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The Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011 (S. 1231) was introduced in June last year by Senator Patrick Leahy (D- VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Robert Portman (R-OH).
Visit Pop Vox to read more about the bill and lend your support.
Stop Incarceration for Profit in Your State
ACLU
If you live in one of 48 states, right now there's a proposal sitting on your governor's desk from a company called Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). That for-profit corporation is offering to buy and run prisons across the nation. In exchange, states must agree to keep the prisons at least 90 percent full. America already has a problem with mass incarceration, and handing over our prisons to corporations that profit from keeping them full will only make it worse — not to mention turn the priorities of the corrections system upside down. Take Action
Upcoming Events
November Coalition Monthly Meeting
Every 2nd Saturday 11am (Potluck)
282 West Astor, Colville WA at November Coaltion's Big Green House
April Meeting also includes Yard Clean Up!
Mobilize the Earth!
Colville, Wa • April 21st
1pm - 11pm
A Nonprofit Expo featuring November Coalition, Veterans for Peace, Citizens for a Clean Columbia, Slow Foods USA, Inc and more!
282 West Astor at November Coaltion's Big Green House
Download a Poster
No New Jail Spokane monthly meeting
Spokane, WA • April 26
5:30 - 7:30
35 West Main, Spokane Community Building, Mezzanine Conference Room
Race and Class Solidarity in Social Struggle
Book Reading, Free Dinner and Community Discussion with guests: San Francisco authors, James Tracy and Amy Sonnie, Arizona State University professor and author, Alan Gomez, Seattle;s Harder House Coordinator, Darnell White and Coville's November Coalition staff, Chuck Armsbury, Nora Callahan and Sonia Christen
Spokane, WA, West Central * May 19
Book Reading - 4pm at the Book Parlor
1425 West Broadway
Dinner and Discussion is across the street and Salem Congregation 6pm - 9pm
1428 West Broadway
Download a Poster
The Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011 (S. 1231) was introduced in June last year by Senator Patrick Leahy (D- VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Robert Portman (R-OH).
Visit Pop Vox to read more about the bill and lend your support.
Stop Incarceration for Profit in Your State
ACLU
If you live in one of 48 states, right now there's a proposal sitting on your governor's desk from a company called Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). That for-profit corporation is offering to buy and run prisons across the nation. In exchange, states must agree to keep the prisons at least 90 percent full. America already has a problem with mass incarceration, and handing over our prisons to corporations that profit from keeping them full will only make it worse — not to mention turn the priorities of the corrections system upside down. Take Action
Upcoming Events
November Coalition Monthly Meeting
Every 2nd Saturday 11am (Potluck)
282 West Astor, Colville WA at November Coaltion's Big Green House
April Meeting also includes Yard Clean Up!
Mobilize the Earth!
Colville, Wa • April 21st
1pm - 11pm
A Nonprofit Expo featuring November Coalition, Veterans for Peace, Citizens for a Clean Columbia, Slow Foods USA, Inc and more!
282 West Astor at November Coaltion's Big Green House
Download a Poster
No New Jail Spokane monthly meeting
Spokane, WA • April 26
5:30 - 7:30
35 West Main, Spokane Community Building, Mezzanine Conference Room
Race and Class Solidarity in Social Struggle
Book Reading, Free Dinner and Community Discussion with guests: San Francisco authors, James Tracy and Amy Sonnie, Arizona State University professor and author, Alan Gomez, Seattle;s Harder House Coordinator, Darnell White and Coville's November Coalition staff, Chuck Armsbury, Nora Callahan and Sonia Christen
Spokane, WA, West Central * May 19
Book Reading - 4pm at the Book Parlor
1425 West Broadway
Dinner and Discussion is across the street and Salem Congregation 6pm - 9pm
1428 West Broadway
Download a Poster
The November Coalition is a non-profit organization of grassroots volunteers educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population in the United States due to our current drug laws. We alert our fellow citizens, particularly those who are complacent or naive, about the present and impending dangers of an overly powerful federal authority acting far beyond its constitutional constraints. The drug war is an assault and steady erosion of our civil rights and freedoms by federal and state governments.
Drug War News
LA Times Editorial, April 12, 2012
EDITORIAL
Goodbye to a bad L.A. jail
Sheriff Baca's willingness to shut down much if not all of Men's Central Jail is welcome
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said this week that he may shutter much, if not all, of Men's Central Jail. That's good news considering that just five months ago he and the county's chief executive suggested that the only way to close the decrepit downtown facility would be for the county to shell out $1.4 billion to build two new jails and refurbish a third. Read More
Washington Post
April 10th
Latin American countries pursue alternatives to U.S. drug war
BOGOTA, Colombia — When President Obama arrives in Colombia for a hemispheric summit this weekend, he will hear Latin American leaders say that the U.S.-orchestrated war on drugs, which criminalizes drug use and employs military tactics to fight gangs, is failing and that sweeping changes need to be considered.
Read More
April 4, 2012
Happy Birthday Video Card
The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity celebrated its first anniversary. In this video birthday card produced by scholars of the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, voices from throughout the world wish the movement good luck in its continued struggle to end the War on Drugs.
View the video on You Tube
Studies and Reports
USA
Edited by Marc Mauer and Kate Epstein
To Build a Better Criminal Justice System
25 Experts Envision the Next 25 Years of Reform
Australia, 03/04/2012
The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children and we are all Letting it Happen
An Australia21 report arguing that we need to reopen the debate on prohibition in Australia because prohibition places the production, distribution and control of illicit drugs into the hands of criminals and exposes young people, police and politicians to their corruptive influence. The harms resulting from prohibition substantially outweigh the gains from efforts by police to suppress criminal activity, a fact now accepted by many politicians, police, researchers and leaders of civil society across the world.
Online Drug War News and Commentary
The Chronicle
Counterpunch
Drug War Rant
Narco News
Sentencing Project
