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In this email You will find info on these events:
*Monday, December 31st @ 7:30pm New Year's Eve Noise Demo Against Prisons
*Wednesday, January 16th @ 7pm Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night
*Friday, Jan. 18th @ 6pm: “Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and
Community” Author Event with Editor Rosalie Riegle

*Monday, December 31st @ 7:30pm @ The Durham Jail, 217 S. Mangum St.
-New Year's Eve Noise Demo Against Prisons- Bring signs, noisemakers, pots
and pans, sound systems, drums, and anything else you need to make lots of
noise.
   For several years now, thousands of people have gathered on New Year's
Eve at jails and prisons around the world to show our solidarity with
the struggles of those inside and our hatred for prisons and the world
that creates them, and to dedicate the following year to abolishing
this modern-day plantation system.
   This year, folks from the triangle area will swarm on Durham's downtown
jail to show our love and support for that facility's prisoners' recent
struggles (check out amplifyvoices.wordpress.com for more info), as
well as for the myriad of other struggles going on around different
facilities around North Carolina. All across NC prisoners are sharing
radical ideas and literature, working to unite prisoners from different
backgrounds, and protest their incarceration.

*Wednesday, January 16th @ 7pm: Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night

The Internationalist Prison Books Collective brings you this month’s
Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night! Write letters and birthday cards
to political prisoners whose birthdays fall during the month of January.
It’s an easy way to let these people know they aren’t forgotten. These men
and women fought for many of the freedoms we take for granted today. If
you can’t make it to the letter writing night then please send a birthday
card from home. You can find their addresses @ prisonbooks.info

Friday, January 18th @ 6pm: “Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and
Community” Author Event with Editor Rosalie Riegle

About “Doing Time for Peace”:

“In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five
peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way
possible–by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in
jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and
life on the outside in their efforts to direct U.S. policy away from its
militarism. Many are Catholic Workers, devoting their lives to the works
of mercy instead of the works of war. They are homemakers and carpenters
and social workers and teachers who are often called “faith-based
activists.” They speak from the left of the political perspective,
providing a counterpoint to the faith-based activism of the fundamentalist
Right.
The voices range from a World War II conscientious objector to those
protesting the recent war in Iraq. The book includes sections on resister
families, the Berrigans and Jonah House, the Plowshares Communities, the
Syracuse Peace Council, and Catholic Worker houses and communities.”

Solidarity Forever,
Internationalist Books and Community Center




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