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2021 Nov 17

Abolition, Activism, and the Imagination: A Roundtable with Movement Leaders

12:30pm

Location: 

Zoom Webinar

SPEAKERS: Kris Henderson, Elijah Patterson, Leslie Credle, Kamau Butcher, and William Goldsby

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This event will feature presentations by and conversations between activists in the movement to end mass incarceration. The speakers will represent organizations working with Harvard students through the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship and History and Literature. Speakers will include Kris Henderson (Amistad Law Project), Elijah Patterson (Black and Pink MA), Leslie Credle (Justice 4 Housing), Kamau Butcher (People's Coalition for Safety and Freedom), and William Goldsby (Reconstruction, Inc.). In addition to sharing about their work and its relation to prison abolition, they will reflect, in particular, on how the humanities—history, language, storytelling, and the imagination—inform their activism and their vision of social change. Students from the History and Literature seminar, “Prison Abolition,” will help craft and ask the discussion questions for the panel.... Read more about Abolition, Activism, and the Imagination: A Roundtable with Movement Leaders

2017 Dec 06

Bryan Stevenson: Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

4:00pm

Location: 

First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

Bryan StevensonTickets sold out and required for admission.

If you weren’t able to get tickets, there will be a standby line to fill empty seats. We suggest patrons arrive around 3:15pm for the standby line. First come, first served. Admission is not guaranteed, however we will admit as many...

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