<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font style="" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Please join the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network next week for a discussion on abolition and disability justice. </font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font style="" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"></p><img src="cid:ii_kk3c3w8j0" alt="image.png" width="461" height="231"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Abolition, Deinstitutionalization, and Decarceration in the Pandemic<br></font></b></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Monday, 25 January 2021, at 8:00 PM Eastern / 5:00 PM Pacific </font></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="text-align:center;box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abolition-deinstitutionalization-and-decarceration-in-the-pandemic-tickets-136762491293" target="_blank">RSVP</a> (registration is free)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">The pandemic has hit hardest and deadliest in institutions including jails and prisons, psych hospitals, nursing homes, group homes, and large-scale developmental disabilities institutions. This webinar will discuss connections between disability justice and abolition, explain deinstitutionalization and decarceration, and explore strategies that advocates and organizers are using to challenge ableism, racism, and other forms of violence arising during the pandemic.<br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">We will provide ASL interpretation (with a CDI), CART captioning, and video and audio-only connection options.<br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.5px"><span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Panelists</font></span></p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px 2em;list-style-position:initial;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.5px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail-il">Dustin</span> P. Gibson</b> works in the tradition of deinstitutionalization and has worked with Centers for Independent Living (IL) in Pittsburgh, PA and both of the national IL organizations. He is the Access, Disability and Language Justice Coordinator at PeoplesHub, a Peer Support Trainer with Disability Link in Atlanta, GA and a founding member of the Harriet Tubman Collective.<br><br></font></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail-il">Shain</span> M. Neumeier</b> is a lawyer, activist, and community organizer, and an out and proud member of the disabled, trans, queer, and asexual communities. They focus on ending abuse and neglect of disabled youth in schools and treatment facilities. <span class="gmail-il">Shain</span> has worked with the Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition Project, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, and the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth.<br></font></li></ul><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.5px"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">Moderator</span></font></p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px 2em;list-style-position:initial;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.5px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">Lydia X. Z. Brown</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs</span><br></font></li></ul><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.5px"><span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px"><font color="#000000" style="" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Please note that after registering on EventBrite, you will also receive instructions for receiving a Zoom link. AWN will host this event on Zoom as well as livestream to Facebook.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:0.5px"><span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px"><font color="#000000" style="" size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>[Event banner shows a muted photograph of large gates in a stone wall opening in the background. The text says Abolition, Deinstitutionalization, & Decarceration in the Pandemic, January 25 at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. There are photos of two people - a Black person with short dark hair and a beard looking directly at the camera, and a white person with short blond hair and glasses smiling. Under the photos are the names Dustin Gibson and Shain Neumeier. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large letter A with a dragonfly on it, and the words <a href="http://awnnetwork.org">awnnetwork.org</a>]</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="l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