Following the Gandhi King Youth Conference, the MSPJC and Memphis United will host The People’s Conference on Equal Justice, in partnership with LeMoyne-Owen College. The People’s Conference will be a day of learning about the criminal justice system and training in grassroots community organizing skills, featuring a variety of workshops that will help provide participants with tools to push for real reform of our local adult and juvenile criminal justice systems and police accountability.
The People’s Conference on Equal Justice will be unlike any other conference you have attended because YOU – the participants – will have a hand in directly shaping the tone and content of the conference. While there will be some pre-determined workshops on issues like privatized prisons,knowing your rights, and alternatives to incarceration and the death penalty, there will also be scheduled spaces left open for attendees who want to facilitate a discussion, make their own presentation, or host a dialogue circle around additional justice issues.
Following morning sessions, lunch will feature local food trucks offering a variety of tasty and affordable meals.
After lunch, participants will move into a structured series of skill-based workshops focusing on the basic skills of community organizing including planning a campaign, anti-oppression awareness,canvassing and outreach, and nonviolent direct action.
Participants will leave with the tools needed to engage and collectively act with their communities, towards REAL changes in our justice system. We ask you to attend not to follow but to lead, as we as a community prepare to work for positive change.
The conference is free to current MSPJC members. You can renew your membership online or sign up the day of the conference.
We use a sliding scale for membership dues, and NO ON WILL BE TURNED AWAY FROM THE CONFERENCE FOR FINANCIAL REASONS.
On-site childcare will be available.
What: People’s Conference on Equal Justice
Where: LeMoyne-Owen College, 807 Walker Ave*
When: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014
Registration and Check-In: 7:30am – 9:00am
Conference and Workshops: 9:00am – 5:30pm
(Lunch Break: 11:45am – 1:15pm)
* The conference will take place in and around the LeMoyne-Owen Student Center. While some of you may be familiar with the LMO campus, a Google Map highlighting the Student Center is available by clicking here. Conference parking will be available in the lot just west of the Student Center.