Friday, April 27, 6:00-9:00pm
Goodwin Forum, HSU
Poetry Dialogue Art Music Film
FREE
Join us as we give a voice to those incarcerated while learning about the
realities of imprisonment today.
No One deserves to be Silenced.
6:00pm Film Screening: ‘Concrete and Sunshine’
This film documents the social impacts of massive prison expansion,
showing complex connections and consequences inherent in this alarming
social trend. Arguing that a central component of prison is isolation,
the film begins with interviews of prisoners housed in solitary
confinement in California’s first super-maximum security prison, Pelican
Bay State Prison.
7:00pm Keynote ASHANTI ALSTON
Former political prisoner and Black Panther Party member Ashanti Alston
will dialogue with us about the ‘prison industrial complex’ and how it
affects our communities
8:00pm Voices from the Inside
Works created by inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, located just 63
miles North of HSU will be read by students, faculty and community members