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Come join the Family Advocacy Network of Legal Services for
Prisoners with Children at an opening reception for <br><br>
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INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT: A Photovoice Exhibit on Prisons and Our
Communities</b></font></h1><font size=3 color="#008080"><b>Thursday,
November 17<sup>th</sup> @ 6pm<br>
Asian Resource Gallery<br>
310 Eight Street at Harrison<br>
Oakland Chinatown<br><br>
Great Food! Music! Poetry!<br>
</font><font size=3 color="#FF0000">Special Performance by ISE
LYFE<br><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=3>(photo by Nancy Johnson)<br><br>
</font>This project is a culmination of a year’s worth of work in which
community photographers from three different groups document the impact
of prisons on the everyday life of their families, their neighborhoods
and themselves. <u>Invisible Punishment</u> is an intergenerational
project, bringing together formerly incarcerated women in recovery, high
school students, and family members of prisoners to create a snapshot of
the many invisible consequences that mass incarceration has on the
community. It challenges the failed “tough on crime” attitudes and “war
on drugs” policies that have led to the highest per-capita incarceration
rate in the world, and sheds light on the connections between prisons and
cycles of abuse, addiction, poverty and homelessness.<br><br>
The exhibit also includes posters from a design competition launched by
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) Prison
Design Boycott campaign, which promotes the idea of collective resistance
to expanding the prison system. Over 400 architects and design
professionals have signed ADPSR’s pledge not to work on prisons or
jails.<br><br>
<font face="Book Antiqua, Bookman" size=3>Join us at the reception for
this remarkable exhibit, and hear participants from all three projects
talk about their photographs. There will be great food, music and
poetry.<br><br>
</font>For more information, contact Greg at 510-532-9692 or Maisha at
415-255-7036, ext.306<br><br>
Sponsored by A New Way of Life, Architects/Designers/Planners for
Social Responsibility East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., Legal
Services for Prisoners with Children, Family Advocacy Network and OASES
High School<br><br>
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<font size=3 color="#FF0000">The Freedom Archives<br>
522 Valencia Street<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
(415) 863-9977<br>
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