spiritchild will perform solo set Please note: The Cop Watch Conference (Sept. 27-28) is not open to the media.Please join MXGM, the Justice Committee & CAAAV for theOpening Celebration of the Cop Watch Conference 2013! On the opening night of the Cop Watch Conference 2013, come build with Cop Watchers and police violence/accountability organizers from across the US as we celebrate this occasion! Festivities will include a short film exhibition, performances, and a Keynote address by Lumumba Bandele, Co-founder of MXGM's Cop Watch program & Senior Organizer with LDF.This September 27-28, Cop Watchers and police accountability organizers from across the country will converge to share skills, practices, resources, and ideas. Specifically aimed at bringing together groups and individuals from WITHIN communities highly targeted by police abuse & violence, this Cop Watch Conference aims for our own communities to be empowered & organized to affect the way our peoples are policed ourselves. Over the course of two days, we will envision and develop a Cop Watch community that is stronger, more unified and better prepared to affect real change for & with our communities.Friday September 27, 20137-10pm@ The Point, 940 Garrison AveHunts Point, in the South Bronx NYC*6 train to Hunts PointTo RSVP: Info@JusticeCommittee.orgOr Call: (212) 614-5343----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday, September 27th, 7-10pmProgramThe opening celebration of the Cop Watch Conference begins with an film exhibition, featuring youth-created short films and rare footage from Black Panther Collective cop watch patrols. The films will begin at 6:45pm for early arrivals.At 7:30: Lumumba Bandele, co-founder of MXGM's Cop Watch Program and Senior Community Organizer of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, will offer a Keynote address followed by Q&A and dialogue . The evening will end with amazing musical performances by local artists.-----Presented by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Justice Committee and CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, with support from the Center for Constitutional Rights.