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DESCRIPTION:There will be three meetings of this class, on Wednesdays at 7 pm – Dec. 
 3, 10, and 17. \n\nThis class will investigate the structure of prison from 
 three perspectives:\nIts ethics, \nIts inherent criminality as a system, 
 \nIts role in the structures of racialization in the US.\n\nToday, we live 
 in a society in political and ethical crisis because it has instituted a 
 revenge ethic and a desire to place people in internal exile in the place 
 of justice and humanism. Having done so, it has created the largest prison 
 system in the world. \n\nEach of these perspectives cries out for the 
 abolition of prisons. The structures of racialization in the US have always 
 depended on a prison system. The topic of the “new Jim Crow” will not 
 only encompass a discusstion of Michelle Alexander’s book by that title, 
 but also the accumulating material evidence that Jim Crow has become our 
 re-institutionalized reality. \n\nConsider this: \nThe Broken Window 
 theory, by which William Bratton turned New York City into a police state 
 under the heel of “stop and frisk,” can stated as follows: “Even one 
 broken window creates the condition for anti-social behavior.” \n\nThe 
 ethics of prison abolition echoes in response to this: “The violence of 
 even one person thrown in a cage by political authority creates the 
 condition for violent behavior.” \n\nThe class will address questions 
 such as the following: \n1- what is the real structure of imprisonment, and 
 what are the ethics of each of its components? \n2- what is the political 
 structure of the prison, and how does it relate to both its structural 
 ethics, to the ideal of human rights, and to the society that we live in. 
 \n3- what structures does the political domain us to inhale people into its 
 prison system, to remove them from their communities and habitats, and 
 often to punish them for their attempts to survive physically and 
 psychically? \n4- what is the nature of punishment, and why is it even a 
 social or cultural value? \n5- what is the connection between social 
 violence, victimless crime laws, and capitalism? \n6- what dimensions of 
 the present US prison system could be abolished right now, in the interest 
 of justice, and what does it imply about this society that it refuses to do 
 it? \n7- what is the cyclic relation between slavery, prison labor, debt 
 servitude, the prison industry, and Jim Crow? \n8- with the prison industry 
 actually materializing a foundation for a New Jim Crow (in Michelle 
 Alexander’s sense), what evidence do we see of the government’s actual 
 success in re-institutionalizing Jim Crow? \n9- what is the structure of 
 "racialization" in the US, what role did the former Jim Crow play in it, 
 and what role does the prison today play in it? \n\nIf you are interested, 
 contact me for links to some reading, or just show up on Dec. 3. \nSteve 
 Martinot \nmartinot4@gmail.com \n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/27/18764720.php
SUMMARY:Prisons, Prison Abolition, and the New Jim Crow
LOCATION:Bay Area Public School (a free university) \n4799 Shatuuck Ave. Oakland 
 \n(corner of 48th St. and Shattuck Ave. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/27/18764720.php
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