Carceral Systems and Siding with Love Workshop: September 10, 2021

UU Prison Ministry of Illinois, REAL, and the UCE Prison Ministry team invite you to join us for the last two sessions of Carceral Systems and Siding with Love. 
 
How do we actively side with Love in the face of harmful carceral systems that especially target black and brown people?  We will welcome nationally known advocate Joyce MacMillan on Family Separation and Surveillance on October 21. On November 4 we will discuss the Basics of Restorative Justice. Registration is required, and a short reading or video will be emailed to you one week before each session. The last of these 90-minute Zoom workshops is on November 4.

Thursday, November 4, 7:00-8:30 p.m.: Basics of Restorative Justice  

What is the framework for restorative or transformative justice and how is it different from the criminal legal system? How do restorative justice community courts work? What other models to address harm are being developed?

We hope you will join us! Please register here for any or all of these workshops.

 

Past Sessions:

Thursday, September 23, 7:00-8:30 p.m.: Policing  

Why do activists make the call to “Defund Police”, and what do they mean by this? What is the impact of spending a large percentage of local budgets on police while disinvesting in low-income neighborhoods? What other approaches are being tried? 

Thursday, October 7, 7:00-8:30 p.m.: Prisons  

What are the dynamics and history that brought this country to mass incarceration? What is the impact of prisons on individuals and communities? Does prison make us safe? 

Thursday, October 21, 7:00-8:30 p.m.: Family Separation and Surveillance 

How does the foster care-to-prison pipeline affect poor communities of color? What is the history of child removal? What assistance is available for families when poverty creates less than ideal conditions? What remedies are anti-racist activists suggesting?