CRITICAL RESISTANCE EAST: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

March 9-11, 2001 Columbia University Law School New York City Affirmation Dear Friends, I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum Welcome to Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial of Beta Days and Gamma people. Complex. We live in a time in-which, more than ever before, people's I believe in sunshine lives are being destroyed by the Prison Industrial Complex. We have in windmills and waterfalls, seen an explosion in prison populations, privatized prisons, increased tricycles and rocking chairs. use of the death penalty, more militarized policing, racial profiling, the And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts, criminalization of youth and more hardships for communities of color And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in rain and tears. and working class people. Entire communities - especially And in the blood of infinity. communities of color - are being annihilated by increased imprisonment, police brutality, stigmatization and alienation. I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade Out of the ashes of this wreckage has risen a wave of people march through the torso of the earth, working to resist and transform this system. Three thousand people sculpting mud bodies in ijs path. came together in 1998 at the Critical Resistance Conference in I have seen the destructipn of the daylight, Berkeley, California to begin the process of resistance and and seen the bloodthirsty maggots transformation. We believe this conference will push this process and prayed to and saluted. the movement further along in its fight against the prison industrial complex. With everyone's participation, we can rededicate ourselves I have seen the kind become the blind to creating a true culture of resistance. and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson. We are incredibly excited about this weekend but even more I have walked on cut glass. excited about the concrete actions that will come in the days, weeks, I have eaten crow and blunder bread months and years ahead because of the dialogue during the and breathed the stench of indifference. conference. Hundreds of people have helped build for this conference. Thousands of people will continue to challenge the prison I have been locked by the lawless. industrial complex after the conference. It is only through the work of Handcuffed by the haters. these dedicated people that this conference is happening and Gagged by the greedy. anything will happen in the future. We can create a new society that And, if I know anything at all, does not depend on prisons as a solution for social, political and it's that a wall is just a wall economic problems. Through the work of millions of concerned and nothing more at all. , people, we will create this new society. It can be broken down. With Hope and Solidarity, I believe in living. Critical Resistance East Steering Committee I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love Shana Agid and the fire of truth. Peter Chung Amanda Devecka-Rinear And I believe that a lost ship, Rachel Herzing steered by tired, seasick sailors, Kai Lumumba Barrow can still be guided home Arif Mandani to port. Linda Thurston - Assata Shakur J Critical Resistance East Northeast Regional Conference The conference will build stronger-links between people who are already and Strategy Session working together against the PIC. It will also broaden and strengthen networks throughout the region by engaging those who have not traditionally been involved in these conversations.

What is the Critical Resistance East conference? The conference will assist in developing the organizing skills of both Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex is a beginning and seasoned activists. Northeast regional conference and strategy session. The conference will be held March 9-11, 2001, at Columbia Law School in New York City. What is our vision? We anticipate at least 1000 participants. Critical Resistance East will serve as a springboard for building a culture of resistance. The conference will provide an opportunity to share This gathering will bring together communities including: current and successes and challenges, examine commonalities, explore emerging former prisoners, families of prisoners, immigrants, community-based trends in the Northeast region and unite local, state, and regional organizers, communities of faith, people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual organizations. and transgendered people, women, youth, and elders. Following the conference, Critical Resistance East organizers will join with organizers from around the country for a strategy session. During 3 What is the prison industrial complex and how is that an issue this gathering, we will draw on the lessons learned and information for the conference? gathered to form an ongoing campaign based locally and regionally. We understand the prison industrial complex (PIC) to be a multifaceted system that designates prisons as a solution to social, political, and We need to honor young people who will move struggle forward, whose economic problems. The PIC encompasses human rights violations, the world this becomes. death penalty, exploitative industry and labor, policing, courts, media, community disenfranchisement, the imprisonment of political prisoners Principles of Unity and prisoners of war, and the elimination of dissent. Additionally, the We recognize that we are all coming together with the common goal of PIC intersects with and depends upon the oppressive systems of racism, organizing to challenge the prison industrial complex. We understand ciassism, sexism, and homophobia. that each of us comes to this work from different communities, life experiences, and political ideologies, and we are here to work together. The fight against the prison system is, among other things, a fight for How do we discuss these issues and who is included in the more humane treatment of people, therefore we expect people to treat discussion? each other humanely at this conference. We see our work as part of the The conference will create a space for people with diverging points of larger struggles for the liberation of all oppressed people. In order to view to have honest, facilitated dialogue and disagreement about practice liberation, we will not tolerate disrespect of anyone based on directions the movement against the PIC could take/is taking. their race, class, gender, sexuality, age or physical/mental ability.

Critical Resistance East will present an array of panels, roundtabie discussions, workshops, and cultural expressions. J

Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Friday Night Opening Performance: CRE Conference Outline The Attica Rebellion: Roots of Resistance

The opening session of the Critical Resistance conference will celebrate the Friday, March 9 spirit of the Attica Prison Rebellion: the unity and self-determination of the Attica Brothers, the solidarity among prisoners and non-prisoners throughout the 3:00 • 6:00 pm Conference registration country. Critical Resistance will recognize the importance of Attica in inspiring a radical prison movement and will place it within a continuum of ongoing struggle against the prison industrial complex and the conditions it produces. 6:30 • 8:30 pm Opening Event (doors open at 6), Miller Theater Attica is All of Us: Former Attica & San Quentin Prisoners Speak Out Friday, March 9th 6:30-8:30pm (doors open at 6:00) Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 116th & Broadway Saturday, March 10 Presenters Include: George Che Nieves, Attica Brother 9:30 am -10:00 am Opening gathering David Johnson, San Quentin 6 Danny Meyers, Attorney 10:00 am -11:45 am Workshops, Panels, Roundtables, and Caucuses Fred Ho, David Bindman, Salim Washington, Saxophone Trio Impact Repertory Theatre 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Roundtables, Caucuses (bag lunches will be available) MCs: Emani Davis, Daughter of an Attica Survivor, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Critical Resistance 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Workshops, Panels, Roundtables, and Caucuses

4:00 pm • 5:45 pm- Workshops, Panels, Roundtables, and Caucuses Saturday Evening Event: 6:30 pm • 7:30 pm Evening Event (doors open at 6), Riverside Church Women. Prison & Globalization; A Collaborative Performance Women in Prison and Globalization with Angela Davis, Chrystos, Work in Honor of International Working Women's Day and others

This debut performance examines women in prison, globalization and resistance through poetry, music, dance,painting and spoken word.

