Thursday, October 16, 2008, 7-9pm

Film Screening and Discussion of Juvies

A film about the realities of trying children as adults through the eyes of 12 L.A. youth facing life sentences

• with Bobby Seale, co-founder and chairman of the Black Panther Party


• father and organizer Noe Ordaz, active in Youth Justice Coalition, an organization dedicated to providing alternatives to youth incarceration; and


• spoken word artist Darlene Chavarria, of Street Poets Inc., which provides creative, healing, and self-empowerment opportunities for youth held in detention centers.

ELECTION FILM AND DISCUSSION MINI-SERIES:

@Taper Hall of Humanities
Room 101
University of Southern California
(Vermont/Jefferson)
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Free Admission
Donations Welcome

Driving Directions to USC

Public Transportation Directions to USC

For more information:

Get more info about the film: www.juvies.net

Proposition 6 on November's ballot would change existing law so more children as young as 14 years old will be tried as adults. Find out more about Prop. 6: www.votenoprop6.com

Co-sponsored by the Labor Community Strategy Center "No on the 6" Campaign