(Partner Event) I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Martin Sostre’s Continuous Struggle

Join Mariame Kaba, Garrett Felber, and Corey Devon Arthur for a conversation about the life, work, and ideas of Black Puerto Rican revolutionary Martin Sostre. As a founding figure of both the prison abolition movement and contemporary Black anarchism, Sostre’s eminence as a political thinker and tireless activist continues to gain wider recognition. The event will focus on the recent publication of I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Collected Works of Martin Sostre (AK Press, May 26, 2026).Garrett Felber is a writer, organizer, and community librarian with the Free Society People’s Library in Portland, Oregon. They are the author of Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, The Black Freedom Struggle, and the Carceral State and A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre.Corey Devon Arthur is a formerly-incarcerated writer and artist from Brooklyn, New York. He makes art as an intimate way to heal and offer hope of a reimagined future, where we strive to resist first with love, and then with all else we are made of. Corey hopes to create art until every corner of the earth and the people who inhabit it have been touched by his work.Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, and librarian/archivist. She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Books, 2021) & the National Bestseller Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care with Kelly Hayes (Haymarket, 2023).Running from April 4 through June 28, 2026, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The project features more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Liu that cover the library’s walls, transforming the public space into an immersive exploration of resistance, survival, and possibility.