Tag: abolition

• Episode 65: Chasing Justice – A Homecoming with Marshan Allen

  We travel to the Illinois Parole Board to stand in solidarity with a couple of my students seeking clemency or commutation or a pardon from Governor Pritzker, and to support our friend and colleague Marshan Allen as he asks to have his conviction erased so that he can practice law when he finishes law school. […]

  January 25, 2023

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  education, abolition, justice, activists, freedom, criminal reform, clemency, solidarity

• Episode 62: “Freedom Has Always Been the Horizon” with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project

  Authentic learning requires free thought—curiosity, inquiry, imagination, initiative, problem-posing, question-asking. Learning is undermined when students are inspected, spied upon, regulated, appraised, censured, measured, registered, counted, admonished, checked off, prevented, and sermonized. In this episode we visit a unique college commencement ceremony—filled with joy and pain—and explore with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and University […]

  November 30, 2022

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  abolition, activists, carceraleducation, college commencement, education, educators, freedom, p-nap, prison, prison + neighborhood arts/education project, prison abolition, radical education, teaching for freedom, university without walls

• Episode 53: Dorothy Burge

  Stitch by Stitch: The Threads of Abolition, Pt. II Picking up where we left off in our last episode, we visit with the incomparable Dorothy Burge, activist, story-teller, educator, art-maker, quilter extraordinaire—and a pillar of the abolitionist movement. Mama Dorothy sat down with us at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago a few days before she […]

  July 27, 2022

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• Episode 52: Dr. Sharbreon Plummer and Rachel Wallis

  Stitch by Stitch: The Threads of Abolition Stitch by Stitch is a gathering of artists and activists, quilters and abolitionists to be held in Chicago on July 15, 16, and 17. We’re honored to sit down with two of the Stitch organizers—Dr. Sharbreon Plummer, author of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fiber, and Textiles, and Rachel Wallis, […]

  July 14, 2022

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  abolition, artactivism, craftivism, quilting, stitchingabolition

• Episode 28: Mariame Kaba

  Sometimes we ask, What can one person do? The first step is to stop being one person. Move away from “me,” and take steps toward creating a “we.” From one to two, from two to three, step-by-step toward an irresistible movement for justice and peace, powered by love—the organizer’s credo. We’re honored to be joined […]

  April 12, 2021

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  abolition, justice, liberation, mariamekaba, organizing