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Shrinking the Prison Industrial Complex: Strategic Abolitionist Organizing in the 21st Century

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Advanced Study
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Date
Sep 18, 2019   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Mariame Kaba
Cost
Free and open to the public
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Originating Calendar
Asian American Studies

Prisons are not ‘broken’ nor are they rehabilitative. They exist to punish and control. In fact, the prison industrial complex (PIC) reinforces and reproduces systems of oppression that perpetuate the violence we experience.

Founded in 2009, Project NIA has been organizing to   end the PIC by developing solutions that transform violence. Project NIA is part of a movement whose goal  is to build a world focused on accountability, healing    and

transformation for everyone. In this lecture, Mariame Kaba will argue that shrinking the PIC by relying on non-reformist reforms can help move us towards an abolitionist future, offering examples of past and current abolitionist campaigns.

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