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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Hedges and Eugene Jarecki:The Failed War on Drugs
Published on Apr 7, 2014
©2014 Leigha Cohen Video Production
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On April 4-5, of 2014 Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) hosted "Building a New Criminal Justice: Mobilizing Students for Reform," http://pace.princeton.edu/features/20... a conference at Princeton University. The conference enabled students to discuss how to "build and transition to a new system of criminal justice that prioritizes effectiveness, fairness, and humanity."
The conference, SPEAR http://pace.princeton.edu/node/816 created by a network of students who are interested and involved in criminal justice system reforms. One of the featured speakers on late Friday April 4, was Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki in discussion together after the filmmaker screening of his award-winning film The House I Live In, http://www.thehouseilivein.org/see-th... a documentary about the rise of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration's effect on society.
After the film, both Chris Hedges http://www.nationinstitute.org/fellow... and Eugene Jarecki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_J... spoke for over 80 minutes with the first 20 minutes focusing on commentary of the film and the remainder of the time a very thought provocative and educational series of Q&A regarding the film, its production and insights from an wonderful pairing of two men into issues facing our criminal justice system and society as well. They look at of how and why we got where we are and the impacts of the drug "class" warfare has impacted millions of lives in the US.
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Chris Hedges and Eugene Jarecki:The Failed War on Drugs (Original Post)
marmar
Apr 2014
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TheSarcastinator
(854 posts)1. the war on drugs is not a failure, at all
It does exactly what it was designed to do by its creators.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)2. Yes, of course.
leftstreet
(36,098 posts)3. DURec
xchrom
(108,903 posts)4. du rec.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)5. K&R
xiamiam
(4,906 posts)6. thank..k and r..nt