{"id":1220,"date":"2021-06-22T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/guild-notes\/?post_type=article&p=1220"},"modified":"2021-06-24T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:14:40","slug":"nlg-students-organize-dozens-of-events-for-wami2021","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/guild-notes\/article\/nlg-students-organize-dozens-of-events-for-wami2021\/","title":{"rendered":"NLG Students Organize Dozens of Events for #WAMI2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Charlie Blodnieks, NLG Program Assistant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During this year\u2019s Week Against Mass Incarceration (WAMI), NLG law students organized around the theme of \u201cAbolition and Beyond,\u201d including all locations and instances in which people are held against their will, including jails, immigration detention, juvenile detention facilities, psychiatric wards, and more. We encouraged students to include consideration of the abolition of policing as part of the larger mass incarceration system (and in line with the NLG’s 2020 resolution supporting the abolition of policing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now a full year into the pandemic, NLG law students created an week of events entirely online, incorporating the specific issues facing incarcerated people during the COVID-19 crisis. And, as the world has taken a closer look at our healthcare and medical systems, our law students took on the task of examining these locations as an expansion of the carceral complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read below for highlights, and thank you to our law students for your fantastic work during #WAM2021!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pepperdine University NLG<\/strong> organized a full week of programming, including panels including: \u201cThe Death Penalty: Inequities and Realities of Capital Punishment,\u201d \u201cThe Broken System for Incarcerated Women,\u201d \u201cRecidivism and Reintegration: Returning to Life After Incarceration,\u201d and \u201cJuvenile Injustice: Policy and Reform in our Criminal Justice System.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of North Carolina NLG<\/strong> put together multiple online panels and programs, including creating police accountability scorecards for Emancipate NC, presenting a panel on the intersection of mass incarceration and civil legal services, and screening the film Judas and the Black Messiah<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NLG DePaul<\/strong> worked in collaboration with various organizations to put together events including a screening of the film Belly of the Beast, a panel on COVID-19 in carceral facilities, a panel discussion, \u201cAttica: 50 Years Later,\u201d with Michael Deutch of the People\u2019s Law Office and Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971<\/em>, among other events<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moritz NLG<\/strong> put together multiple different projects, including a zine on abolition, a letter-writing campaign, a series of panels on Zoom, and two drives for both books and period products for folks incarcerated in local jails and prisons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard NLG<\/strong> students put together an online event in collaboration with organizers from Families for Justice as Healing (FJAH) to learn about successes and ongoing struggles to free women from Framingham and block the construction of a new women\u2019s prison in Massachusetts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New England Law NLG<\/strong> put together various social media campaigns on policing in the U.S., prison abolition, disability justice, immigrant detention, and the war on drugs, ending the week with a Zoom movie night watching 13th<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loyola New Orleans NLG<\/strong> held an online panel discussion, \u201cImagining a Decarcerated Louisiana,\u201d with speakers from various community organizations, and put together an online collection of testimonials from their correspondance with folks incarcerated at Angola in New Orleans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Widener University NLG<\/strong> held multiple panels on progressive prosecutors, juvenile detention, and voting rights, as well as organizing a book drive for LGBTQ+ incarcerated people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgetown NLG<\/strong> launched a letter writing hour, to continue throughout the rest of the semester, and put together a panel on abolition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Michigan NLG<\/strong> held a panel on Abolition at UMich, featuring GEO organizers to discuss campus abolitionist movements, and screened the movie The Prison in Twelve Landscapes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Alabama NLG<\/strong> organized a week long book drive for incarcerated folks, and held three online events, including a discussion on student-led abolition movements, a screening of Visions of Abolition,<\/em> and a panel on impact litigation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cardozo NLG<\/strong> students presented a Q&A panel with Baz Dreisinger, author of Incarceration Nations<\/em>, and a discussion on grassroots abolition movements across the country, with speakers from NYC, Texas, Georgia, and St. Louis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wayne State University NLG<\/strong> students coordinated a panel discussion between Washtenaw County prosecutors and representatives from Detroit Justice Center and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Detroit to discuss the role of prison abolition in the larger movement to end mass incarceration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fordham NLG<\/strong> students organized a panel, \u201cA Country Without Prisons: Dispelling Myths that Deter Abolition,\u201d to deconstruct scare-tactics surrounding abolition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maurer NLG<\/strong> hosted a panel, \u201cPrison Abolition and Beyond: Addressing Mass Incarceration in Our Community,\u201d with Public Defender Kyle Dugger and author Jeanne Bishop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Oregon NLG<\/strong> Chapter put on a week of interactive online programming, including sessions on Disarming University of Oregon Police Department, Abolition and Climate Justice, and Intro to Abolition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Connecticut Law NLG<\/strong> Chapter presented a series of panel discussions centering those most marginalized by the policing system, including discussions on Women and LGBTQ+ People in Prisons, the Worldwide Movement for Black Lives, Ending the War on People Who Use Drugs, and Pandemic Priorities: the Inequitable Impact of COVID-19 on People Who Are Incarcerated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notre Dame Law NLG<\/strong> organized two events, a talk on Prison Abolition Activism with \u201cIDOC Watch\u201d, a network of prisoners in Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) and legal workers outside, as well as a talk on the School to Prison Pipeline with local educators who teach students in Indiana\u2019s Westville Correctional Facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Minnesota NLG<\/strong> hosted a two-week book drive for Women\u2019s Prison Book Project, held event on the fight for abolition with Kevin Reese from Until We Are All Free, and began preparing for Derek Chauvin\u2019s murder trial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Montana NLG<\/strong> put together a full week of events, speakers, and workshops with attorneys and abolitionists from across Montana and the country, including: \u201cMass incarceration, COVID-19 and extreme sentencing,\u201d \u201cThe Federal Death Penalty: Against the Will of Navajo Nation,\u201d \u201cPolice Abolition v. The January 6 Coup,\u201d and \u201cTribal and Local Criminal Justice Reform Opportunities\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temple Law NLG<\/strong> organized a series of events, including \u201cMental Health and Medical Care: Inside and Outside Prison,\u201d \u201cJudges and Lawyers Addressing Mass Incarceration,\u201d and \u201cReform vs. Abolition\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAMU NLG<\/strong> hosted a panel on \u201cPublic Defense and Mass Incarceration,\u201d and put together a series of educational materials on mass incarceration, prison abolition, and accountability<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinnipiac NLG hosted a week of panels and events including \u201cRacial Justice and Equal Rights\u201d and \u201cFelony Disenfranchisement in Connecticut,\u201d among others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Charlie Blodnieks, NLG Program Assistant During this year\u2019s Week Against Mass Incarceration (WAMI), NLG law students organized around the theme of \u201cAbolition and Beyond,\u201d including all locations and instances in which people are held against their will, including jails, immigration detention, juvenile detention facilities, psychiatric wards, and more. We encouraged students to include consideration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"issuem_issue":[],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t