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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

50 Years After MLK's Speech, THIS Is the New Dream

Watch Rev. Kenneth Glasgow and Michelle Alexander, 
Author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” 
in this new video, “Our Turn to Dream,” 
created to spawn a mass movement against mass incarceration

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" 50 years ago, he had no idea Jim Crow would be replaced with another oppressive system: mass incarceration and the drug war. It's our turn to dream.

Learn more at OurTurnToDream.org. Share with #OurTurnToDream.

This video was produced in partnership with the NAACP, NAACP of Alabama, National Congress of Black Women, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, PICO, Healing Communities, V.O.T.E., Project South, The Ordinary People Society, Operation People for Peace, New Jim Crow Movement (Jax), YourBlackWorld, All of Us or None, Drug Policy Alliance, Dream Defenders, CURE, Advocare, Campaign to End Jim Crow, Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People's Movement, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, and Direct Action for Rights & Equality (DARE).

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