ADMISSION: FREE
TIME: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 21, 2010,
PLACE: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St.
This location is wheel-chair accessible.
WHAT IS HAPPENING:
Experts from law enforcement, from UCSB, and from the community will discuss the legal, constitutional, moral, health, education, and civil rights issues raised by a “War on Drugs” that isn’t working, and by prisons full beyond capacity. The issues discussed will include such topics as drug policies that criminalize youth and people of color, how the drug “War” impacts other countries, the wastes of drug prosecution, and community responses to these educational and social problems.
There will be an audience question and answer period.
WHO IS ON THE PROGRAM:
The speakers include:
· Damien Schnyder, post-doctoral fellow in the UCSB Department of Black Studies, researcher of the U.S. prison industrial complex.
· Kyle Kazan of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.leap.cc) a former Torrance, California police officer.
· Suzanne Riordan, founder of Families ACT, a non-profit organization that advocates for treatment rather than jail for people with drug problems and mental illness
The moderator will be Cathy Murillo, Santa Barbara ACLU Program Committee Chair
Damien M. Schnyder is a University of California President’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Black Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Having received a BA and MA from Stanford, he received his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted research on the relationship between the public education system, the prison industrial complex, and Black masculinity in Southern California.
Kyle Kazan is a former Torrance, CA police officer and an expert in gang and drug identification and eradication. As a foot soldier in the “War on Drugs”, he has important insights into the futility and waste of drug prohibition, having seen the same people come through the system again and again. He is associated with LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), and is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Suzanne Riordan is founder and executive director of Santa Barbara-based Families ACT, a non-profit organization which advocates for compassionate treatment rather than incarceration for people with mental health and substance use disorders (www.familiesact.org). It helps families navigate the complexities of the criminal justice system and the meager treatment resources and it seeks to educate the community about the need for new approaches to the complex issues surrounding co-occurring disorders. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Washington and an MA in Education from UCSB.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For additional information and/or public relations materials about this or other ACLU events, including photographs, Contact:
P.O. Box 30645, Santa Barbara, CA 93130, Phone to 805-252-3012 , Email: cathymurillo@cox.net,
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