Don't Be a Copagandist: Health Care Workers Edition

 

Join us to learn about Interrupting Criminalization's new resource: Don't Be a Copagandist: Health Care Workers Edition. We'll discuss how to identify and avoid reinforcing police, ICE, and border patrol propaganda in stories and interviews about health care. 

Across the U.S. we are seeing an unprecedented surge in ICE and Border Patrol presence in and around schools, hospitals, and other public and private spaces. This opens the door for the expansion of policing and surveillance into places that should be spaces of care and protection — and deputization of care workers to serve as agents of criminalization. Criminalization is inherently harmful — and therefore antithetical to care. Our communities are being made less safe by the persistent presence of policing by local, state, and federal agencies in health care settings and mental health crisis response.

It is important that when grassroots media, journalists, health care workers, and advocates talk about policing and ICE in health care, we avoid reinforcing “copaganda”: pro-police, pro-ICE, and anti-migrant propaganda that ultimately supports further criminalization of our communities. Our Beyond Do No Harm Network and Abolition Journalism Fellow created this resource together to support media, journalists, and health care workers in rethinking how we talk about care.

Where: Zoom webinar