TUESDAY, December 13, 12:00 pm • NYC City Hall Steps • Rally and Press Conference to launch the platform, Challenging Incarceration/Struggling for Justice in New York State • Contact: Aaron Talley, 347-261-4891 Storify coverage and Photo
SATURDAY, December 10, 5:00-8:00 pm* DC • Candlelight Vigil at the White House as part of Human Rights Week • Indigenous Rights and Clemency for Leonard Peltier
SATURDAY, December 10, 7:30-10:30 pm • “Cultural Night for International Human Rights Day” • 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (b/n Hoyt and Bond Streets; the Commons) • Northeast Political Prisoner/POW Coalition (which includes RAPP)
FRIDAY, December 9, 3:00 (street rally) and 6:00 (indoor event) • Philadelphia, PA • “Don’t Let Them Kill Mumia” (link includes instructions for buses from NY)
DECEMBER 4-10, DC • Human Rights Week • Indigenous Rights and Clemency for Leonard Peltier • 12/10 8am Conference at Washington College of Law, American University, Tenley Campus, 4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Yuma Building, Claudio Grossman Hall, Washington, DC 20016 • 12/10 5:00-8:00 pm, Candlelight Vigil at the White House
MONDAY, December 5, 2:00-3:30 pm • Baltimore, MD • RAPP workshop, “Growing Up in the System: From Juvenile to Aging Prisoners,” at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice Conference (registration required)
SATURDAY, December 3 • 12:00-2:30 pm • Challenging Incarceration: Struggling for Justice in New York State, multi-policy organizing meeting, open to all • Castle Gardens Community Room, 625 W 140th St, NYC 10031 • RSVP
MONDAY, November 28 • 3:30-5:00 pm • Zuccotti Park, NYC (Liberty Street & Broadway, NY Rally for Rasmea Odeh, who goes to court on 11/29 in Detroit to fight deportation. Read about Rasmea’s case
THURSDAY, November 17, 7:00-9:30 pm • 3rd Annual Parole Preparation Project Fundraiser and Welcome Home Party • NYU Law School, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, NYC 10012
WEDNESDAY, November 16, 12:30-1:30 pm • Standout for Clemency for Women • Washington, DC • in front of the White House • Demand clemency for all eligible women in the federal prison system • sponsored by the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and Can-Do Clemency
SATURDAY, November 12, 7:00-11:00 pm • Launch Party for Certain Days/Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar (proceeds benefit RAPP & other groups) • Interference Archive, 131 8th St. #4, Brooklyn, NY 11215
SATURDAY, November 12, 11:00 am-4:00 pm • “The Black Panther Party and 21st Century Matters of Social Justice” • RAPP’s Mujahid Farid will be on panel, “Mass Incarceration & Reentry,” 12:15-1:15 pm • The ARC XVI of Central Harlem, 120 W. 140th St., Manhattan (Part of the Black Panther Party 50th Anniversary, NYC, November 11 to 13)
WEDNESDAY, November 9, 4:30-6:00 pm • Alternatives to Incarceration/Making a Different Road • Fordham University School of Law, Lincoln Center Campus, 150 West 62nd St., Rm. 3-02
SATURDAY, November 5, 9:00 pm-1:00 am • 8th Annual Freedom Dance • National Black Theater, 2031 Fifth Avenue, Harlem, NY (at 125th St.) • Celebrate the freedom of Assata Shakur, support political prisoners
FRIDAY, November 4, 4:00-6:00 pm • MD RAPP on “Social Change and Public Health” panel discussion/teach-in • George Washington University Milken School of Public Health, 2400 Eye Street NW, Washington DC
WEDNESDAY, November 2, 8:30-10:30 am • RAPP receives a New York Nonprofit Media Cause Award • The Capital Grille, 120 Broadway, NYC 10271 (photo below)
THURSDAY, October 27 • 8:30 am-4:30 pm • Excluded: Dialogue on Safe, Supportive and Affordable Housing for People with Justice System Involvement • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Student Dining Hall, 524 West 59th Street, NYC 10019 (Free; register here)
TUESDAY, October 25, 5:30-8:30 pm, Arlington, VA • “Revitalizing Vulnerable Communities: A Networking Session and Eco-Café” • DC RAPP • Career fair, poster session, exhibits and resource vendors • gather information, meet other experts in your field and share information. Crystal City Marriott, 1999 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA 22202
MONDAY, October 24, 11:30 am, DC • UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Press Conference, preliminary observations (RAPP has testified to the Working Group) • United Nations Information Center, 1775 K Street NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20006
SATURDAY, October 22, 6:00 pm • Citizens Against Recidivism 10th Annual Awards Celebration • Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, 3940 Broadway, Manhattan • for tickets, journal ads, and sponsorship: info@citizensinc.org Here are some photos of the event, thanks to awardee Dinah Ortiz
WEDNESDAY, October 19, 11:00 am-8:00 pm • Common Time including presentations by RAPP at 2:00 pm • CUNY Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work, 119th Street and Third Avenue, NYC
FRIDAY, October 14 • 1:00-3:00 pm • Baltimore • Workgroup on Collateral Consequences of Convictions Stakeholders Meeting • MDRAPP testimony • the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum, Founders Room, 1417 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231
WEDNESDAY, October 12, 7:00 pm-8:30pm • Baltimore, MD • MD RAPP Coalition Meeting (Coppin State Criminal Justice Department, 2500 W. North Avenue) For details, email MDRAPPCampaign@gmail.com. (MDRAPP meets on the second Wednesday of every month.)
