AGAINST PRISONS

location:
The Evergreen State College
SEM II Cluster
Room E1107

time/date:
5pm…Friday…March 4th…2016

format:
a presentation

discription:
With increased public discussion of mass incarceration, politicians on both sides are beginning to speak of prison reform. Caught within the logic of state power, however, these reforms take the form of new, diffuse forms of imprisonment and policing.

Against both mass incarceration and reform, we will discuss struggle against prison. Taking inspiration from struggles both international and domestic, we will discuss what a practice of prisoner solidarity looks like, how it differs from both prison reform and abolition, and what possibilities lie ahead for anti-prison struggle in the United States. We will draw from our work with autonomous projects of prisoner solidarity, presenting an analysis of solidarity efforts with specific prisoners and wider prison struggle.