Interview with Bob Libal

Interview with Bob Libal

Bob Libal is a community organizer and civil rights activist living in Austin, Texas. Currently, he is the Senior Campaign Strategist at The Sentencing Project. Bob began contributing to Austin community organizing when he began studies at UT in 1999. In this interview, he explains how organizing and activism has changed over the years but civil rights for incarcerated people, immigrants, and marginalized communities still require work and progress. Bob has also worked with Grassroots Leadership in student organizing, immigration rights organizing, and criminal justice reform. He speaks specifically about each of those movements and what abolition and community safety means to him. Additionally, Bob discusses his work organizing against Prop B in Austin and how its passing affects communities most affected by state violence. As a person with white, male, and educational privilege, Bob speaks on the strategies he implements to use his privilege to the advantage of the organizing’s purpose. This interview was conducted on July 1, 2021 by interviewers Murphy Anne Carter and Jane Fields and narrator Bob Libal.

Bob Libal

Texas After Violence Project

July 1, 2021

Murphy Anne Carter, Jane Field, Emily Henry, Karen Cheng

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Murphy Anne Carter, Jane Field

Bob Libal

Austin, TX

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