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Friday, July 4
 

10:00am CDT

No New Cages: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure
Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
The new, authoritarian, administration has promised to expand prison infrastructure, requiring remobilizations of efforts against expansion, construction, entrenchment, and net-widening. Alongside the release of a new resource on undertaking fights against carceral infrastructure, a panel of organizers who have organized against prisons, jails, detention centers, and cop cities will offer reflections and strategic recommendations on what these fights will look like in coming years.
Speakers
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Zhandarka Kurti

Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and the Future of America’s Punishment System and editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanit... Read More →
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Mon Mohapatra

Mon Mohapatra (she/they) is a writer, organizer and artist originally from India, based on Canarsee Land (NYC) whose work involves building capacity for abolitionist organizing through political education, participatory research, and direct action. In particular, her work focuses... Read More →
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Hannah Riley

Hannah Riley is a writer and activist based in Atlanta.
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Stevie Wilson

Stevie Wilson (he/him) is a currently imprisoned Black queer abolitionist organizer and facilitator from Philadelphia. Wilson is the founder of the inside abolitionist study collective 9971 and is the founder of the abolitionist journal In the Belly. He is a columnist for the Abolitionist... Read More →
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Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Abolition

12:00pm CDT

Fighting Carceral Infrastructure to End Mass Incarceration
Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
Participants will learn tactics and strategies from campaigns against carceral infrastructure, including jails, prisons, and police training facilities. Panelists will also discuss how their work ties into the broader movement to end mass incarceration and other struggles for justice.
Speakers
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Micah Herskind

Micah Herskind is an organizer, writer, and law student at Harvard Law School. He is a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement (Haymarket Books, 2025), and has written for outlets including New York Magazine, Scalawag, MSNBC, Teen Vogue, Inquest, and Race... Read More →
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James "Jimmy" Soto

James "Jimmy" Soto is a community organizer, artist, prisoner advocate, writer, and future JD candidate.  He was wrongfully convicted and was released after serving 42 years. He is a paralegal at Northwestern University Pritzker's School of Law in the Community Justice and Civil... Read More →
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Avalon Betts-Gaston

Avalon Betts-Gaston is a Chicago native, non-licensed attorney, ordained minister, and passionate advocate to dismantle and change current systems while building a system of care and accountability focused on humane justice and harm reduction, not just punishment.  She is the first... Read More →
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Alicia Brown

Alicia Brown is a community leader and currently co director of Final 5 Campaign. She is a restorative justice practitioner, circle keeper, and abolitionist. She enjoys writing and was recently published in the “Envisioning Justice Curricular Concepts Resource Guide, Incarcerated... Read More →
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Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism, it's especially crucial to uplift this care work, including care for children. Supporting young people and each other in concrete, material ways, day to day and hour to hour, is an essential component of resistance. In this workshop, we will engage with these themes, informed by the anthology We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. We'll also offer an opportunity to be part of a circle in which we'll share stories of caregiving in a supportive space.
Speakers
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Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president of Truthout. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, among... Read More →
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

3:00pm CDT

“Texas is infamous for its taste for death:” Lethal Practices in the Lone Star State
Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
Texas is the U.S.’s lead executioner. Its use of the death penalty has decreased, but the descriptive profile of those who are executed remains the same. This session will examine the racial lineage tied to Texas’s death penalty, and strategies to strengthen the death penalty abolition movement.
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Sponsors
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Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

5:00pm CDT

Prison Made Us Militants: A Conversation with In The Belly
Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
How does the work of prison and police abolition fit within a broader socialist movement? How can the left meaningfully engage incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people? How can we build strong movements where imprisoned people are leaders and comrades in the struggle? Join In the Belly for a conversation about prison organizing with currently and formerly incarcerated organizers, who will discuss movement building behind bars, inside-out organizing, prison repression and censorship, and more.
Speakers
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Safear Ness

Safear Ness (they/them) is a formerly incarcerated abolitionist, released from Pennsylvania State Prison in 2023. Their lineage is traced through Indigenous peoples (Apache Chiricahua), Spanish colonizers, and white settlers. They still organize against the PIC with incarcerated comrades... Read More →
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R. Ya'iyr Carter

R. “Ya’iyr” Carter is a currently incarcerated poet and essayist, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex from a cell in Pennsylvania. He is an editor for In the Belly, a revolutionary abolitionist magazine by and for incarcerated people and their communities.
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Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition
 
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