Change: A World Without Prisons - Ruth Wilson Gilmore in Conversation with Mariame Kaba

Here’s an online event that people might be interested in. Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore of the CUNY Graduate Center is speaking tomorrow evening at 7pm.

Jeff Chang has mentioned Gilmore a few times in the chapters we read. In “Hands Up,” he says: “If, as intellectual Ruth Gilmore had written, racism was about the ways in which Blacks, whites, and others differently experienced ‘vulnerability to premature death,’ ‘Hands Up’ was an argument for the right to live.”

Her book The Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and the Opposition in Globalization California is a must read. In it, she examines the way in which political decisions drove the expansion of the prison system in California. Gilmore is one of the leading voices in the prison abolition movement.

You can find the information in the Facebook link above.

If anyone wants to write their 500 word weekly response on the Gilmore talk instead of (or in addition to) the Chang chapters, that’s great.