Workshop 1:
Volunteer Collective:
'The Alternative Justices Project'
Wednesday 14 April 2021 ~ 3:25 - 4:55pm Pacific
Beloved Beyond Policing: How to Create Community Systems of Accountability and Transformation
The Alternative Justices Project works to find, explore and learn about alternative modes of harm prevention and response. We specifically focus that implementation on sexual and partner violence. Our community includes individuals from all sides of the cycles of harm -formerly incarcerated folks, those affected by incarceration, those currently incarcerated, as well as violence survivors, theorists & academics. As a result our community is extremely diverse, and has a broad range of lived experiences that provide valuable insight on harm transformation.
Having helped form the journey of the The Alternative Justices Project from its beginnings, 2-3 members of the collective will share practical how-tos and lessons learned from their efforts at resting systems of accountability and transformation that do not engage with or utilize police, prisons, blacklists or any aspect of the criminal legal system. This workshop/skill share will be based on documents and experiences created in the running of these projects and will also help participants think through the process of creating similar systems for the diverse communities they are already a part of. This will include a discussion of ways to start community dialogues about harms and accountability, examples of goals and prioritization, examples of pitfalls and critiques, as well as personal accounts of why and how members continue to participate in this intense work.
The Alternative Justices Project is a radical, decentralized, all-volunteer collective that builds towards consent culture and prison abolition world-wide by developing, implementing, and sharing ways to transform harms that break free from carceral systems and retributive or punitive justice.