Black Community Control over the Police
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Max Rameau scrutinizing the inability of the social justice organizations to agree upon an underlying analysis of the issues confronting the Movement for Black Lives (and other social movements), which impedes them from developing objectives and demands, like community control of the police, that would lead to a transformation of society.

This event was co-sponsored by the Institute for Regional and International Studies at UW-Madison.

Max Rameau is a Haitian born pan-African theorist, campaign strategist, organizer and author. He is co-founder of Take Back the Land, an organization dedicated to addressing issues of land, self-determination and homelessness in the black community. Rameau is the author of Take Back the Land, which recounts the experiences and political theory behind the Umoja village in the Liberty City section of Miami. Since 2013, he has been building the Center for Pan-African Development, a pan-African think tank, and the Positive Action Center, which provides movement theory, support and training to organizations engaged in anti-police brutality campaigns and the emerging demand of black community control over the police.