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Books to Prisoners Pack-a-thon this Saturday at 3 at the IMC |
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by UC Books to Prisoners Project
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08 Dec 2004
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When: Saturday, December 11, at 3pm
Where: the Champaign-Urbana Independent Media Center - 218 West Main St. in Urbana
What: We open letters from prisoners, pick out one or two books for them that best meet their needs, and write them back. We also encourage pen pal relations with prisoners. |
This Saturday, there will be a UC Books to Prisoners Project Pack-a-thon!!
When: Saturday, December 11, at 3pm
Where: the Champaign-Urbana Independent Media Center - 218 West Main St. in Urbana
What: We open letters from prisoners, pick out one or two books for them that best meet their needs, and write them back. We also encourage pen pal relations with prisoners.
The UC Books to Prisoners Project is an anti-authoritarian collective dedicated to providing support for, and working in solidarity with, those behind bars. We oppose the racism and classism of the prison industrial complex, and we seek to find creative and positive ways to express this resistance. In conjunction with Spineless Books, we also publish prisoner writings. If you are interested, check them out at: www.spinelessbooks.com/prisoners/index.html
This will be a special/bittersweet event, because it will be Radym Davis's last UC Books to Prisoner's Pack-a-thon before he moves away *sob*.
On December 31, 2003, there were 2,085,331 people in U.S. prisons and jails.
That's a rise of 2.6% during the 12 previous months.
U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2003:
Whites: 376 per 100,000
Latinos: 997 per 100,000
Blacks: 2,526 per 100,000
South Africa under apartheid (1993), Black males: 851 per 100,000
U.S. under George Bush (2003), Black males: 4,834 per 100,000
(from prisonsucks.com) |
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