Panagiotis Tsolkas will talk about his work with Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, challenging a proposed federal prison on top of a former mountaintop removal coal mine in Eastern Kentucky. His presentation uses several short films and a slideshow to give an overview of the "Prison Ecology" in the context of the rural prison-building boom that occurred over the past two decades, highlighting several toxic prison facilities and the efforts to challenge them.

The talk is also aimed at building momentum for the upcoming Convergence in Support of Eco-prisoners and Against Toxic Prisons in Washington, DC June 11-13. The convergence will bring together the eco-defense movement and the prison abolition to strategize and take direct action against the prison industrial complex in the spirit of the June 11 movement.