The New Jim Crow
The purpose of this page is to share information and generate movement building on the issues of mass incarceration and the criminal justice system. The goal is to end this racial-caste system coined as, The New Jim Crow. This page is inspired by the book The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander. Alexander's book has brilliantly unraveled the plan to criminalize young Black and Brown men in America and provides solutions to fight this injustice system. We recommend all who are interested in these issues to, Read and share the book. & watch Michelle Alexander speak here.
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OUR ENEMIES IN BLUE - Panel Discussion at Harlem School of The Arts
Monday, March 12, 2012 at 4:54PM 
Our Enemies in Blue, was a panel discussion and community conversation discussing the abusive behavior of the NYPD. The discussion was held at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) on February 22, 2012.
International Socialist Organization - The racist practices of the NYPD are nothing new. But in recent weeks and months, the NYPD's brutality has been exposed to the world: from a New York Times editorial by a young black man who is one of the hundreds of thousands stopped and frisked each year because of the color of his skin, to the videos of the beating and pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, and recent revelations that the NYPD showed its officers the Islamophobic "Third Jihad" film featuring Comissioner Ray Kelly. And more and more people are standing up, from the outburst of anger after the NYPD's beating of Jateik Reed and murder of Ramarley Graham, a growing movement against stop and frisk, marches against NYPD brutality, and in defense of Jazz Hayden, who is standing up to retaliation from the NYPD for his tireless efforts in documenting and exposing their harrassment of Black and Brown people in Harlem. Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization (Uptown and Bronx Branches) Socialistworker.org
United in The Fight Against The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander with New York Advocates
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 7:19PM May 21, 2011 - Michelle Alexander along with VOCAL-NY, Mission and Social Justice Ministry of the Riverside Church, The Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and Drug Policy Alliance joined together to hold a press conference outside of Riverside Church in Harlem, NY.
The press conference was calling for parolee voting rights and an end to illegal marijuana arrests that have targeted people of color.
Senior Minister of Riverside Church, Rev. Stephen H. Phelps strongly endorsed the Campaign To End The New Jim Crow.
Press conference calling for parolee voting rights and an end to illegal marijuana arrests that have targeted people of color.
For more information visit:
www.newjimcrow.org
www.allthingsharlem.com/new-jim-crow
www.drugpolicy.org/
www.vocal-ny.org