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An Unlikely Group of Prisoners' Relatives Battles!
Posted by FoM on May 17, 1999 at 07:31:42 PT
Source: The Village Voice
One is a Wall Street stockbroker. Another attends fourth grade. A third serves lunch in a high school cafeteria. And a fourth was once a street cop in queens. What draws these New Yorkers together is that each has a relative in state prison serving time for a drug crime, and all have recently transformed their private anger into political activism.
The four joined the daily protests held last week to mark the 26th anniversary of the so-called Rockefeller drug laws, which were named after their creator, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. For years, the war over these laws belonged to politicians and drug-policy activists. But now those most directly affected by the laws— drug prisoners and their families— have added their voices to the debate. Over the past year, drug prisoners' relatives have been a fixture in front of the city's courthouses, on the sidewalk next to Rockefeller Center, and outside Governor George Pataki's fundraisers. Sometimes only a handful of demonstrators show up at these protests, which are organized by the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice. But the numbers can swell to many hundred, as they did for a March rally in Albany. Click the above link to read the whole article!http://www.famm.org/
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