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We're helping host a reading group on the Liberation Coalition Discord server! We'll be focusing on prison abolition for this meeting and the next. Here's what we'll be reading for our first discussion in mid-May:

Chapters 2, 3, and 6 of Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf)

Chapter 4 of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16oyMFWIvhHna8F6EGzaZ25ZHVn0VhSc3/view)

April, 1970 section (pp 21-28) of Soledad Brother: the Prison Letters of George Jackson (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WEg_fbkTLgWx6s30oLCOLEWj2U1cYcoc/view?usp=sharing)