NorCal Resist welcomes author and former political prisoner, Eric King, to Northern California, for a timely and important conversation on America’s carceral system, abolition, and how activists on the outside can support prisoners on the inside.
Eric King is the author of the critically-acclaimed book A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, a firsthand account from inside the most repressive prison in the United States, federal supermax ADX Florence. Eric was released in late 2023, after serving a nearly ten year long sentence for an act of protest over the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
A Clean Hell tells the story of Eric’s decade behind bars: the years of surveillance and retaliation, the years locked in solitary confinement, the reality of being known as a “race traitor,” and the daily acts of resistance that kept him—and others—alive. More than just a firsthand survival story and exposé, this is a blistering indictment of the carceral state and the sanitized violence it tries to hide. A Clean Hell is a crucial document of solidarity and struggle inside the belly of the beast and required reading for anyone concerned with mass incarceration, political repression, or the inhumane architecture of the US prison system.
With political repression on the rise in the US, as far-right governments target organizers and protestors who speak out against racist and fascist policies, this conversation with Eric King is more relevant than ever– how can movements support activists who are targeted for prosecution and prison? How can we create inside/outside movements of solidarity and community?
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