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DESCRIPTION:9:00am - 10:30am\n\nWriting for Empowerment: The Written and Spoken Word as 
 Healing Tools\nGlo Ross; Holiday Simmons, MSW\n\nDismantling the PIC, 
 Rebuilding Families: Incarcerated Parents and Their Families\nPatricia 
 Allard; Neil Bernstein; Makeba Lavan; Tina Reynolds\n\nAin't Gonna Let 
 Nobody Turn Us Around: the development of a national movement of women 
 prisoners and women released from prison\nBernadette Gross, Co-Chair, 
 National Network for Women in Prison (NNWP); Harriette Davis, NNWP and All 
 of Us or None (AOUON); Stormy Ogden, NNWP and AOUON Marlene Sanchez, 
 Director, Center for Young Women's Development; Ellen Barry, founding dir, 
 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (facilitator); Vikki Law, 
 author, "The Invisibility of Women Prisoners' Resistance" 
 (forthcoming)\n\nThe Critical Resistance Media Training Workshop\nDamien 
 Domenack, Critical Resistance New York City; Kim Diehl, Critical Resistance 
 National Organizing Body\n\nLETTERS, LETTERS, AND MORE LETTERS FROM 
 PRISONERS (presentation and workshop)\nPrison Activist Resource Center; & 
 California Prison Focus\n\nGOING HOME: How life inmates can win before the 
 parole board and in the courts\nCharles Carbone, Esq. (Prisoner rights 
 attorney and Director of Litigation for California Prison Focus); Susan 
 Jordan, Esq. (Prisoner rights attorney); Scott Handleman, Esq. (Prisoner 
 rights attorney)\n\nStrategies for Abolition: Lessons from the Penal Colony 
 of Australia\nBrett Collins, Kat Armstrong\n\nIntersections: Immigration 
 and Trans Rights\nGael Guevara, Sylvia Rivera Law Project; Representative 
 from the Audre Lorde Project\n\nTorture and Violence against Prisoners: 
 Liberty and Justice for All, Human Rights Advocacy\nPam Fadden; Leroy 
 Moore; Daniel Hazen\nTorture, Violence and Discrimination in the US 
 Prison/Penal Systems. The use of stun guns, restraints, seclusion, 
 electro-shock, forced psychiatric drugging, sexual assault, racism, 
 brutality and other human rights violations continue to be used against 
 persons with disabilities.\n\nPolicing Sex Work and Sex Work Migration\nSex 
 Workers Outreach Project (SWOP); Erotic Service Providers Union (ESPU); St. 
 James Infirmary; Desiree Alliance, BAYSWAN, COYOTE; Rachel West, USPROS; 
 Stephanie Adraktas; Cynthia Chandler, Justice Now\n\nDoing and Documenting: 
 Community Accountability Strategies for Intimate Violence\nKalei Kanuha, 
 Mimi Kim\n\nFighting the PIC by Taking on Private Prison Corporations\nJudy 
 Greene, Justice Strategies; Nicole Porter, criminal justice researcher; 
 Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News/Private Corrections Institute; Luissana 
 Santibañez - Grassroots Leadership/Familias Unidas por la Esperanza; Bob 
 Libal, Grassroots Leadership\n\nPost Katrina New Orleans: The 
 Reconstruction and Rebuilding of a Police State\nMayaba Liebenthal, Shana 
 Griffin, Robert Kool Black Horton, Robert Goodman, Ursula Price, Tamar 
 MacPharland, Facilitator: Andrea Slocum\n\nPrisons as a Tool of 
 Reproductive Oppression: Cross-Movement Strategies for Gender 
 Justice\nMaria Nakae, Alliance Building Coordinator, Asian Communities for 
 Reproductive Justice; Miss Major , Organizing Director, Transgender, Gender 
 Variant, & Intersex Justice Project; Vanessa Huang, Campaign Director, 
 Justice Now; Gabriel Arkles, Staff Attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project; 
 Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Associate Director, Population and Development 
 Program at Hampshire College\n\nSocial Service Providers and 
 Community-Based Alternatives to Prison\nAllison Forth, MSW and former 
 Client Coordinator, Justice Now\n\nStrategies for Ending the Death Penalty 
 in California\nSam Weiner, SF Chapter of Death Penalty Focus; John Carella, 
