Prisons, Black Panthers, and Abolition Democracy
A Conversation with Sekou Odinga and Hank Jones
Monday, February 1, 2016
MultiCultural Center Theater, UCSB
Former Black Panthers and political prisoners Sekou Odinga and Hank Jones speak about prisons, violence against Black communities, and Black liberation struggles--a conversation that connects today's prisons and policing to Black reconstruction through a focus on Abolition Democracy.
After 33 years in prison, Odinga was released on parole in November 2014. As one of the San Francisco 8, Jones was arrested in 2007, charged with a 1971 killing based on evidence gained through torture in the 1970s. Black power and decolonial politics shape their current activism.
Contact
Contact Diane Fujino, CBSR Director or Mahsheed Ayoub at 805-893-3914