Tompkins County Public Library, in conjunction with the Multicultural Resource Center’s “The New Jim Crow” Community Read, will host acclaimed filmmaker Matt Pillischer for a free screening and discussion of “Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.,” Tuesday, December 6 at 6 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room.
“Broken
On All Sides” was developed in an effort to raise awareness and advocate change
around overcrowding within the Philadelphia jail system but has developed into
a case-study of mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of
race, poverty and the legal system.
Pillischer
is a Pennsylvania-based attorney, activist, filmmaker and artist and the
director of the Broken On All Sides Educational Campaign, through which he
screens the film, organizes panel discussions and speaks with audiences about
issues of systemic racism, economic injustice and the criminal justice
system. He is the host of “The Thread,” a podcast against mass
incarceration, available on iTunes.
The
Library screening is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org.
This
program was made possible with support from the William Henry Miller Inn.
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