How to stop a prison
Tue, Jul 15, 2025
1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Room 5414, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Register to attend.
Join us Tuesday, July 15th in Room 5414 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the CUNY Graduate Center for “How to stop a prison” a workshop on abolitionist research, strategy and organizing methods. Lunch, coffee, and snacks provided.
Carceral infrastructures are expanding and state violence is deepening in New York City and beyond – from the Borough Based Jails prison expansion, to the multi-billion dollar proposed police training academy in Queens, and the acceleration of ICE kidnappings and deportations.
How do we prevent the expansion of cages and carceral infrastructures in seemingly “unwinnable” conditions?
This half-day workshop will focus on how we can combine research, target analysis, strategy development, tactics, coalition building, and organizing methods to win.
The workshop will be facilitated by Jordan Martinez Mazurek (Fight Toxic Prisons, an organization that has worked with grassroots campaigns to defeat over $5 billion in new prison construction in the South), and Mon Mohapatra (organizer and author ofIf They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure).
This event is open to the public. All students affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Center are welcome, with registration appreciated by not necessary.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities; Doctoral and Graduate Students’ Council (DGSC); Center for Place, Culture, and Politics; CUNY Humanities Alliance; and the GC Harm Reductionists.
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