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SUMMARY:Seattle WA: Storytelling/Panel Event
DESCRIPTION:Doors and Bus Experience Open At 5pm\nEvent Starts At 6pm\nGet your tickets here\nFor updates\, follow Look2Justice and Chris Blackwell on socials \n\n\nLook2Justice\n\nIG: @look2justice\nX: @look2justice\nFacebook: @look2justice\n\n\nChris Blackwell Personal\n\nIG: @christopherwblackwell\nX: @ChrisWBlackwell\nBluesky: @chriswblackwell.bsky.social‬\n\n\n\n\n  \nJoin Look2Justice and Unlock The Box Campaign in partnership for the Journey to Justice Bus Tour for a special event focused on gaining a strong understanding on how solitary confinment is causing serious harm to our fellow citizens\, help humanize those who’ve experienced solitary\, and aid in the fight to end this horrific practice in Washington state. \n——————————————————————————————- \nOnce judged by the United States Supreme Court to be an impermissible form of torture\, solitary confinement has grown to become a “solution” to the overcrowding and violence that define life on the inside. Every day in American jails and prisons\, 122\,000 people are confined to a cell the size of a parking space; some have been there for months\, years\, and in some cases\, decades. While the devastating physical and psychological effects of solitary are well documented\, black-and-white statistics can never fully capture the toll it takes on the people who endure it. \n——————————————————————————————- \nThe event will provide testimony from four individuals who’ve been forced to spend years inside those small\, isolated concrete cells. You’ll hear the effects it had on them individually\, and the harms they witnessed being inflicted upon other incarcerated people. After these testimonies there will be a Q and A session to allow space and time for the audience to learn and interact with our speakers. \nPanelists: \nChristopher Blackwell: Christopher Blackwell is an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated in Washington state. He is the co-founder and current Executive Director of Look2Justice. His writing has been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and many more. \nAnthony Covert: Anthony Covery at 18 was sentenced to 36 years in prison. After serving over 16 years\, he was granted clemency and released 10 months ago by the Governor of Washington State. More than a survivor of my circumstance\, he is a painter\, writer\, and podcaster. Since released\, he’s been on a journey of transformation and enlightenment—reclaiming his story\, redefining identity\, and using his voice and creativity to inspire change\, spark dialogue\, and build bridges of understanding \nDavid Heppard: David Heppard was sentenced to life at 16 and released after serving 24 years. David co-founded the Black Rose Collective to continue dismantling systems of oppression and supporting healing in impacted communities. As former Executive Director of Freedom Project\, he helped grow it into a national model for reentry and anti-oppression. David believes\, “People don’t change\, they heal.” \nJessica Phoenix Sylvia: Jessica Sylvia is a formerly incarcerated trans woman currently living on Squaxin Island ancestral land in the State of Washington. She is a core member of Study and Struggle and co-founder of the campaign to Free the Mississippi 5. Jessica is a published essayist and enrolled citizen of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. \n  \nBonus Panelist: \nHouse Representative Strom Peterson (D): Strom Peterson has fought for years with concerned citizens and impacted people to end the use of solitary confinement. He will be sharing the hurdles/struggles we face to pass meaningful legislation in protecting our incarcerated population from enduring by torture chambers. \n——————————————————————————————- \nLook2Justice is a grassroots organization of system-impacted organizers cultivating justice\, fairness\, and accountability in Washington’s criminal legal system through civic education\, narrative change and restorative justice practices. We operate an inside-out model\, led by currently incarcerated individuals collaborating with formerly incarcerated organizers\, impacted community organizers\, academics\, and policy/legal experts. \nThe Journey to Justice Bus Tour is a cross country bus tour focused on blending artivism\, public education\, and immersive experiences to fuel this crucial movement against the use of solitary confinement throughout U.S. prisons\, jails\, detention centers and carceral facilities nationwide. \nUnlock the Box Campaign is a national advocacy campaign aimed at ending solitary confinement in all U.S. prisons\, jails\, detention facilities\, and juvenile facilities\, and bringing the United States into full compliance with the UN’s Mandela Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners within 10 years. \n  \nAdditional Presenting Organization Partners: \n\nDisability Rights Washington\nEnd Solitary WA\nElliott Bay Books\nSocial Documentary Network\nWashington Prison History Project
URL:https://journeytojusticetour.com/event/seattle-wa-storytelling-panel-event/
LOCATION:Town Hall Seattle\, 1119 8th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98101\, United States
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