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DESCRIPTION:Join members of the COVID19 Policing Project in conversation with Marc 
 Lamont Hill on pandemic policing and new ways forward to safeguard the 
 health and well-being of Black communities most devastated by coronavirus, 
 policing, and economic crisis.\n\nDate and Time: Thu, January 28, 2021 @ 
 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST\n\nCost: FREE or donation\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-path-forward-pandemic-policing-or-protection-tickets-136971514487\n\n***Register 
 through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of 
 the event. This event will also be recorded and have live 
 captioning.***\n\n------------\n\n"The way forward through the raging 
 pandemic and devastating economic crisis doesn’t lie in more 
 surveillance, policing and punishment of marginalized communities – it 
 lies in the demands to stop pouring money and resources into policing and 
 start pouring resources into people and communities." --The 
 Guardian\n\nThis conclusion to a Guardian op-ed penned by the Community 
 Resource Hub COVID-19 Policing Project is drawn from their recently 
 released report, Unmasked: Impacts of Pandemic Policing, documenting police 
 violence and racial disparities in enforcement of public health orders. 
 \n\nIt should serve as a guiding principle to the incoming Biden 
 administration as it takes leadership of a nation devastated by the impacts 
 of a pandemic raging out of control, instead of doubling down on the 
 policing practices that are the subject of Haymarket's recent book by Marc 
 Lamont Hill: We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest & 
 Possibility.\n\n------------\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nMarc Lamont Hill is currently 
 the host of BET News. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received 
 numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black 
 Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and 
 Sciences. Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and 
 Solutions at Temple University. He is the author of the New York Times 
 Bestselling book Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, 
 from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. He is the owner of Uncle Bobbie's 
 Bookstore in Philadelphia, PA.\n\nDerecka Purnell is is a human rights 
 lawyer, writer, and organizer. Since graduating from Harvard Law School, 
 she has worked to end police and prison violence nationwide by providing 
 legal assistance, research, and trainings to community based organizations 
 through an abolitionist framework. Derecka is currently a columnist at The 
 Guardian and Deputy Director of Spirit of Justice Center.\n\nAndrea J. 
 Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant whose writing, litigation, and 
 advocacy has focused on policing of women and LGBT people of color for the 
 past two decades. She is a Researcher at the Interrupting Criminalization 
 initiative she co-founded with Mariame Kaba, a co-founder with Derecka 
 Purnell of the COVID19 Policing Project, and works with groups across the 
 country on campaigns to defund and reduce the harms of police. Ritchie is 
 the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and 
 Women of Color, and co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality 
 Against Black Women and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT 
 People in the United States.\n\nHiram Rivera is the Executive Director of 
 the Community Resource Hub for Safety & Accountability, a national 
 organization dedicated exclusively to the issue of policing and providing 
 capacity support to organizations on the ground. He is an organizer by 
 trade, having spent 14 years working on issues of Juvenile & Education 
 Justice, housing, and police reform throughout the state of Connecticut, 
 New York City, and Philadelphia.\n\nPascal Emmer is a researcher, writer, 
 and visual artist. His work with the COVID-19 Policing Project builds on 
 over a decade of involvement with the radical AIDS movement and 
 abolitionist organizing with imprisoned trans 
 communities.\n\n------------\n\nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books 
 and COVID19 Policing Project. While all of our events are freely available, 
 we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our 
 important publishing and programming work.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/25/18839554.php
SUMMARY:COVID19 Policing Project: Coronavirus, Policing, the Economic Crisis & Black Communities
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/25/18839554.php
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