Meet HAL Alumni from our Guantanamo Public Memory Project and States of Incarceration project as they discuss potential careers in museums and public history with UNCG! Change-Making in Museums and Public History Nov 18, 2022 at 3pm go.uncg.edu/museumcareers

Join our partners at Rikers Public Memory Project for the virtual premiere of Story by Story: Building a People's History of Rikers Island Wednesday, December 14th at 6pm Register at tinyurl.com/RPMPDoc #MemoryMatters #Decarcerate #CollectiveMemory #OralHistories #ReleaseNotRikers

HAL is excited to announce that we received a grant from Mellon Foundation to continue building on our Climates of inequality and States of Incarceration projects! sasn.rutgers.edu/news-events/ne…

Happening Today! Join us for a talk with Liz Sevcenko on her book Public History for a Post-Truth Era. Mar 7, 2023 03:30 PM Pacific Time Link to register: tinyurl.com/mckp9mhp

"How Should Rikers Island Be Remembered?" Epicenter NYC talks to narrators from Rikers Public Memory Project to share how their experiences shape how Rikers should be remembered. Read here: epicenter-nyc.com/how-should-rik… #Closerikers, #newyorkcity, #nyc

Immigrants are still being detained in NJ, even after the anti-detention bill went into law. The Elizabeth Detention Center will hopefully close in Aug. We asked the Elizabeth city council to create zoning rules preventing the facility from being used to hold people again.

really excellent panel tonight from ACLU of New Jersey, "A Vision of Decarceration In New Jersey," highlighting Garden State contradictions: no state has reduced prison pop. more since 2011 (over 50%!)... & no state has as high racial disparities inside

Public history friends!

"While Molina could focus on expanding compassionate treatment of ppl on #Rikers while facilitating its timely closure by 2027, he’s chosen to make it even more brutal & oppressive, & less transparent." - John Proctor of #CloseRikers partner Re/Creation nydailynews.com/2023/10/06/how…

Scholars from across the 3 Rutgers University campuses will join with activists this Friday Oct. 27 for a symposium exploring the Elizabeth Detention Center. go.rutgers.edu/cseu9iih Rutgers University–New Brunswick Rutgers Law ⚖️ Rutgers–Camden Rutgers University-Newark Detention Watch Network (DWN)

Join our amazing HAL partners New Labor for the premier of “No Somos Máquinas (We Are Not Machines)” -a fantastic documentary about their org! Fri, 8-16, 6:30pm at the Rutgers Labor Education Center (50 Labor Center Way) Cook/Douglass campus. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

JOIN US TOMORROW If there ever was a time to demand accountability on #rikers it MUST be now! Two medical related deaths are under investigation for summer 24. When will the city leaders hear the cries of their constituents? Join us along with @jailsactioncoalition and