Princeton SPEAR

Students for Prison Education, Abolition, and Reform — a group educating, advocating, and agitating against mass incarceration and for a world without prisons.

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

A statement of solidarity is necessary, but is insufficient. We will continue to work with our community allies to support organizing in ways that will best uplift the voices of marginalized people. We must demand more.

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Our class for formerly incarcerated adults has a room! Join us in Green Hall or over Zoom Wednesday nights. Free parking available in Lot 10! @ Princeton University https://t.co/nPvJeFJLOH

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

SPEAR's first meeting of the year is tomorrow at 8pm in Campus Club! Be there or be square.🍕

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

SPEAR will be at the Activities Fair tomorrow from 12-3pm in Dillon Gym! Stop by to learn more about SPEAR and our work.

[Aisha Tahir @aishatahirz]

We will be protesting in solidarity with MOVE tomorrow at 5:30pm in front of Nassau Hall. With masks and socially distanced!

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Support formerly incarcerated business owners on this #GivingTuesday

[Barred Business @BarredBusiness]

We collaborated with the #IdaBWellsJustDataLab to launch our week long campaign. Links in Bio. #BarredBusiness #WeWillEmpowerOurselves #BuildLifeAffirmingInstitutions

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Join us this Sunday at 3PM ET for the opening artist talk! Register at https://t.co/YLPbUk6Fa6 to hear from artists Kenneth and Isabelle Reams in a discussion moderated by @micahherskind and sculptor Brandon Ndife! More info here: https://t.co/8eUmDSMd8U

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/VzQSkTf2Zh

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Check it out! Our friends at @HarvardPDC have put together an incredible month of abolitionist programming

[Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign @HarvardPDC]

Check it out! Free-Them Month! Register at https://t.co/7JhueJFvkc https://t.co/dpVuDCP1QF

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Amazing work being done at our peers at Yale, emphasizing the need for campus disarmament across universities

[Black Students for Disarmament at Yale @bsdyale]

What the Yale Police Department is *really* up to (a thread): we recently obtained a bunch of YPD records (budget information, use of force report, contracts, call logs) and y'all definitely need to see this

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

This post launches the start of SPEAR’s “Countdown to Divestment”! Each day this week, we’ll be posting one of these inforgraphics until Saturday when we release our petition and proposal to the administration,… https://t.co/PEUm2IzoxL

[NPR @NPR]

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a bill restoring voting rights to more than 80,000 people who are on probation or parole — making New Jersey one of several states to enact legislation granting former felons access to the ballot box.
https://t.co/P5rsxbYNHu

[Pace Center for Civic Engagement @pace_princeton]

Join @princetonSPEAR for Sentenced to Science, a talk with Allen Hornblum, author of "Acres of Skin," and Yusef Anthony, a formerly incarcerated man subjected to medical experimentation. Today, 12/3, 4:30 PM, McCormick 101 #PrincetonU

[PrincetonMLP @PrincetonMLP]

@CAFCenter @princetonSPEAR @Princeton An Evening with Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated "Central Park Five" In Conversation with Professor Eddie Glaude, Chair of African American Studies at Princeton University.

McCosh Hall, Room 10
Princeton University
6:30 pm

[NJ-PJW (Prison Justice Watch) @njpjw]

Children in solitary confinement... where does that leave our future? #StopSolitary #EndTorture @princetonSPEAR @SentencingProj

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

UPDATE: The location of the conversation with Mark Hopkins, solitary survivor, has been moved to East Pyne 010! RSVP to the event here: https://t.co/FUeeKLApQn

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

Our annual 7x9 Performance Art Protest starts TODAY at 5pm. Join us tomorrow at 5pm in Betts Auditorium for a conversation with Mark Hopkins, a solitary confinement survivor.

[Princeton SPEAR @princetonSPEAR]

This Thurs., Nov 7th, SPEAR will kick-off its annual 7x9 Performance Art Protest to raise awareness and facilitate conversations about the inhumane use of solitary confinement in incarceration facilities throughout the U.S.

https://t.co/gfj56ZkLS3

[@therealmrfive.bsky.social @MRFIVEINC]

So proud ! Amazing article by one of our student leaders who has supported the movement in so many ways I just love my @princetonSPEAR Leaders ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
Until everyone can vote, we’re still not a democracy. Florida made it happen. When will N.J.? https://t.co/H9TZ024DwK