The Leap: Webinar Series: Building Communities, Not Cages
Webinar Series:
Building Communities, Not Cages
taking place over the next few weeks discussing decarceration, decolonization, and community solidarity during the pandemic.
Over the last two weeks, over 2,947 prisoners have been released or diverted from detention across Canada. This is a positive development, but one which must be met with equal measures to build up community supports. Prison abolitionists have long argued that the project of abolition is not simply one of eliminating jails and prisons but must also involve efforts to build deep community supports and solidarities.
This panel brings together people with lived experience, frontline workers and researchers to discuss what we must do to support people being released and diverted from detention, and how to leverage this moment of community-building for the long-term struggle to realize decarceral futures.
SPEAKERS:
• Zoë Dodd
• Tyson Young
• Charlotte Smith
• Rima Berns-McGown
• Dan Parlow
Moderator: Jessica Evans
WATCH THE LIVESTREAM on ZOOM:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82407671788
Note: This webinar will have automatically generated closed-captions. After the event, a recording will be made available online.
TAKE ACTION:
Demand personal protection, decarceration, and free communication for prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Use our 3 easy email ZAP tools every week: https://linktr.ee/prisonerrightsproject
DONATE:
Support the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for Prisoners and their families to help those being released into the community and those left behind bars: