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Monthly Review
03-13-2015, 09:17 PM
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/200315.jpgOn Friday, March 20th, 2015 at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Harlem, the journal of Socialism and Democracy will host an inter-generational dialogue, "We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Black Resistance and the Roots of Mass Incarceration," to draw attention to the myriad of ways State repression, institutional racism, poverty, mass unemployment, lack of decent and affordable education, housing, and healthcare intersect with the rise, fall, and criminalization of the Movements of the 1960s and 70s, Black Lives Matter, the heightened militarization of police, and the political and mass incarceration of more than 2.5 million poor and working-class Black, Brown, Asian, white, and Muslim-Arab people.

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