[CPRB] Fwd: Forgiveness Weekend: Douple Jeopardy or a New Beginning?

[Liberation Education]

> 
> Dear Friend,
> 
>       This February 18-20, 2005, C-U Citizens for
> Peace and Justice 
> will 
> host a mini-Conference entitled "Forgiveness
> Weekend:
> Double 
> Jeopardy... 
> or A New Beginning?" at Salem Baptist Church, 500 E.
> Park St. in 
> Urbana. 
> We're inviting people with felony convictions,
> religious leaders, 
> activists, and academics to recognize the various
> forms of 
> disenfranchisement "felons" face, as they carry the
> dead weight of 
> their 
> criminal record for their entire lives. We're
> asking:
> if a young man 
> takes 
> 5 minutes to commit a "felony", and society responds
> by limiting his 
> freedom for 50 years -- who is the criminal?
> 
>       Achieving "Universal Suffrage" in the USA was
> a
> hard fought 
> political 
> victory. The vote is now legally defined as a basic
> right held by all: 
> the 
> poor and working classes, racial minorities, women
> and
> young adults, 
> indeed, all mentally competent adults have the right
> to vote, save for 
> one 
> exception: convicted criminal offenders. In addition
> to being 
> disenfranchised of their voting rights, the right to
> decent employment, 
> housing, and education are denied to ex-felons. This
> is a situation we 
> are 
> working to change.
> 
>       This conference aims to answer such questions
> as:
> 
> Why should we care about what happens to people with
> felony 
> convictions?
> 
> How does a felony charge affect a person's daily
> life?
> 
> How can people with felony convictions be empowered?
> 
>       To find out more about Forgiveness Weekend,
> and
> the C-U Citizens 
> for 
> Peace and Justice group which is organizing toward a
> Police Review 
> Board, 
> Local Prison Reform, and Humane Drug Policy in
> Urbana
> IL, visit:
> 
> http://citizen.freeshell.org/forgiveness.html
> 
>       Please consider yourself invited to this free
> event, and of 
> course 
> donations are welcome as we are a growing
> organization.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Committee for "Forgiveness Weekend"
> Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
> 
> 
> 		
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