Happy Hour feat. Marshall Trammell on percussion!

Happy Hour: 5:30pm
Percussion performance by Marshall Trammell Food * Drinks*

Program 7pm

Critical Resistance invites you to join us on November 4 for "Strong Communities Beyond Policing" with Asha Ransby-Sporn of Black Youth Project 100, CR co-founder Dylan Rodriguez, Naomi Murakawa (author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America), and Lara Kiswani of Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).

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!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

ORGANIZATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, SCHOOLS and NETWORKS:
Will you step up as a community sponsor?

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.

Learn more and download the Sponsorship packet HERE.

Event supported & sponsored by: California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Dan Siegel and Anne Weills, Drug Policy Alliance, EastSide Arts Alliance and Cultural Center, the Omni Commons, Justice Now, and the West Oakland Youth Center.

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About CR's Bay Area organizing:

CR-Oakland continues our work in coalitions to Stop Urban Shield in Alameda County and advance alternatives to jail construction in San Francisco (SF).

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 powerful letters delivered from clergy, health professionals, teachers, and SF Supervisors. Meanwhile in SF, Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Dr. Alison Hwong of SF General spoke out for mental health services in community not cages - check out videos from the No New SF Jail press conference.

Contact us to get more involved as we mobilize against imprisonment and policing in the next two months!

Facebook event HERE.

Download and share the poster HERE.

5:30pm: Happy hour + food
7pm: Event
@ Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland (between Telegraph and Broadway)*

$10-20 Donation// An event to benefit Critical Resistance.
$75 ABOLITION NOW TICKETS and more.
Ticket sales HERE.

No one turned away for lack of funds. Community + organizational block tickets available for low-income community members, youth and formerly imprisoned people. Contact jess-at-criticalresistance.org to inquire or call 510-444-0484

*VENUE INFO: Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible. Please enter from 411 28th Street. Please come scent free to respect participants with chemical sensitivities. Parking and public transit info here.

About the Speakers and Performers

Marshall Trammell 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). Read more here.

Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn 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.

Dylan Rodriguez is a co-founder of Critical Resistance and author of two books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the US Prison Regime (2006) and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (2009). A Professor and former Chair 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.

Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of inequality in 20th and 21st century American politics, with focus on racial criminalization and the politics of carceral expansion. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Oxford University Press), which won the Michael Harrington Book Award from the American Political Science Association.

Moderator: Lara Kiswani is the Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), a grassroots organization that organizes the Arab and Muslim community against war, Zionism and political repression, and towards the liberation and self-determination of all oppressed people. Lara and AROC organize closely alongside Critical Resistance as core members of the Stop Urban Shield coalition in the campaign to defund and end the annual war games and military weapons expo.