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LACUNY Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable

The Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable provides a forum for librarians who support, or are interested in supporting, library services for incarcerated people to discuss current issues, broaden their understanding, and raise awareness of information barriers within the carceral system. The Roundtable connects CUNY librarians with other librarian-led groups, such as Prison Library Support Network, that provide direct services to incarcerated people, and serves as a resource for CUNY groups such as the UFS Committee on Higher Education in the Prisons and those working in prison education programs. https://lacunysips.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

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How Do We Relate to the State? – Public Event

  • Sharing what will surely be an incredible public event, hosted by Interrupting Criminalization, coming up on Friday 9/29 – RSVP and more info for you:

    How Do We Relate to the State – register here

    Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Harsha Walia, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mijente, Paula X. Rojas and Beth Richie for a virtual discussion focused on the question: “How Do We Relate to the State?” This public event picks up threads of ongoing conversations among abolitionist organizers regarding the political processes, practices, and institutions that will bring us closer to visions of safer, thriving, and liberatory communities in which everyone’s needs are met without surveillance, policing, or punishment. How do we rehearse liberatory abolitionist forms of governance translocally and transnationally? How do we protect our experiments in the midst of a global rise in authoritarianism, climate collapse, and white supremacist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and misogynist violence? What are the generative questions and possibilities organizers can and must engage as we develop and pursue strategies, campaigns, and demands focused on divestment from policing and investments in collective, non-carceral approaches to individual and community wellbeing in the context of a racial capitalist settler colonial carceral state?

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