All are invited to the first Voices: A Library Lecture Series event for Spring 2022!
The Other Attica Is Already Upon Us: Prison Organizing, COVID-19 and the Crises of Mass Incarceration.
Thursday, Feb. 3 from noon to 12:50 p.m.
Please join the live-stream presentation at: https://vimeo.com/event/1740472
The COVID-19 pandemic has left U.S. prisons, jails and immigrant detention facilities particularly hard hit, with several thousand people dead and hundreds of thousands infected. At the same time, many carceral facilities have also been the site of historic levels of protests, including strikes and boycotts.
Drawing on a close examination of these developments, Dr. Toussaint Losier, assistant professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will discuss what the pandemic and these protests reveal about the crises facing contemporary mass incarceration.
This annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. presentation is part of the Spring 2022 Voices: A Library Lecture Series. For more information about Voices, please contact Outreach Librarian Kisha Sawyers at (518) 629-7317 or k.sawyers@hvcc.edu.
Published: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:05:29 +0000 by k.sawyers