https:\/\/us04web.zoom.us\/j\/314247393<\/a><\/p>\nNote: If you don’t have the Zoom app installed on your desktop computer, then joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, and then take you to the meeting. You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter 314247393 as the “meeting number” that you want to “join”.<\/p>\n
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This online Forum will be on the topic of:<\/p>\n
“Race, Police, and Prisons: The American Gulag”<\/p>\n
The mass protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd are the culmination of years of police killings of unarmed black and brown people caught on video progressively etching new levels of consciousness about the problems of institutionalized racism, militarized policing, punitive incarceration, and the immigration detention system. This is the U.S. norm, but it is not normal around the world. Dr. Sharat G. Lin discusses other models of criminal justice, how we got here, what needs to change, and his own arrest.<\/p>\n
Dr. Lin is with the San Jos\u00e9 Peace and Justice Center, Human Agenda, Initiative for Equality, and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Committee. He writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, social movements, and public health. He was responsible for successfully pressuring the San Jos\u00e9 Police Department to abolish its arbitrary checkpoints solely during Cinco de Mayo. He has observed different police practices around the world.<\/p>\n
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