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Someday We’ll All Be Free: A Conversation about Abolition

December 15, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

What is the role that libraries can play in imagining a future without prisons?

Join an interactive community dialog featuring local community organizers and national advocates on criminal justice reform. Our presenters include: Luis Rodriguez (poet laureate, author, mentor); Michele Storms (ACLU of Washington); Jerrell Davis (Rainier Beach Action CoalitionWa-BLOC); Wesley Roach (Breakdances With Wolves – Indigenous Pirate Radio,). We’ll have a video call-in with Patrisse Cullors (co-founder Black Lives Matter). The evening will include a panel, a live tweet up and Q&A.

Books will be able to purchase and signing by Luis Rodriguez via Elliott Bay Book Company.

Enjoy a book display and share the reading list with a friend: 

Join the conversation online by using the hashtag #criminaljustice.

Co-presented with Creative Justice

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Details

Date:
December 15, 2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1506071872795463

Organizers

Creative Justice
Seattle Public Library

Venue

Seattle Public Library
1000 4th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104
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