KPFA - Making Contact

It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. Or the time in prison. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Checking that box can mean the difference between failure and success.  On this edition, the nationwide movement to ‘ban-the-box’, and make criminal histories less of a stigma.

Thanks to The Omnia Foundation for partial funding for this program.

Featuring:

Marilyn Austin-Smith*, formerly incarcerated, and member of All of Us or None; *Michelle Natividad Rodriguez*, National Employment Law Project Attorney; *Mike Casey*, Unite Here! Local 2 President; *Mike Hannigan*, Give Something Back company director; *Donald Washington, Juan Filomeno, Shirley Hollis*, formerly incarcerated; *Lois Ahrens*, Real Cost of Prisons Project prisoner advocate; Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts; *Aaron Tanaka,* Boston Workers Alliance Executive Director; *Michael Corwin. *Private investigator; *Julie Roberts*, Northeastern University School of Law board of directors’ member

For More Information:

National Employment Law Project

http://www.nelp.org/

All of Us or None

http://www.allofusornone.org/

 EPOCA: Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement

http://exprisoners.org/

Real Cost of Prisons Project

http://realcostofprisons.org/

Boston Workers Alliance

http://bostonworkersalliance.org/

SF Human Rights Commission

http://www.sf-hrc.org/

Unite Here! Local 2

http://www.onedaylongersf.org/

 Give Something Back Office Supplies

https://www.givesomethingback.com/

 Drug Policy Alliance

http://www.drugpolicy.org/

Neighbor to Neighbor-Massachusetts

http://www.n2nma.org/

Mass Legal Services

http://www.masslegalservices.org/node/29099

Legal Services for Prisoners With Children

http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

http://www.mass.gov/governor/

Omnia Foundation

http://www.omniafoundation.org/

Articles, Reports:

‘Do Workers with Criminal Backgrounds Deserve a Second Chance?’- In These
Times

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7114/do_workers_with_criminal_backgrounds_deserve_a_second_chance/

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 “Too Little, Too Late,” by James Alan Fox

http://boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2010/05/cori_reform_-_too_little_too_l.html

ACLU CORI Reform chart

http://aclum.org/sites/all/files/legislative/cori_reform_explained.pdf

A Brief History of the Drug War – Drug Policy Alliance

http://www.drugpolicy.org/facts/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-history-drug-war

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Race, Prison and Poverty by Paul Street

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/streeracpripov.html

 Ex-offenders and the Labor Market by John Schmitt and Kris Warner* *
www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ex-offenders-2010-11.pdf

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Renowned anti-racist author Tim Wise examines how society is being divided
and conquered on the basis of race and class. But legendary activist Angela
Davis says we must not give up hope. On this edition, we hear Davis and
Wise discuss privatization, the economy, and other critical issues of our
times – moderated by journalist Rose Aguilar.

Special thanks to Speak Out.

Featuring: 

Angela Davis, *author, political activist, former University of California
at Santa Cruz professor; *Tim Wise*, anti-racist writer and educator.

For More Information:

Speak Out

http://www.speakoutnow.org/

Tim Wise

http://www.timwise.org/

Angela Davis

http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=aydavis

Your Call program on KALW Radio:

http://yourcallradio.org/

Articles, Videos:

Tim Wise on the Pathology of White Privilege

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2mjvFNOwmc

Angela Davis on the Prison Abolition movement on Democracy Now

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/19/angela_davis_on_the_prison_abolishment

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The United States imprisons more people than any other country.  But In California, the money is finally running short, and a new policy aims to reduce the number of people in state prison.  It’s called ‘re-alignment’ and the state says its working.  On this edition, Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis? Could the incarceration nation finally be slowing down?

Thanks to the Omnia Foundation for partially funding this program.

Featuring:

*Alisha Coleman*, San Francisco County Jail inmate; *Ruthie Wilson Gilmore*;
City University of New York Graduate Center Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences; *Matthew Cate*, California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary; *Jennifer Prince*, San Mateo
County Women’s Jail inmate; *Wendy Still*, San Francisco Chief Probation
Officer; *Don Horsley*, San Mateo county supervisor; *Greg Munks*, San
Mateo County Sheriff; *Daniel Macallair*; Center on Juvenile and Criminal
Justice executive director; *Emily Harris,* Californians United for a
Responsible Budget statewide coordinator

For More Information:

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Fired Up!
http://firedupsf.wordpress.com/

California Coalition for Women Prisoners

http://womenprisoners.org/

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Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

http://www.cjcj.org/

Californians United for a Responsible Budget

http://curbprisonspending.org/

All of Us or None

http://www.allofusornone.org/

Critical Resistance

http://criticalresistance.org/

Justice Now
http://jnow.org/

A New Way of Life

http://www.anewwayoflife.org/

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and opposition in Globalizing
California by Ruthie Wilson Gilmore

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520242012

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

Ras K Dee

www.audiopharmacy.com

*Articles*

Prison Break: Realignment Inmates Enter Rehabilitation in S.F.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-02-01/news/realignment-prisons-probation-department-recidivism-lauren-smiley/

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Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need to be in control of their own fertility. But those perspectives are very controversial. On this edition: how environmentalism can lead down a slippery slope to population control, and even anti-immigrant policies. Can an emerging movement for ‘population justice’ save our planet while respecting women’s rights?

