prison reform

These are our Kids *

Submitted by Richard Hausman on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:32am.

We're in the early stages of planning for our Annual Santa Cruz Chapter Meeting this fall. We intend to make the "business meeting" short (report on the past year's activities, plans for the next, elect a new board and such) and spend most of the time learning about the innovative juvenile detention system in Santa Cruz County.


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Prison Awareness Week, at UCSC

May 19 2008 - 10:00am
May 24 2008 - 9:00pm

Arranged by the Inside Out Writing Project of the UCSC Women's Center, the week will include events throughout the week designed to inform people of issues related to the fast growing prison system in America.

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Prison Industrial Complex Awareness Week

Submitted by Richard Hausman on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 1:05pm.

The Inside Out Writing Project has set up a weeklong event entitled Prison Industrial Complex Awareness Week. ACLU-Santa Cruz Chapter has signed on as a sponsor of this event. Throughout the week of May 19th through May 24th events will take place on the UCSC campus with the following goals in mind:


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GEMMA seeks women to mentor women through their transition

Submitted by Joyce on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 3:41pm.

 

Volunteers Needed!

Join the Gemma team

to help stop cycles of addiction and

incarceration for women!

 


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"GUANTÁNAMO: pictures from home" - A project by Margot Herster

Submitted by Joyce on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 11:50pm.
GUANTÁNAMO: pictures from home
A project by Margot Herster
September 27 - December 1, 2007
Gallery Reception: Tuesday, October 9, 5-6:30PM
Talk by Margot Herster, October 9, 7PM
http://arts.ucsc.edu/sesnon/

An installation by Margot Herster, created from images, text, audio and video, offering a glimpse into the lives of the Guantánamo prisoners and their relationships with the U.S. attorneys who represent them.

Where: Sesnon Gallery @ UCSC

Contact: Leslie Fellows 831.459-5667; lfellows@ucsc.edu


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"GUANTÁNAMO: pictures from home": Gallery Reception

Oct 9 2007 - 5:00pm
Oct 9 2007 - 6:30pm
An art installation at the Sesnon Gallery at UCSC, by Margot Herster. This powerful work was created from images, text, audio and video; it offers a glimpse into the lives of the Guantánamo prisoners and their relationships with the U.S. attorneys who represent them.
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The Prison Industrial Complex After 25 Years

Apr 5 2007 - 4:00pm
Apr 5 2007 - 5:00pm
SPEAKER
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
"The Prison Industrial Complex After 25 Years"
Thursday, April 5 / 4pm / Oakes Mural Room at UCSC

Providing a trenchant examination of California prisons, shifting patterns of capital investment and incarceration, and increases in punitive justice in the post-Civil Rights era, Ruth Wilson Gilmore will speak about her new book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, a January 2007 release in the American Crossroads Series of the University of California Press.

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Fighting Against Interruption: Interrupted Lives Panel Discussion

Submitted by erica gillingham on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 3:35pm.

Volunteer. Sign petitions. Call your Congressman. Teach. Email your City Councilmember. Mentor. Visit friends and family. Give love.

These were just some of the calls-to-action given by the panelists at the ACLU-Santa Cruz event Interrupted Lives Panel Discussion on February 22, 2007 at the Louden Nelson Community Center.

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