Planning Profile: Programming Workgroup

If you're a sucker for organizational structure, check this out: CR10 is being organized by four distinct workgroup: Programming, Media, Outreach and Logistics. We each have regular separate meetings and at strategic moments, the whole planning team converges for huge conference calls or face to face retreats.

Check out this profile of our Programming Workgroup:

CR10’s Program Committee

What work has been done in the past ten years to dismantle the prison industrial complex? What alternatives are being built? What comes next?

The Program Committee’s main priority in planning CR10 was to keep the focus, for the first time, on abolition. They partnered with the Outreach Committee to request proposals from organizers working on issues of homelessness, alternative healthcare, First Nations rights, policing, queer and trans justice, prisons, immigration and detention, harm prevention and reduction, alternatives to imprisonment, and ending discrimination against formerly imprisoned people. The goal: to continue to build connections and share strategies with communities who approach PIC abolition from as many angles as possible.

Incite! Women of Color against Violence will pair up with the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland to discuss the gendered violence of the PIC and its relation to militarism.

Transforming Justice will lead a session on the criminalization and imprisonment of transgender communities and radical coalition building between queer and trans people of color.

The weekend will also include a prisoner art show, a performance series, a film festival, visual and sound installations and children’s programming for people ages 3-12.

To ensure that the challenges and changes to the PIC abolition movement over the past ten years are represented in the agenda, the Program Committee also aimed to center the strategic alternatives to policing and imprisonment that organizations/communities around the country have been building. This year, the question is not only, What are alternatives to prisons? , but also, How can our communities respond meaningfully to harm without relying on the police? What does community accountability look like and how can we achieve it? Many of the organizations coming together at CR10 will provide their localized responses to these questions.

In a multilingual project that aims to learn and teach more about the ways that communities already respond to harm without calling the cops, Creative Interventions and Generation 5 collaborated to collect successful stories of “community-based interventions to family, intimate partner, and other forms of interpersonal violence” from across the country. They’ll be presenting part of the ongoing project and discussing strategies to break cycles of interpersonal and state violence.

Incite! will host a number of discussions on alternative responses to state-based intervention when domestic and sexual violence occur in communities of color.

The Audre Lorde Project will present on Safe Outside the System, a project aimed at ending and responding to violence against and within queer communities of color without state intervention.

All programming during the CR10 conference and strategy session will be free. We hope that you will lend your voice to these important discussions. To see a schedule of the weekend’s events, please visit our website.

Thanks to Shana Agid for her work on the Program committee and his help with this post.