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5 days ago · According to Angela Davis, scholar and cofounder of Critical Resistance, who is credited with introducing the term “prison-industrial complex” (PIC) into theorizing and politics , racism, and capitalism are codependent.
2 days ago · Overview: The Thirteenth Amendment abolished chattel slavery, but legal systems of oppression have evolved into modern-day slavery within the prison industrial complex, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown individuals. California’s proposed ACA 8, commonly known as the End Slavery In California Act, and Proposition 47 (Prop 47) aim to ...
2 days ago · Dan Berger, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014); Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2017); Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier, Rethinking the American Prison Movement (New York, NY: Routledge, 2017); Michelle Alexander, The New ...
4 days ago · Arnove and Hailey Pessin have just published a new book titled Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century: Documents of Hope and Resistance. It gathers more than 100 speeches, essays and other documents of activism, protest and social change.
2 days ago · Over the last five years, FJAH, the National Council, and allies have created a blueprint for how to fight the expanding prison-industrial complex on the state level. Now, organizers with FreeHer Vermont are following suit, leading many to wonder if this model could also be useful in other states.
5 days ago · Description: Setting the stage -- Social protest, or a logical response to policing Black bodies -- Mass incarceration -- School-to-prison pipeline -- The prison-industrial complex : the new plantation economy -- Policing Black women's bodies -- Policing trans bodies -- Police killings of unarmed Black people -- The ultimate failure ...
3 days ago · To speak of criminalization without naming the prison industrial complex (PIC) or carceral state, much less the strategy by which we dismantle it, feels like writing a biography without a central character.
