Friday, September 16, 2011

Ruth Gilmore and Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her publications include Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007) — about which the San Francisco Chronicle said “Now, if you want to understand why progressive California leads the Western world with its regressive system of punishment, Gilmore’s “Golden Gulag” is the first must-read book of the 21st century”. She has also published How to Stop a Prison in Your Town (with the California Prison Moratorium Project collective); along with many articles and interviews. In addition to the California Prison Moratorium Project, she was a founding member of Critical Resistance; the Central California Environmental Justice Network (of which she is past president); and many other social justice organizations.


Ruthie Gilmore will be speaking at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)  called “Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex: The World We Want is the World We Need.”
When: Monday September 26, 2011 at 5:30 followed by a reception at 7:30.
Where: Room 302 Student Center East at UIC. 750 S Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60607.
For more information, contact Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (312) 996-6339 or the Jane Addams Hull House Museum (312) 413-5353.
Or you can email beyondthepic@gmail.com
All are welcome. This event is ADA accessible.
Sponsored by : Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and Jane Addams Hull House Museum.


Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Lecture Website

This Website is an AMAZING resource for anyone interested in the Prison System!

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