i am going to give an example of the privatization of unseated land in ebenza. In the city of new york, there's been an ongoing crisis over the city jails. So famously, rikers island, which has been the penal colony for many decades, has been roundly condemned politically. The people inside who work there will not be prison s. It's going to be run by a nofor profit. But in order to achieve this spectacularly wonderful new lock up for women, engender expansive people, the city of New York must break the union contract with the prison guards.
What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it? Ruth Wilson Gilmore with Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar, who edited the new collection Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation.
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