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The Southern California Library will hold an event entitled ?Without Fear?Claiming Safe Communities Without Sacrificing Ourselves? at the L.A. River Center, 570 West Avenue 26, Los Angeles, on Thursday, April 26, 2007, 6 to 9 p.m. The event will celebrate creating communities that work for all of us, recognizing that public safety is about far more than policing and prisons. Prison activist and author Ruth Wilson Gilmore and the late Michael Zinzun, co-founder of the Coalition Against Police Abuse, will be honored in an evening featuring speakers; exhibits drawing on the Library?s historic collections, including materials from Zinzun?s papers; a silent auction featuring art by local artists and items reproduced from the Library?s collections; and a musical performance by jazz vocalist Dwight Trible.
Ticket prices are , and group rates are available. An event reader will be available, with original articles and interviews featuring cutting-edge analysis from authors such as Mike Davis, Vijay Prashad, and Ruth Gilmore on the strategies that have been carried out in the name of creating safe communities, and their devastating impacts politically, socially, and economically. The event provides an opportunity to explore new options as we approach the eve of the fifteenth anniversary of the Rodney King verdict and the civil unrest that followed and as Governor Schwarzenegger proposes to spend .9 billion expanding California?s already massive prison system.
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