Sign up now to join Las Vegas DSA's Abolition & Community Safety priority as we begin this multi-week educational curriculum on abolition from our comrades at Study & Struggle (to look at full curriculum, go here)!

For our first session, we ask you to watch/read Critical Conversation 1: Abolition as study and deconstructing racial capitalism (Video / Transcript) to accompany the readings.

The readings for Session #1 are as follows:

• Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete, “Introduction: Prison Reform or Prison Abolition?”
• Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete, “Imprisonment and Reform”
• Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, “Chapter 1”
• Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams, “Introduction: When History Sleeps: A Beginning”

To see supplemental readings, key questions, discussion questions, and even optional activities, you can check out our facilitator's guide for Session #1 here.