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”