A Talk by Carl Dix

Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide! 

Mass Incarceration — Its Source, The Need to Resist Where Things Are Heading and The Revolution We Need!

• 2.4 million people, most of them Black and Latino, in prison!
• Racial profiling a pipeline to prison for generations of our youth!
• Former prisoners discriminated against on virtually every front!

Carl Dix says, “All this comes down to a slow genocide which could easily accelerate.”

Dix will break all this down and speak to where things are headed if action is not taken. And he will talk about “what kind of revolution is needed to eliminate mass incarceration and all the brutality and misery this capitalist system enforces on humanity once and for all.”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 4:00 PM at
The Riverside Church, Assembly Hall, 490 Riverside Drive, New York

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 6:30 PM
Maude Fife room, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

For more information, including sponsors for the events, contact Revolution Books in New York City (212-691-3345) and Berkeley (510-848-1196)

Carl Dix is a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1970, he was part of the largest mass refusal of U.S. soldiers to go to Vietnam. In 1996, he co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality. In 2006, he coordinated the Katrina Hearings of the Bush Crimes Commission. Recently he participated in a series of dialogues with Cornel West under the theme: “In the Age of Obama: Police Terror; Incarceration; No Jobs; Mis-Education... What Future for Our Youth?” In 2011, he co-issued a call for a campaign of civil disobedience to STOP “Stop & Frisk.”

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