‘Abolition Is About Making Things’: Creativity in Organizing
Poet Martin Espada tells us that “No change for the good ever happens without it being imagined first, even if that change seems hopeless or impossible in the present.” All of the most important and impactful social transformations happened because people fought and struggled for things they had never seen. Prison industrial complex abolition demands imaginative work and is rooted in building another world. This talk will focus on the critical role of imagination and creativity in the abolitionist project.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect and most recently Survived & Punished. She runs Prison Culture blog and her writing has appeared in nume-rous publications, including The New York Times, The Nation Magazine, The Guar-dian, The Washington Post, In These Times, Teen Vogue, and The New Inquiry.
When: Tue., Dec. 8, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Where: The Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St. | 41 Cooper Sq.
212-353-4100
Price: Free
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Poet Martin Espada tells us that “No change for the good ever happens without it being imagined first, even if that change seems hopeless or impossible in the present.” All of the most important and impactful social transformations happened because people fought and struggled for things they had never seen. Prison industrial complex abolition demands imaginative work and is rooted in building another world. This talk will focus on the critical role of imagination and creativity in the abolitionist project.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect and most recently Survived & Punished. She runs Prison Culture blog and her writing has appeared in nume-rous publications, including The New York Times, The Nation Magazine, The Guar-dian, The Washington Post, In These Times, Teen Vogue, and The New Inquiry.
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