October 2011
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live helicopter feed over occupy oakland →
Thursday Oct 20, 7PM : Race in 21st Century... →
Any Tumblr pals coming into Baltimore for this year’s ASA? Please come check out this panel organized by folks from the local activist community. And if you can, kick in a few bucks to help local prison abolition efforts:
A panel discussion at the 2640 space (2640 St. Paul), featuring:
Andrea Smith
Lisa Nakamura
Ruth Gilmore
Fred Moten
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
David...
Kenyon Farrow: "Remarks at Troy Davis Memorial in... →
[W]hile we mourn his death and all of the things it raises for us―racism, the death penalty, the prison industrial complex, police brutality, the historic trauma of lynchings, etc., I want us to move beyond discourses of innocence, for while it may make us feel more righteous in our defense of Troy Davis, and the many like him who have been executed or who currently languish inside prison walls,...