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The Deep History of Incarceration

Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney

A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique.

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history of prisons, incarceration, prison

Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration

Nicole Fleetwood

Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.

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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Nicole Fleetwood, prison, prison abolition

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration

Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.

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Abolition, incarceration, prison, Survived and Punished

Valerie Seeley: Interview by Victoria Law

Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, being granted clemency after 17 years in prison, and why she's fighting for the freedom of women and girls still inside.

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#FreeThemAll, Abolition, clemency, criminalization, domestic violence, gender violence, mass commutations, prison, sexual violence, Survived and Punished

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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policing, prison, prison abolition, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance

S&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence

Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade

This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.

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borders, Deportation, immigration, police, prison, self-defense, state violence, surveillance, technology

Fighting the Isolation and Dehumanization of Prisons and Policing

CeCe McDonald joins prison abolition activists Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in a conversation about her own experiences surviving trauma and impossible situations, and the importance of collective organizing for people facing systems of violence.

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activism, class, economic justice, human rights, police, prison, queer, race, transgender, violence