People don’t realize that a person’s whole lives can be changed with just one book, said Malcolm X in his autobiography. Calvin Arey takes this quote deeply to heart in his committed work with the Prison Book Program. Calvin will talk about books that have changed his life, and that changed the lives of thousands who have received the books sent by PBP. Calvin Arey, a new and deeply committed member of CCB, will share his life trajectory, and his life’s passion for sending books to people behind bars.

• Calvin Arey (he/him) directs the Albert Woodfox Memorial Mini-Freedom Libraries (AWMMFL), a fiscally sponsored project of Prison Book Program. Calvin spent several years incarcerated in Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1960’s and 1970’s. He is the only surviving lead plaintiff from the landmark prisoners’ rights case Landman v. Royster, which de-segregated Virginia’s prison system, established basic due process rights for incarcerated people, and put an end, among other things, to bread and water diets for people in solitary confinement.    

CCB Sunday, December 1 @11AM:
“Bearing Witness Through Music”
with David Rovics

Our intrepid troubadour, just back in the US from a tour of Europe, will be live at CCB, bearing witness to the horrors and celebrating the solidarity, mostly by singing about it.  He’ll also talk about the various uses of music and other forms of culture in effectively reaching the hearts and minds of people, with examples provided.

• David Rovics is an American indie singer /songwriter, musician, writer and podcaster based in Portland, Oregon. His music concerns both topical subjects such as the war in Gaza, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues, and also labor history.

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