On May 17, the Liberation Center had the honor of hosting a special PSL Indianapolis event featuring organizer, journalist, and author Eugene Puryear. The event came a day after the conclusion of a three-part study and discussion series on his book, Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America. Puryear’s talk focused on the current state of the Black Liberation movement in the U.S. and provided the necessary historical and global context to not only understand the movement but, ultimately, lead it to victory. Also joining Puryear was Shaka A. Shakur, who recently read Puryear’s book and whose own selection of prison writings is due out by 1804 books this Black August. If you couldn’t make the event, this is the next best thing.
Watch Eugene Puryear at the center!
About Eugene Puryear
Puryear, a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Party’s Vice-Presidential candidate in 2008 and 2016, started organizing as a student at Howard University and hasn’t stopped. He helped lead the fight for justice for the Jena 6 and the historic anti-Iraq war struggle as a member of the ANSWER Coalition. He has been at the frontlines of people’s struggles across the country and globe.
Puryear was interviewed and featured in the May 2016 edition of The Atlantic during his Vice-Presidential candidate race and has been on numerous news stations, talk shows, and more throughout his time in the struggle.
After co-hosting By Any Means Necessary, a daily two-hour podcast for several years, Eugene started working as a journalist at BreakThrough News, where he co-hosts the Freedom Side with Rania Khalek. The show airs every Thursday at 3:00 pm and delivers news and analysis for self-determination, covering U.S. and global politics. He is one of the few U.S. journalists covering the conflict in northern Ethiopia.