From the Death Chambers to Cop City: How the South is Pushing Back Against State Violence

Furonda Brasfield, Michelle Smith, Tiara Cooper, and Cherrell Brown speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Noose to Needle - 8th Amendment Project. The South leads the way in racial oppression and injustice. This panel will explore how Southern organizers are fighting state sanctioned violence and murder and promote collective liberation by working across various issues including: police killings, mass incarceration, death penalty, rights for incarcerated persons, and expansion of the police state. The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on podcast platforms for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings!

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The Socialism Conference is a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, Marxism, abolition, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today. Every year, the Socialism conference aims to be a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles—from the BDS campaign for Palestine to the fight for gender liberation, from strike organizing and support to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, and more. Socialism 2024 occurred in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, August 30 - September 2. The recordings from the sessions at Socialism 2024 will be released here. Socialism 2025 will take place in Chicago, July 3-6, 2025.