TUESDAY, October 11, 6:00 pm – RAPP presenting on panel to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Washington, DC
SUNDAY, October 9, 12:00 Noon • Lafayette Park, Washington, DC • Rally for the freedom of Oscar Lopez Rivera, elder and political prisoner • “President Obama: 35 Years is Enough!” Article, photos here
SUNDAY, October 9, 10:45 am-12:15 pm • DC • RAPP panel, “Transcending Historical Oppression and Injustice through Agents of Change and Imagination from Palestine to Colin Kapernick to American University,” at the 2016 Public Anthropology Conference, American University, Mary Graydon Center, Butler Boardroom
WEDNESDAY, October 5 • 7:00-9:00 pm • “Survival Crimes: From Mumia Abu-Jamal to the Bronx 120” • National Black Theater, 2031 Fifth Avenue, NYC
WEDNESDAY, September 28, 6:30-8:30 pm • DC • “Solidarity With Aging Prisoners” • DC Stampede and DC Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP sponsor an evening to write letters to older people behind bars • The Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20009
SATURDAY, September 24 • NYC • 2:00 pm • March and Rally to Close Rikers • March from Queens Plaza to the Rikers Bridge; Rally at 19th Avenue and Hazen at 5:00 pm
FRIDAY, September 23 2016 • 4:00-5:30 pm, DC • DC RAPP College Coalition Meeting • University of Maryland College Park, Student Stamp Center
WEDNESDAY, September 21 • 12:30-3:00 pm • “The New York State Parole Board: Denial after Denial, Enough is Enough!” Community Service Society of New York (CSS), 633 Third Avenue (40th/41st Streets), 10th Floor • Lunch at 12:30, program at 1:00 pm • panel includes RAPP, NY Prisoner Justice Network, National Lawyer’s Guild Parole Preparation Project • RSVP: ghairston@cssny.org; 212-614-5405
SATURDAY, September 17 • Philadelphia, PA • 8:00 am (regional meeting); 5:30-7:30 pm (Tribunal); 7:30 pm (Dinner and Closing) • US Human Rights Network • RAPP chapters from NY, Baltimore, and DC will present testimony at the tribunal • FACTS Charter School, 1023 Callowhill St., Philadelphia, PA 19123
SATURDAY, September 17 • Bronx, NYC • Block Party, Mott Haven Reformed Church • 350 East 146th St., Bronx, NY • for more information or to join as a vendor: 718-585-5001; Motthavenchurch350@verizon.net
SATURDAY, September 17 • 7:00pm • Mt. Kisco, NY (home of Gov. Cuomo) • Candles for Clemency Rally & Vigil • Information: Allen Roskoff, Jim Owles Democractic Club, jimowles@gmail.com, 917-553-7180
FRIDAY, September 16 • 6:00 pm • Profiles in Abolition: The Hard Road to Abolition/Strategies to Win • The New School Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St., NYC 10011 • Mujahid Farid with Ruthie Gilmore, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Abraham Paulos • a fundraiser for Critical Resistance
FRIDAY, September 16 6:00-9:00 pm • National Day of Action to Free Imam Jamil Al-Amin, an elder and political prisoner incarcerated in the federal system • Harlem State Office Building,
THURSDAY, September 15, 10am-3pm each day • College Park, MD • DC RAPP at the First Look Fair at University of Maryland College Park
THURSDAY, September 15, 1:00-3:00 pm • DC • DC RAPP will present at the UPR (Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review) Working Group 5 hearing on recommendations related to immigration, trafficking, labor, and children • U.S. Department of Labor’s Francis Perkins Building at 200 Constitution Avenue., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210
