Hosted by Philadelphia Black Radical Congress and the American Friends Service Committee: Criminal Justice Program
May 17th, 2003 9 AM - 4:30 PM
@ the Friends Center 15th and Cherry Streets Philadelphia, PA
*free admission*
Workshops Include:
-- Be All That You Can Be?: Education and the Military -- Privatization: Public $$$ in Private Hands -- Our Future of Lockdown -- The New Epidemic: Women & Girls in Prison -- Money & War: How Much is it Costing U$? -- Bringing Jails to Justice: Imagining Community Alternatives to Punitive Incarceration -- Schools Can Change!: Students, Parents, and Teachers Thinking Outside the Box -- It's a Hard Knock Life-Prison Realities
Lunch Youth Poetry Jam Action Step/Report Back Poetry Performance Featuring: Amiri Baraka
Join us for a day of learning and sharing about the 2 critical issues facing our communities today: the crisis of public education and the growing prison industry. What are the connections?
We must not stand by an allow our Children to Fill America's Prisons! We must not stand by and allow our children to become cannon fodder for needless wars! Our Children need Quality School not Zero Tolerance!
for more information call: (215) 849-5099 or e-mail: <education-not-incarceration at yahoogroups.com> or mail: Philadelpahia BRC P.O. Box 27423 Philadelphia, PA 19118 -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>