13th Film Screening
Start: Thursday, November 16, 2017•06:30 PM
End: Thursday, November 16, 2017•08:30 PM
In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
View the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk
"As we all learned in school, the 13th amendment – enacted on Jan. 31, 1865 – abolished involuntary servitude in these United States. Like hell it did. There was a loophole, which basically said no servitude "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Translation: If you're white and rich enough to afford a lawyer, no problem, If you're a minority with nothing, you're fucked. Welcome to the era of mass criminalization and the prison industrial complex, where African-American inmates are forced into unpaid manual labor by a systemic corporate culture that profits from human bondage. Slavery is alive and well. And hot damn, do profiteers want it to continue." - The Rolling Stone
"As we all learned in school, the 13th amendment – enacted on Jan. 31, 1865 – abolished involuntary servitude in these United States. Like hell it did. There was a loophole, which basically said no servitude "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Translation: If you're white and rich enough to afford a lawyer, no problem, If you're a minority with nothing, you're fucked. Welcome to the era of mass criminalization and the prison industrial complex, where African-American inmates are forced into unpaid manual labor by a systemic corporate culture that profits from human bondage. Slavery is alive and well. And hot damn, do profiteers want it to continue." - The Rolling Stone
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