Date:
Monday, June 11, 2018 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Country Springs Hotel, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI
RACE TO JUSTICE
At this forum, WISDOM leaders from around the state will be asking gubernatorial candidates very specific questions about their intentions in the areas of criminal justice reform (including parole, crimeless revocations, treatment alternatives to incarceration, Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, solitary confinement), public transportation, childhood poverty, health care, immigration, education, mining.
Confirmed candidates so far include:
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Matt Flynn
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Andy Gronik
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Mike McCabe
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Mahlon Mitchell
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Kelda Roys
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Kathleen Vinehout
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Dana Wachs
Candidates unable to attend, expressing regrets: Tony Evers, Paul Soglin
Also invited, awaiting response: Scott Walker
Hosted by the WISDOM network.
Car-pooling from Northeast Wisconsin is being arranged, including reimbursement of cost of gasoline for those who drive. Contact ESTHER by phone (920-843-8083) or email (office@esther-foxvalley.org) to make arrangements.
For the most current information, see the event page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/170215040331902/
This event is the fourth annual gathering to raise awareness of the local impacts of addiction and to bring light and support to families affected by addiction.
Bev Kelley-Miller and Natalie Coenen, members of the ESTHER Prison Reform Task Force, will share their stories. Senator Tammy Baldwin will also attend to share her own family’s story about how the addiction crisis hits close to home and to highlight the efforts of event organizers in lighting the way and supporting families touched by the crisis. 
Adjunct professor at Edgewood College and full-time Restorative Justice Coach Roderick “Rudy” Bankston was wrongly convicted and handed a life sentence in his youth. Deeply wounded and experiencing a severe identity crisis, he turned his prison cell into a classroom. Today he is an educator, activist, and published author. His powerful story about his experience as a survivor of the school-to-prison pipeline offers key insights into the paradox of resiliency fueled by systemic injustice.
Meeting will be held in Room HS114 A/B. Use Entrance 16.
This event is part of the Race to Justice campaign, a series of local training and organizing gatherings being held this spring in locations around the state, with a focus on justice system reform in Wisconsin as an issue in the 2018 gubernatorial and state legislative races.
