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Policing Black Lives- book launch and discussion


March 01, 2018


Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present is a comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black life in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance,

Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the social and historical forces behind Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, police violence, disproportionate incarceration, immigration detention and deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and the school-to-prison pipeline.


Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist author, grassroots community organizer and independent scholar based in Montréal. She has been a part of movements against racial profiling and police violence for over a decade and has an extensive background in community work doing harm-reduction outreach

See schedule for list of guest speakers.

ACCESSIBILITY
Free event.
Childcare on-site.
There will be ASL interpretation.
Venue is wheelchair accessible:
https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/students/disabilityaccess/HCPhysicalAccessGuide2015.pdf
All genders washrooms on ground level.
Scent-reduced space: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html

Time: 6:00PM – 9:00PM
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, Rm 1900
Location: 555 W Hastings St. Vancouver, BC
Website: http://www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/public-events/public-events/2018/pbl.html
Categories: Human Rights, Law, Legal

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