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Session 2: From Survival to Winning - Hegemony and Liberation on the Ground with Brooke Terpstra and Jared Ware







Hosts:

  • Brooke Terpstra, member of 2018 National Prison Strike Media Team, currently organizes with Oakland Abolition and Solidarity - an autonomous crew dedicated to prisoner solidarity.

  • Jared Ware is a co-host and producer of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. He was a co-founder and former producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. He was a member of the 2018 National Prison Strike and has written multiple articles on prisoner movements, repression and organizing.

Description: 


We'll be taking a look at the big picture, placing the practice of liberatory journalism within the larger framework of culture and movement building. While "hegemony" or "counter hegemony" can come off as stale academic terms, this realm is absolutely foundational to the fight before us. Nearly every revolutionary tendency or tradition touches upon it as part of "nation building", "counter hegemony", "autonomy", etc. In the first half we will be teasing out just how a liberatory journalism/culture shows up in our lives and work as well as how it is foundational to mounting a real fight.

In the second half, to help ground a conversation that can easily drift into generalities or exhortations of ‘What Must Be Done,’ Jay and Brooke will offer up their experiences behind the scenes of the 2018 National Prison Strike in order to breakdown the media dynamics and very mixed effects of what was largely regarded as a "media success" and consider how alternative approaches might have yielded different results.


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