from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network:
Organizing Meeting for a National Day of Resistance
SAY NO TO MASS INCARCERATION
Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1PM to 5PM
Hunter College, Room 506 Hunter North, 68th and Lexington Ave.
NYC
This country imprisons more people than any other country on the planet. On Thursday, April 19th, everyone who is concerned about injustice must join in saying – NO TO MASS INCARCERATION – in a loud voice. There must be rallies and demonstrations in cities across the country. College and high school students must hold teach in’s and other actions on their campuses. There need be cultural events held on that day. The architects and enforcers of mass incarceration must be challenged over the inhumanity of the policies they are inflicting on society.
Come to an organizing meeting to make this resistance real and nationwide.
The Call for this day of national resistance has been issued by:
(List in formation.) Gbenga Akinnagbe, Actor; Rafael Angulo, Professor of Social Work, USC; Nellie Bailey,Occupy Harlem; Kendra Castaneda, Prisoner Human Rights Activist with a family member in CA State Prison Segregation Unit; Solomon Comissiong, Executive Director, Your World News Media Collective (www.yourworldnews.org); Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University; Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist, co-initiator of Campaign to Stop "Stop and Frisk"; Kelley Lytle Hernandez, Professor of History, UCLA; Robin DG Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA; Wayne Kramer, Jail Guitar Doors USA, Co-Founder; Sarah Kuntsler, Esq., National Lawyers Guild NYC*; Rev. Janet Gollery McKeithen (Unity Methodist Clergy), President, Methodist Federation for Social Action, Cal-Pac; Gregg Morris, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College; October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation (New York Committee); Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View Black National Newspaper; Joyce Robbins, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Touro College; Cornel West, author and educator, co-initiator of Campaign to Stop "Stop and Frisk"; Clyde Young, Revolutionary Communist, and former prisoner. [*for identification purposes only.]
Stop Mass Incarceration Network + 866-841-9139 x2670 + stopmassincarceration@ymail.com