@psjpbc
A collaboration of faculty, students, and community based organizations that uses research and advocacy to produce safer and more just communities. Project Coordinator: Alex S. Vitale. https://substack.com/@alexvitale
Concerned about how to respond to police shootings? What's the alternative to "jail killer cops" and "end qualified immunity"? Come find out about the possibilities of Sentinel Event Reviews to address deadly police policies and practices. 3/10 noon. Register: linktr.ee/SER.psjp
Boston Area folks. I'll be presenting our film @sexworkfilm.bsky.social there on the 12th.
More details from our partners for this event, @quattronecenter.org: www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/q...
Our previous briefing was on sex work policy issues: youtu.be/xQM95Iw-OPk
Our (@psjpbc.bsky.social) next policy briefing is on the use of Sentinel Event Reviews as a tool for changing deadly police policies and practices. March 10th on Zoom. RSVP in comments.
Collective theaters. Community organizing. Radical film outside corporate control.
In this clip, Tami Gold reminds us that radical cinema circulates because organizers insist it does.
Watch the full interview with Third World Newsreel on Laura Flanders & Friends:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBgE...
Why aren't miscarriages of justice treated like medical errors?
In a powerful piece in @currentaffairs.bsky.social, Eric Reinhart & @alexvitale.bsky.social call on NYC to conduct sentinel event reviews to evaluate incidents of police-involved violence.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/27znnth8
My latest in @currentaffairs.bsky.social w Eric Reinhart.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ho...
Here is the video recording of our briefing on sex work issues in NYC. youtu.be/xQM95Iw-OPk
Excited to be showing our film @sexworkfilm.bsky.social in Cambridge next month.
When crime #s go down every local police official tries to take credit. But, these are broad national and international trends that have little or nothing to do w local police decision making.
Sex Work Policy Briefing
Join us Friday, Feb. 20th, 10-11:30 AM EST
With:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
@psjpbc.bsky.social
@decrimny.bsky.social
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social
@alexvitale.bsky.social
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
We are hosting our first ever virtual Sex Work Policy Briefing
This Friday, Feb. 20th, 10-11:30 AM EST
With:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
@decrimny.bsky.social
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
We are hosting our first ever virtual Sex Work Policy Briefing
This Friday, Feb. 20th, 10-11:30 AM EST
With:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
@decrimny.bsky.social
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
Check it out:
Sex Work Policy Briefing
Friday, February 20th, 10-11:30 AM Eastern
Hosted by:
The Policing and Social Justice Project
Featuring:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
Zoom Meeting
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.
🎬 Audience reactions from SEX WORK: IT’S JUST A JOB at La Jícara Oaxaca (Jan 29). Powerful conversations, moved audiences, and voices that stayed with us. This is the power of storytelling. 💛
#SexWorkItsJustAJob #WorkIsWork #FilmForChange
BORTAC is the SWAT for Border Patrol. Among other things, they failed to save students in Uvalde.
Excited to be showing our film (@sexworkfilm.bsky.social) in Pittsburgh this week.
Friday, 7 PM Kelly Stayhorn Theater.
PSJP coordinator Alex Vitale will join tonight’s virtual panel on abolition to discuss policing, incarceration and community alternatives.
@alexvitale.bsky.social
@mattytheglue.bsky.social
“I think it’s a big mistake to look at this as a problem of training… We are seeing the mobilization of a federal police force to carry out a campaign of terror for political purposes.”
Project coordinator @alexvitale.bsky.social on @aljazeera.com discussing recent ICE actions.
NYC Folks: I'll be doing this event with David Stovall about his new book "Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago" Feb 9th at the NY Public Library: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
Check out this great and timely interview with @petermancina.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Great convo yesterday w folks in Fresno. Big uptick in requests like this.
I'll be in Pittsburgh on Feb 6th to show our film @sexworkfilm.bsky.social:
Excellent intervention from @kojokoram.bsky.social. Big fan.
Ha! Anyone know who made this?
My comments on recent NYPD shootings.
gothamist.com/news/two-nyp...
