Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S. Trailer (Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.)
Thursday, March 7, 2013 6:30 p.m.
DEFEND WOMEN'S RIGHTS!Fight Back Against the War on WomenThursday, March 7, 2013 6:30 p.m.SUNY Campus Lecture Center 100, NEW PALTZ, NY
ENJAN will be tabling there and I will be tabling for Move To Amend Ulster County. Please show your support.
Dozens of community, labor, feminist, peace, justice, political and college organizations are backing this Mid-Hudson regional commemoration of International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 7. Rallies are taking place in many U.S. towns, called nationally by Women Organized to Resist and Defend (defendwomensrights.org).
The meeting is an answer to recent conservative attacks on women’s rights, to which we respond: Stop Violence Against Women, Stop the War on Women’s Rights, Defend Reproductive Justice, Full Equality for all Women Workers!
Speakers, singers, poets and videos will express these demands at the rally. There will be plenty of information and ideas to take home and use. The program is in formation — all speakers and endorsers will be posted soon at http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/.
The Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter is the organizer. Early endorsers include the Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO, United University Professions AFL-CIO (SUNY NP), New Paltz Women in Black, Amnesty International (local branch), Bard College Student Labor Dialogue, Washbourne House (women and children's shelter), Orange County Democratic Women, Ulster County Democratic Women, Sociology Dept. (SUNY NP), Progressive Academic Network (SUNY NP), Environmental Task Force (community/campus), NP Climate Action Coalition, NYPIRG and OXFAM (SUNY NP chapters), Students for a Free Palestine (SUNY NP), Move to Amend of Ulster County, Peace and Social Progress Now, Mid-Hudson ANSWER, Haitian People’s Support Project.
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Attention Men: You are encouraged to attend the rally as an act of solidarity with our demands and struggle.
Maggie Williams
After Trayvon
by Abby Zimet
On the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, his parents declared that "as parents of a slain child, we never move on" at a candlelight vigil in New York, one of scores of remembrances and demonstrations. The last year has seen over a dozen acts of promise, kindness or resistance, including widespread support for Trayvon's family, the hiring of a new police chief in Sanford, moves to repeal Stand Your Ground laws, and the decision by over 30 corporations to cut ties with ALEC, the right-wing group that pushed those laws. They offer some solace. Just not enough.
Angela Davis and Michelle Alexander
Angela Davis and Michelle Alexander take part in a panel discussion on the issue of mass incarceration at Riverside Church in New York City on September 14, 2012. They answer the questions of, what is the problem of mass incarceration and what does it say about the United States society?
Poughkeepsie: Black History Month celebration
Date : 7 February 2013 From : 7:00pm 
Category : Race Issues Location : 12601
Event Description :
Event Description :
Progressive activist and comedian Dick Gregory is featured at a celebration of Black History Month, and a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
From the organizers: "This evening will bring you face to face with a seminal figure in the civil rights movement that transformed America. You will be 'moved to your bones.' Do not miss this opportunity to see one of the members of Comedy Central's list of '100 Greatest Standups' of all time."
Cost:
Location:
Hancock Center, room 2023
Marist College
3399 North Road / Rt 9
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Map and directions to campus:
http://www.marist.edu/about/directions.html
Campus map (the Hancock Center is building #15):
http://www.marist.edu/about/map.html
Contact:
Sponsored by: the American Association of University Women,
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