[act-ma] 2/17 BLACK & PINK - "Mapping out the Prison Industrial Complex"

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

Sunday, February 17, 2013
11:00am

REED MILLER & JUSTICE ROE (Black & Pink)
"Mapping out the Prison Industrial Complex"

Following Saturday's Love Not Jails event (2/16/13 from 12-5:30pm at SEIU
615, 26 West Street, at Downtown Crossing) prison abolitionists Reed and
Justice will engage attendees in an activity to map out the prison
industrial complex (PIC), and talk about abolition!

The PIC is a multifaceted construction of control and domination, most
commonly seen as the U.S. prison and jail system, the concrete and steel
buildings that warehouse individuals. While prisons and jails are a pivotal
aspect, the prison industrial complex includes an entire culture of state
and corporate collusion to control, discipline, and torture poor/low-income
communities and communities of color. "Abolition defines both the goal we
seek and the way we do our work today. Abolition means a world where we do
not use prisons, policing and the larger system of the prison industrial
complex as an 'answer' to what are social, political, and economic
 problems." ~Rose Braz, former director of Critical Resistance

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


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JOIN US ON SUNDAYS

11:00am Sunday Speakers' Service/Forum (2nd floor)
12:30pm Luncheon (2nd floor)


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NEXT WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHURCH FORUM (2/24)

31st Annual W.E.B. DuBois Address
WILLIAM LOWE
"DuBOIS, DoJAZZ, DueCANE and Other Four Letter Words"


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LUNCH ON SUNDAYS, 12:30PM

On Sunday after our morning programs, we have lunch with one another,
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 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

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