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MICHELLE ALEXANDER
Organizing Benefit for 3-Strikes Reform

Wednesday, April 14, 6:30 - 9 PM
Rainier Valley Cultural Center
3515 South Alaska Street, Seattle
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Sponsors: ACLU of Washington, Black Prisoners Caucus, Concerned Lifers Organization, Friends Committee on Washington Public Policy; Hotel Max Seattle, Justice Works, SEEDArts, a Program of SEED, University Behind Bars, Washington Defender Association, Western Washington Fellowship of Reconcilation

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Michelle Alexander keynotes in an organizing benefit for the 3-Strikes campaign. In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Professor Alexander traces the rebirth of the racial caste system in the US through mass incarceration. She calls for a multi-racial grassroots movement for cultural change as the only way to end mass incarceration - and finally, Jim Crow.

The evening begins with short presentations by champions of recent historic developments in Washington state that hold promise to reduce racial disparity in our criminal justice system. It concludes with an organizing session.

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News & Politics

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• Mass incarceration
• racism
• criminal justice
• Washington State
• 3-Strikes
• Three Strikes
• Jim Crow
• Michelle Alexander
• books
• events Seattle
• life without parole
• LWOP
• social justice
• human rights
• African American
• politics