SCHEDULE:



Sunday, February 27th
Keynote Address: A Hip Hop Theory of Justice: Race and the American Justice System
Paul Butler, Professor of Law, George Washington University
7 pm, McCullough Social Space


Monday, February 28th
Redefining Public Defense: Holistic Legal Representation and Community Justice
Robin Steinberg, Founder and Executive Director of The Bronx Defenders
4:30 pm, MBH 220

Prajna Meditation Club hosts a screening of The Dhamma Brothers
8:00pm, BiHall 220


Tuesday, March 1st
Structure and Reform in the US Prison System
4:30 pm, MBH 220

Screening: What I Want My Words to Do To You (80 minutes) hosted by The Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Chellis House-Women’s Resource Center
7:30 pm, MBH 216


Wednesday, March 2nd
Migrant Realities: Perspectives on Immigration and Justice
7 pm, MBH 216
Rebecca Turner
Michelle Jenness
Lise Nelson


Thursday, March 3rd
Behind Bars: the Story from the Outside and Within
4:30, MBH 220
Eddie Ellis

Expressions of the Justice System (Co-sponsored by the Verbal Onslaught)
9 pm, The Gamut Room


Friday, March 4th
Continuing the Conversation at Middlebury: What You Can Do
Faculty/Student Panel
12:30-2 pm, Axinn 229

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

NPR Gets Word of "The Dhamma Brothers"

Check out NPR's take on the fascinating story of Alabama's "most violent prisoners" and their new practice of Vipassana meditation (as depicted in the film "The Dhamma Brothers"):

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133505880/at-end-of-the-line-prison-an-unlikely-escape

The film will be screened as part of Middlebury's Communities & Justice Symposium on Monday, February 28th at 8pm in BiHall Room 220 and will be co-hosted by Prajna Meditation Club.
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