What principles and values should guide a project like this? by REGINA CAMPBELL

rc1281 — 2024-03-26 18:44:16 UTC

RPMP Values:

•BUILDING COMMUNITY: We bring stories of Rikers and their narrators together, recognizing that our collective voice gets us closer to the truth.

•SYSTEMIC CHANGE: We use public memory in pursuit of reparative justice for the communities that bear the mounting cost of incarceration.

es905 — 2024-03-26 18:47:58 UTC

Led by those directly impacted

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Collective Leadership & Liberation

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Center people with lived experience with resources and opportunities to expand networks and social capital.

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Community Care

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learning from impacted people about the change they want to catalyze and using the project to support that

es905 — 2024-03-26 20:33:26 UTC

Ensure currently incarcerated people are actually shaping project

rc1281 — 2024-03-26 20:34:23 UTC

ECOSYSTEM OF CARE

Needs to include everyone working on the project -- students, professors, interviewers, as well as of course narrators. How? Maybe done through regular check-ins, space to breathe.

Narrative to facilitate collective and interpersonal healing.

Accountability

es905 — 2024-03-26 20:36:01 UTC

design a process that propels people and pushes them forward - "clap folks along" -- during transformation of reentry

es905 — 2024-03-26 20:38:26 UTC

Ensure narrators are supported with healing so sharing their stories is not retraumatizing, and so they are not just telling their story, but building their own capacity through the process

rc1281 — 2024-03-26 20:39:18 UTC

a process of healing and safe platforms and spaces

es905 — 2024-03-26 20:40:19 UTC

radical joy, radical love, caring for each other

es905 — 2024-03-26 20:42:45 UTC

use project to hold people with resources and power accountable (elected officials, corporations with resources) --

es905 — 2024-03-26 20:44:08 UTC

put resources behind people, giving them the opportunity to succeed or fail, but to try something

es905 — 2024-03-27 16:28:16 UTC

people don't have spaces where people can just open up to be themselves -- need to create that. That takes time to build but is very important

es905 — 2024-03-27 16:29:34 UTC

bring restorative justice principles and practices to bear -- both for those currently and formerly incarcerated -- put it into a larger context of care and what it looks like to ensure that care, how do we do that

es905 — 2024-03-27 16:32:09 UTC

more stories of survival/what happened after, full life histories

es905 — 2024-05-14 20:48:08 UTC

People with lived experience need to be centered and supported -- academics can ride the bus, but they're not driving, may not even have a seat.

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Transparency- no hidden agendas!

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building power in communities that have been the most disenfranchised.

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Harm reduction