Program Information

Anarchist Perspectives on Incarceration, Resistance, and Abolition

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Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Danielle, Victoria Law, Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Brendan Story

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dan v Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Oct. 22, 2010, 3 a.m.

Summary: This panel will explore a variety of anarchist perspectives on the origins and impacts of incarceration, strategies and opportunities for resistance and prisoner support,

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Notes: NYC Anarchist Book Fair 2009
Prison/State: Anarchist Perspectives on Incarceration, Resistance, and Abolition
11 April 2009
NYU

Presented by Danielle, Victoria Law, Viviane Saleh-Hanna, and Brendan Story

This panel will explore a variety of anarchist perspectives on the origins and impacts of incarceration, strategies and opportunities for resistance and prisoner support, and prison abolition. Dr. Viviane Saleh-Hanna will begin our discussion with a focus on the racialized militarization of justice, linking contemporary mass incarceration to a long-standing, white-supremacist confinement and genocide of Africans. Victoria Law will go on to examine the particular challenges facing incarcerated women, discussing current strategies of resistance carried out by those behind bars, opportunities for solidarity and support from people on the outside, and ways abolitionists can support reform without inadvertently strengthening the prison system. Finally, Brendan Story of the NY Anarchist Black Cross will discuss the importance of supporting political prisoners and how those efforts contribute to prison abolition more broadly. There will be time for questions and discussions following brief presentations by the speakers as well as opportunities to get involved in anti-prison work.

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