Public Interest Week 2020
2020-02-03..2020-02-07
Philadelphia, United States
[Public Interest Week 2020, Public Interest Week 2021]
who it's for
public interest lawyers, community organizers, civil rights advocates, librarians and archivists, criminal justice reformers, policy advocates, technologists working on surveillance
topics
facial recognition bias and harms; community control of police surveillance; clemency and expungement reform; decolonizing library subject headings; environmental racism policy tools; anti-racism microaggression training; restorative and reproductive justice strategies; coalition campaign organizing blueprint; decriminalization as harm reduction; digital oral history and archives
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Navigating Everyday Racism | Howard Stevenson | 47m |
Shares a concrete, practiceable model for lowering racial stress and changing immediate outcomes: reading, recasting, resolving with a short-step tool labeled… | ||
| A Conversation with Benjamin Jealous | Benjamin Jealous | 57m |
A practical blueprint for choosing and winning one big thing: uses a simple sheet-of-paper exercise to pick a focus, builds cross-ideological coalitions (NAACP… | ||
| White Supremacy Anthropogenic Climate Change, and What Lawyers Can Do | ellen hyman | 01h 18m |
Panelists argue environmental racism is deliberate, show tools and pilots: a Philadelphia proposal requires a health grading stop before new permits and a… | ||
| Reverberations: A Conversation on Pardons, Expungements, Overpolicing, and Race | casey stewart, noah schoenholz | 01h 06m |
State-level clemency work describes concrete changes: the board removed $63 fee and simplified application text, adds a step-by-step tutorial, and plans an… | ||
| RJ3: The Intersection of Reproductive, Racial, and Restorative Justice | Dorothy Roberts | 01h 17m |
Panel argues that relying on criminal law worsens harm: women in prisons rise from 25,450 in 1980 to 225,000+ today, arrest/prosecution show no deterrent… | ||
| Fast and Loose with Facial Recognition Technology: Modern Tech, Race, and Civil Liberties | Anita Allen | 54m |
Panelists detail concrete failures and fixes: commercial and start-up facial recognition systems show higher error rates for dark skin, private cameras (Ring… | ||
| Decolonizing the Stacks | Amanda Runyan | 01h 21m |
Library teams report concrete fixes: a homegrown foreign-law classification removes colonial prefixes, batch-updating 29,000 catalog records and physically… | ||
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