Against Carceral Infrastructure w/ Mon Mohapatra (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Note: This episode was originally released June 30th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra of Community Justice Exchange (CJE) about their new resource “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure,” a resource looking at the strategies deployed in anti-carceral organizing over the last few decades for strategies to strengthen future campaigns against carceral infrastructure and to strengthen future organizing against all types of cages. Find the resource here: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/resources-all/if-they-build-it-organizing-lessons-amp-strategies-against-carceral-infrastructure Health Communism is now out in paperback! Find it here or order at this link to add a donation to Sameer Project: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-adler-bolton-beatrice-artie-vierkant-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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1:05.1	I'm Beatrice Suther Bolton, and today I'm really honored to be joined by returning guests and friend of the panel,
1:11.5	Mon Mojapatra.
1:13.0	Mon is an organizer, writer, and illustrator from Bangalore India, living and working in Brooklyn,
1:17.8	York.
1:18.5	She's a co-author of Eighth to Abolition and was a founding coordinator of the No New Jails Network,
1:22.9	and she's also an organizer at Community Justice Exchange.
1:26.1	Her work focuses on building intergenerational
1:28.9	cross-class and cross-movement solidarity for creative strategy, direct action, and organizing
1:34.2	against the carceral state and the empire that sustains it. Many longtime death panel listeners
1:39.1	may remember Mon from our episode from last year's socialism conference on carewashing or from the
1:43.9	episode a few
1:44.5	years ago about feminist jails. And we're so glad to have her back on today to talk about a new
1:49.2	resource for organizers that Community Justice Exchange just published called If They Build
1:54.4	It, Organizing Lessons and Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure. Mon, welcome back to the
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