Abolition, Activism, and the University: Practitioner Perspectives on Transformative Justice in Boston

Date: 

Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online

Grassroots organizers in Greater Boston are at the forefront of ongoing statewide movements for a world without predatory policing and mass human caging. Join us for a virtual panel discussion with Transformative Justice practitioners in Boston and beyond.

Special guest speakers, Andrea James (Families for Justice as Healing), Beth Whalley (Building Up People Not Prisons Coalition), Eli Patterson (Black and Pink MA), and Derecka Purnell (Author of Becoming Abolitionists) will discuss how Abolitionist ideas and political visions inform community organizing, and how Abolitionist activism in the streets should shape Abolition studies in the university.

Learn more and register for this virtual event.