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QUESTION: more info on 1975 & 1976 class-action suits by NC women prisoners?

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On Dec 3, 1975, there was a class-action suit filed by women incarcerated in North Carolina. How would I find the name of the suit and more details about it?

On Jan 16, 1976, the National Conference on Black Lawyers and Prisoners' Rights to Organized Defense introduced a $25 million class action suit on behalf of women incarcerated in North Carolina. How would I find out more information about that suit and its relation (if any) to the December 1975 class-action suit?

QUESTION: how would i find more information about these 1970s activist groups?

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Where and how would I find more information about the Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists and the North Carolina Hard Times Prison Project? Both were active in the mid-1970s.

QUESTION: new york city vehicular fatalities

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I am looking for the annual vehicular fatalities (pedestrian, cyclist, and occupants) in New York City between 1910 and 2010. I am either looking for the data or for some guidence on where to find these numbers.

QUESTION: Copyright and new legislation

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Is there any new legislation about the USA's copyright laws and is anyone trying to change them so they aren't so restrictive and vague? Such as rescinding the Sonny Bono Act? I would like to see the length of copyright shortened - say perhaps to 20 years. That should be long enough for anyone.

Radical Reference presents "Security and Freedom for Online Collaboration" - February 22, NYC

Security and Freedom for Online Collaboration

Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction

Saturday, May 8th 2010
Brooklyn College Library
1:00pm-4:00pm
This event is free

Please RSVP by April 9th.

btw Everyone involved in this except for the main speaker, Ira Shor, is in Radical Reference: Tom Dodson, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier (facilitators) and Alycia Sellie and Jonathan Cope (organizers).

US Social Forum Registration and Workshops Open

Members of Radical Reference have helped the US Social Forum's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) working group with testing of the registration process -- and of course we plan to be part of a radical librarians presence in Detroit this June. Read below for the announcement of how any organization can propose a workshop!

QUESTION: what NYC neighborhoods do most of NY State's prisoners come from?

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In 2001, 75% of NYS prisoners came from 7 neighborhoods in NYC (including the Lower East Side). How would I find more up-to-date information as to what neighborhoods are most impacted by incarceration? Or, if this information is not yet available, how would I find out what the current rate of incarceration is for the Lower EAst Side neighborhood?

Invitation to 3rd NYC Encuentro for Dignity & Against Displacement

Movement for Justice in El Barrio

EL BARRIO, NYC
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 4:00 PM
RSVP by Monday, February 15th:
(212) 561-0555 or movementforjusticeinelbarrio@yahoo.com
childcare and English & Spanish translations provided

An echo that turns itself into many voices, into a network of voices that, before the deafness of power, opts to speak to itself, knowing itself to be one and many, acknowledging itself to be equal in its desire to listen and be listened to, recognizing itself as different in the tonalities and levels of voices forming it. A network of voices that resist the war that power wages on them.
– Words of the Zapatistas at the "First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism."

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