Abolitionist & Community Safety Reading Group
Start: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 3:00 AM GMT
A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
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)!
You can join at any point and don't have had to attend previous reading groups to participate fully in the session.
The readings for Session #2 are as follows:
- Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete, “Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives”
- Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams, “The Negro Question: Red Dreams of Black Liberation”
- Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams, “A Day of Reckoning: Dreams of Reparations”
- Article: Robin D.G. Kelley, “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism”
- Article: Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein, “What Abolitionists Do”
- Video: Robin D.G. Kelley, “What Is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?”
- Video: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “Geographies of Racial Capitalism”
To see supplemental readings, key questions, discussion questions, and even optional activities, you can check out our facilitator's guide for Session #2 here.