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12-12:50PM LEGAL AND GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY PANEL
12-12:50PM LEGAL AND GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY PANEL
Join us for a panel featuring speakers from advocacy organizations all around the state of Michigan, including Open MI Door, End SaR Michigan, and Disability Rights Michigan. The panel will also feature a number of attorneys with experience litigating on behalf of those who are incarcerated, including Larry Margolis, Deborah LaBelle, and Jennifer Zimbelman. We will discuss the importance of both grassroots and legal advocacy, the role that students and community members can play in holding our criminal legal system accountable, and path forward for criminal legal reform going into the second Trump presidency.
1-1:50PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
1-1:50PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Attend a keynote address by the highly esteemed Professor Margo Schlanger, of the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Schlanger will discuss the dire consequences that solitary confinement has on individuals and communities and the importance of pushing to irradicate its use across the nation.
2-2:50PM RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WORKSHOP
2-2:50PM RESTORATIVE JUSTICE WORKSHOP
Participate in a restorative justice workshop alongside other Summit attendees. Friends of Restorative Justice will discuss the importance of implementing restorative justice as an alternative to seclusion and incarceration at every level of society. They will then guide attendees through a restorative justice simulation and a broader dialogue about using restorative justices practices in our own lives.
3-3:50PM FORMERLY INCARCERATED ADVOCATES PANEL
3-3:50PM FORMERLY INCARCERATED ADVOCATES PANEL
Join us for a panel featuring formerly incarcerated advocates from around the state of Michigan. These speakers have experienced the harms and long-term consequences of incarceration first-hand, and many of them can speak directly to the experience of solitary confinement. This panel will discuss each advocate's personal experiences, their journey from healing to advocacy, and the ways in which they find hope while facing such a formidable and perversive system.Â
4-4:50PM EXHIBIT OBSERVATION + NETWORKING
4-4:50PM EXHIBIT OBSERVATION + NETWORKING
Explore an exhibit featuring:
Social justice inspired quilts, handmade by the Quilting Divas
A mock solitary confinement cell, brought by Open MI Door
Letters featuring personal testimony from people incarcerated across the state of Michigan, lent to us by UM's Carceral State Project
Ceramic storytelling urns, handmade by Barbara Oppewall
Prints, painted by formerly incarcerated artist Sean Thomas Savage
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