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Why Socialism Requires Abolition
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
Leading abolitionist thinkers will clarify the distinct formulation abolition offers about the relationship between capitalism, the state in general, and the carceral state specifically. They will each explain why socialism requires prison abolition.
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Zohra Ahmed

Zohra Ahmed is an associate professor of law at Boston University, USA. She writes and teaches about U.S. militarism, domestically and globally. She is a former public defender, and works closely with grassroots movements challenging criminalization. 
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Kelly Gillespie

Kelly Gillespie is a political and legal anthropologist at the University of Western Cape in South Africa. Her research focuses on criminal justice in South Africa, she is particularly concerned with the ways in which criminal justice has become a vector for the continuation of Apartheid... Read More →
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental... Read More →
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Vanessa Thompson

Vanessa Thompson is Associate Professor Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen's University, Canada. Her research examines the relation between state violence, racism and capitalism, and how people struggle against interconnected forms of state violence... Read More →
Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA
  Abolition

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