White Supremacy Part 7: Carceral Society and Abolition

Chiamaka Echebiri on White Supremacy, Christy Lopez on Carceral Logic, Anna Preston on Prisons and Mental Health, a debate between Micheal Javen and Marie Gottschalk, and finally an article by Jack Norton from the "New York Review of Books."

FBI: Discredit, Disrupt, Destroy

"Taking Down the New Left: FBI Surveillance of the Left and Right-Wing Extremist Groups" from The Yale University's The Macksey Journal; "Bureau Clergyman" from Religion and American Culture Journal; "US Conducted 'Mass Spying Campaign' Against Left-Wing Groups" from The Guardian; and "The FBI Quietly Spying on Americans Without Warrants" from Time Magazine.

CIA, Latin America, and Crack

"The CIA's Worst Kept Secret" from fpif.org; "Storm Over 'Dark Alliance" from Columbia Journalism Review; "Through Evidence is Thin, Tale of C.I.A. and Drugs Has a Life of Its Own" from the NYTimes; and "In Mexico, The Cartels Do Not Exist" from the Nation.

Modern Slavery

This month's reading packet features articles: "In Plain Sight" from the New Yorker; "Evangelicals and sex trafficking hysteria" from Salon. Com; "Cleveland has long been called a human trafficking hub" from Cleveland.com; and "Twenty-Five years on: Anti-trafficking, Shifting Policy Regimes, and Failure"  from The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.