 SF Chapter of Death Penalty Focus; Delane Sims, Alameda County Coalition 
 for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; Natasha Minsker, Alameda County 
 Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; Beki Pastor, Prisoner 
 Health Specialist and Consultant\n\nLeonard Peltier and First Nations 
 political prisoners: The silencing of our resistance\nMarletta Pacheco, 
 South Dakota Prisoner Support; Stephanie Autumn, Dino Butler, Lenny 
 Foster\nRoundtable\n\nGetting Justice from Neighborhood Justice Movements: 
 Case Study and Critique\nAndrea Prichett, Berkeley Copwatch; Stacy King, 
 Critical Resistance; Marshall Trammell, Critical Resistance and The Data 
 Center\n\nYes to the Social Welfare State, No to the Police/Prison 
 State—Putting Anti-Police State Organizing into Practice\nDamon 
 Azali-Rojas, Lead organizer Community Rights Campaign; Barbara 
 Lott-Holland, Elected Volunteer Chair of the Bus Riders Union; Lisa Adler, 
 Organizer, Take the Initiative Campaign; Lissett Lazo, Youth Leader, Summer 
 Youth Organizing Academy\n\nEducation Not Incarceration – Fighting the 
 Prison Industrial Complex from the Classroom\nKali Akuno, Education Not 
 Incarceration, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM); Linda Halpern, 
 Education Not Incarceration, formerly with the School for Social Justice 
 and Community Development (SSJCD); Mesha Irizarry, Idriss Stelly 
 Foundation, Education Not Incarceration\n\nCriminal Process: 3 years of law 
 school in 30 minutes\nSouthern Center for Human Rights\nWorkshop\n\nFunding 
 Abolition – How Much Do We Need To Win?\nAri Wohlfeiler, Critical 
 Resistance; Jamie Schweser, Beyond Prisons Fund\n\nDocumentation, 
 Resistance, Accountability and Abolition of Police Brutality/Law 
 Enforcement Violence\nINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence\n\n\n11:00am 
 - 12:30pm – Regional and other caucuses\n\nIf you want to create any 
 other caucuses, feel free – please look for a list of available rooms in 
 the registration area or use the outdoor space.  If you think your state is 
 misplaced -  Reorganize!\n\nAlaska Regional Caucus\n\nCalifornia Regional 
 Caucus\n\nGulf Coast Regional Caucus\nStates: Texas (west), Florida, 
 Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi\n\nHawai’i Caucus\n\nMidwest Regional 
 Caucus\nStates: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, 
 Ohio, Wisconsin\n\nNortheast Regional Caucus\nStates: Maine, Pennsylvania, 
 New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, DC, New Hampshire, 
 Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island\n\nNorthwest Regional Caucus\nStates: 
 Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada\n\nPlains States Regional  
 Caucus\nStates: Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
 Oklahoma, Wyoming.\n\nSoutheast Regional Caucus\nStates: Georgia, 
 Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South 
 Carolina, Arkansas\n\nSouthwest Regional Caucus\nStates: Arizona, New 
 Mexico, Texas (east)\n\nHow to Bring Critical Resistance to Your 
 Community\nCR chapter members and staff\n\nShare Your Work CAUCUS: 
 Networking for Formerly Incarcerated People and our Families\nHosted by All 
 of Us of None\n\nFOLKS BUSTIN’ OUT! Transforming Justice Caucus for 
 Formerly Imprisoned TGNC People\nMiss Major, Trans/Gender Variant in Prison 
 Committee & TGI Justice Project\n\nTransforming Justice Queer & TGNC 
 Immigrant Caucus\nGael Guevara, Sylvia Rivera Law Project\n\nTransforming 
 Justice White Ally Caucus\nMorgan Bassichis (CUAV/TIP), Em Thuma, Beck Witt 
 (TIP)\n\nTransforming Justice People of Color Ally Caucus\nReg Gossett, 
 Queers for Economic Justice; Vanessa Huang, Justice Now\n\n\n2:00pm - 
 3:30pm\n\nIncarceration: Human Storage\nGretchen Burns Bergman, Co-Founder 
 & Executive Director, A New PATH (Parents for Addiciton Treatment & 
