Join Interrupting Criminalization and ABOLISYON! for the final webinar in our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism Series on Tuesday, December 9th at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT/6 pm MT/5 pm PT U.S. time/ December 10 at 9 am Manila time!
We'll be talking about how reparative and transformative justice-based organizing has shifted and evolved in the Philippines, how organizers are navigating state violence and efforts to secure accountability, and strategies for practicing transformative justice under mounting and consolidating authoritarianism while building stronger transnational solidarities with abolitionist organizers in the region and beyond.
ABOLISYON! is an abolitionist affinity group based in the Philippines. They began in 2020 as a working group that held online educational discussions on police and prison abolition and related issues in the context of the Philippines. Aiming for transformative justice, the group works hard to center anti-carceral feminist frameworks in both their own initiatives as well as in their collaborations with other groups and spaces.
We are also honored to be joined by Dr. Aurora Parong, a medical doctor who has engaged in extensive work in the Philippines on health, human rights and justice with 40 years of experience in community and sector organizing, transformative education as well as national and international work focused on civil, political, health, social, economic, development rights who works for restorative and transitional justice including reparations and guarantee of non-recurrence.
She is currently Vice-Chairperson of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), and has previously served as a Board member of Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board (HRVCB), which recognized and provided reparations to 11,103 victims of gross human rights violations during martial law under the dictatorship of President Marcos, and as Executive Director of three national human rights organizations, the Medical Action Group (MAG), Task Force on Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) and Amnesty International Philippines.