Summary: The Many Faces of Imprisonment 26 April 2010 Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen Street, NYC http://www.bluestockings.com/ What does mass incarceration have to do with immigrant detention and the War on Terror? How are these all different names of the same repression? Join Laura Whitehorn (former political prisoner and editor of The War Before by Safiya Bukhari), Victoria Law (author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women), Jeanne Theoharis (Professor of Political Science and co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties) and Ravi Ragbir and Marlon Peterson (Families for Freedom) for a discussion on the many faces of imprisonment. Links to the various projects: Safiya Bukhari book (edited by Laura Whitehorn): http://www.feministpress.org/books/safiya-bukhari/war Laura Whitehorn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Whitehorn more about Fahad Hashmi's case and the Special Administrative Measures: http://educatorsforcivilliberties.org/ and http://freefahad.com/ Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women http://resistancebehindbars.org/ Books Through Bars www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html Tenacious: a zine of Art & Writings by Women in Prison http://resistancebehindbars.org/node/19 http://www.archive.org/details/TheManyFacesOfImprisonment
