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Description: The Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration (MUMI) Conference will bring together scholars, activists, policymakers, lawyers, students, and Mississippians to better understand the history of mass incarceration and shape the future of prison abolition.
Closing Statement
Thank you to all those who joined us at the Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration (MUMI) Conference in Oxford, MS on December 4-6, 2019. In the wake of the murders of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and others, calls for abolition have become widespread in ways almost unimaginable then. But this moment began with decades of such imagining.
MUMI was a unique opportunity for intergenerational conversation and collaboration between students, scholars, and activists. The issues debated, the relationships formed, and the energy and possibility generated, will continue produce new organizing strategies and scholarship which serves liberation, not just libraries, for years to come. Thank you to all the speakers for your generosity and brilliance, the attendees for making the journey and sharing your gratitude, and the conference organizers for sacri
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