Saturday, December 5, 2026

Time: 8AM-12PM (CST)

Online and In-Person

Facilitated by Joshua Saleem, Freedom Community Center (St. Louis), and Kenya Brumfield, Saint Louis University

This CLFO organizing workshop examines mass incarceration through the lens of lived experience, faith-rooted organizing, and restorative justice. Facilitated by Joshua Saleem of Freedom Community Center and Kenya Brumfield of Saint Louis University, the session invites participants to critically explore how punitive systems impact individuals, families, and communities—particularly communities of color—and how restorative justice offers transformative alternatives grounded in accountability, healing, and collective liberation.

Participants will engage in political education, reflection, and organizing skill-building that connects personal and community experiences with structural analysis. The workshop centers restorative justice as both a philosophical framework and a practical organizing strategy, emphasizing community-led responses to harm, decarceration efforts, and systems change. Faith traditions, moral imagination, and community wisdom are woven throughout as resources for resistance, repair, and reimagining justice.

Participants will:

• Examine the roots and impacts of mass incarceration locally and nationally
• ^{Learn core principles of restorative and transformative justice frameworks}
• ^{Explore faith-informed approaches to justice, healing, and accountability}
• ^{Develop organizing strategies that challenge carceral systems and promote community-based solutions}
• ^{Reflect on the role of organizers, institutions, and communities in building just alternatives}