Join Us Thurs, Nov. 19 @ Rev. Books for Open House and ATTICA Rebellion screening
As a part of highlighting, broadly distributing, and discussing this week's special issue of Revolution newspaper on Prisons and Prisoners in the U.S., Revolution Books Atlanta will be hosting an open house this Thursday.
We will be screening: The ATTICA Rebellion,
a section of the Eyes on the Prize PBS Documentary and reading and discussing some of the letters from prisoners sent to Revolution.
Light refreshments. Help build for this event, invite others.
Special Issue of Revolution newspaper on Prisons and Prisoners
We will be screening: The ATTICA Rebellion,
a section of the Eyes on the Prize PBS Documentary and reading and discussing some of the letters from prisoners sent to Revolution.
Light refreshments. Help build for this event, invite others.
Special Issue of Revolution newspaper on Prisons and Prisoners
NOW AVAILABLE! in the bookstore and online
Pick up a copy for yourself and consider getting a bundle to help get out to friends, co-workers and family. We want this issue to have an impact inside and outside the walls of the prisons. Help strategize ways and places to go to make this happen!
"This issue will expose the horror that prisoners face behind the penitentiary walls and in the jails across this country. The United States now has five percent of the world's population, but nearly twenty-five percent of its prisoners. There are literally tens of thousands of prisoners who are in long-term solitary confinement. There are more women prisoners in this country (per capita) and in absolute numbers than in any other. One in eight young Black men in this country is imprisoned. And across this country, there are hellhole detention centers which incarcerate, in the most inhumane conditions, immigrants whose only crime is crossing the border to survive."
Pick up a copy for yourself and consider getting a bundle to help get out to friends, co-workers and family. We want this issue to have an impact inside and outside the walls of the prisons. Help strategize ways and places to go to make this happen!
"This issue will expose the horror that prisoners face behind the penitentiary walls and in the jails across this country. The United States now has five percent of the world's population, but nearly twenty-five percent of its prisoners. There are literally tens of thousands of prisoners who are in long-term solitary confinement. There are more women prisoners in this country (per capita) and in absolute numbers than in any other. One in eight young Black men in this country is imprisoned. And across this country, there are hellhole detention centers which incarcerate, in the most inhumane conditions, immigrants whose only crime is crossing the border to survive."
"But this issue will not only expose the horrors, but demonstrate how a section of prisoners are fighting back and transforming into emancipators of humanity. As a centerpiece of this issue, we will feature letters from prisoners themselves. Prisoners who have written in response to the call from Joe Veale ("The Revolution Needs You," Revolution #173, August 16, 2009) to respond to the statement, "The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have," and to consciously and actively join the struggle to initiate a new wave of communist revolution in the world."
