Portland Books Through Bars

Announcing the first PDX Books Through Bars Community Benefit: Bridges to Liberation!

Portland Books Through Bars and Past Lives invite you to join us for an afternoon of community conversation.

📖 hear letters sent to us directly from our incarcerated community members

📖 discover the impact of the Past Lives Prison Outreach Guild

📖 learn how you can advocate for adults in custody to have access to quality, free reading materials in Oregon and across the country

📖 meet with local leaders and community organizers to discuss and understand the impact of incarceration

May 30th
12 - 4 PM
📍Past Lives

💙 Featuring:


prisonoutreachguild

We have been seeing many local businesses, individuals, and organizations pouring out necessary support for Minnesota and beyond with a heartening voice against what ICE is doing to people in our country, and in our own back yard, yes, here in Oregon too.

We have also seen many headlines, tweets, threads, and takes speaking about the innocent lives that are being affected by this system.

We are reminded of words by Brit “Red” Schulte in the collection published through AK Press: “Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis” which was edited by Kelly Hayes.

In these moments, we ask you to consider pausing, thinking of how the carceral system is designed to function and the groups that benefit from this system, and joining with us to unlearn the language of “innocence” as we work in daily acts of solidarity, even beyond Friday the 30th, against the forces threatening our community.

Abolish ICE.