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May 24th SEF Event
7:30pm, Friday, May 24th, 2002
Asian Arts Initiative
asianartsinitiative.org
1315 Cherry St, Philadelphia
The Self-Education Foundation invites you to a jumpin' event featuring the following amazing talent:
Fierce and beautiful poetry and song by Taina Del Valle.
A talk by William Upski Wimsatt, graffitti artist, philanthropist and author of underground best-sellers "Bomb the Suburbs" and "No More Prisons".
A debut screening of Sara Zia Ebrahimi's video "60%: The Sentencing Policies of the War on Drugs and their Effects on America" (28 min).
This video explores the relationship between public opinion and public policy by looking at the portrayal of the War on Drugs, crime, and race in the mass media and how it has propelled the US to incarcerate more people than any other country on the planet. It features interviews with people working on changing the US's drug sentencing policies including Marc Mauer, author of "Race to Incarcerate," and Janine Jackson from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
An ideal educational tool on drug sentencing laws for teachers, community organizations, religious congregations and student groups interested in this issue.
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