Monday, August 17, 2020, 7:00 PM
Andrea C. James is the Executive Director National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. The National Council is committed to abolishing incarceration for women and girls. The organization believes a prison will never be the place for a woman or girl to heal and advance her life. Prison most often causes further social and economic harm and does not result in an increase in public safety. The prison experience increases trauma in women and, if they are mothers, to the children they are separated from. It deepens poverty in the individual lives of incarcerated people and the overall economic stability of their communities. The National Council is guided by the principles of transformative justice, alternative community economic development, participatory budgeting and developing liberation projects.  Fourth in a series on Antiracism and Peace sponsored by the Racial Justice/ Decolonization Working Group of Massachusetts Peace Action.  More information and webinar registration here.