 Healing) and State Chairperson for Prop 36 in 2000; Elon Burns, Drug & 
 Alcohol Counselor, PMS Methadone Clinic (Formerly Incarcerated); Julia 
 Negron, Certified Addiction Specialist & Parent of Incarcerated Individual; 
 Facilitator: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, Deputy State Director, Southern 
 California Drug Policy Alliance (tentative)\n\nThe Prison Poster 
 Project—Understanding the Big Picture\nEtta Cettera and Andalusia 
 Kroll\n\nPolicing, Criminalization and the Politics of Reproductive 
 Violence\nMayaba Liebenthal; Mandisa Moore; Shana Griffin\n\nFelons Need 
 Not Apply: Challenging Employment Discrimination with Every Tool We've 
 Got\nMelissa Burch, A New Way of Life Reentry Project; Joshua Kim, A New 
 Way of Life Reentry Project; Lisa Leon, All of Us or None Los Angeles; 
 Jessie Warner, National Employment Law Project\n\nLive from Death 
 Row\nBarbara Becnel, longtime advocate, co-author and friend of Stanley 
 Tookie Williams, who witnessed her friend's execution by the state of 
 California in 2005; Martina Correia, Sister and advocate of Troy Davis, an 
 innocent man on Georgia's death row; Derrel Myers, son was a victim of 
 murder, a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, and Murder 
 Victims Families for Human Rights; A death row prisoner at San Quentin, 
 calling in live via telephone; moderator: Elizabeth Terzakis, longtime 
 member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and Writing instructor at 
 Canada College\n\nAnti-Racist Organizing Towards Collective Liberation 
 (this workshop runs for two sessions)\nAmie Fishman and Ingrid 
 Chapman\n\nJena Six: A Case Study in Grassroots Struggle, featuring family 
 members of the Jena Six\nJena Family Members: Marcus Jones; Tina Jones; 
 John Jenkins\nGrassroots Activists: Jesse Muhammad, Final Call Newspaper; 
 Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn\nPanel\n\nReport back from 1st Nations 
 Gathering\nTBA\n\nResisting monstrous masculinities\nRamesh Kathanadhi; 
 Adan Atl; RJ Maccani; Chiara Galimberti\n\nBuilding an Effective Alliance 
 between Immigration Rights and Criminal Justice Movements to Abolish the 
 PIC\nPat Clark, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); Masai Ehehosi 
 (AFSC) and Amy Gottlieb, Director of AFSC's Immigrant Rights 
 Program\n\nBuilding Real Safety and Justice in LGBTSTQQ Communities Beyond 
 the PIC (runs for 2 sessions)\nRepresentatives from the Audre Lorde 
 Project; Community United Against Violence (CUAV); and INCITE! Women of 
 Color Against Violence\n\nNative Hawaiian Spirituality/Culture in 
 Healing\nKa`iana Haili and Ulu Garmon\n\nMOVE 9: Taking on Parole Boards: 
 Ramona Africa & Pam Africa\nPam and Ramona Africa\n\nAnti-prison Activism 
 and the Academic World: What Can We Do?\nJodie Lawston; Ruben Murillo; Tom 
 Reifer; Diane Richards, CSU-San Marcos; Heidi Schneider, CSU-San Marcos; 
 David Ga’oupu Palaita, Francisco Casique, Patricia Penn Hilden of UC 
 Berkeley\n\nNational STOPMAX Campaign – Taking the Next Steps\nNaima 
 Black, National STOPMAX Campaign Coordinator; Luqman Abdullah, STOPMAX 
 partner and survivor of isolation; Ham’Diya Mu, STOPMAX partner, Human 
 Rights Coalition and mother of PA prisoner; Additional speakers may join 
 this roundtable\n\nWhat Prison’s Got To Do With It: Constructing a Policy 
 Agenda for HIV Prevention Advocacy and Criminal Justice System 
 Reform\nKenyon Farrow (Queers for Economic Justice); Laura McTighe (Author, 
 Project UNSHACKLE Advocacy Toolkit); Waheedah Shabazz-El (CHAMP, ACT-UP 
 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Fight)\n\nSparks Fly: Women Political Prisoners 
 in the US and Around the World\nLucy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican POW; Susan 
 Rosenberg, US anti imperialist prisoner; and others from Iran, Palestine 
 and the Philippines\n\nFunding Abolition: Lessons from the Fight against 
