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DESCRIPTION:Join us for conversation, snacks, beverages, contemplation and celebration, 
 for the Bay Area launch of "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't 
 Work and How We Can Do Better"!\n\nAuthor Maya Schenwar will read from her 
 book and discuss the impact of prison on families and communities--and how 
 people around the country are taking action to create a world without 
 prison.\n\nAlex Berliner, Organizer with All of Us or None a Project of 
 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, will speak about her experience 
 with having a loved one inside.\n\nEmily Harris, statewide coordinator of 
 Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), will speak about the 
 movement to reduce prison populations and close prisons throughout the 
 state of California.\n\nAll royalties from book sales at the event will go 
 to CURB!\n\nA little bit about the book:\n\nIn Locked Down, Locked Out, 
 journalist Maya Schenwar looks at how prison breaks apart families and 
 communities, creating a rippling effect that touches every corner of our 
 society. Through the stories of prisoners and their families, as well as 
 her own family's experience of her sister's incarceration, Schenwar shows 
 how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans—and decimates 
 poor communities of color—is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could 
 foster real collective safety.\nLooking toward a future beyond 
 imprisonment, Schenwar profiles community-based initiatives that foster 
 anti-racist, anti-classist, pro-humanity approaches to justice. These 
 programs successfully deal with problems—both individual harm and larger 
 social wrongs—through connection rather than isolation, moving toward a 
 safer future for all of us.\n\nMichelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim 
 Crow," said of "Locked Down, Locked Out":\n"This book has the power to 
 transform hearts and minds, opening us to new ways of imagining what 
 justice can mean for individuals, families, communities, and our nation as 
 a whole. Maya Schenwar's personal, open-hearted sharing of her own family's 
 story, taken together with many other stories and real-world experiments 
 with transformative justice, make this book not only compelling and highly 
 persuasive but difficult to put down. I turned the last page feeling 
 nothing less than inspired."\n\nAngela Davis, author of "Are Prisons 
 Obsolete?," said of "Locked Down, Locked Out":\n"Maya Schenwar's stories 
 about prisoners, their families (including her own), and the thoroughly 
 broken punishment system are rescued from any pessimism such narratives 
 might inspire by the author's brilliant juxtaposition of abolitionist 
 imaginaries and radical political practices."\n\nImpact Hub Oakland\n\n2323 
 Broadway, Oakland, CA\n\nNovember 4th, 6:00 - 7:30 pm \n\nFree Entry \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/01/18763658.php
SUMMARY:Locked Down, Locked Out: Bay Area Book Launch and Conversation
LOCATION:Impact Hub\n2323 Broadway\nOakland, CA 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/01/18763658.php
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