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![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//7934.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 419Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a better copy of PM 336 and PM 345 A.
Transcript available for download.
![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//7935.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: CD 810Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a better copy of PM 336/345
Transcript available for download.
![Workshop #3 - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: PM 425Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
One of the first strategy sessions to organize resistance to the opening of USP Florence CO and to shut down all control units. Facilitated by Steve Whitman.
![Workshop #3 - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: CD 815Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
One of the first strategy sessions to organize resistance to the opening of USP Florence CO and to shut down all control units. Facilitated by Steve Whitman.
![Workshop #3 - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: PM 427Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
One of the first strategy sessions to organize resistance to the opening of USP Florence CO and to shut down all control units. Facilitated by Steve Whitman.
![Workshop #3 - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: CD 816Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
One of the first strategy sessions to organize resistance to the opening of USP Florence CO and to shut down all control units. Facilitated by Steve Whitman.
![Marion Program Panel 1](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/1/1988Call Number: CD 821Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Introduction by Nancy Kurshan and preliminary comments by Jose Lopez. Lecture by Bruce Wright, judge, scholar, poet and activist for social justice. Using his own experience as a Black man, he describes the history of US racism and the criminal justice system.
Program on the life and work of Assata Shakur, and her influence on the work and life of fellow activists. Also speakers on the Puerto Rican liberation movement.
![Jeff Haas and Zulma Oprtiz Speak at CEML Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1989Call Number: PM 441BFormat: Cass BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Jeff Haas and Zulma Ortiz discuss White supremacy and the US prison system, including the toxic water supply at Marion Federal Penitentiary during the 23 year lockdown and the Amnesty International report concerning inhumane treatment of prisoners.
![Petitions Submitted to the
Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
as of April 30,1990; Events in the Campaign to Change the Water Supply at USP Marlon](images/thumbnails//27282.jpg)
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1990Format: AgendaCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Schedule of Crap Orchard campaign events 4/24/1990 - 5/5/1990. Includes list of petitions submitted to CEML. Part of packet - see 3.correspondence.ceml.quinlan.1990
![The History of Marion Prison](images/thumbnails//30451.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
This video, created by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown in 1988, serves to provide historical context around the opening of Marion Prison in 1963.