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By: Travis Morales, Stop Mass Incarceration Network
May 16, 2013

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Mass Incarceration + Silence = GENOCIDE
Act to STOP It Now!

Urgent Video Message from Noche Diaz & Jamel Mims
(Posted today -- Sunday -- May 19, 2013)
Get into the action proposal from Carl Dix!
  • Make plans to be at the May 20th Cornel West and Carl Dix dialogue!
  • (see below)

Mass Incarceration + Silence = GENOCIDE: Act to STOP It Now!

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Cornel West and Carl Dix
Monday, May 20 - 7:30 PM
The Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, 263 W. 86th Street, NYC 
(between Broadway & West End Ave.)

This joint fundraising event for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and Revolution Books NYC promises to be a dynamic and substantive conversation between two people on the cutting edge of calling out all the horrors this system inflicts on people all over the world and actively involved in calling on people to stand up and build resistance to them.

Tickets: $20 General Admission * $10 Unemployed/Students/Youth * $100 Premium
Tickets are only available at the door!  Online sales are now closed.

Contact us:  stopmassincarceration@gmail.com or call 347-979-SMIN (7646)

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April 2013:  From Carl Dix

An Action Proposal to the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and All Others Who Want to Stop the New Jim Crow

You Can't Miss This!  
Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide:  
Act to STOP It Now!
A Dialogue Between Cornel West and Carl Dix

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Cornel West and Carl Dix in dialogue, 2009
Monday, May 20 - 7:30 PM
The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 263 W. 86th Street, NYC (between Broadway & West End Ave.)

This joint fundraising event for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and Revolution Books NYC promises to be a dynamic and substantive conversation between two people on the cutting edge of calling out all the horrors this system inflicts on people all over the world and actively involved in calling on people to stand up and build resistance to them.

Tickets available at door.

2012: An Amazing Year for the Stop Mass Incarceration Network
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Earlier Posts

You Can't Miss This!  
Why the Dialogue Between Cornel West and Carl Dix, “Mass Incarceration + Silence =
Genocide: Act to STOP It Now!” Is Important and Why You Should Make It Happen

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Cornel West & Carl Dix
From Travis Morales

Because, “We face an emergency situation.

• More than 2.3 million people, over half of whom are African-American or Latino, continue to be warehoused in prisons across the country.

• Many, many of these incarcerated people face conditions that fit the international
definition of torture. This includes, by last count, over 80,000 in solitary
confinement.

• More than 5 million formerly incarcerated people face are stigmatized and treated as pariahs: discriminated against when they look for work, barred from living in public housing or receiving government loans and denied the right to vote.

• Racial profiling – including in the form of stop-and-frisk and gang injunctions – as well as racially discriminatory use of police to arrest literally hundreds of thousands of youth a year in school, giving them records for minor disciplinary infractions of school rules – continues to feed youth of color into the meat grinder.

• Every night the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency detains about 33,400 immigrants. A new report details how 100’s of these immigrants are being held in conditions of solitary confinement that amount to torture.

All this amounts to a slow genocide that is breaking the bodies and crushing the spirits of countless millions of oppressed people. A slow genocide which could easily become a fast one. This is unacceptable and must be stopped! And it is up to our grassroots efforts to stop it.”

- From Carl Dix’s recent proposal for action to fight the new Jim Crow
http://www.stopmassincarceration.org/a-proposal-from-carl-dix.html

This dialogue must be a big step towards the movement of resistance to mass incarceration becoming a major force in US society capable of beating back this slow genocide and building up the strength and organization needed to actually STOP IT.

The dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix will shine the light on both the horrors of mass incarceration and why it is indeed a slow genocide, and must bring many more people into the movement to stop it, and change how many people are looking at the people that are filling the prisons.

On May 20, these two powerful speakers, Cornel West, a self described revolutionary Christian, and Carl Dix, a revolutionary communist, are going to dialogue about why mass incarceration has become official government policy; the way it wrecks the lives of ten of millions of people, including the prisoners themselves and the formerly incarcerated, and their families; why those in prison are not to blame for being there; how Black and Latino people, especially the youth, are being criminalized as a matter of policy; how millions of Black and Latino people have been left with no jobs and no
legal way to survive; why this is a slow genocide that must be stopped and how; and the difference people throughout society can make and why they must act to stop mass incarceration, NOW.

In the fall of 2011, Cornel West and Carl Dix issued a call for a campaign of non-violent mass civil disobedience to stop stop-and-frisk. Over 80 people put their bodies on the line and were arrested protesting at three NYPD precincts. This call and subsequent actions broke open the debate and controversy over this outrage and made it a societal question in New York, with many people learning what people’s lives are like that are
the target of stop-and-frisk, and many more people opposing it, all of which helped shape a significant part of public opinion against stop-and-frisk. Much more is needed. This movement must make a leap nationally in actually putting an end to stop-and-frisk and the bigger horror of mass incarceration. This dialogue is a key part of this. And you are needed to make this happen.