Saturday, March 10th Sunday, March 11 7:00-8:00pm (doors open at 6:00) Riverside Church, 121st & Claremont 8:00 am - 9:30 am Interfaith Breakfast See back Featuring: cover for 10:00 am -11:45 am Workshops, Panels, Roundtables, and Caucuses Angela Davis, activist/author Film Ase, drummers Screening 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Workshops, Panels, Roundtables, and Caucuses Chrystos, poet Information! Suheir Hammad, poet 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Closing Plenary Alisa de los Reyes, dancer Olu, dancer Christine Wong, painter 3:00 pm Action! ~ directed by Lorna Johnson Definitions; Saturday, March JO Saturday IO:OOAM these topics: police brutality, labor, education, and gender as they all PANELS: relate to criminalization and Three or more participants will make ten to fifteen minute PRISON VISITING AS AN incarceration. Facilitators: Rima presentations. In the course of the discussion the moderator will ORGANIZING TOOL Vesely, Manning Marable invite audience members to share information and suggest campaign strategies. Barnard Hall 406 This workshop discusses strategies to CREATING A CULTURE OF SKILLS-BUILDING WORKSHOPS: get students inside prisons. The RESISTANCE: CHALLENGING THE Using hands-on methods, workshop facilitators will present workshop will also explore how visiting PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX practical strategies for developing organizations and campaigns. prisons can be used as an organizing Green Hall 104 Examples include: student groups; media campaigns; books to tool. Facilitator: Colin Starger, Prison prisoners; using international human rights documents. Access Working Group, National This panel will explore culture as a tool Lawyers Guild, Resistance in Brooklyn. for building popular support in ROUNDTABLES: Presenters: Vera Beatty-Abiodun, opposition to the Prison Industrial Complex. Facilitator: Kai Lumumba- Designed to encourage all participants to share ideas and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement ~ Barrow. Presenters: An ika Haynes ~ information on a particular topic, these sessions will facilitate Karl Franklin, Malcolm X Grassroots Jamal Joseph ~ Jeremia Hosea ~ networking and creating strategies for collaborative work. Movement Marta Morena Vega TASK FORCE ROUNDTABLES: MORATORIUM NOW!: BUILDING BRIDGES TO Designed to invite broad collaborative participation in the GRASSROOTS STRATEGIES FOR formation of coalitions, committees and networks that will devise RESISTANCE: ASIAN AND 6 specific projects to further the ongoing campaign. HALTING EXECUTIONS Uris Hall 331 PACIFIC ISLANDER ACTIVISM This workshop will explore the AGAINST CRIMINALIZATION AND relationship between the death penalty REPRESSION and the criminal justice system, the Uris Hall 328 moratorium movement as a step ART EXHIBITION AND SOUND A networking discussion among Asian towards abolition, and the social, legal, political and community activists who INSTALLATION BY PRISONERS and policy implications of moratorium. are currently doing work against AND FORMER PRISONERS The group will also strategize about institutions of criminalization and strengthening local moratorium repression. This roundtable continues Art and writing by prisoners and campaigns, and about using state a discussion started by community former prisoners created in response campaigns to build the national organizers from the U.S. and Canada to seven pieces of writing that have moratorium movement. at the Critical Resistance Conference inspired and educated us in our Facilitators: Shari Silberstein, Equal in 1998. Facilitator: Steve Yip, Asians struggle. Writing by Frederick Justice USA/Moratorium Now! ~ Caleb for Mumia, Jericho, October 22nd Douglass, Martfn Espada, Dr. Martin Eber, Equal Justice USA/Moratorium Coalition Luther King, JR, Audre Lorde, Assata Now! Shakur, and a working class Chilean THE CRISIS IN NYC INDIGENT woman. This was a project of the Critical Resistance East Culture EDUCATION NOT INCACERATION, CRIMINAL DEFENSE Committee. FIGHT THE POLICE STATE! Barnard Hall 409 A workshop on the nature and impact Location: Buell Hall (on the Columbia Uris Hall 307 University campus) The main purpose of this panel is to of the Guiliani administration's serve a networking function for groups systematic and continuing assault on that are organizing around each of the criminal defense of poor New Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Yorkers. Facilitators: Michael Letwin, implement this abuse. Facilitator: Saturday 12:OOPM and will facilitate a focused discussion Association of Legal Aid Attorneys ~ Bonnie Kerness, Prison Watch, about strategies for "remedicalizing" Charlotte Hitchcock, Association of American Friends Service Committee. our country's healthcare crises, Legal Aid Attorneys Presenters: Masai Ehehosi, Prison JURY INDEPENDENCE: CHANGING particularly those in poor and Watch, American Friends Service LAWS BY REFUSING TO ENFORCE disenfranchised communities. BOURGEOIS CRIMINAL INJUSTICE Committee ~ Fredrica Bey, Women in THOSE WHICH ARE UNJUST Facilitator: Heather Barr, Urban AND PROLETARIAN JUSTICE Support of the Million Man March ~ Justice Center Presenters: Craig Green Hall 602 Green Hall 646 Audrey Bomse Acorn, Urban Justice Center Mental This strategy session seeks to address An information session aimed to build Health Project-Natalie Bimel, the idea of jury independence public opinion against the US criminal CORPORATE CAMPAIGNS AND Filmmaker-Romeo Sanchez, Latino (nullification) and facilitate a injustice system which imprisons and Commission on AIDS. PRISON ACTIVISM discussion concerning its-use in executes a disproportionate number of Uris Hall 303 various locales. National Center on oppressed people. This session This workshop will provide an overview Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) A CAUCUS ON PROTESTING THE highlights specific cases of prisoners of corporate involvement in the prison stands ready tocoordinate the effort AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL from New York, New Jersey, industrial complex and provide and serve as a conduit of information. Connecticut, and Massachusetts. ASSOCIATION participants with concrete strategies Facilitators: Todd Bussert, NCIA, Facilitator: Lance Jackson, Maoist Barnard Hall 406 and tactics for confronting prison Barry Holman, NCIA A discussion of strategies to International Movement profiteers. Facilitators: Kevin Pranis, demonstrate during the convention of Prison Moratorium Project, Pari Zutshi, HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAIN ING the American Correctional Association COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FOR Hampshire College. SENTENCING ADULTS Barnard Hall 409 in Philadelphia. Hands-on training on preparing for Facilitator: Kitty Height Uris Hall 306 INTERROGATING THE ROLE OF police violence at militant Facilitator: Marsha Weissman, Center CONTEMPORARY US PRISONS: demonstrations. — for Community Alternatives LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL/ RACE, CLASS, LITERACY AND Facilitator: Northeast Action Medical Association TRANSGENDER CAUCUS WHERE1 D EVERYBODY GO? I STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE Lenfest Cafe USED TO WALK ALL THE WAY Green Hall 602 DETENTION AND IMPRISONMENT A caucus on LGBT issues. This session will examine four different Facilitators: Jesse Heiwa-Scott FROM PLEASANTVILLE aspects of the contemporary prison OF IMMIGRANTS AND ASYLUM Berry-Katherine Welsh, Bluestockings Barnard Hall 407 industrial complex, highlighting various SEEKERS Women's Bookstore A presentation of a sound collage on methods and strategies of resistance. Uris Hall 331 prisons and policing created from the Facilitator: Mecke Nagel. A panel on the detentions of USING ENVIRONMENTAL Vehicle for Conversation voice Presenters: Emmanuel Eze, DePaul immigrants and asylum Seekers. collection. Presenter; Lex Bhagat, STRATEGIES TO STOP NEW University ~ Greg Moses, Marist Facilitator: Mac Scott. Presenters: artist and writer College ~ Larry Ashley, SUNY, Cortland Asif Ullah-Desis Rising Up and Moving, PRISONS: DELANO, CA, A CASE ~ Onaje Mu'id, N'COBRA. Rita Dave, Judy Greene, Lisa STUDY TORTURE IN AMERICA: HUMAN Gryzboski-Coalition on Detentions and Green Hall 102 RIGHTS ABUSES IN U.S. PRISONS AIDS AND PRISONS Imprisonment The session will look at litigation, grassroots organizing, and the use of Warren Hall 417 Green Hall 502 environmental strategies to build This workshop will explore the growing This workshop will explore the issues CHANGING THE DISCOURSE: A coalitions, and the role of legislative use of extended isolation in U.S. of AIDS in prisons. STRATEGY SESSION ON lobbying and media in one campaign prisons: control units; administration Facilitator: Mel Stevens, ACT-UP NY. DECRIMINALIZING HEALTH against prison expansion. segregation units; and other methods. Presenters: Robert Cohen, physician Facilitator: Rose Braz, Critical The workshop will include information ~ Katherine Hanssen, Lambda Legal PROBLEMS Resistance. Presenters: Julia about the history of human rights Defense Fund ~ Ivan Umiz, ex- Uris Hall 307 Sudbury, Critical Resistance-Michelle violations in prisons and the current offender. This workshop seeks to raise the technology which is being used to awareness of participants about the Foy, California PMP Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex criminalization of medical problems, ACROSS THE LINES: WORKING the death penalty, police brutality, and research effort on the prospects for re- Darling,Center for African American & TOGETHER FOR WOMEN the criminalization of youth. entry nationwide. Ethnic Studies, Adelphi University Facilitators: Ameejill Whitlock, Facilitator: Jason Zeidenberg, Justice PRISONERS Marshall Eddie Conway Support Policy Institute PRISON WRITING LIVE Uris Hall 327 Committee-John Gilliam, Baltimore (PRISONER CALL IN) This panel will analyze the successes Campaign to End the Death Penalty Uris Hall 307 and challenges of work around issues INCARCERATED MOTHERS AND This session will present prisoners' of women in prison in order to THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM experiences as revealed through strengthen national coordination of MUMIA: A GRASSROOTS Uris Hall 329 reflections on their own writings. The efforts to change a wide range of A teach-in where social service, legal, OUTREACH TEACHING panel will also include a brief historical policies and conditions with affect Green Hall 501 community-based advocates and perspective on prison writing and women prisoners all over the United A training session which will use the former prisoners can share practical discussion of the collection Doing Time States. knowledge and develop advocacy Campaign to Free the Puerto Rican by the editor of that volume. Facilitator: Diana Block, California Prisoners of War as a model for strategies to empower mothers on the Facilitator: Bell Gale Chevigny, editor Coalition for Women Prisoners and inside, and support women who are outreach in organizing for Mumia Abu- of Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Jericho Amnesty Movement to Free Jama!. transitioning back into their families Writing . Presenters: