Transforming Justice & Left Turn magazine present:
Resisting Prisons, Shaping Alternatives - a conference report back & movement-building gathering (with food & drink!)

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 7:30pm
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street

The tenth-anniversary Critical Resistance conference (CR10) this September marks a major moment in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Many are gathering in Oakland to envision a better future without prisons, when we can all live safer & healthier, and be respected as our whole selves. Uniting with many movements, we will continue on the path to creating a world without imprisonment, policing, and other forms of punishment and control.

Just a year ago, also in the Bay Area, the first Transforming Justice conference convened with hundreds of transgender and gender non-conforming people and allies impacted by the PIC. The organizers committed to building a community of resistance across the country — building upon the leadership and voices of those most directly affected by the PIC — to address the root causes of imprisonment, poverty, racism, homophobia and transphobia that continue to put more and more people of transgender and gender non-conforming experience behind bars.

Come out and learn about ways you can get involved and continue to support this work. Join us to hear reports from an array of New York-area activists who attended CR10. We’ll also screen the new short documentary of the Transforming Justice conference and hear about that network’s participation at CR10 and growth in its first year. This event is a great opportunity for organizations and individuals — those who made it to Oakland and those who didn’t — to dialogue and network with each other, to learn & build our movements locally.

Also, help us mark the release of Left Turn magazine #30, a special issue featuring our ongoing coverage of dynamic resistance to incarceration in the U.S. and around the world, building struggle against all oppression.

Come through — let’s listen, learn, discuss, socialize, network, build!

Brecht Forum, 451 West Street
between Bank & Bethune;
by the West Side Highway between 11th & 12th Streets.

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