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, …
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 • 7:00 pm • RAPP celebrates Maya Schenwar’s important new book: “Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better”
Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center, 172 Allen St., NYC. More information here
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 • 7:00 to 9:00 pm • From Slavery to Sing Sing: The U.S. Prison System’s Inhumanity to the Family
With Mujahid Farid on the need to release aging people in prison • National Black Theater, 2013 Fifth Avenue (b/n 125-126th Streets)Free Admission • Doors open at 6:30 pm
Sunday, September 14, 2014 • 2:00 to 4:00 pm • Panel: What’s Age Got to Do with It? Incarcerating Children and the Elderly
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn, NY 11238 • Sponsored by the Correctional Association of NY and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Saturday, September 6, 2014 • 7:00 pm • Candlelight vigil for Clemency at home of Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Mt. Kisco, NY. Organized by the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club
Thursday, August 7, 2014 • 7:00 pm • Political Candidates Forum on Criminal Justice
Moderated by Dean Meminger of NY1 TV • NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th St., Manhattan • Sponsored by Communities for Criminal Justice Awareness and the NY Society for …
Saturday, July 12, 2014 • 10:00 am to 1:00 pm • RAPP Outreach & Town Hall
Harlem State Office Bldg., 163 W. 125th St., corner of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Blvd. • Outreach: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm • Town Hall on solitary confinement: 12:00 pm …
Tuesday-Wednesday, June 3-4, 2014 • A Public Health Approach to Incarceration: Opportunities for Action
Columbia University Mailman School for Public Health, NYC • Including a panel on Using Evidence for Action in Public Health Practice, with Mujahid Farid, Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP • Conference …
Saturday, May 31, 2014 • 2:00 to 6:00 pm • Community Resource Fair – RAPP Campaign Presentation
East Ward Missionary Baptist Church, 2011 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10029 (between 103/104 Streets)
Saturday, April 12, 2014 • 3:00 pm • “The State of Our Prisons: Where Are We, Where Do We Need To Be?”
Sheraton Hotel, 833 7th Ave. (53rd St.), Metropolitan Room West, 2nd Floor Panel hosted by Victor Pate, National Action Network NYC Chapter Second Chance Program, with Release Aging People in …
Friday, March 28, 2014 • Symposium• 10:00 am to 5:15 pm • Reducing Incarceration: Endless Punishment, Long-Term Sentences, & Aging in Prison…OR Release & Reentry
Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W. 168th St., 8th Fl., Manhattan (A/C/1 to 168th St.)