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DESCRIPTION:Fighting State Murder: Racism, the Police, and the Death Penalty\n\nDate 
 and Time: Fri, November 20, 2020 @ 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fighting-state-murder-racism-the-police-and-the-death-penalty-tickets-127358860781\n\nCost: 
 FREE or donation\n\nJoin family members of death row prisoner Rodney Reed, 
 Rodrick and Sandra Reed, police torture victim and former juvenile life 
 without parole prisoner Mark Clements, author and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta 
 Taylor, and journalist Liliana Segura for a discussion about fighting 
 racism in the criminal “injustice” system.\n\nThe massive uprising this 
 year against police brutality and murder has sharply illuminated the racism 
 of not only the police, but also the institutions that protect them. This 
 struggle has thrown into sharp relief questions about the true nature of 
 cops, the courts and prisons. The Black Lives Matter movement has given new 
 life to movements for prison abolition, criminal justice reform and the 
 abolition of the death penalty.\n\nThe connection between these struggles 
 is clear: the fight against racism. The same system that allows police to 
 murder unarmed people of color in the streets is the system that 
 incarcerates, tortures and murders people behind the walls.\n\n***Register 
 through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of 
 the event. This event will also be recorded and have live 
 captioning.***\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nRodrick Reed is Rodney Reed’s younger 
 brother. Rodrick and his family have been fighting to prove Rodney’s 
 innocence and to free him for decades. Rodrick is the Vice President of 
 Reed Justice Initiative. The idea for Reed Justice Initiative was born out 
 of a series of conversations between Rodrick and Rodney, during which 
 Rodney encouraged Rodrick to establish a collaborative to advocate for 
 Rodney and people in similar situations to Rodney.\n\nSandra Reed is the 
 mother of Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed. In the 23 years since her 
 son was wrongly convicted, she has been a tireless advocate for justice for 
 Rodney. Sandra served on the board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty 
 (CEDP) for many years. Following the folding of the CEDP, Sandra and her 
 family founded the Reed Justice Initiative (RJI) to continue campaigning 
 for Rodney and against the death penalty. Sandra currently serves as 
 President of the RJI.\n\nMark Clements is a Chicago police torture 
 survivor. At age 16 in 1981 he was taken to area 3 violent crime unit where 
 he was tortured to confess to a crime. Mark was one of Illinois first 
 juvenile’s sentence to natural life without parole in the state of 
 Illinois. He remained incarcerated for 28 years before his conviction was 
 overturned in 2009. In 2009 he was hired as administrator and organizer 
 with the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and later served as a Board 
 member with CEDP. Mark also helped establish the Illinois Fair Sentence of 
 Youth through Northwestern University of School of Law, while sitting on 
 the board of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. 
 Mark works with the Chicago Torture Justice Center as a learning fellow 
 working in many complex areas of trauma and while attending court hearings 
 and in support of others that were taken to police stations across the city 
 of Chicago and tortured by members of the Chicago Police 
 Department.\n\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, 
 social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author 
 of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan 
 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also 
 editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River 
 Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 
 2018. Her third book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate 
 Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of 
 North Carolina Press, was a finalist for a National Book Award for 
 nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.\n\nLiliana 
 Segura is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the U.S. 
 criminal justice system, with a longtime focus on harsh sentencing, the 
 death penalty, and wrongful convictions. While at The Intercept, Segura has 
 received the Texas Gavel Award in 2016 and the 2017 Innocence Network 
 Journalism Award for her investigations into convictions in Arizona and 
 Ohio. She lives in Nashville, 
 Tennessee.\n_______________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/18838494.php
SUMMARY:Fighting State Murder: Racism, the Police, and the Death Penalty
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/18838494.php
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