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"Prisons at Home, Sweatshops Abroad"- Wed. Oct.11th
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JulianJG@aol.com)
Wed Oct 4 20:03:42 2000
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"Prisons at Home, Sweatshops Abroad: The Political Economy of Repression"
with
* Christian Parenti, author of "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the
Age of Crisis"
* Chris Clement, anti-corporate globalization and anti-racist activist
WHEN: Wednesday, October 11th, 6:30PM to 8:30PM
WHERE: Northeastern University School of Law, Room 97
Chris Clement is a graduate student at Howard University and Political
Science Fellow at Virginia Tech. He is a member of Solidarity. He was a
leading organizer of the A16 demonstrations in Washington D.C. against the
meetings of the IMF and World Bank and fights to build links between
anti-corporate globlization and anti-racist activists.
Christian Parenti is the author of "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in
the Age of Crisis" which has been banned in prisons across the country. He
teaches at the New College of California and has been a journalist in Central
America, New York and California. His writing has appeared in the Nation, the
Progressive, Salon, In These Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
SPONSORS: Solidarity and the Northeastern University Radical Front-National
Lawyers Guild
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Julian Gonzalez at julianjg@aol.com.
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Here are some comments on Christian Parenti's "Lockdown America":
"I predict that Christian Parenti's new book will do for the movement against
the 'prison industrial complex' what Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' did for
the movement against environmental devastation. Parenti has penned our first
manifesto."
-- Van Jones, National Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
"A frightening and powerful analysis of how a democratic society has
succumbed to militarized policing and prison construction and an essential
work in understanding the political tradeoffs between education vs.
incarceration and human needs vs. state violence."
--Manning Marable, Director, Institute for Research in African American
Studies, Columbia University
"The details of what happens to real people in real places makes 'Lockdown
America' unequalled in current writing on the U.S. gulag. In unforgettable
prose, Christian Parenti brings the statistics to life, showing in every
chapter how the brutalities of political economic crisis are lived - and died
- in everyday life."
--Ruthie Gilmore, University of California at Berkeley
