Meet the Author: A discussion with Mark R. Warren

5735 Buford Highway,Norcross GA 30071

05 May, 2022

Description

Panel Discussion: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline Join GCPL and author Mark Warren in conversation with Gwinnett SToPP (featured in the book), Georgia State University Professor Joyce King, and Michael Tafeski of the Southern Poverty Law Center as they discuss the book, Willful Defiance. In Willful Defiance, Mark R. Warren documents how Black and Brown parents, students, and low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built an intersectional movement that spread across the country. Warren offers a new model for movements while primarily oriented to support and spread local organizing. He argues for the need to rethink national social justice movements as interconnected local struggles whose victories are lifted and spread. The panel will discuss lessons from the school-to-prison pipeline movement for organizers, educators, policymakers, and a broader public seeking to transform deep-seated and systemic racism in public schools and the broader society. Books for sale and signing. Complimentary refreshments and a silent auction sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Free and open to the public.