"Decarceration" Panel at Rowan Student Center, March 6. 6:45 PM Decarcerate The Garden State:

Decarcerate The Garden State: For Advance Release: "Decarceration" Panel at Rowan Student Center, March 6. 6:45 PM:

For Advance Release: "Decarceration" Panel at Rowan Student Center, March 6. 6:45 PM

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Tour de Decarcerate is a project of Decarcerate the Garden State that is working to bring “panel discussions” to cities and campuses throughout NJ to lay the ground work for a critical mass rising around the demand to DECARCERATE THE GARDEN STATE.

At Rowan University, the Glassboro Students Union, The Rowan University Students for Sensible Drug Policy and others are teaming up with the Decarcerate the Garden State to present such an event this week, Friday, March 6, 6:45 pm at the Rowan Student Center in Room 221.

The date of the event concurs with commemorations in Selma Alabama on March 7 of the 50^th. Anniversary of the Bloody Sunday freedom march across the famous Selma bridge, when protesters were beaten and set upon by police dogs.  While politicians, including President Obama and former President Bush, will be using the event to laud civil rights “progresss”, organizers of the Rowan event believe “We should question how far did we come really as the number of people incarcerated in the United States has increased 11-fold since then.”

The event will feature a key note presentation from the nationally known Rev. Nyle Fort, who was recently dubbed the “Pastor of Fergsuson” by the London based Guardian paper and news service for his role in participating and inspiring resistance to “impunity” for killings by police, specifically in the Michael Brown case that has led to nationwide and international protests against police brutality.  Rev. Fort will give the historic back drop of mass incarceration and the role it plays in undermining the Black community and other “oppressed” groups in the United States.

Also on the panel will be two members of the Rowan University faculty.

The event will feature a key note presentation from the nationally known Rev. Nyle Fort, who was recently dubbed the “Pastor of Fergsuson” by the London based Guardian paper and news service for his role in participating and inspiring resistance to “impunity” for killings by police, specifically in the Michael Brown case that has led to nationwide and Decarcerate The Garden State: For Advance Release: "Decarceration" Panel at Rowan Student Center, March 6. 6:45 PM: