Come find out about the intersections of mass incarceration, criminal justice and the environment.
An organizer with the Prison Ecology Project will be discussing the Project‘s effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recognize environmental justice impacts on prisoners, and an effort to stop the construction of a new maximum security federal prison on 700 acres of endangered species habitat in eastern Kentucky.
We’ll also be showing an excerpt from Up The Ridge, a documentary about the prison-building boom in Appalachia’s coal country, and other short films on the prison/ecology connection.
For more info: PrisonEcology.org
Check out the PEP crowdfunding campaign: igg.me/at/prisonecology
Event co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild, Prison Legal News/Human Rights Defense Center, New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, National Police Accountability Project, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Hudson Valley Earth First!, Marxist Education Project, NYC Anarchist Black Cross, Movement Media, and Prison Project of Sante Fe
Directions: THE COMMONS is near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway stop in downtown Brooklyn, at 388 Atlantic Avenue, Between Hoyt and Bond.
WHAT: Prison Ecology Project
WHEN: 7:30-9:30pm, Thursday, August 6
WHERE: The Commons – 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11217 (Directions below)
COST: $6 $10 $15 sliding scale for event (no one turned away for inability to pay.) Money raised will support the Prison Ecology Project.