Love in the Time of COVID: Ask an Abolitionist
Channel: Columbia Legal Services
Date: 2020-12-03

This virtual community event highlights a conversational approach to abolition and transformative justice for everyday people. If Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Love, Immigrant Rights, and liberation and relationship building are your jam, LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID is the all-ages series for you. Co-produced by Seattle Public Library (SPL) Public Engagement with local community voices.

The conversation in ASK AN ABOLITIONIST centers on community-led understandings of safety, from BIPOC communities in particular. We will listen closely to people and families who have been deeply affected by mass incarceration and detention, while thinking about what repair looks like for folks who have been harmed by police brutality, separation, and violence.

FEATURING:
John Page, Village of Hope, Black Prisoners’ Caucus
JM Wong, #FreeThemAllWA
Nikkita Oliver, community organizer, attorney, co-executive director of Creative Justice  
Mother Brown, Reynolds 6
Nick Allen, Deputy Director of Advocacy, Columbia Legal Services 
Matt Murphy, organizer, Collective Justice 
Saiyare Refaei, Artist & Muralist
Resistencia Families

CO-PRESENTED BY:
#SeattleTogether
Office of Arts & Culture Seattle
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
Seattle Parks and Recreation
The Seattle Public Library
Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development
API Chaya
Collective Justice
Columbia Legal Services
Creative Justice
#FreeThemAllWA
La Resistencia NW