Bruce Franklin, Political Prisoners. Presenters: Facilitator: Resistance in Brooklyn and communities. Facilitators: editor of Prison Writing in 20th Century Harriette Davis, Legal Services for Martha Raimon, Incarcerated Mother's America ~ Judee Norton, former Prisoners with Children and Former Project, Women's Prison Association - prisoner author, PEN prize winner - Prisoner ~ Stephanie Poggi, LIVE FROM DEATH ROW: MEET Lynn Vogelstein, NYU Family Defense Eric Waters, former prisoner author, Inside/Outside: Women in Prison THE DEATH ROW 10 - POLICE Clinic. Presenters: Ellen Barry, Legal PEN prize winner - Jarin Warren, Project of Sojourner: the Women's TORTURE VICTIMS ON ILLINOIS Services for Prisoners with Children ~ former prisoner autor, and others Forum -Karen Shain, Legal Services DEATH ROW Barbara Ellis, Sarah Powell Huntington of the California Coalition for Women House - Tonia Krupat, ACS - Pearlette 10 Uris Hall 326 11 Prisoners ~ Laura Whitehorn, Former Scott, Family Dynamics, and Beverly L. POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION Political Prisoner, Poz Magazine Hear the stories of men and women who have experienced some of the IN PRISONS worst injustices because of capital BEYOND EITHER/OR POLITICS: Green Hall 502 COINTELPRO UNDER FIRE! punishment and a corrupt legal RESISTING THE SOCIAL CONTROL A discussion for people interested in Uris Hall 303 system. getting post-GED education and TAP Current and former political prisoners OF WOMEN Facilitator: Lucy Herschel funds back into New York State and their attorneys expose various Presenters; PA Abolitionists United Uris Hall 306 prisons. government sponsored programs to Against the Death Penalty-Joan This workshop is framed around Facilitator: Rudy Cypser, CURE-NY incarcerate political activists. Parkin, Campaign to End the Death "Social Control and Policing Women's Facilitator Ahmed Obafemi, Malcolm Penalty Bodies," and includes presentations on X Grassroots Movement. Presenters; women's experiences with law WWW.360DEGREES.ORG: Kazi Toure-Jihad Mumit-Michael Tarif THE CONNECTION BETWEEN RE- enforcement agencies, population PERSPECTIVES ON THE Warren-Dhoruba Bin Wahad~Bob control, abusive and hazardous AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Boyle-Ashanti Alston-Mutulu Shakur ENTRY AND DIVERSION: THE contraceptives, and the "greening" of PROSPECTS FOR ALTERNATIVES hate through anti-immigrant SYSTEM INSIDE THE MARYLAND STATE Barnard Hall 202 environmentalism. Facilitator: Warren Hall L104 This panel will draw on work the Rachael Kamel, National Community This session will discuss how to use PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Justice Policy Institute is currently Relations Unit of American Friends the web more effectively for social Warren Hall 417 conducting with the District of Service Committee. Presenters: change. Presenters: Kenyatta This roundtable will expose the Columbia to suggest ways they could Anannya Bhattacharjee, Unitarian Belcher, Picture Projects - Alison Maryland State prison industrial divert up to 20% of their prison Universalist Veatch Program ~ Rajani Cornyn, Picture Projects - Adrienne complex, including discussion of population to community-based Bhatia, Committee on Women, FitzGerald, Picture Projects - Sue education vs. prison construction, alternative programs, and a national Population and the Environment ~ Syd Johnson, Picture Projects racial disparities in the legal system, Lindsley,Hampshire College Population Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex and Development Program ~ Marsha A PILGRIMAGE TO DEATH ROW Saturday 2:OOPM THE NATIONWIDE EPIDEMIC OF CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF: Green Hall 646 POLICE BRUTALITY- CONTOURS, THERE ARE POLITICAL The story of a prisoner on Arkansas TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL OF CAUSES, AND THE CURES PRISONERS IN THE U.S. Death Row and the formation of a ECONOMIC AND POLTICAL Warren Hall 417 Uris Hall 330 Dharma relationship with those on The goals of this workshop are to examine '- An interactive discussion of political death row. TRANSFORMATION IN PEOPLE OF the political forces/exigencies behind "~' prisoners in the United States and Facilitators: Rev. Kobutsu Ma lone, COLOR COMMUNITIES FACING police brutality on a deeper level and to what can be done to help free them. The Engaged Zen Foundation ~ Dakota arm and engage participants with Facilitator: Vera Beatty Presenters: THE TECHNOLOGICAL DIVIDE approaches to building resistance on a Rowland Monifa Akinwole ~ Rosa Clemente ~ Green Hall 546 higher level of struggle. This workshop will explore how Facilitator: Carl Dix, October 22nd Russell Shoats-Jamel Jacot-Bell STREET CRIMES UNIT technology has created obstacles and Coalition. Presenters; Nicholas Case Lounge opportunities for organizations, artists, Heyward, Sr., father of Nicholas LGBT YOUTH OF COLOR IN THE and ex-prisoners who are building Heyward, Jr. who was murdered by a Community activists from the Coalition PRISON AND JUVENILE JUSTICE Against Police Brutality will discuss the movements. How will people of color Housing Authority cop in NYC~Emma New York City Street Crimes Unit (SCU) who are poor gain access to Jones, mother of Malik Jones who was SYSTEM and its role in the expansion of the technology in order to transform their murdered by North Haven, CT police, Warren Hall L104 prison industry. They will also talk lives? MALIK Organization~Ray LaForest, This workshop explores the ways in about its effects on local communities, Facilitator: John Kim, SLAM Haitian Mobilization which LGBT youth of color and LGBT especially communities of color. poor youth are especially vulnerable Facilitator: Maegan Ortiz, Justice PRISONS IN RURAL AMERICA: to state violence. Committee/NCPRR Presenters: Dayo THE BIBLE AS A RESOURCE Facilitators: Jesse Ehrensaft-Hawley, Gore, Audre Lorde Project ~ Eric Tang, Uris Hall 329 OVERVIEW FOR SOCIAL CHANGE ~ LaDedra Brown ~ Shawnta Smith ~ 12 CAAAV. An interactive discussion of how the ACTIVISTS Corrina Wiggins (all from F.I.E.R.C.E.) Bible can be used as a resource when Uris Hall 331 CAUCUS OF PRISON BOOK dealing with issues of crime and A workshop which^will provide an SCHOOLS WORK, PRISONS imprisonment. PROGRAMS overview of available information, DON'T: BUILDING COALITIONS Facilitators: Renee Womack- analyses and organizing strategies and Green Hall 546 Keels-Brooks Berndt, American tools for addressing the increasing FOR CHANGE Caucus for prison rights activists from Friends Service Committee placement of prisons in rural Green Hall 107 books to prisoners programs. communities. The workshop will This roundtable will focus on how the Discussion will include histories, discuss strategies for connecting rural recent United Black Radical Congress operations, successes, funding, VICTORY GARDENS and urban activists as well as activists conference in Harlem was constructed resources, obstacles, and Uris Hall 327 coming from various issue areas. and what organizers learned. The opportunities for networking. This workshop will educate Facilitator: Tracy Huling, Justice emphasis will be on sharing Facilitator: Fran Roznowski, Prison participants on the Victory Gardens policy analyst, filmmaker, journalist experiences of coalition building and Book Program program, which brings organic food to Presenters; Ruth Wilson Gilmore, how to build sustaining coalitions. low-income communities. The Facilitator: Rima Vesely workshop will provide tools and Prison activist, author, professor at DC information for starting similar Berkeley, Department of Geography ~ programs, connecting rural and urban Craig Gilmore, California Prison INTERGENERATIONAL communities, and recognizing how Moratorium Project ~ Grace Defina, INCARCERATION: BREAKING communities can benefit from growing Concerned Citizens of Wayne County, PA THE CURSE their own food as part of a larger Uris Hall 304 liberation struggle. This panel is aimed at discussing Facilitator: Michael Vernon, Victory issues of women in prison with Gardens children and the increasing issue of children with parents in prison. Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Facilitator: Joyce Dixson, Sons and HOMES NOT JAILS grassroots campaigns around death HOPECOURAGE row cases up and down the East Daughters of the Incarcerated Uris Hall 305 Barnard Hall 409 Coast. They will discuss the successes A workshop connecting the issues of A performance piece which focuses on they have had and the problems YOUNG ACTIVISTS ROUNDTABLE homelessness and imprisonment the ways in which race, gender and they've faced. Facilitator: Lucy along with strategies for raising sexuality intersect with the criminal Barnard Hall 302 Herschel, Campaign to End theUeath' awareness and promoting affordable justice system. Facilitator: Andre This workshop will be an informal Penalty. Presenters: Jay Nickerson, housing for all. Lancaster, University of Texas, Austin roundtable of young activists from death penalty defense attorney - Facilitators: Monica Gutierrez, around the country who are working on Lawrence Hayes, former NY state Homes Not Jails-Jennifer Kirby, Homes fighting prison expansion and death row inmate - Sam Jordon, APPRENDIV. NEW JERSEY organizing around prison issues. Not Jails National Coordinating Committee for Green Hall 502 Facilitator: Kate Rhee. Presenters: Mumia Abu-Jamal This workshop will explore what types Rashid Shabazz, NY PMP~Pan Zutshi, FROM THE ROSENBERGS TO of cases would be eligible for review by NYPMP MUMIA: FIGHTING THE DEATH either state or federal courts under the THE OLD VANN PLANTATION: THE PENALTY Apprendi doctrine, and offer WHO SEES BEHIND THE WALLS: PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN information packets on filing Apprendi Uris Hall 303 motions. Facilitator: Gilda Sherrod-Ali A ROUNDTABLE ON COMMUNITY This workshop presents an historical THE SOUTH OVERSIGHT perspective on political repression and Warren Hall L107 Saturday 4:oopivi the death penalty as well as updates This panel presentation will examine Uris Hall 306 on Mumia's case and current the role of the Prison Industrial WHO CARES? COMMUNITY This session will be a facilitated Complex in Southern rural discussion for organizations working organizing efforts. SUPPORT FOR FORMER Facilitator: Pam Africa, MOVE communities and struggles against it. on state or local proposals to establish Presenters: Robert Meeropol, Facilitator: Constance Curry - Author; PRISONERS RETURNING TO community oversights of prisons. It Rosenberg Fund for Children - Leslie civil rights and prison work activist. 