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Cactus Book Club: ‘The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography by Mass Incarceration’ by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Scheetz

Wed 03/05/25
5:30PM
18+
learn
Free

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MARCH:

Join us Wednesday, March 5th for our next Cactus Book Club. We’re thrilled to welcome back Milwaukee Freedom Fund, who will lead the discussion on The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Judah Schept. “Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration…this text brings together an incredible range of knowledge and experience from jail fights across the country. It maps this new terrain, foregrounding the hard-forged analyses of anti-jail organizers themselves as they take us through campaigns that, while appearing local, are at the new center of the carceral state.”

Recommended bookseller: La Revo Books (via their Bookshop)

Milwaukee Freedom Fund is a Black-led abolitionist organization that is part of a movement to end pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.Through community political education, releasing people from pre-trial detention, and supporting abolition efforts. We pay bail as a direct action toward bail abolition. Milwaukee Freedom Fund builds on a legacy of Black liberation and fights for a humane and just future.

 

Cactus Book Club (CBC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different community organization, collective, mutual aid group, or business chooses the book & recommended bookseller then leads the discussion. We read sociopolitical fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on works by women, LGBTQ+, POC, and/or otherwise under-published groups. You don’t have to finish reading the book to attend. All book club meetings are free. No registration required. 18+. CBC is part of our ongoing Cactus+ programming.

 

Contact kelly@cactusplus.org with questions or suggestions