A rally will be held on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Friday to raise awareness about the American prison system.
The 1 p.m. rally will feature speakers who “represent the demographics of the people incarcerated, to reflect the inherent racism of the system,” according to the Facebook page for the event.
This event is one in a series of rallies being held throughout the Bay Area leading up to the Feb. 20 National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners, through which Occupy members across the country will call for an end to what the event describes as mass incarceration, inhumane conditions in prisons, unjust sentences, political imprisonment and repression of activists.
Christopher Yee covers Berkeley communities.
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Supporters of this rally threw fliers all over the place in and around all three Berkeley BART stations yesterday.
If they think littering is going to attract more people to their cause, they thought wrong.
prison privatization fail:
I’m scared about the whole idea of private companies being responsible for taking away someone’s freedom, for keeping them there,” said state senator Steve Oelrich, a Republican who opposed the plan, speaking during debate this week. “No sooner should we privatize our military than we should be privatizing our corrections department and our correctional officers. I think it’s bad policy.”
The bill was defeated in a razor-thin 21-19 vote Tuesday evening, with nine of the state’s 28 Republican senators voting “no.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/private-prisons-florida-senate_n_1279822.html
Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to classes, became Facebook friends and flirted with the other students. One 18-year-old honor student named Justin fell in love with an attractive 25-year-old undercover cop after spending weeks sharing stories about their lives, texting and flirting with each other.
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The drug war is sick. How much money was wasted by our law enforcement to get these few bags of marijuana “off the streets”? How do these cops look themselves in the mirror? Seducing 18-year-olds to fall in love or pretending to be friends and then tricking them into procuring small amounts of marijuana so they can charge them with felonies is beyond slimy and diametrically opposed to the officers’ charge to “serve and protect.”
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/789519/sick%3A_young%2C_undercover_cops_flirted_with_students_to_trick_them_into_selling_pot/#paragraph3
More America-bashing from the usual imbeciles.
since you’re such a big fan of prisons, you won’t mind if we put you there
Liberal guilt will be on full display. Clowns all.
what’s ‘liberal guilt’?
you act as though the word ‘liberal’ itself can be used as a smear,
this, of course, is nonsensical
If you knew how to write, you would not assert how I act.
Please put your Troll Fail hat on. LOL @ Libs
This better not be annoying or cause class disruptions, i’m gonna be pissed
your comment is annoying but i am not pissed.
so you’re 18-21 years old and have no emotional control?