A Stop Police Brutality/End Mass Incarceration Community Forum has been set for Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, from 7 pm until 9:30 pm, at Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim, located at 511 S. Harbor Blvd.
Here are the event details:
TWO AND A HALF MILLION PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED IN THE UNITED STATES….MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. NO OTHER SOCIETY IN HUMAN HISTORY HAS IMPRISONED SO MANY OF THEIR OWN CITIZENS.
POLICE OFFICERS, SECURITY GUARDS, OR SELF APPOINTED VIGILANTES, EXTRA JUDICIALLY KILLED AT LEAST 313 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN 2012.
ANAHEIM OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTINGS ACCOUNTED FOR MORE THAN HALF OF THE 13 POLICE SHOOTINGS IN ORANGE COUNTY IN THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 2012, ACCORDING TO ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE DATA OBTAINED BY NBC4 THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RECORDS ACT. (NBC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 12 2012).
ALL OF THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!
FORUM AGENDA
VIDEO: MICHELLE ALEXANDER, THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THEE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS (20 MINUTES)
SPEAKER: JESSE ROWEN (10 MINUTES)
SPEAKER: THERESA SMITH, MOTHER OF A CAESAR RAY CRUZ MURDERED IN ANAHEIM BY POLICE OFFICER (10 MINUTES)
10 MINUTES INTERMISSION
REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
OPEN MIC: CITIZENS TAKE TURNS SPEAKING ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES AND CONCERNS ( 3 MINUTES PER PERSON)