Skip Main Navigation
Eventbrite
Browse Events
Organize
Help
Log InSign Up
Menu
Page Content
This event has ended.
Study and Struggle Critical Conversation #3: Abolition Must Be Red

Actions Panel

Nov 09

Study and Struggle Critical Conversation #3: Abolition Must Be Red

A conversation about centering anti-capitalism in the fight for abolition with Stevie Wilson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

By Haymarket Books

When and where

Date and time

Tue, November 9, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

About this event

Study and Struggle organizes against criminalization and incarceration in Mississippi through mutual aid, political education, and community building. We provide a bilingual Spanish and English curriculum with discussion questions and reading materials, as well as financial support, to over 100 participants in radical study groups inside and outside prisons in Mississippi. These groups correspond with groups from across the country through our pen pal program. We regularly come together for online conversations hosted by Haymarket Books. The curriculum, built by a combination of currently- and formerly-incarcerated people, scholars, and community organizers, centers around the interrelationship between prison abolition and immigrant justice, with a particular attention to freedom struggles in Mississippi and the U.S. South.

For our Fall 2021 four month curriculum, we have borrowed and augmented Ruth Wilson Gilmore's argument that “abolition is about presence, not absence. It has to be green, and in order to be green, it has to be red (anti-capitalist), and in order to be red, it has to be international," having added “intersectional” as a fourth analytical category that we hope moves us beyond “single-issue” organizing. Study and Struggle provides a bilingual curriculum to all our imprisoned comrades in Mississippi with the support of our friends at 1977 Books and makes it fully available online for other study groups to use as they see fit.

Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarket Books, will cover the themes for the upcoming month. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher.

Our third webinar theme is "Red" and will be a conversation about what it means for abolition to be anti-capitalist, centering questions of labor, time, and unfreedom.

While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of commissary and mutual aid for our incarcerated participants.

***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and will have live captions available.***

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Speakers:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press) and the forthcoming book Change Everything (Haymarket) . Recent honors include the SUNY-Purchase College Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental Justice (2015-16); the American Studies Association Richard A Yarborough Mentorship Award (2017); The Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (2020); and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021).

Stephen Wilson is a currently incarcerated, Black, queer writer, activist and student. He is a founding member of Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition, a network of self-organized prisoner study groups building abolitionist community behind and across prison walls. Follow him on Twitter @agitateorganize.

Tags

  • Online Events
  • Online Seminars
  • Online Community Seminars
  • #abolition
  • #blacklivesmatter
  • #abolitionists
  • #anticapitalism
Event ended

Study and Struggle Critical Conversation #3: Abolition Must Be Red


Follow this organizer to stay informed on future events

Haymarket Books

Event creator

Events you might like

  • Songwriting for Abolition

    Songwriting for Abolition
    Songwriting for Abolition

    Sat, Feb 18, 2023 3:00 PM EST (-05:00)
    Free
  • VIRTUAL Black Abolitionist Tour of London

    VIRTUAL Black Abolitionist Tour of London
    VIRTUAL Black Abolitionist Tour of London

    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 6:00 PM GMT (+00:00)
  • On Healing the Trauma of Caste: A Conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan

    On Healing the Trauma of Caste: A Conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan
    On Healing the Trauma of Caste: A Conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan

    Thu, Feb 16, 2023 5:30 PM PST (-08:00)
  • WA Winter Lecture 6- The Abolition of the Slave Trade – myth and reality

    WA Winter Lecture 6- The Abolition of the Slave Trade – myth and reality
    WA Winter Lecture 6- The Abolition of the Slave Trade – myth and reality

    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 7:30 PM GMT (+00:00)
    £0 - £5
  • Strengthening Cross-Cultural Public Health Conversations

    Strengthening Cross-Cultural Public Health Conversations
    Strengthening Cross-Cultural Public Health Conversations

    Thu, Feb 2, 2023 1:00 PM EST (-05:00)
    Free
  • Mao’s China: Tania Branigan in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

    Mao’s China: Tania Branigan in conversation with Jonathan Freedland
    Mao’s China: Tania Branigan in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

    Thu, Feb 2, 2023 8:00 PM GMT (+00:00)
    £7.92 - £24.64
  • Storytelling to Seize The Moment: A Conversation with 3 Changemakers

    Storytelling to Seize The Moment: A Conversation with 3 Changemakers
    Storytelling to Seize The Moment: A Conversation with 3 Changemakers

    Thu, Feb 9, 2023 7:30 PM EST (-05:00)
    Free
  • We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation

    We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation
    We Are Well-Meaning White Folks: A Monthly Conversation

    Wed, Feb 15, 2023 5:00 PM PST (-08:00)
    $10
  • Isabel Waidner in conversation with Maxe Crandall

    Isabel Waidner in conversation with Maxe Crandall
    Isabel Waidner in conversation with Maxe Crandall

    Wed, Feb 8, 2023 12:00 PM PST (-08:00)
  • No Struggle, No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia

    No Struggle, No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia
    No Struggle, No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia

    Tue, Feb 7, 2023 12:00 PM EST (-05:00)
    $0 - $10

Site Navigation

Use Eventbrite

  • How it Works
  • Pricing
  • Eventbrite Boost
  • Eventbrite Mobile Ticket App
  • Eventbrite Check-In App
  • Eventbrite App Marketplace
  • Event Registration Software
  • Content Standards
  • FAQs
  • Sitemap

Plan events

  • Sell Tickets Online
  • Event Planning
  • Sell Concert Tickets Online
  • Event Payment System
  • Solutions for Professional Services
  • Event Management Software
  • Community Engagement
  • Virtual Events Platform
  • QR Codes for Event Check-In
  • Post your event online

Find events

  • Browse Online Events
  • Get the Eventbrite App

Connect with us

  • Report This Event
  • Help Center
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • CA Privacy Notice
  • Accessibility
  • Community Guidelines
Eventbrite + Ticketfly

© 2023 Eventbrite