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ALT Alice Kim is Director at the Center for Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the Universty of Chicago. She writes, teaches, and organizes around access to education for people who are incarcerated, capital punishment, police torture, and the prison system. She teaches at a maximum-security prison and leads the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project’s community-building efforts connecting scholars, teaching artists, and community leaders with incarcerated students. Alice is a co-founder of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a leader in the movement to end capital punishment in Illinois and nationwide and worked closely with the Death Row 10, and was instrumental in advocating for the successful blanket commutations of Illinois’s 167 death sentences in 2003.
ALT Armanda Shackelford is a dedicated freedom fighter against carceral injustice. Armanda worked for Chicago Public Schools. Her son Gerald Reed was arrested in 1990 for a crime he didn't commit, and was tortured under the police era of Jon Burge. Gerald's torture continued in prison where he was denied medical treatment and subjected to cruelty by IDOC. Armanda won the support of thousands across the city to demand her son be freed. With her soft voice and loud demand, she shocked the core of the criminal justice system, and Gerald was exonerated and freed in April 2021.
ALT Gregory Banks is an activist and the Chicago Torture Justice Center’s Safety Coordinator. He experienced abuse and torture at the Chicago Area 2 police station in 1983 and spent many years in the Illinois Department of Correction due to being tortured, and coerced into a false confession. Gregory is a former substance abuse counselor and avid reader. He spends his time going out into the community and educating Chicago Public School students on the topic of police violence and reparations.
ALT John Conroy is the Senior Investigator at the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he works on wrongful conviction and other civil rights cases. In his former life, he was an investigative reporter, and his coverage of the Chicago police torture scandal spanned 22 years. His articles have been published in many publications. He is the author of two books, Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life and Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, as well as the play My Kind of Town, set against the backdrop of the Chicago Police torture scandal, which premiered at Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre in May 2012.
ALT Mark Clements is a Chicago police torture survivor. At age 16 in 1981 he was taken to area 3 violent crime unit where he was tortured to confess to a crime. Mark was one of Illinois first juvenile’s sentence to natural life without parole in the state of Illinois. He remained incarcerated for 28 years before his conviction was overturned in 2009. In 2009 he was hired as administrator and organizer with the Campaign to End the Death Penalty in which he held other positions working from Chicago and Austin, Texas. He also helped to organize and establish the existence of the Illinois Fair Sentence of Youth through Northwestern University of School of Law, while sitting on the board of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Mark is with the Chicago Torture Justice Center as a Senior Community Organizer working in many complex areas of trauma and while attending court hearings and in support of others that were taken to police stations across the city of Chicago and t
ALT Mark Clements reflections on reparations won! 10 years later Gregory Banks Armanda Shackelford Alice Kim Hear from the organizers and survivors who fought for reparations that were won in 2015. registration encouraged: bit.ly/reflections-on-reparations free parking available Accessibility info on event page panelists: PANEL 12-2pm NEW LOCATION: 6400 S Kimbark Ave (First Presbyterian Church) Saturday, May 31 COMMUNITY PARTY 2-6pm Come for the panel and stick around for the party! John Conroy
ALT John Conroy is the Senior Investigator at the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he works on wrongful conviction and other civil rights cases. In his former life, he was an investigative reporter, and his coverage of the Chicago police torture scandal spanned 22 years. His articles have been published in many publications. He is the author of two books, Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life and Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, as well as the play My Kind of Town, set against the backdrop of the Chicago Police torture scandal, which premiered at Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre in May 2012. reflections on reparations won! 10 years later Meet the panelists: John conroy
ALT A screenshot of the headline “House of Screams” by John Conroy in the Chicago Reader
ALT reflections on reparations won! 10 years later Hear from the organizers and survivors who fought for reparations that were won in 2015. bit.ly/reflections-on-reparations PANEL 12-2pm 6337 S. Woodlawn Ave. Saturday, May 31 COMMUNITY PARTY 2-6pm Come for the panel and stick around for the party!
ALT Join the Chicago Torture Justice Center at the next TIRC meeting to commemorate and honor attorney Stan Willis’s contributions to justice for survivors Wednesday May 21st 1:30pm 555 West Monroe St (TIRC)
ALT Are you a renter? You have rights! Learn how to write a 14-day demand letter to your landlord This training is for any renter in the Chicago area presented by Chicago Torture Justice Center & Uptown People's Law Center Wednesday, Apr 2 5:30-7pm 6337 S Woodlawn Ave
