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Title: From Hellholes of Incarceration to a Future of Ema
START DATE: 11/22/2009
START TIME: 3:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
Revolution Books / Libros Revolucion
312 W. 8th St.
Downtown L.A., 90014
Event Topic: prisons & prisoners
Event Type: screening
Contact Name: Nicole Lee
Contact Email: librosrevo@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: 213.488.1303
DESCRIPTION:
Join us at an Open House in celebration of the special new issue of Revolution / Revolucion newspaper on prisons and prisoners in the U.S. This issue exposes the horror that prisoners face behind the penitentiary walls and in the jails across this country. The United States now has five percent of the world's population, but nearly twenty-five percent of its prisoners. There are literally tens of thousands of prisoners who are in long-term solitary confinement. There are more women prisoners in this country (per capita) and in absolute numbers than in any other. One in eight young Black men in this country is imprisoned. And across this country, there are hellhole detention centers which incarcerate, in the most inhumane conditions, immigrants whose only crime is crossing the border to survive.

But this issue not only exposes the horrors, but demonstrates how a section of prisoners are fighting back and transforming into emancipators of humanity. As a centerpiece of this issue, letters from prisoners themselves are featured. Prisoners who have written in response to the call from Joe Veale ("The Revolution Needs You," Revolution #173, August 16, 2009) to respond to the statement, "The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have," and to consciously and actively join the struggle to initiate a new wave of communist revolution in the world.

We will show excerpts of the award-winning PBS documentary, "Eyes on the Prize'" focusing on the chapter "A Nation of Law?" and the powerful Attica prison uprising in 1971.
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