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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday, July 18 for a book talk and signing with author Emile 
 Suotonye DeWeaver to celebrate the release of his first book titled Ghost 
 in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy and an 
 Abolitionist Future.\n\nDeWeaver during his twenty-one years in prison, 
 DeWeaver covertly organized to pass legislation impacting juveniles in 
 California’s criminal legal system; was a culture writer for Easy Street 
 Magazine; and co-founded Prison Renaissance, an organization centering 
 incarcerated voices and incarcerated leadership. DeWeaver draws on these 
 experiences to interrogate the central premise of reform efforts, including 
 prisoner rehabilitation programs, arguing that they demand self-abnegation, 
 entrench white supremacy, and ignore the role of structural 
 oppression.\n\n“Incarceration helped me to develop as an artist only in 
 the regard that the more deeply you are oppressed,” writes DeWeaver, 
 “the more clearly you see the mechanisms of oppression and how they 
 function without all of the window dressing.”\n\nThis event is organized 
 as part of Visualizing Abolition, an initiative designed to promote 
 creative research to inspire social transformation and the end of 
 incarceration.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/08/18877898.php
SUMMARY:Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Book Launch and Signing
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences. 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/08/18877898.php
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