Box rpr_2012_10_06

Scope and Contents This video is restricted and cannot be viewed on the HRDI website. Session is conducted in both English and Spanish. In this session, Mayra Gómez and Bret Thiele, founders of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, begin with a discussion of the case according to the framework of international human rights and gender, the systems of legal recourse that are available to the communities, and the position of power the government is in with regards to these evictions....

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in Portuguese and English. Panelists Andréia Borges dos Santos, Hamilton Borges dos Santos, and Christen A. Smith discuss patterns of violence within the penitentiary system in Bahia, Brazil, with moderator Matt Richardson presenting information on the systemic violence within the United States prison system, focusing on Texas. The panel begins with short presentations from each speaker on their work advocating for women and people of color in the penitentiary system in...

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in Portuguese and English. Panelists Andréia Borges dos Santos, Hamilton Borges dos Santos, and Christen A. Smith discuss patterns of violence within the penitentiary system in Bahia, Brazil, with moderator Matt Richardson presenting information on the systemic violence within the United States prison system, focusing on Texas. The panel begins with short presentations from each speaker on their work advocating for women and people of color in the penitentiary system in...

Scope and Contents Session conducted in English. Miss Major, Director of the TGI (Transgender Gender Variant Intersex) Justice Project, discusses her personal history, activism, and development of the TGI Justice Project. She details the human rights violations and abuses experienced by transgender people both in and out of the prison system, and the support needed by the transgender community. Because gender variant and transgender individuals are housed according to their sex as assigned at birth,...

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in English. Session begins with a short slide presentation demonstrating the diversity of the transgender community and an introduction by Miss Major to the prison industrial complex as it relates to transgender individuals, followed by a short film screening featuring interviews with transgender people who have experienced the prison system. After the screening, Miss Major answers audience questions that relate to providing resources to incarcerated transgender people...

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in English. Panel consists of two research presentations surrounding feminicide, queer latinidad and the female body. The first panelist, Jessica Ordaz, presents her research “Disrupting the Silence of Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez,” on the systemic targeting and killing of women within Ciudad Juárez and the discourse surrounding these murders acting as implicit support of the systemic devaluation of women. The second panelist, Joseph M. Pierce, presents his research...

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in English and Spanish. Panel discussion with Ruthann Lee [(Mis)guided Missions? Korean Women, Christianity, and Native (Im)migrant Relations in Canada], Faron Levesque [(Re)inventing Revolutionary Pedagogies in a Transnational America] and Monica Jasis Silberg (Ni Servicios Ni Derechos: los jóvenes mexicanos en el sistema de salud). Panelist Ruthann Lee presents a work in progress that analyses the intersections of race and power relations in Canada as they relate to...

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Session is conducted in English. Workshop presented by Conspire Theatre Executive Director Katherine Craft; Conspire Theatre Associate Director Michelle Dahlenburg, and Workshop Facilitator Olivia Jimenez. This session is designed to provide a sample of exercises conducted in a typical Conspire Theatre class for incarcerated women. Workshop contains meditation exercises, role-play, and creative exercises and is followed with a discussion amongst participants. [RT 01:35:23]

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in English and Spanish. Panel discussion features Marcela Abadía, Laura Aguirre, Haile Cole, and Alicia Paller-Rzepka, with Elvia Mendoza as moderator. Marcela Abadía presents “Is There a Possible Future for Gender Justice in a South Global Criminal Justice System?,” her doctoral research on the development of the criminal justice system within the global south as it relates to gender based violence and feminism. The second panelist, Laura Aguirre, discusses her doctoral...

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Session is conducted in English and Portuguese. Closing session for the Re-thinking Power and Resistance Conference Rose Pulliam of allgo offers a closing analysis of the conference and guides conference participants in a discussion and writing exercise to reflect on how the conference prepares participants to rethink power and resistance. Kristen Hogan, Rocío Villalobos, and Andrea Zarate offer closing comments. [RT 01:16:11]