14 waill include an example of launching HARLEM AND THE SOUTH BRONX Presenters: Si Kahn, Grass Roots a local campaign. Facilitator: Mimi Jones, Youth for Mumia. Uris Hall 303 Leadership ~ Kamau Marcharia, Public Budnick, Direct Action for Rights and This panel will discuss how Harlem, Safety and Justice Campaign - Chea the South Bronx and other poor Equality DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME: Prince, Georgians for Equal Justice - communities of color are struggling Kim Diehl, Southerners on New WOMEN IN PRISON AND HARM with huge numbers of people returning THE RISE AND FALL OF Ground. REDUCTION PRACTICE IN NEW from jail and prison, and the CORRECTIONAL CORPORATION OF YORK STATE importance of service programs for PRISON PROGRAMS AS those being released. This session will AMERICA Uris Hall 328 Lenfest Cafe This presentation will focus on harm CONTROL STRATEGIES IN THE begin with a 20-minute film entitled This panel will address the rapid reduction programs in prisons and will CORRECTIONAL ENTERPRISE: A "The Riker's Bus- Not This Time" by growth of prison privatization through Natalie Bimel; the panelists include strategize about practices that go CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE presentations that explore the history beyond corrections to education, some participants in the film. and operations of the Corrections meditation, and trauma recovery. POLITICS OF PRISON EDUCATION Facilitator: Natalie Bimel, Community Corporation of America. Facilitators: Awilda Gonzales, social Green Hall 501 Advisory Board member for Rikers Facilitator: Judy Greene, criminal work student, ex-offender ~ Mary This session will examine how prison Women's jail. Presenters: GJ justice policy analyst. Presenters: Cotter, God's Love We Deliver schools and other programs relate to Jenkinson,Health Link Project ~ Alex Friedmann, Reconciliation-Linda prison labor and together function as a Ray Willis, Health Link Project ~ Phyllis McCarty, Tennessee State Employees control mechanism for those in prison. Anderson, Health Educator and Former Association-Harmon Wray, Restorative GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING Prison organized educational activities Prisoner ~ Maria Hernandez, Health Justice Ministries FOR A MORATORIUM NOW! will also be discussed. Link Project and Former Prisone ~ Uris Hall 326 Facilitator: Howard Davidson Romeo Sanchez, Latino Prison Project This workshop will pull together for the Latino Commission on AIDS activists who have been involved in and a Former Prisoner ~ Clinton Lacey, Friends of Island Academy Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex WHAT MAKES DC'S CRIMINAL between Pittsburgh, PA and Prince CHILDREN WHO HAVE AN FROM OUTLAWS TO JUSTICE SYSTEM UNIQUE Georges' County. INCARCERATED PARENT: CAUCUS REVOLUTIONARIES Green Hall 602 Uris Hall 331 Uris Hall 326 This roundtable will discuss how DC's A GROWING MOVEMENT TO This caucus is for children with parents This teach-in will look at the Black criminal justice system has been ELIMINATE MANDATORY in prison, targeted for those under 17 "- Underground and prisoners of war handed to the federal government by to talk about strategies for dealing'with from a historical perspective. From the SENTENCING LAWS Congress. It will also address how not having a parent in prison and murder of George Jackson to the having representation in federal Uris Hall 306 discussions of their own experiences, liberation of Assata Shakur, panelists government has prevented the people This workshop will be a combination of as well as providing information about will speak to the transformation of the of the District from participating in presentations on mandatory sentences organizations and support systems "outlaw to the revolutionary." their own criminal justice system and and hands-on training based on the available for these children. Facilitators: Kumasi ~ Sujah ~ the severe impact this has on our principals of community organizing. Facilitators: Emani Davis ~ Russell Thomas Blood McCreary ~ George Che families and communities. Facilitator: Monica Pratt, FAMM Shoats, III Nieves ~Pam Hannah ~ David Johnson Presenters: Jenni Gainsbourgh, Presenters: Kemba Smith, former ~ Willie Sundiata Tate ~ Janet Cyril Sentencing Project, Olinda Moyd, prisoner, Laura Sager, FAMM YOUTH DIALOGUE WITH Public Defender Services of DC, Marie- PRISONERS HIP HOP AND ACTIVISM Ann Sennett, DC Prisoners' Legal Green Hall 646 IMPLEMENTING ANTI-RACISM Uris Hall 305 Services Project This workshop explores the role of hip STRATEGIES IN ANTI-PRISON This workshop examines the powerful relationships that can be created hop activism in opposing the prison ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAW WORK AND ACTIVISM between youth and prisoners in hopes industrial complex. Facilitator: Ethan Blue, University of REFORM: THE TIME IS NOW! Case Lounge of challenging the ways prisons This workshop seeks to help white Texas, Austin Barnard Hall 304 oppress prisoners and isolate them organizers gain a better understanding This panel examines the role of the from their communities. 17 of racism and whiteness in their lives War on Drugs in the criminal justice Facilitator: Justin Steil Presenters: EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION and community work. Facilitator: system, including the link between the DebySilva, Nina Harmon, Nina Uris Hall 330 Sonja Sivesind. Presenters: Jennica prison industrial complex and the drug Keough, Dorose D'esilus, Carolyn This workshop will focus on the public Born, Gabriel Sayegh, Liz Roberts, war, the manner in which the drug war Dieckmann schools' ability to discuss issues Evelyn Lynn enhances racial and class disparities, around the prison industrial complex and the alternatives to prison for drug THE IMPACT OF THE and to organize around them. BUILDING A PEOPLE'S ARMY offenders. PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Facilitator: Jessica Shiller, Satellite Facilitators: Bill Piper, Lindesmith OF ARTISTS Academy, Resistance in Brooklyn. ON WOMEN Center, Sharda Sekarn, Lindesmith Lenfest Cafe Presenters: Qasim Davis, Beacon Uris Hall 329 Center This will be an interactive and practical School ~ Daniel Jerome, East Side This panel discusses women in prison "how to" discussion for young people Community High School and how the prison industrial complex interested in developing a long-term has affected women as a population. LEGISLATIVE STATEGIES FOR collective organization for artists that LABOR FOR JUSTICE: ANEW Facilitator: Natalie Sokoloff, Dept. of COMBATTING POLICE ABUSE exists beyond one-time projects. Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal LABOR-COMMUNITY ALLIANCE Facilitators: Omana Imani, Uris Hall 328 Justice. Presenters: Delores Jones- Uris Hall 304 This workshop will discuss the efforts Underground Railroad ~ Stefan Brown, Dept. of Law and Police This workshop explores the recent by activists in both Pittsburgh, PA and Goldstone, Underground Railroad Science, John Jay College of Criminal dramatic changes in New York City Prince Georges' County, MD to fight Justice ~ Zelma Henriques, Dept. of labor that have begun to galvanize an The Officers' Bill of Rights which is a Law and Police Science, John Jay alliance of unions and rank-and-file codification of the Blue Wall of Silence. College of Criminal Justice groups around such issues as labor Facilitators: Jonathon W. Hutto, Sr., givebacks, welfare for the rich, and Amnesty International, USA; Opio police abuse. Presenters: Members Sokoni, Sister Community Project of TWU Local 100, PSC-CUNY, Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex ALAA/2325, DC 37 19 PRISONS: NEW FORMS OF Facilitator: Chaiti Sen, Asians for Sunday, March 11 ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM Mumia, South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism Green Hall 103 PRIVATIZED DETENTION AND This session will examine the parallels CRITICAL RESISTANCE EAST INCARCERATION OF IMMIGRANTS CONCRETE SOLUTIONS: AN between environmental racism and the FACING DEPORTATION OUTREACH WORKSHOP FOR InterfaitH prison industrial complex, and look at Uris Hall 329 how prisons constitute new forms of YOUTH OF COLOR Breakfast This panel discussion will address environmental racism and injustice Green Hall 546 privatization of prisons and the both in communities where a majority Youth will learn to do street outreach growing relationship between the of new prisons are sited and in the 8-10 am and will leave the conference to Sunday, March 11, 2001 Federal Bureau of Prisons, the INS and communities where most prisoners outreach in Harlem in squads. private prison companies. The panel come from. Facilitator: Cassandra Facilitator: SLAM Lenfest Cafeteria will focus on effects these processes Shaylor, Justice NOW, Critical Columbia University Law School have had on immigrants in the US. Resistance ~ Dorsey Nunn, Critical IN BETWEEN THE LINES: HOW THE Facilitators: Marcela Diaz-Somos Un Resistance, Legal Services for The Interfaith Breakfast is a Pueblo Unido, Mark Dow-Freelance Prisoners with Children ~ Ruthie NEW YORK TIMES FRAM ES YOUTH gathering intended to provide writer, Judy Greene-Criminal justice Gilmore, Critical Resistance, CA PMP Warren Hall 417 policy analyst A workshop which will use the work of space for discussion and the New York City Youth Media Watch dialogue among people of WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? LIFE ON THE INSTALLMENT: as a model for youth-led media faith who work to challenge AN UPDATE AND DISCUSSION OF activism which will also include skills- the prison industrial complex. THE ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS FURTHER STRATEGIES IN THE building and information from youth Whatever your faith (LEGALIZED SLAVERY) perspective - Muslim, FIGHT TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER who have challenged inaccurate Uris Hall 331 18 Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Ifa Uris Hall 327 reporting of youth crime and criminal This session will talk about the ways in This workshop will give an update in justice issues. or any other - we invite you to which the Rockefeller Drug Laws have the case of Leonard Peltier and will Presenters: Shaquesha Alequin, come and share a meal and destroyed the fabric of our foster dialogue on how work on his Satellite Academy ~ Hayden Mendoza, some good conversation with communities, especially our youth. case can be focused in the Northeast Youth Force ~ Joseph Vazquez, others who do their work Facilitators: Edmond Taylor, The region. Facilitator: Jason Corwin, Satellite Academy ~ La'Toya Ware, inspired by, strengthened by, Fortune Society ~ Renato McCray, The Communications Coordinator for the Satellite Academy ~ Lisa Figueroa, and rooted in their spirituality. Fortune Society League of Indigenous Sovereign Youth Force. Facilitator: Pia Infante, We Interrupt This Message Nations of the Western Hemisphere UPDATE ON THE MOVE (LISN). Presenters: Paulette Sunday IO:OOAM D'Auteuil, Jericho NYC ~ Teresa Laino, PRISONERS Leonard Peltier Defense Committee VOICES BEYOND BARS Green Hall 107 As post-conviction appeals for the Green Hall 546 MOVE political prisoners get underway, ASIANS FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: This workshop will create a dialogue MOVE members will report on current about teaching creative writing in ORGANIZING ASIAN organizing efforts and will lead a prison and give strategies for starting discussion of how activists in the COMMUNITIES TO FREE MUMIA a prison writing workshop in your region can get involved. Facilitators: Barnard Hall 406 community. Facilitator: Victoria This workshop will discuss the Ramona Africa, the Seeds of Wisdom Sammartino, VoicesUnbroken different strategies and approaches to organizing, empowering, and mobilizing the Asian community.

Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex CHANGING THE FACE OF THE BUILDING OUR CONNECTIONS DOCUMENTING THE NATIONWIDE EXPOSING THE ENEMY: ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT-- Warren Hall 417 EPIDEMIC OF POLICE BRUTALITY INTERNET RESEARCH DEVELOPING NEW STRATEGIES This is a caucus to develop AND POLICE MURDER AND THE STRATEGIES TO FIGHT THE connections/networks between FOR CHANGE individuals and groups working with NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT OF PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Uris Hall 303 and for women prisoners in order to RESISTANCE Uris Hall 304 This panel discusses the crucial work better share information, ideas and Warren Hall L104 A workshop designed for organizers, of organizing against the death penalty action plans. Facilitator: Diana This workshop will bring together the policy advocates, and researchers. iin diverse communities, the use of Block- California Coalition for Women topics of research and activism with The training will introduce the civil disobedience in anti-death penalty Prisoners, Jericho Amnesty Movement the use of the media to spread the "research-for-action" research work and the development of a youth to free Political Prisoners knowledge of the injustice being methodology that argues for timely, movement to do anti-death penalty perpetrated by the authorities and strategic information tailored to work. Presenters; Steven Hawkins, specific action plans and goals in an YES, IN MY BACKYARD!: FILM strengthen the movement of National Coalition to Abolish the Death resistance. It will help arm activists organization's work. SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Penalty; Amy Dalton, Pennsylvania with the documentation needed to Facilitator: Ryan Pintado-Vertner-Data Abolitionists United Against Death ON RURAL COMMUNITIES refute the justifications of the Center, Presenters: Liza Turner-Data Center. Grace Chang-Data Center Penalty; Matthew Coles, ACLU- national Green Hall 103 authorities and of the complicity of the Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS/HIV A film screening of the film "Yes, in My media. Facilitator: Margot Harry, Projects ; Suemyra Shah, National Backyard" by Tracy Huling, focusing on Stolen Lives Project. Presenters: LEAVING PRISON Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty the transition from agricultural Ajamu K. Sankofa, New York City Police Warren Hall 101 economies to prison economies in Watch, Andree Smith-mother of Justin A workshop to discuss what services AN ATLAS FOR ALTERNATIVES: upstate New York.. Facilitator: Tracy Smith who was murdered by police in are now available to ex-offenders, UNVEILING OF THE MOTHER Huling - Justice policy analyst, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Margarita Rosario- what services are needed, and how to 20 JONES PRISON PROJECT filmmaker, journalist. Presenters: mother of Anthony Rosario and aunt of engage in activities that encourage Ruth Wilson Gilmore -Prison activist, Hilton Vega, who were murdered by the governments to provide these services. Green Hall 105 author, professor at UC Berkeley ~ Ted NYPD, Parents Against Police Brutality Facilitators: Ken Bloomfield, The This panel will provide an overview of Conoever, author of Newjack: Guarding Fortune Society ~ JoAnne Page, The the Mother Jones prison project and Sing Sing ~ Grace Defina -Concerned Fortune Society an explanation of how activists can ISSUES FOR WOMEN IN PRISON Citizens of Wayne County, PA Uris Hall 305 use the data in their work and build on ORGANIZING AGAINST POLICE it for future efforts. Facilitator: Jason This panel will review human rights RACE, GENDER AND THE PRISON Zeidenberg-The Justice Policy Institute violations against women in prison, BRUTALITY IN THE POST-SEATTLE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX including issues of non- PERIOD: UNKING CIVIL RIGHTS INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE OF Green Hall 101 implementation of laws to protect female inmates, systematic retaliation AND THE ANTI-GLOBALIZATION POLITICAL PRISONER MARSHALL This panel will discuss issues of racism, sexism, homophobia, against those inmates who complain MOVEMENT EDDIE CONWAY colonization, state violence and the of this treatment and solutions for Uris Hall 306 Uris Hall 327 political economy of prisons in a global change. Facilitator: Sheila Dauer - This workshop will discuss how to This workshop will focus on the case of context. Amnesty International, USA Women's synthesize the decades old struggle political prisoner, Marshall Eddie Facilitator: Julia Sudbury-CR National Human Rights Program. Presenters: against policy brutality as it pertains to Conway. Facilitator: Ameejill Whitlock- Organizing Committee, Dept. of Ethnic Christine Doyle - Amnesty communities of color with the new Marshall Eddie Conway Support Studies, Mills College. Presenters: International, USA, Widney Brown - movement against globalization which Committee. Presenters: Marshall Faith Nolan-musician, activist, Dorsey Human Rights Watch Women's has had to confront police brutality at Eddie Conway-Political Prisoner, Nunn-CR National Organizing Division, Andy Moss - NIC, Brenda mass demonstrations starting with the Samanth Codes-Marshall Eddie Committee, Legal Services for Smith, Claudia Angeles - NYU Law anti-globalization protests in Seattle. Conway Support Committee Prisoners with Children, Juanita Diaz School Facilitators: Zein EI-Amine, Justice Cotto-SUNY Albany, Luana Ross-author, Action Coalition activist Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex REFORMING THE groups can use to increase monetary two spirit, and transgender people of CHILDREN WHO HAVE AN ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS support for their work. Facilitators: color and their communities. INCARCERATED PARENT: A Brigette Sarabi ~ Kathleen Pequeno Facilitators: Julian Liu, Center for Barnard Hall 302 Economic and Social Rights~Vanessa FOLLOW UP WORKSHOP A workshop on reforming the Agard-Jones, Prison Activist Resource rnard Hall 202 Rockefeller Drug Laws. Presenters: PAROLE IN NEW YORK STATE: Center 'his strategy session/workshop aims Vera Beatty-Abiodun, Malcolm X CRISIS FOR PRISONERS, CRISIS to increase public awareness about Grassroots Movement-Karl Franklin, FOR PAROLEES the large numbers of children affected Malcolm X Grassroots Movement ~ Case Lounge NOT OZ: by the growing prison industry. The Jennifer Wynn, Correctional This panel will explore the severe ANYMJ workshop is primarily for children with Association reduction in parole under the Pataki Warden Hall L104 incarcerated parents to have administration in New York State, Tbfis workshop will bring together iscussions, formulate solutions and COMMUNITY JUSTICE particularly for violent offenders, and artists who have different strategies, ild networks about the primary concerns that children feel need Uris Hall 328 the abuses parolees face at the hands /audiences, and histories to discuss advocating. Facilitajg/sjJLmarfrDavis, This workshop addresses the of their parole officers. Facilitator: their work, their experiences, and to development of community justice Dean Spade, UCLA Law School, dialogue with each other and the Russell Shoats III Parolee Rights Project. Presenters: workshop participants to strategize initiatives and how they can be used CREATING A MULTICULTURAL as vehicles to transform our criminal Amy James-Oliveras, The Coalition for new visions for work to come. justice system. Presenters: Mishi Parole Restoration ~ Joseph Bostic, Facilitator: Ashley Hunt, Filmmaker/ STRATEGY CENTER FOR SOCIAL Faruqee, Developing Justice Project, Oral History Project at the New York JUSTICE: A PEOPLE OF COLOR City AIDS Housing Network - Darryl P. Fifth Avenue Committee ~ Darryl King BOSTON CAUCUS DIALOGUE F., Fifth Avenue Committee -Eric King, Fifth Avenue Committee - Chris Green HalhSQ2 Uris Hall 331 Cadora, Center for Alternative Farrell, Parolee Rights Project Facilitator:JuStrrrSteil This roundtable session is designed to 22 Sentencing and Employment Services 23 bring activists and organizers of color - Joy Taylor, Youth Force Sunday 12=00 PM WASHINGTON, D.C. CAUCUS together to discuss the possibility and Barnard Hall 302 necessity of building a Multicultural CULTURAL PERMANENCE: COMMUNITY-BASED Strategy Center for Social Justice in LIVING IN BALANCE ON THE PRISON DHARMA WALKS New York City. Facilitator: Saulo ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION Uris Hall 330 Barnard Hall 409 Colon. Presenters: Monami Maulik - A panel discussion examining the vital FOR ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST A presentation of photographs and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), importance cultural permanence has WOMEN OF COLOR stories from the Prison Dharma Walks Fernando (Reals) Restrepo - Grupito, John Kim - SLAM, Brigette M. Moore - for the wellness of incarcerated Native Green Hall 501 which journeyed around New York Black Grrrl Revolution, Joan Lucas - Americans. Facilitator: Tim Hays, This workshop for women of color will State visiting prisons and related sites. Black Grrrl Revolution, Nova Gutierrez - musician, writer, cultural curator, explore community-based responses to A back ground on peace walks will be Black Grrrl Revolution advocate. Presenters: George violence that do not depend on law presented as well as the potential of Stonefish, Native performer, actor, HIV prison walk activities for the anti- enforcement. Facilitator: Beth Richie, EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION educator, cultural activist - James Incite! Women of Color Against prison movement. Facilitator: Lex Jackson, Alcohol/substance abuse Violence ;at," Artist/Writer Uris Hall 305 counselor. This workshop will give a brief overview ROUNDTABLE ON PRISON LABTG of The Prison Moratorium Project's CLOSETS AND CELLS: LGBT/SGL Education Not Incarceration campaign FUNDING THE FIGHT: RAISING $ Green Hall 646 and provide a strategy session on how PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE Facilitator: Soffyah Ellijah FOR PRISON ACTIVISM to organize effectively around these Green Hall 602 PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX issues throughout the region. The A workshop to explore the many Case Lounge session will also identify critical fund raising strategies that grassroots This workshop will explore the impact organizing concepts, tools, and of prisons upon lesbian, gay, bisexual,

Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex resources for conducting this type of RELEAS^CAMPAIGN 200 Director New York City PoliceWatch of Project. Presenters: Elizabeth campaign. Facilitator: Kate Rhee- WORKING TO FREE POLITICAL the Ella Baker Center for Human Alexander, American Civil Liberties Prison Moratorium Project, Rights. Presenters: Adjoa Aiyetoro, PRISONERS Union National Prison Project ~ Tom Presenters: Members of PMP Esq., National Coalition of Blacks for Terrizzi, Prisoners' Legal Services /Uris Hall 327 Reparations in America (N'COBRA) ~ •, Project of New York ~ John Boston, This workshop will focus on the Roger Wareham, Esq., December 12 Legal Aid Society. FENCED IN: POLICING, working definition we've used of Movement ~ Fahima Seek, Producer political prisoner, the short history of CONTAINMENT, AND CONTROL OF, Pacifica Radio WPFW ~ Mark our group and the work we've done, POETRY FOR THE LOVE OF LGBT YOUTH IN THE WEST Thompson, Criminal Justice Project, and our plan for mounting campaigns FREEDOM NAACP VILLAGE OF NEW YORK CITY in states where there are political Uris Hall 328 Warren Hall 417 prisoners. Facilitator: Laura A workshop addressing how creative This workshop discusses a Whitehorn-former political prisoner, WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND presentations and poetry can be tools documentary film project, Fenced In, Release 2001 Campaign Uris Hall 329 for helping people, communities, and that discusses the policing of LGBT A media workshop suitable for organizations understand the effects youth in the West Village of New York STWIHNGJUJRAL PRISOKSfA prisoners, former prisoners or any of the prison industry, which will help City. Facilitators: Jesse Ehrensaft- group that has little or no media- PRACTICATsTRATEGTSESSION teach participants how to incorporate Hawley-F.I.E.R.C.E., LaDedra Brown-The making experience which will take cultural presentations into their New Neutral Zone, Shawnta Smith- FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZERS people through the process of making discussions of the prison industry. Sister Outsider, Corrina Wiggins, youth Uris Hall 326 a video and presenting it to audiences. Facilitator: Angel Martinez, The Bread organizer This workshop will address the crucial The panel will include a screening of is Rising Poetry Collective. role that activism in rural towns plays the video What We Leave Behind. Presenters: Carlos Dufflar, The Bread THE DEATH OF A NATION: in stopping prison construction and will Facilitator: Salome Chasnoff, is Rising Poetry Collective ~ Amina Beyonmedia Education, Women's 24 FIGHTING THE DEATH PENALTY present a practical guide to stopping Baraka, poet, singer, activist ~ David the construction of new prisons. International Information Project (WIIP) Gordon, The Bread is Rising Poetry 25 IN RACIST AND CAPITALIST Facilitator: Craig Gilmore-California ~ Joanne Archibald, Chicago Legal Collective ~ Dorothy Johnson-Laird, AMERICA Prison Moratorium Project. Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers poet Uris Hall 307 Presenters: Ruthie Wilson Gilmore- (CLAIM) This workshop will focus on California Prison Moratorium Project, DRUG POLICY AND PRISON BOOKS THROUGH BARS: information sharing as well as Michelle Foy-California Prison OVERCROWDING IN discussing the role of anti-death Moratorium Project, Sarah Jarmon- INSIDERS' ART California Prison Moratorium Project CONNECTICUT: RESEARCH AND penalty work in bringing the prison Green Hall 546 industrial complex to its knees. The Books through Bars program will ADVOCACY Facilitator: Kazi Toure. Presenters: WINNING REPARATIONS: A TOOL discuss the Prisoner Art show and Green Hall 502 Penny Cushing-Murder Victims TO DISMANTLE THE PRISON exhibit work from the collection. This workshop will discuss drug laws Families for Reconciliation, Pat Clark- within a public health framework, INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Presenters: Members of Books Criminal Justice Program, American Through Bars focusing on public education and Friends Service Committee, Joanne Uris Hall 330 legislative campaigns. The purpose of this workshop is to Commerford-American Friends Service LITIGATION: IS IT STILL RELEVANT? Facilitators: Naomi Murakawa, Committee, Alicia Yang-Asian Pacific expand the knowledge base and tools Research for a Better Way ~ Sarah Uris Hall 303 Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy of activists in order to dismantle the Bray, Research for a Better Way and Leadership, Youth Force Coalition prison industrial complex through a A panel on the role of litigation in the profound understanding and prisoners' rights movement, including increaseed support for both the a discussion of how legal strategies national and international movement have transformed since the Prison for reparations for African people. Litigation Reform Act and other Facilitator: Ajamu K. Sankofa, Esq., measures which restrict the possibilities of litigation. Facilitator: Eric Lotke, Prisoners' Legal Services Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex 27 COMMUNITY REINTEGRATE £iilicalJResistance East Warren Hall 101 CRITICAL RESISTANCE EAST The workshop shares the experiences SUNDAY PLENARY of those working with vulnerable Action Working Group Fundraising Committee populations who are trying to CALL* Kazembe Balagoon reintegrate into their communities Kai Lumumba Barrow from both jail and prison settings. RESPONSE: Culture Committee Bill Capowski Presenters: Sam Rivera, The Fortune Visualizing a Shana Agid Sophia Liu Society ~ Stanley Richards, Hunter Kai Lumumba Barrow College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Society Enrico Cullen Special Thanks To: Community Health ~ Willie Cleveland, Shonna Carter Antibalas Anika Haynes The Fortune Society ~ Pamela Without Walls Ellen Barry Fred Ho Goodrich, The Fortune Society Rose Braz Steve Theberge Brett Cook-Dizney 2-3pm Laura Whitehorn Dumba Collective IS THIS OUR HIP-HOP? Sunday, March 11,2001 Frank's Cocktail Lounge Uris Hall 306 Special Thanks To: Galapagos Bar This panel will discuss perspectives on How should we impart justice? Gene Aguillera Craig Harshaw methods of utilizing hip-hop to This closing pleanry will examine Monifa Akinwole Bandele Van Jones empower the people.Facilitators: prison abolition and alternatives Sandra Barros La Lutta New Media Collective Sasa Ynoa ~ Rachel LaForest to incarceration as a viable Tisa Bryant Liquids response to the US culutre of Columbia Student Solidarity Network Haydee Dohrn-Melendez incarceration. The session will Susie Day Wanda Mitchell explore diverse cultural and Brett Cook-Dizney Dorsey Nunn 26 community-based models and will Tioka Edira Joanne Page present a vision of a self- Penny Fearon Robin Templeton determining society that does not Joey Garfield DJ Selly rely on prisons as a solution to Janet Glaser ..' Toys in Babeland social, economic, and political Steven Greenberg disenfranchisement. Presenters: Damon Cole-Gorton Logistics Ashanti Alston, Sherrie Wilson, Mario Hardy Nina Dibner Incarcerated Young Women, and Hakim Hassan Rachel Herzing others. Jeremiah Hosea Channing McKinley Tracy Huling John O'Reilly Ashley Hunt Amanda Devecka-Rinear Laleh Khadivi Jessica Scannel John Kim Sean Sullivan Brad Lichtenstein G-Mo (Gerard Mohammed) Kris Phillips Special Thanks To: Julia Pimsleur Don Baylor Kavita Raja n a Bekkis Bolthouse Heidi Reinberg Liz Bunditz Josh Schrei Wendy Cole Russell Shoatz III Andrew Dibner Kofi Taha Steven Francisco Raymond Vargas Food Not Bombs, Hoboken, NJ Quelyn Purdie Food Not Bombs, New Brunswick, NJ Ryan Waters, Suzie Day, Food Bot Bombs, Mastic Long Island, NY 136-32 Productions (continued)

