Mass Incarceration, Deportation, Stop and Frisk: The Urban Ecology of the Prison-Industrial Complex

Please join the Social Science Department in welcoming
Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore to
LaGuardia Community College  (room E-501) on
Tuesday, May 6th from 5-7 pm.

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Dr. Gilmore will be presenting the third annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture in room E-501.

Her talk is entitled: “Mass Incarceration, Deportation, Stop and Frisk: The Urban Ecology of the Prison-Industrial Complex.”

 Doug Henwood will introduce Dr. Gilmore.

LaGuardia is located in Long Island City.
31-10 Thomson Avenue
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/About/Visit/

By Subway:
7 train to 33rd Street station
7, E, M, G trains to Court Square station

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies, and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; she is also a Visiting Professor at the Maumaus School of Visual Arts in Lisbon. Her prize-winning book is Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, published in 2007. In a front-page review, 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.” Recent publications include “Race, capitalist crisis, and abolitionist organizing: an interview” with Jenna M. Loyd (in Loyd et al., eds, Beyond Walls and Cages, 2012), “What is to be Done?” American Quarterly June 2011; and “Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning” (in Hale, ed., Engaging Contradictions, 2009).

Doug Henwood edits the “Left Business Observer,” a newsletter he founded in 1986. He is also a contributing editor of The Nation, and hosts a radio weekly program on KPFA (Berkeley). His book Wall Street was published by Verso in June 1997 and is now available for free download. His latest book, After the New Economy, was published in 2003 by The New Press. He is working on a book about the current American ruling class, “whoever that might be.”

Robert Fitch taught as an adjunct faculty member in the Social Science department at LaGuardia Community College between 1993 and 2011.  Dr. Fitch was an inspirational and versatile teacher who taught many different courses in two disciplines: Sociology and Political Science. In addition to LaGuardia, he taught at NYU, John Jay and Long Island University. Dr. Fitch was also a prolific writer and a tireless activist. He is best known for his 1993 book, The Assassination of New York, as well as his 2006 book, Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America’s Promise. This lecture is being delivered in honor of his memory.

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