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Teach-in on
The Criminal Injustice System
The day after Jericho '98
Saturday, March 28
10AM-8PM
All Souls Church Unitarian
Corner of 16th & Harvard Streets Northwest
Washington, D.C.
(Directions below)
The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) and the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) present a teach-in on the criminal injustice system. We invite all participants in Jericho '98, and anyone who wants to get active against the injustice system, to come share information and ideas, and get involved.
Speakers include people from:
- RAIL
- St. Louis Nation of Islam
- Boston American Friends Service Committee
- St. Louis Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Crossroad Support Network-South
Topics include:
- The criminal injustice system: A tool for social control
- Penal oligarchy under settler colonialism
- National liberation of oppressed nations
- Incarceration of revolutionary leaders and soldiers
- Racism in the Drug War
- Censorship in Amerikkkan prisons
- Oppression through mandatory minimums
- Slave labor in Amerikkkan prisons
- War on gangs
- Privatization of Amerikkkan prisons to repress the masses
- Death penalty as an imperialist tool
- The battle against control units and pre-trial lockdown
- Repression in New England prisons
- Transfers, more prisons and repression in Michigan
- Police brutality and national oppression in Missouri
Directions:
- From Woodley-Park Zoo Metro Station (Red Line): Walk East on Calvert Street, turn left on Columbia Road, walk to 16th Street. The corner of Harvard and 16th is right there.
- From U St.-Cordozo Metro Station (Greet Line): Walk West on U St. about 3 blocks, turn right on 16th St. and walk North about 8 blocks to the corner of Harvard and 16th.
- By car from the East, West or North: Capital Beltway exit 31 is between I-270 to the West and I-95 to the East. Take exit 31, Georgia Ave., South. After about 7 blocks, turn right (South) onto 16th St. Harvard St. is 2 or 3 miles south on 16th St. On-street parking is your best bet. Good luck.
- By car from the South: Take I-95 North to the Capital Beltway, and switch to I-395 North (Shirley Highway). Cross the Potomac River and Take Route 1 North (14th St.). Take 14th St. North to U St. Left on U. St., right on 16th St. About 8 blocks North on 16th St. is Harvard. On-street parking is your best bet. Good luck.
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