Albany Public Library Workshop – Abolition

Taína Asili will share Abolition, a music video documentary she wrote, directed and produced in collaboration with The Social Justice Portal Project. Abolition explores the growing social movement advocating for abolition throughout the United States. The film shares Asili’s original song and examines the visions and practices of abolitionist activists, Derecka Purnell, Greisa Martínez Rosas, and Aislinn Pulley. The film invites viewers to envision abolition not only as the absence of police, prisons, and detention centers but as an opportunity to imagine possibilities for building more peaceful and just communities. Taína Asili created this film during her artist residency with The Social Justice Portal Project – a movement-centered collaborative think tank created to bring together scholars, organizers, artists, and activists to address the urgent questions of racial and social justice – hosted by the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

A discussion and Q&A will follow the screening of the film.

Registration link: https://albanypubliclibrary.libcal.com/event/8971542