Hadar Aviram

Vanguard Webinar: A Human Rights Disaster at San Quentin
2021-06-04 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | DC
Proceedings have begun in Marin County Superior Court against San Quentin State Prison and the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) for what one judge has called “the worst epidemiological disaster in California correctional history.”
More than 300 individuals have filed ‘habeas corpus’ petitions, alleging the prison violated 8th Amendment protections against “cruel and unusual punishment” when a transfer of incarcerated people which failed to test for COVID, to San Quentin resulted in a massive COVID-19 outbreak.
In May of 2020, CDCR decided to move 121 incarcerated people from the California Institution for Men (CIM), in Chico, to San Quentin. At the time, CIM had the highest COVID-19 infection rate of any prison in California. Prior to the transfer, San Quentin did not have a single confirmed case.
In the ensuing weeks, approximately 75 percent of prisoners and staff were infected with the virus.
We will have a panel to discuss this massive injustice.
Confirmed speakers:
Danica Rodarmel, SF Public Defender’s Office
Professor Hadar Aviram, UC Hastings Law School
Adamu Chan, Former Incarcerated Person
Member of the Legal team, invited

Mass Incarceration in the Pandemic: Can the Courts Fix Prison Health?
2021-04-17 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Join me, UCLA professor Sharon Dolovich, Ella Baker Center State Campaigner James King, and California Coalition of Women Prisoners’ Jane Dorotik, for this important conversation!

Yesterday's Monsters Book Talk at the Baldy Center, SUNY Buffalo
2021-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online, CA, United States
SUNY Buffalo’s Baldy Center hosts me for a talk about my recent book Yesterday’s Monsters–and I promise to talk some about how the book sheds light on the COVID-19 prison disaster. Please join us!

UC Berkeley JSP Reunion Book Event
2021-02-26 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Join me and my colleagues, fellow JSP graduates Ashley Rubin and Ming Hsu Chen, as well as fellow JSP graduate and moderator KT Albiston, to celebrate the publication of our respective books: Ashley’s The Deviant Prison, Ming’s Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era, and my Yesterday’s Monsters!

California Correctional Crisis, Day 3
2021-02-19 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Join us for the third and final day of California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak!
12:00 PM Introduction
12:10 PM Immigration Detention and COVID-19: Panel Discussion

Blaine Bookey, moderator, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Grisel Ruiz, panelist, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Lisa Knox, panelist, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
Joe Mejia, panelist, Activist
Monika Langarica, panelist, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties

1:40 PM Break
1:50 PM Matthew Cuban, poet
2:30 PM Break
2:35 PM Vaccination and Incarcerated Populations: Panel Discussion

Prof. Sarah Hooper, moderator, UC Hastings
Prof. Dorit Reiss, panelist, UC Hastings
Sam Lewis, panelist, Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Sara Norman, panelist, Prison Law Office
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, MD, panelist, UCSF

4:00 PM Closing Remarks

California Correctional Crisis - Day 2!
2021-02-12 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Join us for Day 2 of our symposium on healthcare and incarceration in CA! Today’s events focus on gender and reproductive justice behind bars:
12:00 PM Introduction
12:10 PM Transgender Healthcare in Prisons: Panel Discussion

Ava Agree, moderator, UC Hastings
Omar Garcia, panelist, Transgender Law Center
Jasmine Jones, panelist, Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project
Jen Orthwein, panelist, Medina Orthwein LLP

1:40 PM Break
2:00 PM Belly of the Beast: A Film by Erika Cohn, presented by If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
3:25 PM Audience Q & A with director Erika Cohn
4:00 PM Closing Remarks

California Correction Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak, Day 1
2021-02-05 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
The Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, Hastings Women’s Law Journal, and the Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment with the support of the Institute for Criminal Justice at UC Hastings are coming together to host an important symposium on incarceration and healthcare, focusing on the COVID-19 crisis. SAVE THE DATES!
FEB. 5, 12:00 – 5:00 PM:

History of Medical Access in Prisons/Jails: acclaimed prison historian Prof. Ashley Rubin
California Correctional Crisis: COVID-19 and the Current State of Healthcare Access:

Jacque Wilson, moderator, SF Public Defender’s Office
Adnan Khan, panelist, Re:Store Justice
Prof. Sharon Dolovich, panelist, UCLA – director of the COVID behind bars data project
Daisy Ramirez, panelist, ACLU SoCal
Michael Bien, panelist, Rosen Bien Galvin & Grunfeld LLP
Sheriff Dean Growden, panelist, Lassen County

San Quentin and COVID-19

Hadar Aviram, moderator, UC Hastings
James King, panelist, Ella Baker Center
Richard Braucher, panelist, First District Appellate Project
Heather O’Malley, panelist, Social Worker

Keynote Speaker: Justice Anthony Kline

Please register on our event website for Zoom access!

California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak
2020-12-05 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Why are prisons, jails, and detention facilities so vulnerable to COVID-19? What can be done to help? JOIN US to find out!
Three UC Hastings journals are coming together to organize an important symposium on incarceration and healthcare, focusing on the COVID-19 prison crisis. We are excited to invite you–details will follow. For now, please SAVE THE DATES!
When?

Feb. 5, 12-4pm: California Correctional Crisis, Meet COVID-19
Feb. 12, 12-4pm: Focus on reproductive justice, trans incarcerated people, and special populations
Feb. 19, 12-4pm: Focus on immigration detention and healthcare

Where? Online (registration details to follow)
The conference will feature amazing speakers: advocates, activists, academics, officials, formerly incarcerated people. Among our confirmed speakers are renown prison historian Prof. Ashley Rubin; prison law expert Prof. Sharon Dolovich, Director of the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project; Adnan Khan, Executive Director of Re:Store Justice; Richard Braucher of the First District Appellate Project, counsel for Ivan Von Staich in the landmark case that resulted in a San Quentin population reduction order; Michael Bien, Managing Partner of Rosen, Bien, Galvan & Grunfeld, who is litigating Plata v. Newsom, an effort to find relief for the entire prison system through the federal courts; James King, State Campaigner for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
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MCLE Credits for lawyers pending. Please plan on joining us!
Your hosts:

Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment (HJCP)
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (HRPLJ)
Hastings Women’s Law Journal (HWLJ)

COVID-19: Why Prison Populations Should Be Among the First to Receive a Vaccine
2020-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Join Sam Lewis of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition and yours truly for a fireside chat about the importance of prioritizing vaccines for incarcerated populations.

Bar Association of San Francisco Ballot Propositions Event
2020-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
Join Brittany Stonesifer, John Windham, and me for a panel moderated by Valerie Brender on Props. 16, 17, 20, and 25.

Book Talk at Tattered Cover
2020-05-19 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
I’m so excited to livestream a book talk about Yesterday’s Monsters hosted by Tattered Cover, one of my favorite bookstores in the world! I will be talking with Tattered Cover’s Director of Marketing and Events, Mikaley Osley. Please join us!

Animal Liberation Online Assembly
2020-05-02 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online, CA, United States
A Chinese doctor was punished for warning the world about the coronavirus, then died of the disease himself. A Navy officer wrote to his superiors that his crew members were falling ill, then was fired for insubordination when the letter was leaked to the media. Dozens of animal rights activists have exposed diseased animals at farms and slaughterhouses — including a coronavirus in pig farms — but instead of investigating the farms the authorities have prosecuted the activists.
What ties these cases together, and what can be done? Join us Saturday for a panel discussion with investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, legal scholar Hadar Aviram, and DxE co-founder and factory farm investigator Wayne Hsiung, to learn how the fight to defend whistleblowers will shape the future of our planet.
