Episode 239: The Fragmented State (w/ special guests Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore) [Year Zero 6]

Trillbilly Worker's Party

English - March 10, 2022 00:13 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 238: The Backwash of History

Next Episode: Episode 240: Always the Duelists Maid, Never the Duelist

For this latest installation of the Year Zero series we're joined by long time researchers, teachers, and prison abolitionists Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, to help us think through the carceral state: what it is, where it's heading, and how we can change it.

Please read Ruthie's book, Golden Gulag: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag

And Craig's Real Cost of Prisons graphic novel, from which today's episode art was taken: http://www.realcostofprisons.org/prison_town.pdf

And finally, please consider supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty