Panel at Left Forum on the New Jim Crow

[Lee Wengraf]

Panel at Left Forum on the New Jim Crow

 

Join us Sun., March 18 from 10 AM-12 Noon (room W623) for a panel discussion at the Left Forum on the New Jim Crow. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers -- all folks who organize around mass incarceration in NYC -- with a goal of using this meeting to discuss creating a city-wide coalition. So come out if you can, and spread the word!

 

Speakers:

 

Michael "Justice" Caesar, VOCAL-NY

Evan Goldstein, Drug Policy Alliance

Jazz Hayden, Campaign to End the New Jim Crow

Angelo Pinto, OWS Prisoner Solidarity Subcmte & Arthur Ashe Inst.

Mia Savage, Correctional Association & the Osbourne

 

**Copies of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow will be available at the workshop

 

Additional details are below. You can also go to the Left Forum Website (http://www.leftforum.org/) for more info.

Panel Proposal Information

Abstract: 

With 2.4 million prisoners, the U.S. is the world's leading jailer. This workshop will take up the mass incarceration boom as a product of a backlash against the civil rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the explosion in drug laws targeting communities of color and poor neighborhoods, as well as how the collateral consequences of the prison system has created a new Jim Crow for those communities and the formerly incarcerated. We will also feature strategies of resistance and next steps for organizing from those most impacted by mass incarceration, including activists from the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and those fighting felony disenfranchisement, the school-to-prison pipeline and the racist drug laws.

 

Sponsoring Journal: 

 

New Press & Campaign to End the New Jim Crow

Panel Topics: 

Race

U.S. Politics

Prison-Industrial Complex

[michele quick]

is this taking place at Riverside?
 

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:40:13 -0500
Subject: Panel at Left Forum on the New Jim Crow
From: lwen...@gmail.com
To:

[Lee Wengraf]

Apologies - I forgot to include the location: it's at Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, across from City Hall. R train to City Hall; 4, 5, or 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge.

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Lee

[Trace Ocampo-Gaskin]

Hey Lee,

Am planning to use the book in my classes.  Is there any way possible to get the book translated into spanish??  Just wondering has she thought about translations.  Also is the book out in paperback?

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Peace & Blessings
Trace Ocampo-Gaskin

[Lee Wengraf]

Yes, the book is out in paperback and will be available at the workshop.

[Trace Ocampo-Gaskin]

Has the book been translated.

[Estela Vazquez]

See attached flyer, please share with your network, thanks.

In solidarity,

 

Estela Vazquez

212-261-2499