Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:56:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: AUT: Fwd: anti-prison conference at SUNY Binghamton


> Please forward this to everyone you know.  Thank
> you.
> 
> Greetings.  The SUNY Binghamton Prisoner Support
> Network/OFF! Magazine is 
> organizing a conference against the prison
> industrial complex.  Called, 
> “From Cell Blocks to City Blocks: Building a
> Movement in Search of Freedom,” 
> this conference aims to educate, and strategize ways
> to build a viable 
> movement against the PIC, both inside and outside of
> prisons.  It will take 
> place on Saturday and Sunday, March 16-17, 2002. 
> The conference fee of $10 
> will be waived for anyone unable to pay.  For more
> information and updates 
> check our website at www.angelfire.com/ny5/psn.  To
> register email 
> offeditor-AT-hotmail.com.
> 
> 
> 
> Friday, March 15, 2002:
> 
> Screening of films related to the prison industrial
> complex.
> 
> Some of the films that will be shown:
> 
> •Attica: a documentary on the prison rebellion in
> Attica prison on September 
> 9-13, 1971
> •The Last Graduation: a documentary on the cutting
> of educational programs 
> in prisons
> •Books Not Bars: a documentary on youth organizing
> against the prison 
> industrial complex.
> •Corrections: a documentary on private prisons.
> 
> Saturday, March 16, 2002:
> 
> 9:00-10:30 am	Breakfast and Registration
> 
> 10:30-11:45 am
> •Cruel and Unusual Punishment
> A workshop on the inhumane conditions inside u.s.
> prisons.  It will deal 
> with abuse perpetrated by prison officials and
> between prisoners (ie., 
> rape).
> Judith Trustone, prison volunteer and educator
> Jason Mallory, graduate student, SUNY Binghamton
> •“Illegal” Profits
> A workshop on private prisons concentrating on INS
> Detention Centers.
> Prison Moratorium Project, NY
> •Support and Solidarity
> This workshop deals specifically with how students
> can create and maintain 
> prisoner support networks that offer tangible
> solidarity to our brothers and 
> sisters behind bars.
> Tim LaPietra, established the SUNY Binghamton
> Prisoner Support Network
> Daisy Chung, OFF! editor/SUNY Binghamton Prisoner
> Support Network
> Bonnie Massey, OFF! editor/SUNY Binghamton Prisoner
> Support Network
> 
> 12:00-1: 15 pm
> •Free the Land!
> A workshop on the New York 3 and the Victory Gardens
> Project.
> New York 3 Freedom Campaign
> Joshua Smith, Victory Gardens Project
> •Undermining the Prison Industrial Complex: Teaching
> in Prisons
> A workshop discussing the role of education in
> building the movement against 
> the prison industrial complex, and all struggles for
> liberation.
> Michael Hames-García, Department of English
> William Martin, Department of Sociology
> 
> •Economics Inside and Out
> A workshop dealing with prison expansion, prison
> labor, and the missing but 
> necessary link between the labor movement and the
> anti-prison movement.
> Corey Finger, union organizer
> Victoria Law, Missouri Prison Labor Union
> Kelvin Santiago, Department of Sociology
> 
> 1:30-2:30 pm	Lunch
> 
> 2:45-4:00 pm
> •Dos Alas: Faltan 6 y Los 5 Patriotas
> A workshop on the struggle to free the remaining
> Puerto Rican Political 
> Prisoners and Prisoners of War and the five Cuban
> Political Prisoners in the 
> U.S.
> Reverend Lucius Walker, IFCO-Pastors for Peace
> Ben Ramos, ProLibertad
> •Sisters Behind Bars
> A workshop on women in prison.
> Bonnie Kerness, American Friends Service Committee
> Juanita Diaz, Department of Sociology
> •Experiencing Prison
> In this workshop participants will talk about the
> effects that prison has 
> had on their lives.
> Donovan Williams, ex-prisoner
> Rosalyn Payne, sister of a prisoner
> Messiah, ex-political prisoner
> 
> 4:15-5:30 pm
> •Dare to Struggle, Date to Win!
> A workshop addressing, though the elements of hip
> hop culture, issues that 
> affect Black, Latina/o communities, such as the
> prison industrial complex 
> and the struggle to free u.s. Political Prisoners
> and Prisoners of War.  It 
> will also discuss the need for Black and Latina/o
> youth to reclaim their 
> culture and use it as a tool to educate, organize,
> and mobilize their 
> respective communities.
> Fred Hampton Jr., ex-political prisoner
> Mutulu Olugabala, organizer and hip hop artist (Dead
> Prez)
> 
> 5:45-6:45 pm
> Welcome Address and Keynote speaker Laura Whitehorn
> (ex-political prisoner)
> 
> 7:00-9:00 pm	Dinner
> 
> Sunday, March 17, 2002
> 
> 9:00-10:30 am	Breakfast and Registration
> 
> 10:30-11:45 am
> •Fighting Homophobia in the Prison Industrial
> Complex
> A workshop on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered
> prisoners and homophobia in 
> prisons.
> Chino Hardin, Prison Moratorium Project, NY
> Gino Bush, ex-prisoner
> Juanita Diaz, Department of Sociology
> •Escape and Exposure: The Prisoner’s Pen
> A workshop with ex-prisoner/author Piri Thomas.
> •Criminalizing Dissent
> A workshop on the increased repression of organizing
> post 9/11 and what 
> every organizer should know about his or her rights.
> Daniel Meyers, lawyer
> 
> 12:00-1:15 pm
> •Liberate Our Freedom Fighters!
> A workshop about organizing to free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
> the MOVE prisoners, and 
> Eddie Hatcher.
> Ramona Africa, MOVE and International Concerned
> Family and Friends of Mumia
> Maurice Geiger, Rural Justice Center
> •Kidnapped
> A workshop addressing the criminalization of youth.
> Prison Moratorium Project, NY
> •Revolutionary Politics and Prison
> In this workshop, Bill Ayers (educator, former
> member of the Weather 
> Underground) will talk about his life experience as
> an 
> organizer/revolutionary and discuss the intrinsic
> connection between 
> organizing and prison.
> 
> 1:30-2:30 pm 	Lunch
> 
> 2:45-3:45 Discussions
> 
> 4:00-4:30 Closing Plenary
> 


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