In this episode, we sit down with Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) for a conversation about the prison abolition movement, the role of student activism, and the work SPEAR has been doing for the past 8 years.
Show Notes
This episode was produced under the 144th Managing Board of the Daily Princetonian. Masha Miura is a senior in the Department of African American Studies. She is also a co-president of Students for Prison Education and Reform. She can be reached at mmiura@princeton.edu. Gina Feliz is a junior in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She can be reached gmfeliz@princeton.edu.
RESOURCES:
New York Times, "How Public Opinion Has Moved on Black Lives Matter"
'Prince' coverage of the renaming of the Woodrow Wilson School
2020 Princeton Campaign for Prison Divestment petition
2018 Prison Divestment recommendations
Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment (Micah Herskind '19)
Fall 2020 Courses in the Department of African American Studies
Agents of Change
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
SPEAR Contact Information:
Website
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
This episode contains the following sounds from freesound with minor modifications:
guitar melody 9 by kaponja and Notification Chime by hykenfreak
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