You are personally invited to join the Prison Radio community at our Northampton event! We hope you take this opportunity to engage with our new novel Beneath the Mountain through this enriching panel discussion by remarkable abolitionist thinkers. Beneath the Mountain Panel Discussion Hosted by Jen Meeropol and The Rosenberg Fund for Children. Panel discussion with Robert Saleem Holbrook, Jennifer Black, Joy James, and Jen Meeropol. Books on sale courtesy of Broadside Books Fri Sept 13, 4:30pm ET Forbes Library, 20 West Street, Northhampton MA. Beneath the Mountain documents the struggle — beginning with slavery, genocide, and colonization up to our present day — and imagines a collective, anti-carceral future. These essays were handwritten first on scraps of paper, magazine covers, envelopes, toilet paper, or pages of bibles, scratched down with pencils or the stubby cartridge of a ball-point pen; kites, careworn, copied and shared across tiers and now preserved in this collection for this and future generations. If they were dropped in the prison-controlled mail they were cloaked in prayers, navigating censorship and dustbins. They were very often smuggled out. These words mark resistance, fierce clarity, and speak to the hope of building the world we all deserve to live in. |