Plotting Abolition

February 28, 2025, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm

CUNY Graduate Center, Rooms C204/205

Please join us for a screening of Calls From Home, a film which depicts "the making of an abolitionist geography, within and between the very places that are the most (differentially) impacted by the overlapping processes of incarceration, extraction, and abandonment."

The film will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sylvia Ryerson, also a member of the Building Community Not Prisons Coalition, California Prison Moratorium Project organizer Craig Gilmore, Sarah Haley, author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, and Judah Schept, author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia and a member of the new Critical Resistance chapter in Central Appalachia. This event will connect the struggle to stop the construction of a federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky with abolitionist struggles from Stop Cop City to the campaign to free the Mississippi 5 to the fight against the borough-based jails here in New York.

This event is free and open to the public. It is cosponsored by the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Urban Education, and the DGSC.