Critical Resistance East: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex Food Not Bombs, Amanda Devecka-Rinear Patchogue Long Island, NY Victoria San Martino Endorsers Food Not Bombs, New York City, NY Mac Scott John Hirsch Wilson Sherwin Anarchist Black Cross Federation, Philadelphia Chapter Rev. Renee Wormack Keels Meg Starr Angola 3 Defense Committee-NY Steffie Kinglake Steve Theberge Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325 Sara Manaugh Mia Thompson Community Justice Center Dena Marger Lor rain Totten Correctional Association of New York Northeastern Action Medical Engaged Zen Foundation Association Special Thanks To: Family & Friends of Mutulu Shakur Cassandra Shaylor Adisa Abiodun Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie Amy Siegfried Ananda Rosa Akinyele Freedom Archives, San Francisco Jacqui Ambrosini International Concerned Friends & Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal Media Committee Jed Brandt Jeff Chang Jericho Amnesty Movement Eric Appleton Peg Egan Jericho Legal Defense Fund Shonna Carter Haydee Dohrn-Melendez Lindesmith Center Peter Chung Monica Gutierrez Fran Harris National Coalition Against the Death Penalty Rachel Laforest Anika Haynes National CURE Ajamu Sankofa Alexis Lowenstein NCOBRA Arif Mamdani Northeastern Radical United Front Raqiyah Mays Program Committee October 22nd Coalition Alexis Stern Ann Cammett Project South 2g Mia Thompson Enrico Cullen Queers for Racial & Economic Justice 29 Linda M. Thurston Marcia Gallo Racism Abolished/Justice Established (RAJE) Asif Ullah Kim Gilmore Refuse & Resist! Cynthia Golembeski v • Release 2001 Special Thanks To: Rachel Herzing Barry Holman Evelyn Lynn Resisting Oppression to Overthrow The System Tom Poole Arif Mamdani Revolution Out Of Truth and Struggle (ROOTS) New York Independent Media Center Dena Marger Sista II Sista Jason Ziedenberg Liz Roberts Sundiata Acoli Defense Committee Gregory Tewks bury "The Grupito" Outreach Committee Linda M. Thurston Third Wave Foundation Victory Gardens Lenore Anderson Special Thanks To: Sara Bevera Voices Unbroken Laurie Prendergast and her design Peter Chung Women's Prison Association and Home class... Masai Ehehosi Workers Self-Defense Committee Hermon Getachew And THANK YOU to the numerous Workers to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Erin Hughes volunteers who gave advice, Sonjia Hyan Kleenex, contacts, resources, time, John Kim Contributors labor, laughter & love during the Debra Parkes ACT-UP NY past 16 months. It's been a Victor Pate Audre Lorde Project wonderful experience working with Fernando Reals you all! Audrey Cohen College Kate Rhee CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

