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Impediments to the Dream: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Dream

Monday, January 21, 2013
12:00 AM
Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom

Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita from the University of California Santa Cruz, is internationally known for her decades of work fighting oppression of all forms. She particularly urges us to think about a world without prisons and discusses alternatives to the American prison industrial complex. She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to eliminating the prison industrial complex.

After her presentation, Dr. Davis will be signing copies of her recent book, The Meaning of Freedom, which will be available for purchase prior to the talk.

The presentation will be streamed remotely in the Union Pendelton Room, The Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, The Duderstadt Building Conference room 1180, and the University of Michigan Detroit Center at 3663 Woodward Avenue, Suite 150, Detroit, MI 48076.

Speaker:
Dr. Angela Davis, author, lecturer, and political activist