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March 2015
Improving Public Health & Safety: Building an Evidence Base to Address Substance Abuse and HIV in the Criminal Justice System
Redonna Chandler, Director of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research at the National Institute of Drug Abuse, will be at Mailman on March 3rd and we encourage you to find the time to go. RSVP to [email protected]
Find out more »Citizens Under Suspicion: Responsive Research with Community Under Surveillance
Professor Arshad Ali, from George Washington University, will be at Columbia on March 5th to speak about his research, which explores how marginalized young people make sense of their own identity and agency in an era in which state-sanctioned surveillance is part of their lives. In the 14 years since the 9/11 events, this nation as a whole, and New York City in particular, has escalated its state-sanctioned surveillance in the lives and activities of Muslims in the United States. In this talk,…
Find out more »Beyond the Bars: Transforming (In)Justice
Beyond the Bars: Transforming (In)Justice March 6th – 8th, 2015 Columbia University Featuring Michelle Alexander REGISTRATION IS NOW LIVE https://beyondthebars15.eventbrite.com Friday March 6th at Lerner Hall Columbia University: Opening Event w. Michelle Alexander Saturday March 7th at the Columbia School of Social Work An Agenda for Transformative Change – Morning & Afternoon Panels Sunday March 8th at the Columbia School of Social Work Building the Grassroots – Organizing Workshops IMPORTANT NOTE for REGISTRATION There is a ticket for each day…
Find out more »Echoes of Incarceration Film Screening and Panel Discussion
March 9, 2015 6:00 PM Refreshments and Welcome6:30- 8:30 PM Film screening and panel discussionSt. James’ Episcopal Church865 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021 Echoes of Incarceration is an award-winning documentary initiative produced by youth with incarcerated parents. The project explores the issue of mass incarceration and its effects on families, and creates documentary films told from the life experiences of the filmmakers themselves. The Osborne Association will be hosting a screening and panel discussion with the youth producers, the filmmaker, and Liz Gaynes…
Find out more »The Justice Forum: Race and Justice – Past, Present and Future
The third in a series of roundtable discussions about criminal justice in the United States, the Center for Justice at Columbia presents Race and Justice: Past, Present and Future. The most recent incidences of police killings of unarmed Black men have ignited a national discussion about race and our justice system. However, the drivers of America’s current state of mass incarceration such as minimum mandatory sentencing, the war on drugs, and stop and frisk have always disproportionately impacted people of…
Find out more »FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION “Through a Lens Darkly Black Photographers and Emergence of a People” with Filmmaker & Director, Thomas Allen Harris
DATE & TIME: Thursday, March 12, 2015 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Columbia School of Social Work: Room CO-3 1255 Amsterdam Avenue (123rd Street & Amsterdam Avenue) Free & Open to the Public; First Come First Seated; Limited Seating- Film Trailer can be viewed at http://youtu.be/o4Kd1GfkfW4 SYNOPSIS Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People explores the history of Black photography and representation, and how contemporary artists use this material as inspiration in their visual storytelling.…
Find out more »Panel Discussion: Burning Down the House: Rebuilding Juvenile Justice Together
The New Press invites you to join Nell Bernstein, author of Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, as she brings together those who are entangled in, and those committed to fixing, New York City’s juvenile justice system. Panelists include: Nell Bernstein, journalist and author of Burning Down the House Jasmine Bowie, youth justice social worker at the Brownsville Community Justice Center Abdul Francis, participant at the Brownsville Community Justice Center Renee Gregory, First Assistant District Attorney at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s…
Find out more »New York Reentry Roundtable
All too often the criminal justice system’s response to Domestic Violence (DV) survivors who act to protect themselves from an abuser’s violence is to send them to prison, often for many years. Instead of giving survivors who have suffered life-shattering abuse compassion and assistance, we give them harsh punishment and prison. Instead of providing protection, the criminal justice system becomes just one more entity in the continuum of violence in survivors’ lives. One of the main problems is that the…
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