Events By Quarter
Conscious Conversations Series
Abolition and the UC: A Discussion with Organizers
Online
"Abolitionist struggle seeks to release the hold that the racial and racist carceral state has on our lives, both inside and outside the prison walls." – Steve Wilson
PLEASE NOTE NEW EVENT TIME AT 4PM
Most universities in other countries do not have their own police forces. Yet, in the US, university police forces are the norm. Why is this the case, and how are students and staff organizing against it? Abolitionist formations have expanded and deepened at universities and schools across the US in the past decade in response to police killings. As student workers and staff have organized against anti-Black racism and police violence, they have also articulated the relationship between policing and the neoliberalization of higher education, and the university's role in tuition hikes, rising student debt, militarization, gentrification, and settler occupation. What does the project of police and prison abolition have to do with the project of the university and public institutions of higher education? How has the UC system been historically complicit in the expansion of mass incarceration, anti-Black policing, and the suppression of student protest? This panel features student and faculty organizers from the California Cops off Campus coalition. Join us as we discuss how university campaigns connected to broader struggles for abolition, and to learn more about the Cops off Campus campaign and how to get involved.
Cup of Culture
Lupita
Director: Monica Wise Robles
Film Screening/Online
In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced, their land stolen , where students disappear without a trace following police arrests, and journalists are murdered at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice emerges: Lupita, a Tsostil Maya massacre survivor, at the forefront of a new movement of indigigenous women. Cultivating a new generation of organized and voal Maya activists. Following lupita taking on risks and responsibilities to represent her people, weaving her personal narrative into the painful revolutionary history of Mexico. Part lyrical testimony, part tribute to 500 years of indigenous resistance, this film mediates the point-of-view of a brave woman who must balance the demands of motherhood with her high stakes choices to reeducate and restore justice to the world. 2018. 21 m. No post film discussion.
Conscious Conversations Series
Protecting the Sacred, Understanding the Connection Between Land Defense and MMIWG2S
Online
Across the Turtle Island and transnationally our Indigenous mothers, sisters, and community are under attack. Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits organize for our communities in hope of a more just future. Join the MCC for a panel discussion with Anishinaabe and Chumash organizers that highlights the connection between the defense of indigenous land and the defense of indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits.
Cup of Culture
Finding Dawn
Director: Christine Welsh
Film Screening/Online
Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved. 2006. 1h 13m
