<div dir="ltr">I have 12 tickets for this event. Contact me off list if you're interested in attending.<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Critical Resistance <<a href="mailto:crnational@criticalresistance.org">crnational@criticalresistance.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:05 PM<br>Subject: Join us! Strong Communities Beyond Policing🔸Friday November 4<br>To: Julio <<a href="mailto:julio.rios@gmail.com">julio.rios@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u class="gmail_msg"></u>
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<span class="m_4468288037243320034_4n-j m_4468288037243320034fsl gmail_msg">Critical Resistance invites you to join us on November 4 for "Strong Communities Beyond Policing" with Asha Ransby-Sporn of <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=57bc1b29ed&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Black Youth Project 100</a>, CR co-founder Dylan Rodriguez, Naomi Murakawa (author of <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=c66a626753&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><em class="gmail_msg">The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America</em></a>), and Lara Kiswani o<span class="m_4468288037243320034text_exposed_show gmail_msg">f <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=09ce9dba50&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Arab Resource and Organizing Center</a> (AROC). </span></span><br class="gmail_msg">
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<span class="m_4468288037243320034_4n-j m_4468288037243320034fsl gmail_msg"><span class="m_4468288037243320034text_exposed_show gmail_msg">We are excited to feature organizers and scholars from across the country who have been fighting the violence of policing with dedicated campaigns, writing, and Black, radical, queer and internationalist imaginations. This lively event will sharpen our vision to eliminate reliance on policing and increase our community power and wellbeing. We hope you can join us! </span></span><br class="gmail_msg">
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Sponsoring this event bolsters CR-Oakland's long-term organizing in the Bay Area and underwrites ticket admission for low-income community members, formerly imprisoned people, and youth. No one is turned away for lack of funds.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Learn more and download the <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=29a8d04a54&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Sponsorship packet HERE</a>.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Event supported & sponsored by: <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=88ea393385&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">California Coalition for Women Prisoners</a>, Dan Siegel and Anne Weills, Drug Policy Alliance, <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=46096e613e&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">EastSide Arts Alliance and Cultural Center,</a> the <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=eb81649b8c&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Omni Commons</a>, <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=971340cbeb&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Justice Now</a>, and the West Oakland Youth Center.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Join us and <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=dc76b18e91&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">become a sponsor</a>!
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CR-Oakland continues our work in coalitions to <strong class="gmail_msg">Stop Urban Shield</strong> in Alameda County and advance <strong class="gmail_msg">alternatives to jail construction in San Francisco (SF)</strong>.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Last week, over 40 community members rallied outside the Alameda Board of Supervisors then went inside to provide testimony against funding for the militarization of policing - alongside <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=21e842c871&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">powerful letters</a> delivered from clergy, health professionals, teachers, and <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=4304d8065f&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">SF Supervisors</a>. Meanwhile in SF, Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Dr. Alison Hwong of SF General spoke out for mental health services in community not cages - <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=0203948b9e&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">check out videos</a> from the No New SF Jail press conference.</div>
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<div class="gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:croakland@criticalresistance.org" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Contact us</a> to get more involved as we mobilize against imprisonment and policing in the next two months! </div>
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<p style="margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:150%;text-align:left" class="gmail_msg"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686/_compresseds/d52d7470-e9a9-4d0e-8d1a-e403eefce443.jpg" style="width:200px;height:133px;margin:2px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none" height="133" align="left" width="200" class="gmail_msg"><strong class="gmail_msg">Marshall Trammell</strong> is an Improvisor, Educator and Chief Investigator at Music Research Strategies (MRS), a platform for critical ethnographic investigation, culturally situated design, Solidarity Economics and social engagement. Raised in Oahu, Hawaii and based in Oakland, CA, Mr. Trammell studied under Ron Eglash, Pauline Oliveros and Tomie Hahn as an Electronic Arts fellow at Rensallaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) in 2006. Mr Trammell is currently on a European tour as the percussionist in the electro-acoustic duo Black Spirituals (Sige Records). <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=3a3246eeb5&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:150%" class="gmail_msg"><strong class="gmail_msg">Asha </strong><strong class="gmail_msg">Rosa Ransby-Sporn </strong>is a Black queer writer and organizer currently serving as a National Organizing Co-Chair for BYP100. She was part of the We Charge Genocide youth delegation to the United Nations in 2014 where she testified on police violence in Chicago. Asha is committed to movements that embrace the transformative potential of a radical/Black/queer imagination towards the abolition of police and prisons.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px;line-height:150%" class="gmail_msg"><strong class="gmail_msg">Dylan Rodriguez </strong>is a co-founder of Critical Resistance and author of two books: <em class="gmail_msg">Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the US Prison Regime </em>(2006) and <em class="gmail_msg">Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition</em> (2009). A <a href="http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=8e56e3b201&e=9b2edd2363" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Professor and former Chair</a> of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, he was elected Chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate by his faculty peers in 2016. His current thinking, writing, and teaching focus on how regimes of social liquidation, cultural extermination, physiological evisceration, and racist terror become normalized features of everyday life in the “post-Civil Rights” and “post-racial” moments.</p>
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