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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Beyond bars

Community Resistance to Prison Expansion

In the United States, more than 2 million people live behind prison bars. In the state of California alone there are more people locked up than in prisons in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Singapore combined. Dr. Ruth Gilmore is a professor of geography at the University of Southern California, and is a key figure in the grassroots movement fighting prison expansion in California.

Dr. Ruth GilmoreOn this edition, Dr. Gilmore extracts lessons from more than two decades of on-the-ground community organizing against what has been termed the "biggest prison building project in the history of the world." We also hear from members of Californians United for A Responsible Budget, C.U.R.B. who are fighting prison expansion in California.

Listen nowFeaturing::

Dr. Ruth Gilmore, Critical Resistance co-founder and USC geography professor; Khalid An-Nur, formerly imprisoned person; Vanessa Huang, Justice Now!; Miss Major, Trans in Prison Committee; Zachary Norris, Books Not Bars.

Greener Magazine

Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino

For more information::

Ruth Gilmore
Associate Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography
Kaprielian Hall (KAP), Room 416
3620 South Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0255
(213)740-0050
rwgilmor@email.usc.edu

Californians United for A Responsible Budget (CURB)
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 504
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-0484
curb@riseup.net
www.curbprisonspending.org

Justice Now
1322 Webster Street, Suite 210
Oakland, CA 94612
510-839-7654
www.jnow.org

Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin St., Suite 504
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-0484
crnational@criticalresistance.org
www.criticalresistance.org

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
PO Box 226, Redmond, WA 98073
484.932.3166.
incite_national@yahoo.com
www.incite-national.org

Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
1095 Market St. Suite 308
San Francisco, CA 94103
510-677-5500 or 415-252-1444
info@tgijp.org
www.tgjip.org

www.myspace.com/covrecords

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