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DESCRIPTION:OccupyForum presents…\n\nFilm: “The 13th” by Ava DuVernay\n\nThe 
 words of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were supposed to 
 guarantee that slavery and involuntary servitude effectively were outlawed. 
 With the exception of punishment for a crime where the “party shall have 
 been convicted.” That’s the loophole. And as detailed in Ava 
 DuVernay’s “The 13th”, the injustice system in America has not 
 changed all that much since the earliest days of slavery. The statistics 
 DuVernay puts onscreen say it all: African-Americans make up 6.5% of the 
 U.S. population but a whopping 40% of the prison population — in a 
 country with the highest level of incarceration in the world; up more than 
 tenfold since 1970 and existing mostly to put away black and Latino 
 men.\n\nIt all comes down to money. That was the driving force in the 
 beginning, when slavery effectively was ended, but the South had to figure 
 out a way to balance the economics when suddenly short about 4 million 
 slaves. Using the loophole in the 13th Amendment, Southerners started 
 putting blacks in prisons for petty reasons and used them as a workforce 
 without calling them “slaves.” Today the practice is very much alive, 
 overcrowding our prisons and filling them with minorities, the most 
 vulnerable and underprivileged among us. Private prisons, which have become 
 a hot-button political issue, exist to make money off incarceration, as do 
 other factors in a system that is rigged against the poorer elements of our 
 society.\n\n“The 13th” is a remarkable denunciation of that system, 
 detailing its beginnings with the end of slavery, right through the Jim 
 Crow South, the Civil Rights movement and today’s presidential election 
 and the seething white anger and racism on view at Donald Trump rallies. 
 Experts, historians, and politicians such as Angela Davis, Senator Corey 
 Booker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michelle Alexander, Van Jones, and the likes 
 of Newt Gingrich explain the sorry state of incarceration today. DuVernay 
 lays out the case that “Black lives matter” and that this movement 
 contains a human obligation to not only understand the history, but to do 
 something about it.\n\nMonday, November 21st 2016 from 6 - 9 pm at Global 
 Exchange\n2017 Mission Street (94110) near 16th Street BART\n\nInformation, 
 discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!\nOccupy Forum is an 
 opportunity for open and respectful dialogue\non all sides of these 
 critically important issues!\n\nAnnouncements will follow. Donations to 
 OccupyForum\nto cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/16/18793721.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum // Film: “The 13th” by Ava DuVernay
LOCATION:Global Exchange 2017 Mission Street (94110) at 16th Street BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/16/18793721.php
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