Socialist Night School - August 2020
Start: 2020-08-10 18:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
End: 2020-08-10 20:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
This is a virtual event
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Socialist Night School is an open course that provides a chance to develop our politics together, regardless of background knowledge or whether you’ve attended a class before. New members and lifelong socialists, all are welcome! Questions? Need more info? Send us an e-mail at SeaNightSchool@gmail.com
The topic for this session is mass incarceration. We will have a guest speaker, Ashkan, who will be giving the short talk at the beginning! Ashkan Jahangiri is a DSA member and serves on the Leadership Committee of his chapter in Austin, Texas.
Required reading:
- Michelle Alexander, “A System of Racial and Social Control”
- Interview with Adaner Usmani, “Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong”
- Eli Day, “The Race Gap in US Prisons Is Glaring, and Poverty is Making it Worse”
Optional reading:
- Doran Larson, “Why Scandinavian Prisons Are Superior”