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PRISON AND PUERTO RICO PANELS AT LEFT FORUM CONFERENCE, PACE UNIVERSITY,
NYC APRIL 17-19<br>
See <a href="http://www.leftforum.org/">www.leftforum.org</a> for
complete information.<br>
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<b>Let Freedom Ring: Strategies to Free Political Prisoners Today -
Saturday 4/18 10-noon</b>
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<li>Matt Meyer (Chair) - Editor, Let Freedom Ring and activist with War
Resisters League
<li>Elizam Escobar - Puerto Rican former political prisoner and artist
<li>Ashanti Alston - former political prisoner, co-chair of National
Jericho Amnesty Movement, member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
<li>Ramona Africa - former MOVE prisoner and activist with the
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
<li>Laura Whitehorn - former political prisoner and Let Freedom Ring
contributor
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The Puerto Rican Reality: The Duality of the anti-colonial struggle -
Saturday, 4/18 12-2pm</b>
<ul>
<li>Ana M. Lopez (Chair)- Humanities, Hostos Community College
<li>Aleida Centeno Rodriguez, Esq. - Frente Patriotico de Arecibo, PR
(environment and militarizaiton)
<li>Julio A Rosado - Pro-Independence activist and leader of Movimiento
de Liberacion Nacional-PR
<li>Elizam Escobar - former political prisoner, artist, Visual Arts,
University of Puerto Rico
<li>Lytza Colon - Community Organizer in the South Bronx, member
Community CLB
<li>Liliana Laboy - Community leader and Spokesperson for Mesa de
Solidaridad (Against Repression)
<li>Norberto Clinton Fiallo - labor organizer, president of Latin
American Caribbean Coordinator of Puerto Rico (CCLPR)
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<b>Resistance Struggles on the Inside: Political Organizing Behind Bars -
Saturday 4/18 12-2pm</b>
<ul>
<li>Meg Starr (Chair) - Resistance in Brooklyn
<li>Robert Hillary King - former political prisoner confined to solitary
for 30 years in Angola Correctional Facility
<li>Victoria Law - Books Through Bars—NYC
<li>Jamie Bissonette - Criminal Justice Program, American Friends Service
Committee in New England
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<b>Women on the Margins: Incarceration and Resistance in the Current Era
- Sunday 4/19 12-2 pm</b>
<ul>
<li>Diana Block (Chair) - California Coalition for Women Prisoners
<li>Pilar Maschi - Critical Resistance NYC & a formerly incarcerated
woman
<li>Joanne Macri - Immigrant Defense Project
<li>Laura Whitehorn - former anti-imperialist political prisoner &
editor, POZ
<li>Susan Rosenberg - former anti-imperialist political prisoner
<li>Victoria Law - Books Through Bars—NYC
</ul><br><br>
* There is a sliding scale for low
income/students etc.<br><br>
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