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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>August 15, 2013</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Media Contact: Megan Flowers, Communications Director</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>217.337.1514 | megan@universityymca.org</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 18pt;" align="center"><strong>Beyond Mass Incarceration</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;" align="center"><span>Community Talk Series Takes </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">First Step for Change</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>WHAT:</strong><span> For millions, mass incarceration is very much a part of daily life. People on the local, state, and national levels are working hard to abolish the racist and profiteering processes that put America behind bars. This fall, the University YMCA's Friday Forum lecture series will bring to the forefront the experiences and work of people deeply committed to not only bringing these inequities to light, but engaging people in reform, including funding alternatives to incarceration. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>The Fall 2013 Friday Forum lecture series theme, <strong>Rethinking Security: Beyond Mass Incarceration</strong>, will peer deeply into current issues revolving around incarceration and will feature expert views on current issues at the local, state, and national levels. Speakers for the series include, but are not limited to Darrell Cannon, Erica Meiners and prominent scholar and political activist, Angela Davis. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>WHY:</strong><span> The University YMCA strongly believes that knowledge is the first step to change. Like the American political system at large, Champaign County has a long history of police misconduct and racial inequit</span><span>ies con<span>tinued in the form of racial profiling, and senseless police shootings directed at African-Americans as well as other marginalized ethnic groups. Although African-Americans make up only 12% of the Champaign County population, they represent 75% - 80% of those sent to prison in the County. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>WHERE:</strong><span> </span><span>Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>WHEN: </strong><span> </span><span>Fridays at 12 Noon</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>WHO:</strong><span> </span><span>The University YMCA is Champaign-Urbana's oldest campus and community non-profit, engaging people in service, reflection, and action since 1873.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>WEBSITE:</strong><span> </span><span><a shape="rect">www.universityymca.org/friday_forum</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Editor's Note:</strong><span> Some speakers may be available for advance interviews. To inquire about a possible arrangement, please call or email the media contact listed above.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Fall 2013 Friday Forum Series Schedule:</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">September 6- </span><span>Darrel Cannon<br /> <em>Jon Burge, Chicago Police Torture and Justice for Survivors</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">September 13</span>- </span><span>Rebecca Ginsberg <br /> <em>Fighting for Social Justice in Marginalized Chicago Neighborhoods</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left;" align="left"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">September 20</span>- </span><span>Mariame Kaba<br /> <em>Neighborhood Portraits of Juvenile Justice in Chicago</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">September 27</span>-</span><span>Angela Davis<br /> <em>Abolishing the Prison-Industrial Complex</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 4</span>-</span><span>Jesse Hoyt<br /> <em>No More Detention: The Intersection of Incarceration and Immigration</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 11</span>- </span><span>Dana Kaplan<br /> <em>State Accountability for Treatment of Its Children</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 18</span>-</span><span> Paul Wright<br /> <em>Prison Profiteering and the Color of Corrections</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">October 25</span>-</span><span>Erica Meiners<br /> <em>Ending our Expertise? Feminisms, the 'prison crisis' and abolition</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 1</span>-</span><span>Grace Bauer<br /> <em>Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">November 8</span><span>- Barbara Kessel<br /> <em>Prison Reform and the Three R's: Reading Reduces Recidivism</em></span></p>
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