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Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

September 8, 2018September 18, 2018 Guest Poster Political Prisoners, Prison Abolition, prisons

Even in prison, rebellions are contagious. In 2016, a national prison strike led us to compile the Prison Abolition Syllabus on

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Black Power, Collectivism, and the Politics of the Imprisoned

April 24, 2018April 28, 2018 Angela LeBlanc-Ernest #RemakingBlackPower, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Historian Ashley D. Farmer’s characterization of Black Women’s

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Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising

January 22, 2017January 24, 2017 Michael Ezra #BloodintheWater

Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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Rebuilding the Robesonian Labor Movement

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Russell Rickford black lives matter, poverty

This post is an amended version of a speech delivered at the Tompkins County Workers Center’s Labor Day Picnic at

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