Friday, November 15, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, in person at Red Emma’s Bookstore, 3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD
From Gaza to Attica
Register for “From Gaza to Attica” here.
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Announcing our first in-person workshop! Join Dr. Orisanmi Burton at Red Emma’s bookstore in Baltimore, MD for a reading and discussion of Walid Daqqa’s essay, “Consciousness Molded or the Re-identification of Torture.” Walid Daqqa (1961-2024) was a Palestinian political prisoner and writer who was imprisoned for 38 years before passing away in April of this year. Widely considered the longest-held Palestinian prisoner to be held in “Israeli” prisons, Daqqa wrote novels, plays, and political theory that drew attention to “Israeli” prisons as a technology to shape and remold Palestinian consciousness in its image. What might Daqqa’s analysis teach us about “U.S.” prisoncrats and their methods of carceral warfare and counterinsurgency in a post-Attica world?
Note: This workshop is limited to 40 participants.
Dr. Orisanmi Burton is Assistant Professor of anthropology at American University and author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (UC Press, 2023). His research examines the imbrication of grassroots resistance and state repression and explores the collision of Black-led movements for social, political, and economic transformation with state infrastructures of militarized policing, surveillance, and imprisonment.
Register for “From Gaza to Attica” here.
Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60USD).