The Attica Uprising:
Screening & Discussion Over 50 Years Later
Screening & Discussion Over 50 Years Later
Join us for a screening of excerpts of the award-winning documentary "Attica" followed by a discussion with the movement leaders fighting to close the deadly prison, featuring:
- Stanley Nelson: Award winning filmmaker and Director of "Attica"
- Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele - Director of Organizing and Advocacy, Alliance of Families for Justice
- Tyrrell Muhammad - Senior Organizing and Advocacy Coordinator, Alliance of Families for Justice
Hosted by
One for Justice
Galaxy Gives
Alliance of Families for Justice
Philanthropy New York
Trinity Wall Street
About "Attica":
In the fall of 1971 there were almost 200,000 people in the U.S prison system. Caging people was deemed fundamentally harmful and prisons cruel and unjust. On September 9th of that year, the country's public attention focused on Attica Correctional Facility outside Buffalo, New York. That day a prison uprising erupted as incarcerated people demanded to be treated as human beings. Four days later, Governor Nelson Rockefeller order state troopers to storm the prison leading to the deaths of 43 people and a sadistic and brutal takeover. In the ensuing years, the U.S prison population exploded with today almost 2 million people caged. What happened? What role did the Attica uprising play in the rise of mass incarceration?
Location
Ford Foundation for Social Justice
320 East 43rd Street,
New York, NY, 10017
320 East 43rd Street,
New York, NY, 10017
Date & Time
September 26th
5:00PM - 7.30PM
5:00PM - 7.30PM