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Air date:
Wed, 04/29/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
The Ecology of a Police State: A Panel from the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Panagioti Tsolkas moderates this panel, which explores the intersections between the epidemic of mass incarceration and the environmental degradation which occurs, directly and indirectly, as a result of it, including: the immediate impacts of pollution from these often-overpopulated human warehouses; the environmental racism of where prisons are built and how they operate; the re-branding of prisons as part of a “green” economy; and the use of prison as a tool for repressing ecological movements aimed at changing the current political/economic system.
The panelists are Paul Wright--editor, Prison Legal News, executive director, Human Rights Defense
Center;
Michael Coyle--author, activist, Associate Professor at Cal State Chico
Ben Rosenfeld--Attorney and Board member, Civil Liberties Defense Center,
Max Rameau, Director, Center for Pan African Development;
Chaone Mallory, Assoc. Professor, Villanova University, PA
The panelists are Paul Wright--editor, Prison Legal News, executive director, Human Rights Defense
Center;
Michael Coyle--author, activist, Associate Professor at Cal State Chico
Ben Rosenfeld--Attorney and Board member, Civil Liberties Defense Center,
Max Rameau, Director, Center for Pan African Development;
Chaone Mallory, Assoc. Professor, Villanova University, PA
Recorded by KBOO volunteer Paul Roland at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon in March.
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