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September 10, 2008
Bay Area: September 24 to 29th: Book events for the Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
7 PM. Book Launch
Green Arcade Bookstore
1680 Market Street, San Francisco
Speakers:
Lois Ahrens, editor, Real Cost of Prisons Comix and director/founder, The Real Cost of Prisons Project.
Marlon Altan is a social studies teacher with 5 Keys Charter School. 5 Keys charter school is a high school that works out of the San Francisco County Jail.
Amie Dowling is an Assistant Professor in the Performing Arts Dept at the University of San Francisco and through Community Works leads theater/writing workshops in the San Francisco jails.
Debbie Reyes, OSI Fellow, Central Valley Coordinator, California Prison Moratorium Project, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, Fresno.
Karen Shain is Co-Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a San Francisco-based 30-year-old prisoners' rights organization that advocates for the rights of incarcerated women, their families and communities.
Mara Taub from Santa Fe, NM, is the coordinator/editor Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter. Since 1976, the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights has worked to gather and disseminate information and analysis for those imprisoned, formerly imprisoned and their allies.
Thursday, September 25th, 7 PM
“Political Prisoner/Incarcerated/Prison Industrial Complex”
Discussion and book launch
First Congregational Church, Oakland
Co-sponsored with KPFA. C.S. Soong, host of “Against the Grain”, Moderator.
Panelists will be PM authors: Robert King (Angola 3), Lois Ahrens, Vikki Law (author of the forthcoming The Invisibility of Women’s Resistance), Matt Meyer (editor of the documentary anthology Let Freedom Ring), Bo Brown, former political prisoner (George Jackson Brigade) and one of the founders of Out of Control, a lesbian prisoners group. Ashanti Alston, former Black Panther and Black Liberation political prisoner. Bo Brown and Ashanti Alston are contributors to Let Freedom Ring. $10—no one turned away.
Monday, September 29th
7 PM. Book launch
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia, San Francisco
Speakers:
Lois Ahrens, Ashanti Alston, Bo Brown and Matt Meyer and others.
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"I cannot think of a better way to arouse the public to the cruelties of the prison system than to make this book widely available."
--Howard Zinn
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. This volume collects the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project.
Through the comics, and associated campaigning, hundreds of thousands of prisoners, their allies, and activists, have had the grisly facts and consequences of mass incarceration and its devastating effects on communities, families and the poor, made accessible. Each comic includes alternatives to the costly and inhumane system we have now. More than 30 organizers in and out of prison write about how they use the comix in their work. Founder and Director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project and the book’s editor, Lois Ahrens discusses the Project and an introductory essay by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore places the comix within a political context.
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix includes:
Prison Town: Paying the Price by Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore
Prisoners of the War on Drugs by Sabrina Jones, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens
Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children by Susan Willmarth, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens.
For more information:Ramsey Kanaan: Publisher: PM Press: ramsey@pmpress.org
Book orders can be placed after September 24th at :https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=48
Books will be available at all events and at Critical Resistance 10.
Posted by lois at September 10, 2008 06:25 PM