Special thanks to Mary Wohlford Foundation for funding this program.

Featuring:

*Laurie Mazur, *author of “A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the
Environmental Challenge”; *Jade Sasser*, Loyola Marymount Univ.’s women’s
studies incoming professor; *Elizabeth Barajas-Roman*, National Latina
Institute for Reproductive Health policy director; *Ben Zuckerman*, former
Sierra Club board member

For More Information:

Population Justice Project

http://popjustice.org/about/

Population and Development Program at Hampshire College

http://popdev.hampshire.edu/

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

http://latinainstitute.org/

Sierra Club’s Global Population and the Environment Program

http://www.sierraclub.org/population/default.aspx

Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth)

http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer

National Audubon Society

http://www.audubon.org/

The Izaac Walton League

http://www.iwla.org/

Articles:

National Geographic, “Population 7 Billion”

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/seven-billion/kunzig-text

BBC, “The World at 7 Billion”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15449959

The Economist, “Horrid History”

http://www.economist.com/node/11402576

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Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy says her country’s government has declared war on its own people.  Her outspokenness earned her an invitation to spend time with the so-called ‘Maoist’ rebels. On this edition, Arundhati Roy takes us into the jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking with the Comrades’.

Special thanks to the Center for Place Culture and Politics at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.

Featuring: 

*Arundhati Roy, *author of “The God of Small Things” and “Walking with the Comrades”

For More Information:

We– Featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

http://www.weroy.org/

Walking With the Comrades

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143120599,00.html?Walking_with_the_Comrades_Arundhati_Roy

Arundhati Roy in the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/arundhati-roy

Center for Place Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center

http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/

The Committee on Globalization and Social Change

http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu/

South Asian Terrorism Portal-Status Paper on the Naxal Problem

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/document/papers/06mar13_naxal%20problem%20.htm

Naxalite Maoist India

http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/

Articles:

Walking With the Comrades-the Essay that Inspired the Book

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264738

IN THE NAME OF MAO-INDIA PICKS UP THE SLAUGHTER

http://www.vice.com/read/mao-v13n10

Financial Times on Arundhati Roy

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1ed76814-8bf2-11e0-854c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1wsCYdWIT

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In May 2010, New York prosecutors issued an extradition request for
Jamaican Kingpin Christopher Coke – gangster to some, local hero to others.
The search for Coke triggered a government crackdown on the neighborhood of
Tivoli Gardensin Kingston, leaving 73 civilians dead in a span of just a
few days. Their families continue to fight for justice and accountability,
despite Jamaica’s long record of police violence and government corruption.
Today we bring you a documentary on police violence in Jamaica.
Special thanks to Jamaicans for Justice and University of California at
Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and the European Union.

Featuring:
Paulette Wellington, Mother of Sheldon Wellington, Earl Witter, Jamaican
Public Defender, Carolyn Gomes, Jamaicans for Justice, Susan Goffe,
Jamaicans for Justice, Monica Williams, mother of Jason Smith and Activist,
and Dr. Ademola Odunfa, Kingston Hospital

*For More Information:*
Jamaicans for Justice
http://www.jamaicansforjustice.org/

Jamaica Human Rights
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/americas/jamaica

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Jamaica
http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2010/55-10eng.htm

*Articles and Books:*
Jamaica must tackle shocking wave of police killings
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/jamaica-must-tackle-shocking-wave-police-killings-2012-03-08

A Case Built in New York Against a Jamaican Kingpin
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/world/americas/27coke.html?ref=americas

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jamaica Report:
http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2008/59.08eng.htm

Amnesty International Report 2003 – Jamaica
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,AMNESTY,ANNUALREPORT,JAM,,3edb47d810,0.html

Amnesty International May 27, 2010, calling for an investigation:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/jamaica-violence-investigation-must-be-thorough-2010-05-27

Jamaican Forces Accused of Killing Unarmed Men, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/americas/03jamaica.html

January Jamaica Gleaner article on Witter’s investigations:
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=25797
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