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Subject: SAT & SUN: Faces of Wrongful Conviction Conference at UCLA
THE FACES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTION
A Historic Event, Featuring A Variety of Perspectives
California Senator Gloria Romero
Former District Attorney Ira Reiner
Renowned Defense Attorneys Barry Scheck, Stephen Bright, and Bryan Stevenson
California's Wrongfully Convicted
and many more.
Join Us.
VIP Event Friday April 7th
Conference: Saturday and Sunday April 7-9 | Hosted by UCLA Law School
For more information go to: www.stopwrongfulconvictions.org
or call Susie Shannon Consulting at (323) 939-5475
SPACE IS LIMITED!
Registration starts at just $25! Register TODAY!
17 panels providing MCLE credits.
Sponsors include:
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California l American Civil
Liberties Union of Southern California l Amnesty International l Death
Penalty Focus l The California Innocence Projects (Northern and Southern) l
Life After Exoneration Project l California People of Faith Working Against
the
Death Penalty.
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Dear Friend, two great films on Venezuela and the people's support for the
Bolivarian Revolution will be shown this Saturday, April 8, 6 p.m., at the
Southern California Library--please scroll for more information.
You can also spend time with us during the day as we have a garden
workshop/workday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This week's theme: Building a Soil
Structure.
The power is with the people.
Michele Welsing
Communications Director
Southern California Library
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Saturday, April 8, 6 p.m.: Film Screening-Venezuela
Join us for two documentaries on Venezuela:
Marching with the People and Women in the New Venezuela
The documentaries focus on the leadership of President Hugo Chávez
and the peoples' support to the Bolivarian Revolution. $5 Donation.
Sponsors: Southern California Library and Noticiero Pacífica,
KPFK 90.7 FM.
@ Southern California Library
6120 S. Vermont Avenue, L.A.
(323) 759-6063 . www.socallib.org
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 9, 1 p.m. Sunday Film Series at the Watts Towers Arts
Center!!! ............
Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System .....
PRISON NATION: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex
From the archives of Center for the Study of Political Graphics!
Powerful posters from artists, designers, activists, and
organizations around the country and the world, cry out against the
devastating nature of the rapidly growing prison system in the United
States.
March 19, - June 4, 2006
Watts Towers Art Center
1727 E. 107th Street
Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 10-4pm & Sun: 12- 4pm
Take the Blue Line!
Parking on Avalon (directly behind Watts towers & on Graham
(east of the towers) Extra parking at the Metro Station on 103rd & Graham
April 9, 1- 3:30pm
First of the Sunday Film Series at Watts Towers Arts Center
JUVENILES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Three films will be presented by members of the Youth Justice
Coalition/Free L.A.! (YJC)
The YJC is working to build a youth-led movement to challenge
race, gender and class inequality in the Los Angeles County juvenile
"injustice" system. They use direct action organizing, advocacy, political
education and activist arts to agitate, expose, and challenge the people in
charge in order to bring about real change.
In 2000 Californians passed prop 21, the nation's harshest
juvenile justice laws in the History of the U.S. Films will explore the
transfer of young people into adult court and the extreme sentences they get
as a result.
Juvies
Award-winning documentary filmmaker by Leslie Neale
From award-winning documentary filmmaker Leslie Neale (Road to
Return) comes this riveting look at a world most of us will never see: the
world of juvenile offenders who are serving incredible prison sentences for
crimes they either did not commit or in which they were only marginally
involved. For two years, Neale taught a video production class at Los
Angeles Central Juvenile Hall to 12 juveniles who were all being tried as
adults. Juvies is the product of that class, which was a learning experience
for both students and teachers. It becomes a learning experience for all of
us, as we witness the heartbreaking stories of children abandoned by
families and a system that has disintegrated into a kind of vending machine
justice.
Tattooed Tears
1982, 1 hour 25 minutes
Directors: Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchhill
This is a disturbing study of the harsh life inside a
Californian prison for young offenders. Broomfield gained access to the
California Youth Authority (CYA) and his film is an extremely powerful,
disturbing, and moving document. Focusing on a handful of incarcerated
youngsters, including kids in jail for glue sniffing and B.B. gun use, the
film is a raw depiction of a dehumanizing penal system that crushes the
hopes and dreams of at risk teenagers.
Mario
Clips previewing upcoming film on Mario Rocha's case. Mario is
one of 1000 young people sentenced to life in prison. He was arrested in
1996 in connection with the shooting death of another teen.
Rocha was attending a party in the barrio of East L.A., where he
lived, when gang members crashed the party. A young man was shot and killed.
Rocha was among three arrested. He was tried as an adult and received a
double life sentence to be served consecutively. Mario maintains his
innocence and there is an appeal for his release. On the inside Mario has
become an accomplished writer and poet.