THURSDAY, September 15 • 3:30-5:30 pm • NYC • Memorial for John MacKenzie • National Black Theater, 2031 5th Ave, NY 10035 (at 126th Street)
SATURDAY, September 10 • 2:00-5:00 pm • Jessup, MD • Protest and Noise Demonstration at (MCI) Jessup in Support of National Prison Strike • Women’s Maryland Correctional Institute , 7943 Brock Bridge Rd, Jessup, MD 20794 • carpools will be arranged (see Facebook event page for details)
FRIDAY/SATURDAY, September 9-10 • Oakland, CA • Conference, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People and Families Movement • RAPP on panel, “Political Prisoners: Connecting Generations of Struggle” (Friday, 2:45-4:00 pm). Saturday night: meeting, National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls
THURSDAY, September 8 • NYC • Close Attica rally • 12:30 pm • Governor Cuomo’s office, 633 3rd Avenue at 41st Street
WEDNESDAY, August 24 • 6:00 pm • Visions of Confinement, Film and Panel: Rosalie Comes Home • Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 Third Avenue, NYC (at 119th Street), Rm. SB 115/116 (next to the gallery)
SATURDAY, August 20 • 4:00-8:00 pm • Basketball Tournament to Build A Winning Team Against Mass Incarceration • Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Dr., Manhattan • Free, with food/drinks/panel/prizes! Check out some photos from the b-ball tournament
MONDAY, August 8 • 5:30 pm • Albany & NYC • Protest the death of John MacKenzie at the hands of the Parole Board • Albany: Office of New York State Board of Parole, 97 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12206 • NYC: Lincoln Corr. Ctr., 31 W. 110th St, Harlem (just west of 5th Avenue) • Hold the Board responsible for the death of John MacKenzie, who took his own life after commissioners denied him release for the 10th time—despite a standing order of contempt against the board for repeating their baseless denials. Village Voice coverage by Victoria Law
SATURDAY, July 16 * NYC * 12:00 to 3:00 pm • Challenging Incarceration, Building Empowered Communities • Castle Gardens Community Room, 625 West 140th St., NYC, NY 10031 NYC • Please RSVP
FRIDAY, July 15 • NYC • 6:30 pm • Imprisoned Resistance: Politics of Incarceration in Palestine and the US • Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center, 3940 Broadway (at 165th St.), NYC • cosponsored by RAPP
SATURDAY, July 9 • 9:00 am-3:00 pm • Queens, NYC • “Elders in Prison: Bringing Them Home & Rebuilding Our Communities” • Workshops, networking, community-building by Queens Community Board 12 & RAPP • Queens Educational Opportunity Center • 158-29 Archer Ave, Jamaica, NY • WATCH the video of the opening session here (thanks to Dan Vea)
SATURDAY, June 18 • 12:00-2:00 pm • NYC • “Challenging Incarceration: Struggling for Justice in NY State” • Castle Gardens Community Room, 625 West 140th St., NYC, NY 10031
SATURDAY, June 12 • 3:00 pm • Baltimore, MD • Re-Intergration Workshops: Aging Women in/out of Prison (By invitation only) These workshops will assist in reconnecting the aging woman in/out of prison to self, family, and community. Any aging woman in/out of prison interested in attending can email mdrappcampaign@gmail.com. Workshops are held every 2nd Saturday of the month at Coppin State University/Criminal Justice Department, 2500 W. North Avenue, 5th Floor.