 “Gender Responsive” Prison Expansion\nRaquiba LaBrie, Director, US 
 Program’s Equality and Opportunity Fund at the Open Society Institute; 
 Cynthia Chandler, Co-founder and Acting Director, Justice Now\n\nMedia 
 Access for Prisoners\nVikki Law, "Tenacious" zine; Paul Wright, "Prison 
 Legal News"; Kameelah Rasheed, Building Bloc Artist Collective Participant; 
 Ariel Clemenzi, The Abolitionist\n\nRevolutionary Motherhood (runs for 2 
 sessions)\nAdriann Barboa and Micaela Cadena (both from Young Women United, 
 Albuquerque, NM); Kellee Coleman, Jeanette Monsalve and Paula x. Rojas (all 
 3 Mamas of Color Rising Radio Collective, Austin, TX); Mildred 
 Beltre\n\nQueer Youth Abolitionists: Coloring the Safer Schools 
 Movement\nGlo Ross; Holiday Simmons, MSW\n\nNeighborhood Responses to 
 Violence\nTomiquia Moss, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation; 
 Keith Kemp, Iroquois Hotel Tenant Council/Community Housing 
 Partnership\n\nCommunity Documentation/Voices Together: formerly 
 incarcerated persons and immigrants facing criminalization\nMiho Kim, 
 DataCenter; Marshall Trammell, DataCenter\n\nLyrics On Lockdown: Seven 
 Years Of Slamming The PIC\nPiper Anderson; Elizabeth Rossi; Ella Turenne; 
 Taij Moteelall; Timothy Prolific Jones; Nigel Greaves; Simone 
 Jhingoor\n\nMoving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial 
 Complex\nJustice Policy Institute\n\nThousand Kites: A Play 
 Reading\nRoadside Theater\n\n\n\n4:00pm - 5:30pm\n\nTowards Formation of a 
 Prison Arts Coalition\nBuzz Alexander, Founder, Prison Creative Arts 
 Project; Suzanne Gothard, Student, Berkeley School of Public Health; Emily 
 Harris, Free Battered Women; Allie Horevitz, Defense Investigator; Leslie 
 Neal, Artistic Director, ArtSpring; Janie Paul, Prison Creative Arts 
 Project; Tory Sammartino, Director, Voices Unbroken; Kyes Stevens, 
 Director, Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project; Nick Szuberla, Director, 
 Appalshop/Thousand Kites Project; Judith Tannenbaum, Training Coordinator, 
 WritersCorps\n\nFrom the War on Drugs to the War on Kids\nPatricia Allard, 
 Judy Greene and Makeba Lavan\n\nFree the NJ4! Promote a Culture of 
 Self-Defense!\nKimma Walker and Terrain Dandridge\n\nFrom Anti-Okie to Jim 
 Crow to New Cities America: Building A New Civil Rights Movement\nPaul 
 Boden, Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP); Dogon, Los Angeles 
 Community Action Network (WRAP Member); Molly Glasgow, Coalition on 
 Homelessness, SF (WRAP Member); Devin Dibernardo, Sisters of the Road (WRAP 
 Member); boona cheema, Building Opportunity for Self Sufficiency (WRAP 
 Member); Elisa Della-Piana, East Bay Community Law Center (WRAP 
 Ally)\n\nCoalition Building to Stop the Prison Industrial Complex\nEllen 
 Reddy, currently serves as the Executive Director of Nollie's Citizens for 
 Quality Education and is also the co-founder & facilitator of Mississippi 
 Coalition for the Prevention of Schoolhouse to Jailhouse; Hamidya Cooks is 
 an organizer with All of Us Or None and the former director of the 
 California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Rose Braz is with Critical 
 Resistance, a member of Californians United for a Responsible Budget 
 (CURB)\n\nAnti-Racist Organizing Towards Collective Liberation (continued 
 from last session)\nAmie Fishman and Ingrid Chapman\n\n2 Fronts, 1 
 Struggle; Political Prisoners in the struggle for self-determination from 
 Palestine to the American Empire\nAshanti Alston, Black Panther Party 
 member and former political prisoner.\n\nAmerican Indian Religious Freedom 
 Act The Struggles for Native American Religious and Spiritual Practices in 
 the US Prison System\nLenny Foster, Navajo Nation Corrections Project, 
 Window Rock, AZ; Jaime Bissonette\n\nBuilding Real Safety and Justice in 
