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Connecting Abolitionist Struggles: Settler Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the “War on Terror”
February 6, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Connecting Abolitionist Struggles: Settler Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the “War on Terror”
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2105041156293424
Panel in commemoration of the Quebec mosque shooting
Featuring Shady Hafez, El Jones, and Arun Kundnani
This panel will bring together three scholar-activists working at the intersections of intertwined abolitionist struggles, to discuss: What are the relationships between settler colonialism, mass incarceration, and the “war on terror” as projects of state violence? What connections are being forged between movements, and what are points of tension? How do we build ideas and practices of safety and security, beyond state concepts of “public safety” and “national security” premised on racial violence? What might futures of justice and liberation look like, beyond the settler colonial, mass incarceration, national security state?
Speakers:
Shady Hafez | Algonquin and Syrian Indigenous rights advocate, and Yellowhead Institute fellow (https://yellowheadinstitute.org/research-fellows/)
El Jones | poet, academic, and prisoners’ justice advocate (https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/poets/el-jones….)
Dr Arun Kundnani | author and critical scholar of the “war on terror” (https://www.kundnani.org/about/)
Moderated by: Azeezah Kanji, legal academic and journalist
Co-sponsored by: International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group; Muslim Societies, Global Perspective program at Queen’s University; Noor Cultural Centre; UNIFOR Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University; United Jewish People’s Order; World Beyond War; Yellowhead Institute
