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DESCRIPTION:Documentary Examines the Injustice of Criminal Justice\n\nEarly in True 
 Justice, protagonist Bryan A. Stevenson asserts that the American criminal 
 justice system “treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if 
 you’re poor and innocent.”  This insight, and more like it, drawn from 
 his own experience as a lawyer and an African-American man, inspired 
 Stevenson to spend his life advocating for poor people, assisting in cases 
 that saved dozens from the death penalty, and initiating reform litigation 
 to purge the administration of criminal justice of the systematic racism it 
 has developed and fostered since the days of the Dred Scott Case.  As he 
 sees it, the history of slavery and lynchings is one major reason for the 
 high rate of death sentences in the South, and their disproportionate 
 application to people of color. \n\nThe film shows how Stevenson founded 
 the Equal Justice Initiative, whose stated purposes are ending mass 
 incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, challenging 
 racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights for the 
 most vulnerable people in American society.  There are interviews with both 
 staff and clients, all of which make it clear how difficult and dangerous, 
 and also crucial and empowering, this struggle can be.\n\nA free screening 
 of True Justice will take place on Saturday, October 12, 1:30 p.m., at the 
 Niles Discovery Church, 36600 Niles Blvd. in Fremont as part of the Second 
 Saturday Documentary Series.  A discussion will follow the 
 screening.\nProduced and directed by Emmy winners Peter, Teddy and George 
 Kunhardt, True Justice is at once a fascinating history lesson, a 
 compelling biography, and a warning/call-to-arms about the need to take 
 drastic action. America has become the nation with the highest rate of 
 incarceration in the world and the most prolific executioner of any 
 industrialization. And the specters of racism and classism haunt the whole 
 system from top to bottom.\n\nThe Second Saturday Documentary Series is 
 co-sponsored by the Niles Discovery Church and the San Jose Peace and 
 Justice Center. Learn more about the series at bit.ly/nilesssds.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/25/18826689.php
SUMMARY:Documentary Screening: "True Justice"
LOCATION:Niles Discovery Church\n36600 Niles Boulevard\nFremont, CA 94536
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/25/18826689.php
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