I will once again be reading at the Debs In Our Voices Event put on by the Eugene v Debs foundation. I’m not sure yet when my reading will be, the event starts at 2:00 PM EST and ends at 4:00 PM EST on this Saturday, June 12. I will also be a back up reader in case any of the other volunteers can’t make it.
You can find info on the event and sign up here
Here is the description from the event page:
About Walls & Bars
Exactly 100 years ago, Eugene V. Debs could be found serving a ten-year prison sentence in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. His crime? Speaking out against the First World War in his famous Canton Speech of 1918. Undeterred, Debs led his fifth and final presidential campaign from his prison cell, earning nearly a million votes for the Socialist ticket in November of 1920.
Prison life profoundly affected Debs. As he experienced inhumane prison conditions, Debs also witnessed the common humanity of his fellow prisoners. He described these experiences in a series of articles and essays. In 1927, his brother Theodore published these writings in the volume Walls NS Bars shortly after Eugene Debs’ death. Beyond simply describing prison life and conditions, Debs created a blueprint for solving the problems of incarceration by addressing what he saw as the root of crime: unmet social and economic needs. Walls and Bars connects crime and prisons to the economic conditions created by capitalism, forging a path to abolishing prisons as we know them by transforming our economic system.