Join Muslim Counterpublics Lab for their upcoming cafe, Manifestations of the US' Carceral State: From Death Row to Guantanamo Bay & The War on Terror. This event will be taking place at 6:30pm EST on Friday, October 11th, commemorating World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Each year, October 10th marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty. While calls for prison abolition have been making waves, incarceration in the United States has continued at an alarming pace. This face makes our demands for abolition of the death penalty and the carceral state more broadly, increasingly urgent.
The panel will feature firsthand perspectives and an inside look on what it means to abolish the carceral state from those directly impacted by the system. Panelists include: Lyle May, an abolitionist journalist who is incarcerated on death row in North Carolina; Mansoor Adayfi, a writer and advocate who spent more than a decade behind bars at the US' infamous Guantanamo Bay prison; Keith Lamar, who is also incarcerated on death row, the Founder of Native Sons Literacy Project, and the author of Condemned; and Nadrat Siddiqui, an advocate for Aafia Siddiqui, whose case is among the most infamous and tragic in the War on Terror.