resistgentrification: What: Conversations on Community...

resistgentrification:

What: Conversations on Community Safety
When: Monday, February 26, 6.30-8:30pm
Where: City Centrel Library
Room 418 (Ambedkar Room, fourth floor)
10350 University Drive, Surrey (next to Surrey Central Skytrain Station)

The City of Surrey has a Public Safety Office and an official Public Safety Strategy; its 2017 budget for Public Safety services was $227.2 million, an increase of over $13 million from the previous year. Nearly 70% of Public Safety funding goes to the Surrey RCMP, the largest RCMP detachment in Canada and one that expands significantly every year. The City, in collaboration with the RCMP, also supports and encourages individuals, neighbourhood organizations and businesses to participate in multiple crime prevention and surveillance initiatives.

Conversations on Community Safety is a series of gatherings where we can talk about the impact of these initiatives on our lives, critically examine our current approaches to policing, and think about alternatives for community safety.

Some of the questions we want to probe are: Does increased safety come with increased policing and surveillance? Who counts as the “public” in these public safety plans and policies What populations within the city are most at risk of violence? Who is in need of safety from the violence of the state? What are the root causes of violence within our communities? And what can we do to increase community safety without reliance on police, courts or prisons?

This event is being organized by the Alliance Against Displacement on the occupied, unceded traditional Coast Salish Territories, specifically the Kwantlen, Katzie & Semiahmoo Nations.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

- Free parking is available in the North Surrey Rec Centre parking lot (by the bus loop) if you register your license plate at the kiosk inside the library on the 1st floor.

- There are gendered, wheelchair accessible public washrooms available on each floor and one private, gender-neutral washroom that must be accessed through staff on the main floor

Alliance against Displacement
Website: http://stopdisplacement.ca/
Email: organize@stopdisplacement.ca
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1826494117369808

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