WHAT:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, co-founder of the incarceration reform group Critical Resistance and professor of geography at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will present a talk titled, Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex: The World We Want is the World We Need at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
WHEN:
Sept. 26
5:30-7:30 p.m.
WHERE:
UIC Student Center East
750 S. Halsted St.
Room 302
DETAILS:
Gilmore will critique mass incarceration and outline Critical Resistance’s strategies to form broad-based alliances that can forge alternative pathways to safety and justice.
Gilmore recently wrote in the San Francisco Bay View that protests had drawn attention to the abuse of solitary confinement in California, but to little avail.
“Californias 2011 state budget, signed on June 30, finds money for ‘realigning’ the prison system by slashing higher education and imperiling K-14 funding — a very short-sighted move if your goal is to solve the prison problem,” Gilmore wrote.
“Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex” is part of the Institute of Research on Race and Public Policy’s series on racial and social justice. This annual series engages scholars, activists, and policy makers to create lasting social change by reframing policy issues and pursuing long-term collaborations. The 2011-12 series focuses on incarceration.
For more information, please contact the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at (312) 996-6339.