Andreia Beatriz Silva dos Santos is a doctor specializing in family and community medicine with a master’s degree in community health. She is coordinator of the political organization Reaja ou Ser Morta (React or Be Killed), which since 2005 has been developing practices and actions to combat the genocide of Black people in the streets, slums, and inside prisons.
Andreia is on the medical faculty at Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil) and conducts research into the health of the Black population and those inside the prison system and on the struggle against anti-Black violence. She is also a Family Health Practitioner with the Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine. She works with a health team at Lemos Brito Penitentiary/ Bahia. She is the creator of the permanent action Intramuros Health and Culture in the Bahian prison system and co-founder of the Community School Quilombista Winnie Mandela.
She is author of the book Olhar entre grades, vidas em poemas, published by Reaja Editora (2020) of which she is co-founder. She co-directed the documentary film Genocide and Movements, released by the production company Couro de Rato (2021).
Hosted by Andreia Beatriz Silva dos Santos , Brandon Daurham , ethan ucker , Mariame Kaba , Martine Caverl
In this session, we will learn from Ujimaa Medics, Stick Talk, and Reaja ou Ser Morta as they discuss the transformative ways they address and respond to gun violence.
Moderator: Mariame Kaba
Presentations
Stick Talk with Brandon Daurham and ethan ucker
As arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration for gun possession offenses surge across the U.S., organizers from Stick Talk (Chicago IL) are advancing Firearm Harm Reduction, a community defense strategy co-created by young Black and Brown people who are on both sides of the gun.
What does it mean to make community safety and care with guns? Let's discuss!
Stick Talk builds capacity to respond to urban gun violence without criminalizing firearm possession or defaulting to abstinence-based approaches to firearms.