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Cover and Layout Design: © Ann Cammett 2001 Eye Logo derived from original art © Rupert Garcia, 1992/98/01 CR East: Film Screenings (All screenings at Warren Hall 103, unless otherwise indicated.)

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: THE MOTHERS OF THE NY DISAPPEARED, a 14minute film which documents the struggle by mothers and families to end the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws. Panel includes filmmakers: Nina Rosenblum - Oscar nominated Producer/Director, Jules Shell - Co-Producer/Cinematographer, Dennis Watlington-Emmy Award winning Writer, cinematographer/photojournalist Andre Lambertson of Time Magazine and features Terrence Stevens - a sufferer of muscular dystrophy from childhood, recently released on clemency after serving nine years of a fifteen to life sentence under the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Produced by Daedalus Productions. Saturday, 12 pm.

ISOLATED INCIDENTS shows the sentiment of countless communities and peoples toward police brutality and police abuse of power. This fictional film parallels actual instances of lawlessness by police departments across America and examines institutional racism at its very best.. Through a series of events, Shkymba exposes the tactics used by police departments including racial profiling, random searches, and "friendly fire" that affect all classes of the African-American and Latino communities. Discussion will follow screening. "Isolated Incidents" is a production of Hook or Crook Productions, Inc. Sunday, 10 am.

DEATH ROW IN OUR TOWN Huntsville, Texas has 76 churches, a state university, and a 65-foot statue of Sam Houston. But that's probably not why you've heard of it. To outsiders, Huntsville is the death penalty capital of the world-a town of 35,000 responsible for one third of America's executions. DEATH ROW IN OUR TOWN chronicles life in this small prison town-both inside and outside of prison walls-as residents wrestle with the everyday reality of executions in their lives. Producer/ Director: AM Pomeroy, Lumiere Productions, NY. Saturday, 2 pm.

OUT: The Making Of a Revolutionary, by Sonja DeVries and Rhonda Collins, is a 59 minute documentary about leftist political prisoners in the United States and the life story of one of them, laura Whitehorn, who served over 14 years in federal prison. Along with her co- defendants (two of whom were just released by Clinton), she was charged with "conspiring to change, protest and oppose policies and practices of the US government by violent and illegal means." Released in 1999, she has helped work on Critical Resistance. Sunday, 12 pm.

YES, IN MY BACKYARD! Film by Tracy Huling, focusing on the transition from agricultural economies to prison economies in upstate New York. Screening and panel on Sunday at 10 - am, Green Hall 103

•fv: ; CORRECTIONS, by Ashley Hunt. Corrections is a story of justice turned to profit, m where the war on crime has found new investors: Venture capital and for-prisons, the story of the private prison. Official Slamdance Film Festival Selection, 2001. Saturday, 4 pm.

WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND. While women make up only a small percentage of the burgeoning prison population, their numbers are growing much more rapidly than those of men. The media most commonly focus on women who kill their children or commit other horrific crimes. But these women are not truly representative of the female prison population, who are primarily non-violent offenders. For the most part, women prisoners are invisible and voiceless. What We Leave Behind challenges stereotypes about women in prison and demonstrates the power of disenfranchised groups to shape their own media images. Produced by Visible Voices, Beyondmedia Education and Women's International Information Project. Directed by Salome Chasnoff. Sunday 12pm Uris Hall 329. . Waff

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Plenaries and Cultural Events friday — 03.09.01 — 630 to 83° p.m. (door open at 6) Saturday — 03.10.01 — 7 to 8 p.m. (door open at 6)

THE ATTICA REBELLION: ROOTS OF RESISTANCE WOMEN, PRISON & GLOBALIZATION: A COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE WORK PRESENTERS INCLUDE: in Honor of International Working Women's Day 4 George Che Nieves, Attica + Danny Meyers, Attorney This debut performance examines women in prison, globalization Brother + Impact Repertory Theatre and resistance through poetry, music, dance, painting and spoken + David Johnson, San Quentin 6 ^ MCs: Emani Davis, Daughter word. + Fred Ho, David Bindman & of an Attica Survivor & Salim Washington, Saxophone Trio Kai Lumumba Barrow, CRE FEATURING: 4- Angela Davis, activist/author The opening session of the + Ase, drummers Critical Resistance conference * Chrystos, poet will celebrate the spirit of the * Suheir Hammad, poet Attica Prison Rebellion: the * Alisa de los Reyes, dancer unity and self-determination «• Olu, dancer of the Attica Brothers, the soli- + Christine Wong, painter darity among prisoners and — directed by Lorna Johnson non-prisoners throughout the country. Critical Resistance will recognize the importance of Attica in inspiring a radical prison movement and will place it within a continuum of ongoing struggle against the prison industrial complex and the conditions it produces.

"We are men, not beasts, and will not be driven as such." In September 1971, prisoners of the NYS Attica Penitentiary took control of the prison yard for five days. The Attica uprising was in part a reaction to the mur- der of George Jackson, a revolutionary and prisoner killed by guards at the Soledad Prison in California, and in part a protest against widespread mistreat- ment and inhumane conditions by prison authorities. The impact of the Attica rebellion resulted in some prison reforms in most states throughout the country. Additionally, the Attica rebellion inspired and encouraged the broader revolu- mural/ art by Christine Wong tionary movement among prisoners and non-prisoners alike. Miller Theatre n6th & Broadway Riverside Church 121st & Claremont £pjurnbia University (1/9 train to n6th St.) Harlem (1/9 train to 116th or-usth) design by [email protected] HAVE YOU BEEN TM6ETEDP

The Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC) provides for the educational and emotional needs of targeted activist youth and the children of targeted activists. Recent beneficiaries include young activists targeted at R2K (the Republican National Convention.)

RFC grants of up to $3000 per year are used for: tuition; textbooks; therapy; cultural lessons; travel to visit incarcerated family members; educational travel; and other services to meet beneficiaries educational and emotional needs.

To receive a grant application or for more information, call or email the RFC office at 413-739-9020 or [email protected]. Learn more and obtain the application by visiting the RFC website at www.rfc.org. Application deadlines are in March and October.

For children of the movement, the RFC and its associates support their vital vision of community For that they are to be com- mended, supported, and broadened.

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Rosenberg Fund for Children 1145 Main Street, Suite 408 Springfield, MA 01101 Phone: (413) 739-9020 • Fax: (413) 750-5998 [email protected] • www.rfc.org CRITICAL RESISTANCE NORTHEAST REGIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM UPDATE

ROOM AND TIME CHANGES Saturday, March 10th, 12:00pm: Changing the Discourse: A Strategy Session on Decriminalizing Health Problems URIS HALL 330

Prison Writing Live URIS HALL 307

Saturday, March 10th, 2:00pm: Cultural Permanence: Living in Balance CASE LOUNGE

Saturday, March 1O"1, 4:OOpm: Update on the MOVE Prisoners GREENE HALL 105

Sunday, March 11th, 10:00am Yes, In My Backyard: A Film Screening and Discussion on Rural Communities URIS HALL 307

Sunday, March 11th, 12:00pm Death of a Nation: Fighting the Death Penalty in Racist and Capitalist America GREENE HALL 105

PRESENTER AND SESSION DESCRIPTION CHANGES Saturday, March 10th, 12:OOpm URIS HALL 303 COINTELPRO Under Fire! Facilitator: Ahmed Obafemi Presenters: Ashanti Alston, Bob Boyle, Jihad Mumit, Mutulu Shakur, Kazi Toure, Michael Tarif Warren, Laura Whitehorn

Saturday, March 1O"1, 2:00pm GREENE HALL 107 Education Works, Jails Don't: The Fight Against Edison Presenters: Sandra Rivers, Community School Board Five; Maria Romos, School Team Leader; Manning Marable, United New York Black Radical Congress

Sunday, March 11th, 10:00am URIS HALL 306 Organizing Against Police Brutality in the Post-Seattle Period: Linking Civil Rights and the Anti-Globalization Movement Presenters: Zein El-Amine, Justice Action Coalition; Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney

FILM SCREENING ROOM CHANGES

The films listed on the back of the program book have been moved to URIS HALL ,

Saturday, March 10th: 10:00am - Isolated Incident URIS HALL 304 12:00pm - Unintended Consequences URIS HALL 304 2:00pm - Death Row in Our Town URIS HALL 307 4:00pm - Corrections URIS HALL 307

Sunday, March 11th: 10:00am - Yes, In My Backyard URIS HALL 307 12:00pm - Out: The Making of a URIS HALL 307 Revolutionary IL

THANK YOU: Krispy Kreeme - food donation 5th Avenue Committee - Contributor