[IMC] Press Release: Scholar and Activist Angela Davis Visits the CU Community

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 3, 2013

Media Contact:

Francisco Baires, Community Programs Director

217.337.1500 | francisco at universityymca.org

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Professor Angela Davis Gives Noontime Talk at the Y

WHAT: The University YMCA hosts well known scholar, author, and activist, Professor
Angela Davis will give a noontime talk of how and why more than 2 million Americans
are presently behind bars, and the corporations who profit from their suffering.
 Davis will discuss the biases that criminalize communities of color, politically
disenfranchising huge chunks of minority voters in the process. Uncompromising in
her vision, Davis calls not merely for prison reform, but for nothing short of 'new
terrains of justice.'

WHEN: Friday, September 27th, 2013 at 12 Noon

WHERE: Lazter Hall of the University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL 
61820

WHO:Angela Davis, a well-known scholar and author, emerged as a nationally prominent
American political activist in the 1960s. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing
interests; she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to
 abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History
of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is 
the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Like many other educators, Professor Davis is especially concerned with the general
tendency to devote more resources and attention to the prison system than to educational
institutions. In much of her work, Professor Davis draws upon her own experiences
in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial,
after being placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List." Having helped to popularize
the notion of a "prison industrial complex," she now urges her audiences to think
seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge
a 21st century abolitionist movement.

Additional Information: The lecture is the fourth in a semester long series that
 peers deeply into current issues revolving around incarceration at the local, state,
and national levels.  On September 27th from 8:30am to 10:30am, Professor Angela
 Davis will also join community members in reception at the Independent Media Center,
202 S Broadway Ave in Urbana.

All Friday Forum lectures at the University YMCA are free and open to the public.

Website: universityymca.org/friday_forum [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001NVMGcNhRdzorFgCcNoZbJyIJuekHx9g_bCWj-nuaf6K6rafsRvX0_uCNpUPhnb7hIPHUiyx-kVqdCV6z0iRBkDjRFfQ-j809i4SIxJgcImNLGua0srlH6zNVS2SqZXIKRaZaRsSKUBKhKkBaxrzjPQ==]

Sponsored by the University YMCA, YWCA of the University of Illinois, Jan & Durl
 Kruse, Dr. Anne Robin, The Chapel of St. John the Divine, CU Branch of AAUW, League
of Women Voters of Champaign County, Kelli Manning, LGBT Resource Center, Champaign
County ACLU, Wesley United Methodist Church,Wesley Foundation at the University 
of Illinois, Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church, Education
Justice Project, The Center for Advanced Study, Vicki McGinness, Department of Landscape
Architecture, Bruce and Helen Berndt, Paid for by SORF.

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