[RAGG] Re: [WMWEFT] Books to Prisoners Pack-a-thon!!

[barbara trumpinski-roberts]

i have not been paying attention :(

where do the books come from?  do you need books?

barb t. (womyn making waves)

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>Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:27:29 -0600
>From: "Sarah Lazare" <glue83 at hotmail.com>  
>Subject: [WMWEFT] Books to Prisoners Pack-a-thon!!  
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>Next Saturday, there will be a UC Books to Prisoners Project 
Pack-a-thon!!
>
>When: Saturday, December 11, at 3pm
>Where: the Champaign-Urbana Independent Media Center - 218 
West Main St. in 
>Urbana
>What:  We open letters from prisoners, pick out one or two 
books for them 
>that best meet their   needs, and write them back. We also 
encourage pen pal 
>relations with prisoners.
>
>The UC Books to Prisoners Project is an anti-authoritarian 
collective 
>dedicated to providing support for, and working in 
solidarity with, those 
>behind bars.  We oppose the racism and classism of the 
prison industrial 
>complex, and we seek to find creative and positive ways to 
express this 
>resistance.  In conjunction with Spineless Books, we also 
publish prisoner 
>writings.  If you are interested, check them out at: 
>www.spinelessbooks.com/prisoners/index.html
>
>This will be a special/bittersweet event, because it will be 
Radym Davis's 
>last UC Books to Prisoner's Pack-a-thon before he moves away 
*sob*.
>
>On December 31, 2003, there were 2,085,331 people in U.S. 
prisons and jails. 
>That's a rise of 2.6% during the 12 previous months.
>U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2003:
>Whites: 376 per 100,000
>Latinos: 997 per 100,000
>Blacks: 2,526 per 100,000
>South Africa under apartheid (1993), Black males: 851 per 
100,000
>U.S. under George Bush (2003), Black males: 4,834 per 100,000
>(from prisonsucks.com)
>
>
>
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