Punishment And Fascism Go Hand In Hand

Amelia Kirby, Jack Norton, Rachel Herzing

Drawing from their essay by the same name (https://hammerandhope.org/article/fascism-abolition), members of the Yarrow Institute for Organizing and Analysis (formerly Institute for Abolitionist Accompaniment) will engage participants in a discussion about why it is essential to understand how the punishment systems maintains and accelerates rising fascism and will offer lessons to be learned from organizers fighting for the abolition of the prison industrial complex.