Pub Quiz & Doc | From Prison to Purpose: Exploring U.S. Incarceration, Poverty & Systems Change
Hosts: Poverty Stoplight and SIGNAL UK
Join us for an interactive pub quiz and documentary viewing which explores modern U.S. civil rights issues, mass incarceration, and the overlap with poverty in the United States.
The game will be fun, educational, and respectful, and will set the stage for the screening of the 50-minute long documentary, “Kiana’s Mission”, which chronicles Louisiana-based Kiana Calloway’s wrongful imprisonment at the age of 16, the civil rights issues that had a massive impact on his life pre and post-imprisonment, his rise as a leader in prison reform, as well as his work impacting the lives of other Black men in Louisiana who share his same fate.
The session covers civil rights, voting rights, Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury law, solitary confinement, multidimensional poverty, and the power of perseverance to drive systemic change.
Calloway and the Poverty Stoplight have worked together to address poverty in the United States, starting in communities who have been deeply impacted by systemic abuses and issues that cause extreme poverty.
This event will cover how the Stoplight works in communities all over the world, sharing information on the Global Stoplight Network which has 1,000 civil society organizations, private businesses, and governments working together to eliminate poverty in 60 countries.
For more insight from Calloway on his story, read his blog on solitary confinement.
This venue has a capacity of 90.