Despite the state of Wisconsin’s longstanding traditions of progressive and cooperative action, the capital city of Madison reveals stark examples of the United States’ brutal and racist prison-industrial complex as well as its school-to-prison pipeline.

Stephanie Rearick will speak about how the organization she founded, Mutual Aid Networks, has collaborated with multiple partners since 2006 to build and run timebanking-supported restorative justice youth courts through the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB).

She will also speak and answer questions about Mutual Aid Networks, a new type of cooperative that brings people together around a common vision to build community savings pools, along with timebanking, other forms of mutual credit, and resource sharing, in order to meet the needs of members and their projects.