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Dean Spade discusses anti-militarism and transformative justice with Benji Hart, exploring their collaborative work and insights from facilitation.

Send us a message Dean sits down with friend and collaborator Benji Hart, a facilitator, educator, writer, and artist with years of experience in multiracial abolitionist organizing. Together, they discuss their anti-militarism work with the group Dissenters and explore the deep connections between transformative justice and artistic practice. Benji shares insights from their experience facilitating transformative justice processes, emphasizing the importance of treating the work as planting ...

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Host: Dean Spade

Guest: Benji Hart

Topics covered

• anti-militarism
• transformative justice
• artistic practice
• abolitionist organizing
• facilitation

Keywords

• Benji Hart
• Dean Spade
• Dissenters
• transformative justice
• anti-militarism
• abolitionist organizing
• artistic practice

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Organizations: Dissenters

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