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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)
Date
Sep 18, 2019   4:00 pm  
Contact
Center for Advanced Study
E-Mail
cas@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-6729
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Originating Calendar
Center for Advanced Study

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. It 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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