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TNI invites you to join the ninth webinar in our series on June 3: COVD-19 and the global fight against mass incarceration
Webinar 3 June – COVD-19 and the global fight against mass incarceration
Dear reader,
Our weekly Wednesday COVID Capitalism series continues next week on 3 June 2020 4pm (CEST) on COVID-19 and the Global Fight against Mass Incarceration. Register here.
The webinar will bring activists and researchers from across the globe to analyse the impact of COVID-19 and share strategies to reverse the long-standing trend of mass incarceration as a response to crime. What strategies for action have been effective? What drug policies need to change? How can we ensure that short-term prison releases mark a shift towards long-term structural reform and an end to mass incarceration?
We are deeply encouraged that our webinars have been so well received. A record 2469 people registered for our most recent Feminist Realities webinar. It was another rich international conversation with some amazing feminist thinkers and activists, providing critical analysis of the intersections between patriarchy and this pandemic and sharing strategies on how to make this a turning point towards radical democratic systems that care for our planet and wellbeing. You can listen to a recording here.
Our earlier webinars are also available as videos and podcasts. We're committed to providing these webinars and materials for free, but it does cost us time and resources. Please consider supporting our work. We appreciate any contributions.
Ahead of next week's webinar, TNI has been delighted to work alongside Penal Reform International, International Drug Policy Consortium and the Washington Office on Latin America to explore strategies to build a global movement against mass incarceration.
3 June 2020 at 4pm CEST.
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(French and Spanish interpretation will be available)
Panellists
- Olivia Rope, Director of Policy and International Advocacy, Penal Reform International
- Isabel Pereira, Principal investigator at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice & Society (Dejusticia), Colombia
- Sabrina Mahtani, Advocaid Sierra Leone
- Maidina Rahmawati, Institute of Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR), Indonesia
- Andrea James, Founder and Exec Director, National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, USA
This webinar is organised by Transnational Institute and co-sponsored by IDPC (International Drug Policy Consortium), WOLA (Washington office on Latin America) and Penal Reform International.
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Coming soon: Taking on the Tech Titans – reclaiming our data commons
Our webinar on 10 June at 4pm CET will explore how to reclaim our rights to data at a time when Big Tech is using the pandemic to entrench their power and profits. You can already register for the webinar here.
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Webinar: COVID-19 and small fisher-folk of North Africa and Palestine
The North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) will organize a webinar on Saturday 30 May 2020 at 14:00 Tunis time (15:00 Amsterdam time and 16:00 Palestine time) to put a spotlight on the situation of fishers in Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia and Palestine. You can register for this webinar here.
Small-scale fisher-folks in the North African region contribute to providing food for millions of people. But they find themselves in a catastrophic social situation: low wages, inadequate compensation for work accidents and very long working hours, which have been worsened by neoliberal plans and neo-colonial trade agreements that have favored industrial fishing over the livelihoods of traditional and small-scale fisher-folks.
This webinar will explore the impact of COVID-19 and the struggles and resistance of fisher-folk in the region.
COVID19 pandemic, and their working conditions exacerbated, as some maritime ports are still normally operating, exposing the lives of millions of workers to the risk of infection, and others have stopped working altogether, bringing to the surface the dilemma of fisher-folks’ dispossession through dismissal from work without any compensation.
Saturday 30 May 2020 at 14:00 Tunis time.
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Webinar in Arabic
(Live interpretation into English, French and Spanish)
Speakers:
- Brahim Mounassir, General Secretary of National Union of Fishers – Coastal and Offshore fishing (Morocco)
- Mohamed Yahia Mohmeden from the Professional Union for Fishing and Maritime Services (Mauritania)
- Nedwa Moctar Nech de Mauritanie 2000
- Saad Ziada from the Union of Agricultural Work Committees - Gaza Strip (Palestine).
Tunisia: a testimony of the conditions of women in the fishing sector in Tunisia.
- Facilitator: Torkia Chaibi, from the Association of One Million Rural Women.
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TNI is proud to provide our webinars and research for free as a contribution to the movements and activists responding to this pandemic. However, it takes time and resources to organise these events, to research and to publish. If you would like to support us in this work, please donate here.
Sincerely,
Jess Graham
Community Builder
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