What is the vision for who needs to be in the room on the May 20? 

- The hundreds who coming off the dialogue will be fighting to put an end to mass incarceration and the new Jim Crow—and impacting all of society. High school students and youth, many who face the full force of the racist and illegal racial profiling; college students, some of whom are starting to get organized to stop mass incarceration, and many others who if they only knew the full scope and genocidal nature of mass incarceration would act, now, to put a stop to it; religious leaders making a statement of conscience and issuing the challenge to their congregations; former prisoners; lawyers; poets; artists and musicians. 

All this coming together at the dialogue, can and must be transformed, through building this event and the dialogue itself, into a force that needs to make leaps in changing the whole current situation where literally the continuing slow genocide of mass incarceration is grinding away, engulfing the lives of tens of millions of oppressed people.

You have a crucial role to play over the next two weeks so that hundreds come this dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix.

Monday, May 20 - 7:30 PM
The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 263 W. 86th Street, NYC (between Broadway & West End Ave.)

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Contact us: Phone: 347-979-SMIN (7646) 
* Email: stopmassincarceration@gmail.com  
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Victory for Noche Diaz!
All Manhattan criminal charges dropped. No jail time. 
See Press Release and updates on the Trial Blog
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Noche Diaz
NOCHE DÍAZ was arrested five times from October 2011. He has 11 charges piled on him in four New York City boroughs, all for observing and protesting the illegitimate actions of the NYPD. Noche was one of the first members of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and helped organize protests that kicked off a citywide struggle against stop-and-frisk. He is well known to the people—and to the NYPD—for being a member of the Revolution Club and the People’s Neighborhood Patrol of Harlem.

What You Can Do to Make the Cornel West and Carl Dix Dialogue Happen

* Buy your ticket now!  This will generate much-needed funds for pre-event expenses.  Buy your tickets online or at Revolution Books, 146 W. 26th Street, Sunday-Saturday, 12 pm – 7 pm.
* Contribute funds for promotion (palm cards, posters, ads)
* Promote the dialogue on social media
o   Forward e-mail from the Stop Mass Incarceration
Network.  Sign up here.
o   Tweet using #CornelCarlDialogue
o   Invite your friends to the Facebook event page and post it everywhere
-   Students, ask your professor/teacher to let you announce this in class, offer extra credit for attending, or have someone from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Revolution Books or the Revolution Club come talk about the dialogue in your class.   
-  Distribute the palm cards in your school, church, neighborhood, subway, union, organization.  Pick up palm cards at Revolution Books, 146 W. 26th Street, Sunday-Saturday, 12 pm – 7 pm.
-  Come with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network on outings to concerts, films, and other events where people must know about this & let us know of any events you hear about where we need to build for this event
-   Send the announcement for the dialogue to all student
organizations at your school, organize students from class,
organization to come together as a group
-    Contact the Stop Mass Incarceration Network to volunteer for:
o   Media team – People needed to contact print and
broadcast media to both publicize before the dialogue
and to cover the dialogue.
o   Video crew for the dialogue - Can you videotape the
dialogue?  Do you have video equipment?  People
needed for set up.
o   Sound crew for the dialogue - Do you have sound
equipment? Can you run sound equipment? People
needed for set up.
o   Lighting crew for the dialogue. - People needed for set up.

347-979-7646 (SMIN)
stopmassincarceration@gmail.com

Upcoming Events

Friday, May 10, 4:30 pm "Mothers Cry for Justice," Monday, rally at One Police Plaza, followed by cultural performances at 6:30 pm at Foley Square.  Sponsored by the Justice Committee.


May 13 7:00 pm. IMPORTANT Stop Mass Incarceration Network meeting. Riverside Church 120th & Claremont. #1 train to 116/125.

Saturday, May 18: 2:00 pm  The Stolen Lives Induction Ceremony: The Riverside Church, 120 St. & Claremont Avenue, NYC. Sponsored by the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, and the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.

Monday May 20: 9:30 am Trial for Stop-and-Frisk protesters  Greg Allen, Noche Diaz, Ribka Getachew, Matt Swaye. 103rd Precinct.  Queens Criminal Court, 125-01 Queens Blvd.

Monday June 4: Status hearing for 9 defendants in Brooklyn Stop-and-Frisk Protest, Brooklyn Criminal Court 120 Schermerhorn

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The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is building a movement to end the injustice of mass incarceration, police brutality and the racially biased policies and practices of the police, the courts and the U.S. legal system, and to support the rights of prisoners and the formerly incarcerated. To learn more, read the Stop Mass Incarceration Network's Mission Statement.  In New York City, the Stop Stop-and-Frisk Campaign engages in nonviolent civil disobedience to raise awareness for the need to end the NYPD's indiscriminate stop-and-frisk policy. 

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