Panel: “Abolition and Immigrant Justice: An Activist Roundtable” with Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Arianna Salgado, Bárbara Suarez Galeano, and Rey Wences
- Event Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
- Time: 4:00 pm (CST)
- Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Cost: Free Admission
In this roundtable discussion, activist organizers will discuss their work in immigrant justice movements in both national and local contexts, particularly in Chicago. The panelists will speak to their personal experiences in becoming grassroots organizers against detentions, deportations, and the criminalization of immigrant and other targeted communities. Providing examples from past and current campaigns, they will also speak to the range of strategies they use to build strong collaborative coalitions and resist racist, xenophobic oppression, including policy work, legal activism, strategic communications, and civil disobedience.
The Center for Advanced Study Initiative on Abolition examines the interconnected power dynamics across prisons, police, immigration, gendered and sexual violence, environmental justice, disability justice, and more, in order to propose an abolitionist democratic present and future.
This Center for Advanced Study event is cosponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies, Department of Gender & Women's Studies, and La Casa Cultural.
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