Prison Nation is funded in part by the Department of Cultural
Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
EXHIBITION ENDORSEMENTS
Action Committee for Women in Prison - All of Us or None -
Anti-Racist Action/The Jericho Amnesty Coalition, LA -
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility - Austin Arnold -
Marx & Frances Ayres - Leo Baefsky - Evelyn J. Baum - Rabbi Leonard Beerman-
Julius & Mildred Bendat - Daniel Brown - Scott Boylston - California Prison
Moratorium Project - Committee for the Defense of Human Rights - Critical
Resistance-LA - Angela Davis - Mary Davis - Death Penalty Focus (LA
Chapter) - Emory Douglas- Nancy Escher & Associates - Edward & Jean
Enriquez - Ex-Offender Action Network/LA Metropolitan Churches - Families to
Amend California's Three Strikes, (FACTS) - Hadsell & Stormer Inc - Hard
Pressed Studios - Helen Jaskoski - Helvetica Jones/www.socialgraphics.org -
Homies Unidos - John Jennings - Drew Katzman - Manuel & Marion Krupin - Los
Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) - Joan Leib - John Lipscomb -
Oscar Madrigal - Michael Miller- National Lawyers Guild, LA - NASW-Women's
Council Prison Project - A New Way of Life Foundation - No New Jails
Coalition, LA - Northern California Innocence Project - Patricia Oblath-
Eleanor Osgood - Sandra Pettit - Progressive Christians Uniting - Youth
Justice Coalition/Free LA - The Real Cost of Prisons Project - Senate
Majority Leader, Gloria Romero - Jerome Schnitzer - Betty & Stanley
Sheinbaum- Michelle Shocked - Robert Sieczkiewicz- Studies for Global
Justice - Tobey C. Moss Gallery - Two Brothers Custom Silkscreen - Fereshteh
Toosi - Paul & Martine Verhoeven- Michael Vivian - Alison Warner- Carol
Watson - John & Elsa Weber - Western Prison Project - Liza & Stuart White -
Matt Wuerker - Howard Zinn
Look for update film schedule on CSPG's website.
www.politicalgraphics.org
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics collects,
conserves and exhibits historical and contemporary social movement posters.
With more than 50,000 posters, the Center is internationally recognized as
the largest archive of post-WWII political posters in the U.S. The Center
uses its collection to reclaim the power of art and inspire action.
CSPG's Website: www.politicalgraphics.org
Former Prisoners Speak OUT at the Compton Peace & Justice
Summit!
Cosponsored by Council Woman Barbara Calhoun
When:
April 29, 2006
10am - 3pm
Where: Gonzales Park
1101 West Cressey Street
Compton, CA 90222
Did you know that California...
a.. Has the largest prisoner population in the nation? Over
165,000.
b.. Has the largest formerly incarcerated population in the
nation?
c.. Routinely discriminates against people with felon
convictions in the areas of health care, employment, financial aid,
housing, public assistance, and education
For more information Contact All of Us or None at 323 563.3575
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Mary Sutton
Development Director
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 323-653-4662
Center for the Study of Political Graphics | 8124 West Thrid St.,
Suite 211 | Los Angeles | CA | 90048-4309
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Folk Singers Len Chandler and Ross Altman
Celebrate Paul Robeson's Birthday
At Beyond Baroque
Los Angeles-Sunday evening, April 9, folk singers Len Chandler and Ross
Altman will celebrate Paul Robeson's birthday with a return engagement at
Beyond Baroque, L.A.'s literary arts center. The doors open at 7:00 P.M.,
admission is $7.00 and reservations are not necessary. Beyond Baroque is
located at 681 Venice Blvd. just two blocks west of Lincoln. Their phone
number is (310) 822-3006. There is ample free street parking.
Len Chandler and Ross Altman are two of L.A.'s best known folk singers and
both have a history of social activism that continues in Paul Robeson's
spirit of using music to advance and celebrate the themes of peace and
social justice.
Many of Len Chandler's songs come out of the struggle for civil rights going
back to the 1960's, when he was a part of the Greenwich Village folk scene
that included Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs. Chandler went to
Mississippi in the early 60's and participated in the voting rights
campaigns organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
He wrote the music for one of Bob Dylan's most powerful early protest songs,
"The Ballad of Emmett Till," about the young Negro teenager whose murder in
1955 helped spark the civil rights movement that began later that year when
Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Chandler is a treasured living connection to one of the most important
chapters in modern American history, and speaks and sings with the authority
of someone who was there when it counted.
Ross Altman comes out of the confluence of the Old Left and the New Left.
His father was an unfriendly witness before the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (HUAC), the same committee Paul Robeson appeared
before, who was also blacklisted for refusing to name names. Altman will
sing his song, "The Ballad of Paul Robeson," which tells the story of a
great artist whose singular contribution to American culture was recognized
with a first class US postage stamp last year. Altman also sings some of
Robeson's classic songs, including "The House I Live In," "Joe Hill," and
"Old Man River." These are benchmark songs, that define the power of folk
music to be more than a song, to become a part of social movements, both
labor and civil rights, that change history. Ross also carries on Robeson's
commitment to peace through music, including a song, "From Wounded Knee to
Abu Ghraib," from his CD, Singer-SongFighter.
Len Chandler and Ross Altman offer an evening of folk music at its
best-troubadours who carry on a tradition going back to Joe Hill, Woody
Guthrie and Paul Robeson
Doors open at 7:00 P.M., $7.00 adm. - no reservations necessary.
Beyond Baroque is at 681 Venice Blvd. 2 blocks west of Lincoln.
(310) 822-3006. There is ample free street parking.
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