 LGBTSTQQ Communities Beyond the PIC (continued from last 
 session)\nRepresentatives from the Audre Lorde Project, Community United 
 Against Violence (CUAV), and INCITE! Women of Color Against 
 Violence\n\nOrganizing the Organic Internet\nAlfredo Lopez, May First/ 
 People Link; Josue Guillen, The Praxis Project; Daniel Kahn Gilmore, May 
 First/ People Link\n\nGetting a Job With a Record—Step-by-Step\nPam 
 Hogan, author of From Prison to Paycheck: What No One Ever Tells You about 
 Getting a Job\n\nCreating a Social Justice Fundraising Program\nPriscilla 
 Hung, Co-Director, GIFT and Manish Vaidya, Program & Development 
 Coordinator, GIFT\n\nOther: Voices of Asian Prisoners\nEddie Zheng, Rico 
 Riemedio, Asian Prisoner Support Committee\n\nIn Support of Collective 
 Health\nSofia Lee, member of INCITE! Bay Area and others TBA\n\nThe SF8 and 
 the Legacy of Torture\nPanelists include former Panthers Harold Taylor and 
 Richard Brown and attorney Soffiyah Elijah\n\nStrategies for Building 
 African American - Immigrant Unity to Fight the Prison/Military/Migra 
 Industrial Complex\nLuissana Santibañez, Grassroots Leadership/Familias 
 Unidas por la Esperanza; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers Center for Racial 
 Justice; Alex Sánchez, Homies Unidos; Gerald Lenoir, Black Alliance for 
 Just Immigration; Alexis Mazón (moderator), Grassroots Leadership and 
 Coalición de Derechos Humanos\n\nSex workers strategize how to buck and 
 be-head the criminalization of their trade\nSkytrinia Berkeley from DC's 
 Different Avenues; Naomi Akers from San Francisco's St. James Infirmary; 
 Hellen Smith from Chicago; Cyd from Australia's Vixen Network; Brenda 
 Costley from Baltimore's Power Inside; BethDeath from Chicago; Conrad from 
 NYC; Liz from Arizona's SWOP\n\nWorking for Gender Justice: Strategies 
 Challenging Gendered Imprisonment Prison Expansion\nFacilitated by: Vanessa 
 Huang, Campaign Director, Justice Now\nParticipants: Miss Major , 
 Organizing Director, Transgender, Gender Variant, & Intersex Justice 
 Project; Julia Sudbury, Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, Mills 
 College; Kolleen Duley, Member, Free Battered Women and Doctoral Student, 
 UCLA; Holly Richardson, Massachusetts Harm Reduction 
 Coalition\n\nRevolutionary Motherhood (self-identified Women of Color Only 
 in part 2) (continued from last session)\nAdriann Barboa and Micaela 
 Cadena, Young Women United, Albuquerque, NM; Kellee Coleman, Jeanette 
 Monsalve and Paula x. Rojas, Mamas of Color Rising Radio Collective, 
 Austin, TX; and Mildred Beltre\n\nCaged Mental Health: Strategies for 
 Resistance in Women’s Prisons\nHamdiya Cooks, former prisoner, CCWP 
 director; Ida McCray, former prisoner, San Francisco County Jail project 
 coordinator; Rahima Walker, former prisoner; Nia Sykes, prisoner family 
 member, CCWP outreach coordinator; Xiomara Campos-Cisne, CCWP Compañeras 
 immigrant prisoner coordinator\n\nIdealizing Community and Community 
 Accountability\nEboni Colbert and Theryn Vashti\n\nStop the Sexual Assault 
 of Women Prisoners\nCorey Weinstein and Andrea Parra\n\nBottom Line: 
 Housing, Displacement and the Prison Industrial Complex\nChoosing Sides, A 
 SpiritHouse Youth Program\n\nCreating Alternatives that Challenge State 
 Violence\nSara Kershnar, Micah Frazier and Vanessa Moses, generationFIVE; 
 Mimi Kim, Creative Interventions; Damon Azali, Labor Community Strategy 
 Center; Chiara Galimberti, Justice NOW!; Gaurav Jashnani, Critical 
 Resistance, NYC; Andrea Mercado, Mujeres Unidas y Activadas\n\nFrom "The 
 Riders" Case to the Copley Decision: Community-Based Police Accountability, 
 Restricted Access to Information, and Ongoing Violence\nJohn Burris, Civil 
 Rights Attorney; Rashidah Grinage, PUEBLO; Andrea Prichett, Berkeley 
 Copwatch; Tryon P. Woods, Sonoma State Univ. \n 
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