Up-dates and Up-and-coming :
The website is now up!
So now we can begin to gather ideas, resources, visions, and power together.
Wondering how to begin? Try these…
-Write something about your experiences with how you and your community have responded to sexual violence in „Story and Experiences“.
-Curious about these concepts, „Community Accountability“ and „Transformative Justice“? One way to go deeper is by doing a translation of one of the texts linked or posted in „What is Transformative Justice and Community Accountability“ into German (or another language), so we can stretch this body of knowledge far and wide.
-Email transformativejusticeinberlin@googlemail.com to join the mailing list.
be well
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In September:
Melanie will be offering workshops in Köln and Berlin in September, on the topics of Transformative Justice and Community Accountability. Each should probably include 2 sessions of about 2 hours each… If you are in the hood, swing by, say hey, and join in!
GapFest Köln, afternoon of Saturday, 4. September,
http://gapfest.wordpress.com/author/gapfest/
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Anti-Sexistische Praxen Konferenz IV, Saturday 11. September, 10:30-12 & 12:30-14
http://www.antisexist-perspectives.so36.net/
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Workshop Block 1 : Community Accountability for Sexual Violence
Does your community have a plan for how to react if someone you know and love is sexually assaulted?
‘Community Accountability’ is a framework developed by organizations in the U.S. like INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and CARA for holding perpetrators of oppressive or violent behavior responsible through a process organized by communities, outside of State institutions.
The concept comes out of the belief that communities are both responsible for, and affected by, the violence that happens within them. It was designed by and for people of color and queer/trans communities, often targeted by police and the State.
Workshop Block 2 : Transformative Justice : Perpetrator Accountability
The second workshop will build off the concepts discussed in the first, and focus more closely on models for perpetrator accountability processes within a community accountability structure.
Transformative Justice seeks more transformative, less punitive ways of addressing violence in our communities. This model developed by U.S. based organization Generation 5 is based on the belief that individual justice for survivors and social justice for us all are mutually supportive.
All workshops presented in English; discussion in German, with translation available.