Dear Friends,

As you know, our Rejecting Violence, Imagining Alternatives community conversation series will be holding its final session Wednesday, October 28 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1009 East 11th Street. Cosponsors for the event include the Texas Inmate Family Association, Texas Jail Project, allgo: A queer people of color organization, La Voz de Austin, Texas Civil Rights Project, and at the University of Texas, the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS), the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies (CWGS), the Department of English, and the Community Engagement Center (CEC).

This week’s conversation is titled “Incarceration,” and speakers will include: Jorge Antonio Renaud, a poet, writer, and consultant with first hand experience in the Texas prison system; Diana Claitor, director of the Texas Jail Project; and Susan Fenner, director of the Texas Inmates Family Association (TIFA).

Please join us for short presentations by our panelists followed by a collective, critical conversation with everyone present to address alternative approaches to incarceration, ways of dealing with prison conditions, and many other topics. Thank you for all of your help, and we encourage you to join us and bring your family, friends, and neighbors this Wednesday. Please forward the information regarding the conversation series to your list serves, as well.

Best,
Kimberly Bacon
Texas After Violence Project Assistant Director
Contact info@texasafterviolence.org
or call (512) 916-1600 for more information.