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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Russell Rickford carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Status of the Bail Funds

June 4, 2020June 3, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black lives matter, Resistance

Since last weekend, we’ve seen a nation-wide uprising in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,

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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

June 4, 2020June 2, 2020 LaShawn Harris carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Attica Means Fight Back: History and Storytelling as Resistance

June 3, 2020June 1, 2020 Danielle McGuire

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Robert Chase carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,

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