: Abolish New Carceralities

7:55 - 8:55 pm Workshop 10: Alternative Dispute Resolution

9:15 - 9:45 pm Closing: Critical Reflections and Future Plans