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DescriptionVideo lecture given by Michelle Alexander & shown on Democracy Now ! The lecture was given on January 12, 2012 at Abyssinian Baptist Church Based on her book - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness The video runs just over an hour This is a very powerful & disturbing look into the drug war & its consequences Please support public broadcasting any way you can I did pay for this video & I am sharing it with you Please SEED & spread this information Michele Alexander Alexander published the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010). In it, she argues that systemic racial discrimination in the United States has resumed following the Civil Rights Movement's gains; the resumption is embedded in the US War on Drugs and other governmental policies and is having devastating social consequences. She considers the scope and impact of this current law enforcement, legal and penal activity to be comparable with that of the Jim Crow laws of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book concentrates on the mass incarceration of African-American men. In The New Jim Crow, Alexander argues that mass incarceration in America functions as a system of racial control in a similar way to how Jim Crow once operated. Alexander’s work draws attention to the racial disparity that exists in the criminal justice system. Alexander notes, “Race plays a major role-indeed, a defining role – in the current system, but not because of what is commonly understood as old-fashioned, hostile bigotry. This system of control depends far more on racial indifference (defined as a lack of compassion and caring about race and racial groups) than racial hostility – a feature it actually shares with its predecessors." Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,000 public television and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Her written works include: 2004 — The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them co-written with her brother, Mother Jones reporter David Goodman. 2006 — Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (also with David Goodman). She appeared on the Colbert Report on October 5, 2006 to promote the book. 2008 — Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (also with David Goodman) details the capabilities of ordinary citizens to enact change. Was on the New York Times bestseller list. 2009 — Breaking the Sound Barrier (with a preface by journalist Bill Moyers), an anthology of columns written for King Features Syndicate. In her first piece she wrote: "My column will include voices so often excluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort and even ridicule."[ Check out another web interview if you find this one interesting Go to Democracy Now ! Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/11/legal_scholar_michelle_alexander_on_the For more information on Michelle Alexander please go to http://www.newjimcrow.com/ Another video worth your time is called Michelle Alexander: Drug War Racism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgM5NAq6cGI Go to www.democracynow.org for more programs like this Or call 888-999-3877 Torrent from Demonoid.me by apostleOfSedition Related Torrents
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