Education not Incarceration Conference III

Posted by on May 9, 2003

[BRC-PHILLY]
Education not Incarceration Conference III

Hosted by
The Philadelphia Black Radical Congress
and the
American Friends Service Committee: Criminal Justice Program

May 17th, 2003
9 AM – 4:30 PM
The Friends Center
15th and Cherry Streets
Philadelphia, PA

*free admission*

Workshops Include:
Be All That You Can Be ?: Education and the Military
Privatization: Public $$$ in Private Hands- Our Future on Lock down
The New Epidemic: Women & Girls in Prison
Money & War: How Much is it Costing U$ ?
Bringing Jails to Justice: Imagining Community Alternatives to Punitive Incarceration
Schools Can Change!: Students, Parents, and Teachers Thinking Outside the Box
It’s a Hard Knock Life-Prison Realities!

Lunch

Youth Poetry Reading
Action Step/Report Back
Poetry Performance Featuring: Amiri Baraka
(who is a member of the National Writers Union)

Join us for a day of learning and sharing about the 2 critical issues facing
our communities today:

The crisis of public education and the growing prison industry. What are
the connections?

For more information call: (215) 849-5099
or
e-mail: education-not-incarceration@yahoogroups.com
or mail:
Philadelphia BRC
P.O. Box 27423
Philadelphia, PA 19118