Please forward widely: The Peoples Justice Conference is coming up this weekend, Saturday May 14 and Sunday May 15 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM both days at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, 400 W. Washington Blvd. and Grand Avenue, in the cafeteria and nearby classrooms. The action-oriented, working conference is designed to bring together people facing and dealing with issues of police terror and racial profiling, mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, juvenile justice, political repression and imprisonment, and the death penalty.
Activities will begin both days with registration and a continental breakfast from 9:00 AM. There will be a welcoming assembly at 10:00 AM. the first round of 90-minute workshops will begin at 10:30. On Saturday, we will commence with a workshop on Community Control Over the Police, another on social and economic re-integration of formerly incarcerated people led by All of Us or None, and a workshop on Proposition 21, gang injunctions and other attempts to criminalize youth led by Agustin Cebada, a Brown Beret. A free lunch will be served at noon, with a cultural presentation during the lunch break. The second round of workshops starts at 12:45, with a Self-Defense workshop led by the Black Riders Liberation Party and the Brown Riders, as well as a workshop led by the Youth Justice Coalition, on their "Welcome Back to LA" campaign for the reintegration of youth, and another addressing FBI and Grand Jury repression, with a panel including the LA Stop the FBI Coalition and Anti-Racist Action. Following the second round of workshops, there will plenary for report-backs, community speak-out on the prisons and police, and development of action plans and alliances. Saturday evening, there will be an informal get-together at the South Central Farmers Community Center at E. 41st St and Long Beach Blvd, as well as a possible anti-checkpoints mobilization. On Sunday, the same schedule will be followed. The first round of workshops will be a Southern California Immigration Coalition session on ICE raids, police-ICE collaboration and immigration detentions, a Know Your Rights workshop led by a member of the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, and a session led by the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) on stopping the "Safer Streets Initiative" (criminalization of the poor and homeless and Skid Row police sweeps). The afternoon workshops will include a Jericho Amnesty Coalition "people's tribunal," putting the state on trial for crimes against humanity and human rights violations against the political prisoners, liberation movements and communities. There will also be workshops about the campaign against unjust vehicle impounds by the LAPD, and another by the Maggie Phair Institute on corruption and unjust practices of the probate courts. The conference will wrap up with another plenary session to identify action plans, alliance building and base-building efforts growing out of the workshops. For more information, please contact peoplesjusticeconfere...@gmail.com or call 310-495-0299. ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