SATURDAY, June 4 • Albany, NY • 8:00 am-12:00 pm (tentative schedule) • “The Womb to the Tomb: The Containment of Black Life” at Justice Studies Association Conference, University at Albany, SUNY • A panel will discuss the historical continuum of the confinement, containment, and imprisonment of Black lives and the impact on family, community, and society • Sponsored by MD RAPP, with Tomiko Shine and other MD RAPP speakers, and René Valdez (NY RAPP)
WEDNESDAY, May 25 • 7:00-9:00 pm • NYC • RAPP’s Mujahid Farid in conversation with Jean Trounstine on her new book, “Boy With a Knife: The Need for Youth Prison Reform.” Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., New York, NY 10002
SUNDAY, May 22 • 3:40-5:40 pm • NYC • “Free Them All! Political Prisoners and POW’s in the US” • RAPP members Mujahid Farid and Laura Whitehorn join a panel at the Left Forum, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 524 West 59th St., NY, Room 1.82 (register)
THURSDAY, May 19 • 6:30-8:00 pm • Queens, NY • As exemplified in the Life of Al-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), everyone deserves a second chance! Presentation on the Fair Chance Act • Islamic Circle of North America (Al-Markaaz) • 166-26 89th Avenue, 2nd Floor (F train to 168th St.; walk 2 blocks to 89th Avenue), Jamaica, NY 11432 • Further information: 347-806-7998 • All are welcome • The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the South East Queens Muslim Collective (SEQMC) and Release Aging People In Prison/RAPP
TUESDAY, May 3 • Washington, DC • 11:45 am-2:25 pm • DC RAPP’s Alexandra Warren at American University Senior Anthropology Majors’ Capstone Presentation, presenting “The Willingness To Maintain the Struggle No Matter What: Elder Incarceration in the United States”
THURSDAY, April 28 • 7:00-8:30 pm • “Life Outside: Rosalie Comes Home” screening & panel including RAPP’s Mujahid Farid • Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, 74 Morningside Drive (Enter on 116th Street) New York, NY 10027
WEDNESDAY, April 27 • 4:00-6:00 pm • DC RAPP • “Aging Prisoners Dying To Be Free: A Public Health Crisis” panel discussion • George Washington University Milken School of Public Health, 2400 Eye Street NW, Washington DC
MONDAY, April 25 • 7:00 pm • Washington, DC • Beyond our Criminal Justice System: A Panel on Prison Abolition and Drug Reform, with DCRAPP’s Nathan Brandli & speakers from MD RAPP • #0102 Tydings Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
SATURDAY, April 23 • 6:00-8:00 pm • Baltimore • William Gardner of MD RAPP on a panel UPP_ReturningCitizensFlyer-MDRAPP • Coppin State University, Health & Human Services Building (HHSB 103)
WEDNESDAY, March 9 • 7:00-9:00pm • Aging, Health, & Incarceration •
The Faculty House at Columbia University, 64 Morningside Drive, NYC • Speakers: RAPP’s Mujahid Farid and Jack Beck of the Correctional Association of NY
FRIDAY, March 4 • 7:30pm • Columbia University • Kick-off for Beyond the Bars, Connecting the Struggles (doors open at 6:45)
SATURDAY and SUNDAY, March 5 and 6 • NYC • 10:00am-5:00pm • Beyond the Bars Conference: “Connecting the Struggles” • Center for Justice, Columbia University (including RAPP speakers at plenaries & panels) Saturday/Sunday events: Columbia School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave. at 121/122 Streets, NYC
SATURDAY, February 20 • 7:00 pm • Washington, DC • Aging in Prison, Mass Incarceration, and the Legacy of COINTELPRO (FBI Counterintelligence Program) • La Casa, 3166 Mt. Pleasant NW, Washington, DC • Sponsored by DCRAPP; RAPP speakers include Tomiko Shine and Alexandra Warren of DC and MD RAPP.
WEDNESDAY, February 10 • 7:00 pm to 8:30pm • Baltimore • Meeting of MDRAPP (Coppin State Criminal Justice Department, 2500 W. North Avenue) For details, email MDRAPPCampaign@gmail.com. (MDRAPP meets on the second Wednesday of every month.)
SATURDAY, February 13, 2016 • 2:00-3:15 pm • RAPP’s Mujahid Farid was an invited panelist on Incarceration & Health, hosted by Senator Gustavo Rivera during the NYS Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators’ conference (photos available soon)
SATURDAY, January 30, 2016 • 8pm-11pm • DCRAPP celebrated the homecoming of returning citizen Abdus-Shahid Ali, released after serving 50 years in prison. Sadly, Bro. Ali was too ill to attend, and he passed on March 3rd. Bro. Ali’s funeral was held on Monday, March 7 at Islamic Heritage Foundation, 3765 I Street SE Washington, DC; he is buried at Al-Firdaus Memorial Gardens, Frederick, MD. All RAPP chapters mourn his loss. In his memory, we will work harder than ever to release aging people in a timely manner.
FRIDAY, January 16, 2016 • 12:00 to 2:00 pm • Washington, DC • DC Prisoners Matter Rally • US Parole Board Commission, 90 K Street NE, Washington DC. Check out the PHOTOS of the rally. For background, read “DC’s Forgotten Residents” and “Visitation Slights: How Two Policies Stack the Deck Against D.C. Inmates”
WEDNESDAY, January 13, 2016 • 7:00 pm • Baltimore • Meeting of MDRAPP (Coppin State Criminal Justice Department, 2500 W. North Avenue) For details, email MDRAPPCampaign@gmail.com. MDRAPP meets every other Wednesday.
SUNDAY, January 10, 2016 • 1:30 pm • RAPP at Fabrengen (joyous gathering of friends) • Union Temple of Brooklyn, 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn 11238 (RAPP presentation, with section on Parole Reform NY, 2:30 to 3:30 pm)