[act-ma] 6/21 Making Families Pay: The Unseen Cost of Incarceration

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 11:00am

Annual Ethel & Julius Rosenberg Commemoration
SUSAN MORTIMER & BARBARA DOUGAN
"Making Families Pay: The Unseen Cost of Incarceration"

Susan Mortimer, CCB member and anti-prison activist, was a founder of the
Statewide Harm Reduction Coalition. Her political analysis is informed by
real-life experience; she is the sister of a prisoner with multiple
disabilities. She works to hold bureaucrats and medical staff accountable.
Susan will  address  the social, economic and human costs to the families of
loved ones imprisoned in Massachusetts prisons.

Barbara Dougan is Mass. Project Director for Families Against Mandatory
Minimums (FAMM), a national non-profit that seeks to reform sentencing on
the state and federal level. Although its primary focus is on drug
sentencing, FAMM opposes all mandatory minimums which prevent individualized
justice (sentences that fit the crime). An attorney, she is also co-chair of
the Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition and the Mass.Chapter of the
National Lawyers Guild

CCB Annual Meeting following church services.

Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. (Copley Square)
www.communitychurchofboston.org


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JOIN US ON SUNDAYS

10:00am Coffee, Tea and Bagels
11:00am Sunday Speakers' Service/Forum (2nd floor)
12:30pm Luncheon
5:00pm  Meditation/Prayer Services


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LUNCH ON SUNDAYS, 12:30PM

On Sunday after our morning programs, we have lunch with one another in the
Guatemala Room (3rd floor), prepared by our cook Luis Alonso Guzman. Enjoy a
delicious lunch with friends! A small contribution is requested to help
cover lunch expenses.


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DIRECTIONS/PARKING

The Community Church is located at 565 Boylston Street in Copley Square,
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets.

Parking is available on Sunday mornings at the Back Bay Garage (entrances on
Clarendon Street or St. James Ave.). We can provide a sticker to affix to
your parking receipt, and you will be charged $5.00 for 3 hours of parking.

By public transportation, take the Green line to Copley or take the Orange
line to Back Bay station. Community Church is a 2-minute walk from either
station.


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A PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGREGATION SINCE 1920

The Community Church of Boston is a free community of human beings united
for the study and practice of universal religion, seeking to apply ethical
ideals to individual life and the democratic and cooperative principle to
all forms of social and economic life.


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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US

Jason Lydon, Congregational Director
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617)266-6710
(617)266-0449 (fax)
info at commchurch.org
http://www.communitychurchofboston.org