Name: Prison Made Us Militants: A Conversation with In The Belly
Start: 2025-07-04T17:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T18:30:00-0500

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

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 →

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.