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