Abolitionist Praxis: Bringing Our Imagination to Life
Part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism
Wednesday, December 1, 2020
Event Description
With the political backdrop of 2020’s uprising against a carceral state and police brutality necessitated by empire, grassroots organizers and cultural workers pushed the envelope as to what our collective demands should be in a crucial moment of crisis and opportunity. They helped popularize conversations to defund the police, while leaning into radical imaginings of a new world that support and care for all, not just a few.
As abolition continues to permeate through the mainstream dialogue and institutional spaces, a persistent roadblock is reached: what do we do now?
Join us in this panel discussion to complicate the conversation and learn from the nuanced approaches organizers on the ground have been experimenting with to bring their imagination to life and build abolitionist alternatives here and today.
- Ruth Jeannoel, Founder and Director of Fanm Saj, Inc
- Shariana Ferrer-Núñez, Activist, Scholar and Organizer, Co-Founder of La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción
- Francisco Pérez, Executive Director of the Center for Popular Economics
- Niki Franco, Political Education Director at (F)Empower
Presented by the (F)Empower, the Fall 2020 Virtual Residents at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
