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The Road to Abolition: Intersectional Approaches to Immigrant Justice

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Friday, April 8, 2022
10:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Laurence E. Hirsch '71 Classroom (Room 101)
John F. Scarpa Hall
ÎÞÂëרÇø Charles Widger School of Law
299 N. Spring Mill Road, ÎÞÂëרÇø,ÌýPAÌý19085

For its second annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, RefugeeÌýand Emigrant Services (CARES) will explore abolition as the path to immigrant justice. As immigration detention and deportation continue to perpetuate global inequality, entrenched colonialism, and racial injustice, a movement to abolish ICE and shift government resources to housing, health care, and education continues to grow. The symposium will focus on organizing efforts to end immigration enforcement and detention, the intersection of racial justice and abolitionist movements and lessons learned in abolitionist work beyond the immigrant rights movement.

This program is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 3.5ÌýSubstantive In-Person CLE credits. No distance learning CLE credits will be available. Please note registration prior to the event is required.

The cost of attendance is covered by a generous gift from Joseph Azrack ’69 VSB. Any donation made through registration to support the CARES Clinic will be fully tax-deductible.

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Agenda

Subject to change

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10:30–10:45 a.m.: Opening Remarks

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10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Panel 1 – The View on the Ground: Organizing for Immigration Abolition

, Executive Director, Juntos
,ÌýCommunity Defense Program Manager, Vietlead
,ÌýOrganizing & Advocacy Director, American Friends Service Committee

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12:00–12:15: p.m.: Reflections

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, Associate Professor, Director of Latin American Studies Program, ÎÞÂëרÇø

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12:15–1:00 p.m.: Lunch

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1:00–2:00 p.m.: Featured Lecture – "Immigration Reform RequiresÌýChanging Our Paradigm for Racism and Movement Building"

, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

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2:15–3:45 p.m.: Panel 2 – Breaking Down Silos: Perspectives on AbolitionÌý

Caitlin Barry, Director of the Clinical Program, Director of the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic & Associate Professor of Law, ÎÞÂëרÇø Charles Widger School of Law
, Housing Activist and PhD Student, Temple UniversityÌý
,ÌýAssociate Clinical Professor of Law,ÌýTemple University Beasley School of Law
, Advocate & Activist, Criminal Injustice Reform Network
,ÌýDirector of Advocacy Initiatives, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
,ÌýStaff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society of NYC

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3:45–4:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks