Beyond the Bars 2022 is bringing together movements for decarceration, abolition, and climate and environmental justice to develop solidarity, share analysis, exchange strategies, and build power. This conference aims to not only confront the dire, intersecting realities of climate catastrophe, mass punishment, criminalization, and incarceration, but to explore how we are working toward good relations, with each other, our communities, and the earth we want and deserve.

With three panels over the course of the day, scholars, organizers, healers, and artists will explore these questions in the hopes of strengthening our collective work:

• What are the connections between the struggles for decarceration, abolition, and climate justice? How does the work of making communities safer intersect with the protection of our environment?
• What are the organizing strategies and concrete practices that confront the intersections of these struggles and advance our collective work?
• How can our respective movements collaborate and build together to transform our communities and develop stronger and more cohesive relations?

Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef will be moderating the second plenary, "Movement Building in a World on Fire: Organizing at the Intersections." 

***IMPORTANT NOTE for REGISTRATION :There are limited in-person seats for the conference. Please only register if you intend to come.