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The Criminalization of Youth: Moving from Gang Suppression to Community Empowerment
Start Date: 5/11/2018Start Time: 10:30 AM
End Date: 5/12/2018End Time: 3:30 PM

Event Description:

The Criminalization of Youth: Moving from Gang Suppression to Community Justice 

May 11-12, 2018
10:30AM- 3:30PM
Moot Court, Room 6.68, NB

Free! 
Register Here 

 We will be hearing from organizers, academics, legal advocates, and family members at the forefront of resisting gang injunctions, gang databases, deportations,"focused deterrence" initiatives, anti gang laws, and gang conspiracy cases from across the US and UK. 

 

Participants
Kofi Ademola, BLM, Chicago
Allena Bradley, BYP-100, Chicago
Norman Brown, Credible Messenger Initiative, DC
Priscilla Bustamante, CUNY Law School, NYC
​Darius Charney, Center for Constitutional Rights, NYC
Kade Crockford, ACLU Massachusetts, Boston
John Cusick, NAACP-LDF, NYC
Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez, Grow Up, Grow Out Inc., DC
Sean Garcia-Leys, Urban Peace Institute, San Diego
Vidal Guzman, Just Leadership USA, NYC
Aaron Harvey, Pillars of the Community, San Diego
​Jess Heaney, Critical Resistance, Oakland
​Rachel Herzing, Center for Political Education, Oakland
​Meghan Hollis, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
​Babe Howell, CUNY Law School, NYC
Rena Karefa-Johnson​. Youth Represent, NYC
Clinton Lacey, Credible Messenger Initiative, DC
​Donna Ladd, Jackson, MS
Ruben Leal, Communities United for Youth Restorative Justice, Oakland
Marne Lenox, NAACP-LDF, NYC
​Jaime Martinez, Homies Unidos, Los Angeles
Kim McGill, Youth Justice Coalition, LA
​Taylonn Murphy, 696 Build Queensbridge, NYC
​Temi Mwale, 4 Front Project, London
​Anthony Posada, Legal Aid Society, NYC
​Luis Rodriguez, Poet, Los Angeles
​Arrianna Salgado, Organized Communities Against Deportations, Chicago
Alex Sanchez, Homies Unidos, Los Angeles
Todd St. Hill, BYP 100, Chicago
​Diwaine Smith, Youth Justice Coalition, LA
Josmar Trujillo, Coalition Against Broken Windows, NYC
Ricardo Vidal, Homies Unidos, Los Angeles
Damayanti Wallace, BLM, Chicago
Britney Wilson, Center for Constitutional Rights, NYC

Conveners

David Brotherton is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He grew up in the East End of London, England where he worked in various blue-collar jobs while organizing labor and youth. He gained his doctorate in Sociology in 1992 and began work on street gang subcultures at U.C. Berkeley. Among his recent books are: Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation and Border Control with Phil Kretsedemas (New York: Columbia 2017); Las Pandillas Como Movimiento Social with Luis Barrios (University of Central America Press 2016); Street Gangs: A Critical Appraisal (Routledge 2015); Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2011); and The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2004).

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He has spent the last 25 years organizing and writing about policing and works with community based organization, social movements, and human rights organizations internationally. He also serves on the New York State Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and the The End of Policing. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in the NY Daily News, NY Times, USA Today, The Nation, Vice News, and The New Inquiry.

Location Information:
New Building - New Building  (View Map)
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY
Room: Moot Court Room, 6.68
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