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Events: 2014

THURSDAY, November 19 • 7:00 pm • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: “Locking Up Dissenters and the Poor: Understanding the Roots of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.” with Eddie Conway, Johanna Fernandez, & Laura Whitehorn of RAPP • sponsored by Difference and Media Project, Center for Civic Engagement, & student groups

MONDAY, November 16 • Tufts University • Amnesty International Hosts Discussion of Solitary Confinement, with Al Tony Simon of RAPPSATURDAY, November 7 • 8:00 am-3:00 pm • Faith Based Initiatives and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration • Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Manhattan (at 121st St.) • RAPP will be on a panel at 10:45 am and 1:15 pm (in MLK 414) • info: <Jacqueline1943@aol.com> or 201-960-2205

Friday, October 30 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Panel, Conditions of Confinement: Mass Incarceration and Access to Information
The New School, 66 West 12th St, NYC, Rm. A510 Conference Rm. Read a report here by the sponsoring group Social Justice Special Interest Group

Tuesday, October 27 • 6:00-8:30 pm • Parole Preparation Basics • NYU Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210, 40 Washington Square South (Presenters include RAPP’s Mujahid Farid) • RSVP
sponsored by the National Lawyer’s Guild-NY Parole Preparation Project
Snacks at 6:00, program starts promptly at 6:30

Saturday, October 24 • 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. •  Rise Up to Stop Police Terror & Murder • Rally, Washington Square Park • Police unions not only defend brutality but also block parole & release of incarcerated elders

Friday, October 16 • 7:00 p.m. • “RAPP & the Struggle for Decarceration” • Solidarity Center, 147 W. 24th Street, 2nd Fl., New York, NY 10011 (b/n 5th & 6th Ave) • RAPP speakers Al “Tony” Simon & Anita Rosenblithe WATCH

Saturday, October 3 • 12:30-2:00 pm • American University, Washington, DC • RAPP’s René Valdez spoke on “America’s Aging Prisoners: The Imprisonment of Black Life” at the Public Anthropology Conference on “Shifting Climates” • MGC200 (directions to Mary Graydon Center #200)

Saturday, October 3 • 2:30-4:15 pm • RAPP on “The Aging Incarcerated Population” • Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Friday, October 2 • 9:00 am-12:30 pm • Decarceration & NY Medicaid Waiver Funds • Panel including RAPP  • BronxWorks Betances Community Center, 547 East 146th Street, Bronx NY
Register online; contact for more info

Saturday, September 26, 2015 • 7:00 pm • Candles for Clemency vigil at home of NY Gov. Cuomo in Mt. Kisco (BUSES LEAVE NYC AT 5:00 SHARP)
(buses from NYC leave from: Trinity Church (Broadway at Wall St., lower Manhattan) and Riverside Church (120th St. and Claremont Avenue) To reserve a free spot on the bus with RAPP, email rappcampaign@gmail.com 

Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 2:00-3:00pm • RAPP on MNN-TV
RAPP will be on Both Sides of the Bars, MNN-TV (TWC channel 34 & 1995; FIOS channel 33; RCN channel 82)

Saturday, September 12, 2015: 11:00 am-5:00pm • Community Block Party/The Mix on 146
Mott Haven Reformed Church, 350 E. 146th St., Bronx, NY 10451 Music, dancing, face-painting. RAPP & other groups will have info tables contact: 718-585-3636, Pastor Patricia Sealy

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 • 5:00-6:00 pm • RAPP on MNN-TV
RAPP on The Gilchrist Experience, MNN-TV (TWC channel 34 & 1995; FIOS channel 33; RCN channel 82) WATCH the show

Saturday, August 8, 2015, 8:00 am-4:00 pm • FACES NY Reentry Summit, “Take Away the Stone: Reducing Post-Incarceration Barriers”
Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture, 155 Lenox Ave, NY 10037 (co-sponsored by RAPP)

Sunday, June 7 • 4:00 pm • “The Nature of the Crime” Syracuse, NY (Artrage, 505 Hawley Avenue)
Sponsored by Parole Justice Now! Campaign
Co-sponsored by Center for Community Alternatives, Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse, and Syracuse Peace Council

Saturday, April 25 • the Oscar-nominated film, “Prison Terminal” by Edgar Barens • Two showings: 12:30 to 2:00 and 6:30 to 9:00 pm
Fordham University (Lincoln Center Campus) Pope Auditorium, 113 West 6oth St.
sponsored by Be the Evidence Project

Friday, March 20 • 7:00-9:00 pm
Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Black Resistance and the Roots of Mass Incarceration
Intergenerational discussion between former political prisoners and Black Lives Matter activists
Malcolm X. and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center, 3940 Broadway (165th St.), Manhattan

Friday, March 6; Saturday, March 7; Sunday, March 8, 2015
Beyond the Bars: Transforming (In)Justice conference at Columbia University
Broadway at 116th Street, NYC
Check Twitter hashtag #BeyondTheBars2015 for thoughts, news

Saturday, Feb. 1 • 7:00 pm, and Sunday, February 2 • 11:00 am –
Mujahid Farid talks about RAPP and parole on Eldridge & Co.
CUNY-TV (Time Warner and Cablevision/Optimum Brooklyn, Ch. 75; RCN/ Ch. 77; and Verizon/ Ch. 30) Or watch this terrific half-hour show online

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 • 6:00-8:30 pm •
Mujahid Farid spoke on parole in NY State • NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, Rm 214
PAROLE PREP BASICS: How advocates & attorneys can change New York’s unjust parole system. With presentation by Mujahid Farid, Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP • For more information, click HERE

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