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“Organizing Everywhere” was a panel discussion at Redbud Books organized by the Monroe County anti-jail activist group, Care Not Cages. It convened four organizers involved in related struggles: two organizing against new county jails in Indiana, one in Fort Wayne and one in Bloomington; one Kentucky-based activist fighting prison expansion in Appalachia, and a filmmaker currently documenting union organizing at the multinational e-commerce magnate, Amazon.com. The conversation allowed the four abolitionist community organizers to share experiences, project a larger horizon than local organizing can sometimes allow and encourage each other in fighting the systems that can feel overwhelmingly large. The filmmaker, Brett Story, who was in town to show her oeuvre of films at the IU Cinema, makes a number of stunning connections between the contours of mass incarceration and the conditions of work and of organizing at Amazon. The reverse also emerges: the ways working conditions contribute to mass incarceration both for members of criminalized communities and laborers forced to work within the system.
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“Organizing Everywhere” was a panel discussion at Redbud Books organized by the Monroe County anti-jail activist group, Care Not Cages. It convened four organizers involved in related struggles: two organizing against new county jails in Indiana, one in Fort Wayne and one in Bloomington; one Kentucky-based activist fighting prison expansion in Appalachia, and a filmmaker currently documenting union organizing at the multinational e-commerce magnate, Amazon.com. The conversation allowed the four abolitionist community organizers to share experiences, project a larger horizon than local organizing can sometimes allow and encourage each other in fighting the systems that can feel overwhelmingly large. The filmmaker, Brett Story, who was in town to show her oeuvre of films at the IU Cinema, makes a number of stunning connections between the contours of mass incarceration and the conditions of work and of organizing at Amazon. The reverse also emerges: the ways working conditions contribute to mass incarceration both for members of criminalized communities and laborers forced to work within the system.
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