Name: Deana Lewis And Ann Russo On Using Beth Richie's "Arrested Justice" In Transformative Justice Work by Project NIA Audio in Transformative Justice
Duration: 10 min 35 s
Description: Deana Lewis and Ann Russo describe how Beth Richie's "Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation" offers helpful tools in mobilizing communities to respond to interpersonal and state violence in Chicago. Deana and Ann presented a workshop at the Shifting from Carceral to Transformative Justice Feminisms Conference, engaging the key findings in "Arrested Justice."

Transformative Justice

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I wrote this song for the streets, to remind us of the world we're trying to build. I live in South Minneapolis, a short bike ride away from where George Floyd was murdered by the police in 2020. The "reforms" the city has been trying to make since Jamar Clark was murdered here by police in 2015 have had no impact. 

This November, Minneapolis will be voting on whether we should replace the current police department with a new department of public safety (which may include licensed peace officers as necessary). "Voting YES means we will have more options for community safety than the current 'police-only' model."—https://yes4minneapolis.org

There are other ways to keep us safe besides just policing. The cops don't do work that prevents shootings—they can only show up after the fact. Defunding the police doesn't mean we're getting rid of helping people; it means investing that money back into the community for housing, jobs, food, and education. When people's needs are provided for, violence is prevented. We can dream better dreams and have a city where all people, including the most vulnerable, are safe. 

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Further notes and links below the lyrics.

Lyrics:
We keep us safe
I am my sister’s keeper
We keep us safe
In our community

We keep us safe
I am my brother’s keeper
We keep us safe
In our community

We don’t want your cops
Defund the police
Invest it in the kids (Invest it in the youth!)
No Justice No Streets!

We keep us safe
I am my sibling’s keeper
We keep us safe
In our community

We don’t want your cops
Defund the police
Invest it in more jobs
No Justice No Streets!

We keep us safe
We are the children’s keepers.
We keep us safe
In our community

We don’t want your cops
Defund the police
Invest it in more homes
No Justice No Streets!

We keep us safe
We are the elder’s keepers.
We keep us safe
In our community

We don’t want your cops
Abolish the police
Invest it in the schools
No Justice No Streets!

We keep us safe
We are the people’s keepers.
We keep us safe
In our community
In our community
In our community


Notes: "No Justice No Streets!" is the rallying cry of George Floyd Square. Activists have asked that the streets at 38th & Chicago not be opened until these 24 Demands are met. You can read the 24 Demands of Justice Resolution 001 here: https://linktr.ee/38thandchicagogfs 

If you need an introduction to abolition, there are many excellent resources. This one from the Mennonite Church USA is very solid. https://www.mennoniteusa.org/abolition-curriculum-intro/

Junauda Petrus's poem, "Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers" continues to be an inspiration.
https://realblackgrandmothers.com/in-the-arts-could-we-please-give-the-police-departments-to-the-grandmothers/in-the-arts/

As the good folks at the Minneapolis Police Report Card say, "There was a time before policing, and there will be a time after."— www.mpd150.com

We Keep Us Safe

Grief moving through me
Let my body
Feel the waves of love and grief…

Grief, grief and love
Let me feel it all
Let me feel it all

Grief and Love

Deana Lewis and Ann Russo describe how Beth Richie's "Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation" offers helpful tools in mobilizing communities to respond to interpersonal and state violence in Chicago. Deana and Ann presented a workshop at the Shifting from Carceral to Transformative Justice Feminisms Conference, engaging the key findings in "Arrested Justice."

Deana Lewis And Ann Russo On Using Beth Richie's "Arrested Justice" In Transformative Justice Work

Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contemporary US life, and how left organizers are fighting back against right wing attacks on public space. 

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/library-mariame-kaba-melissa-gira-grant

Join up with For the People: A Leftist Library Project here:
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And find the latest updates here: 
https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/library-solidarity-with-palestine

Read Melissa’s piece, “Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are” here:
https://newrepublic.com/article/175567/librarians-new-queer-front-lines

Referenced in this episode:

“The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” directed by Brett Story (2016)
https://www.prisonlandscapes.com/

“The People and the Library: Reflections on Grass-Roots Efforts to Preserve and Expand the Library As a Commons” here: https://justseeds.org/the-people-and-the-library-reflections-on-grass-roots-efforts-to-preserve-and-expand-the-library-as-a-commons/

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Mia Mingus is a Bay Area activist and community organizer and educator with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. In this episode, Mia talks about the important work of love and transformative justice in order to foster community healing and accountability without the use of the criminal justice system.

*This segment includes conversation around child sexual abuse and may be triggering, so please take the care that you need before, during and after listening.

For more information on the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, and for a full transcript of Episode 2, visit the website at inplainsightradio.com.

Producer: Geraldine Ah-Sue
Advisor: Alice Wong

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Abolitionists are committed to creating a world without police and prisons, but what alternative visions and practices of addressing intimate harm might point the way toward such a world? In this episode we explore efforts to re-imagine the politics of violence, harm, safety, and redress, spearheading practices of accountability and healing that move beyond the punitive logic of the carceral state.

Mia Mingus from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective discusses alternatives to carceral feminism, and how the movement to end child sexual abuse points the way toward radically re-imagining practices of justice. We also speak with Claudia Garcia-Rojas, co-director of The Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women, and Maya Schenwar, Editor-in-Chief of Truthout and author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better.

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Speaker(s): Professor Christine Bell, Dr Aisling Swaine | ‘Conflict-related violence against women’ is often understood to mean sexual violence, specifically rape used as a weapon of war. But this is only one part of a broad continuum of gender violence which must be understood and addressed within and across conflict settings. In her new book, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition, Aisling Swaine examines the contexts of Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste to identify a spectrum of forms of gender violence. She analyses their occurrence, and the relationship between them, within and across different points of pre-, mid- and post-conflict. Swaine proposes that a transformation rather than a transition is required in the aftermath of conflict, if justice is to play a role in preventing gender violence. Christine Bell (@christinebelled) is Principal Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme, Assistant Principal (Global Justice), Co-Director, Global Justice Academy, and Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh. Aisling Swaine (@AislingSwaine) is Assistant Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE, where she teaches primarily on the MSc in Women, Peace and Security. Christine Chinkin is Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security. The Centre for Women, Peace and Security (@LSE_WPS) is a leading academic space for scholars, practitioners, activists, policy-makers and students to develop strategies to promote justice, human rights and participation for women in conflict-affected situations around the world.

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Launched in 2009, Project NIA is an advocacy, organizing, popular education, research, and capacity-building center with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. We believe that several simultaneous approaches are necessary in order to develop and sustain community-based alternatives to the system of policing and incarceration. Our mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth crime and to instead promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based alternatives.

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