Join The Black Response Cambridge for a rally in honor of the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. Hear from speakers raising awareness about the history of police violence in America and provide political education around the contemporary abolition movement.
This event is endorsed by the national October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. This coalition has been mobilizing October 22 events every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest against police brutality, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutality.
Our MCs will be Andrew King and Mike Prince.
Speakers will include:
Leslie Credle, Executive Director of Justice for Housing, a member of the #FreeHer Advisory Committee
Kavya Crasta of the Asian American Resource Workshop
Lana Habash, Palestinian Activist
Courtney Foster, an organizer with Defund Newton Police Department
Quinton Zondervan, Cambridge City Council member and activist
Stephanie Guirand, researcher and organizer with The Black Response Cambridge
The event will also include musical performances and questions from the audience, and highlight abolitionist campaigns including:
#UnlocktheBox: The campaign to end solitary confinement
#StopShotSpotter: The campaign to end audio surveillance
S.2030 - An Act establishing a jail and prison construction moratorium in Massachusetts
Building support for alternatives like the development of a community safety program, Cambridge HEART (Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team)
Event sponsors include Northampton Abolition Now (NAN), Defund Newton PD, Muslim Justice League, Justice for Housing, SURJ Boston, and the Asian American Resource Workshop.
