Please go to this link to support community bail funds: Speaker Guests:
Jazzlyn Lindsey
Professor Justin Hansford
Michael McDowell
Tarek Shawky
Kitty Stryker
Jermaine Wright
Ira Armstrong (FKA Nanci Armstrong-Temple)
Social Links:
Jazzlyn Lindsey:
Professor Justin Hansford:
Tarek Shawky:
Kitty Stryker:
Jermaine Wright:
Ira Armstrong (FKA Nanci Armstrong-Temple):
Link to The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center:
Jazzlyn Lindsey's recommended reading list --
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
The Autobiograghy of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
More info:
Jazzlyn Lindsey
A born and bred DC Native, Jazzlyn Lindsey has been organizing in her community for seven years. Currently with the Movement 4 Black Lives, Jazz utilizes her skills to educate and engage her peers on issues pertaining to the history of punishment and prisons, environmental racism, and intersectional feminism.
Tarek Shawky
Tarek is a licensed criminal defense attorney and manages a solo practice firm based in Pasadena, California. He is an advocate for criminal justice and police reform. He serves as a board member of the LA Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and volunteers with the local ACLU and NAACP doing free "know your rights" trainings for the community. He also serves on the Pasadena Police Chief Citizens Advisory board and the board of the Tiyya Foundation for Refugee Relief. He's also a proud father of two wild young kids and is a civic activist in Pasadena.
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell is a queer organizer and artist. They co-founded Black Lives Matter Minneapolis in 2014 and has continued to do work around defunding and abolishing police, workers rights, and equitable development in his city.
Jermaine Wright
Jermaine Wright is a organizer, professional dancer, and aspiring singer based in Chicago, IL. He began organizing with Chicago Freedom School fighting for environmental justice in black and brown communities. He has also worked with organization such as BlackLivesMatterChicago, Ujima Medics, and First Defense Legal Aid. He has been a avid voice in the fight for black liberation and a end to police brutality.
Ira Armstrong (FKA Nanci Armstrong-Temple):
Ira X Armstrong, They/Them, FKA Nanci Armstrong-Temple, is a Witch Doctor, Freedom Fighter and Professional Coach. As a queer and trans abolitionist, Social permaculturist and Transformative Justice activist, their influences include Black Panther Self-determination training, Kingian Nonviolent Resistance, Nonviolent Communication, Consent Culture, and Combahee River Collective based intersectional feminism. They have been teaching Peace and Freedom through the arts for over 30 years, and spend every day meditating on being more fierce, more kind, and bringing in a global shift in consciousness that allows us to usher in a practice of being that allows us to be in integrity with ourselves and our world.”
Love is the law.
They/Them pronouns
www.dancingloud.com
www.peaceoutloud.org
510-301-5073
Twitter ID: @fraggle94
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