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ELDERS IN PRISON: Bringing Them Home & Rebuilding Our Communities
July 9, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Release Aging People In Prison/ RAPP
2090 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
212-254-5700
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Release Aging People in Prison / RAPP presents a Queens Community Forum: ELDERS IN PRISON: Bringing Them Home & Rebuilding Our Communities
9am – 3pm Saturday July 9, 2016
Queens Educational Opportunity Center (QEOC)
158-29 Archer Avenue, Jamaica Queens, NY 11432
E, J, or Z trains to Parsons Blvd.-Jamaica Center. F train to Parsons Blvd., 4 blocks south to Archer Avenue. Long Island Bus: N4 or Long Island Railroad (LIRR) to Jamaica Station.
Free Admission includes 9am continental breakfast and lunch.
Come learn about the unjust barriers Senior Citizens face getting out of prison and how to re-build strong & healthy communities by supporting their release, re-integration, & re-entry into our neighborhoods.
The Community Forum will include Speakers, Workshops, Music, Informational Tables, Community Organizations & Social Service Providers, and Engaging Dialogue and Discussion!
Featuring: Ms. Rose LaBorde, Jamaica Queens matriarch & mother of the late Political Prisoner Abdullah Majid; Sekou Odinga, recently released elder & former U.S. Political Prisoner; Mujahid Farid, formerly incarcerated elder & co-founder of RAPP; dequi kioni-sadiki, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee; Al Tony Simon, formerly incarcerated elder & organizer for RAPP; Yasmeen Sutton, NYC-based Black Panther Party Commemoration Committee; Kelly Sloan, NYC singer/songwriter
In Partnership with Queens Community Board 12: Senior Citizen & Health Committee, Youth Committee and The Southeast Queens Muslim Collective.
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Rene Valdez
917-924-0762
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