It showed me without a doubt the level of inhumanity that is possible in this country. It made my desire to eliminate the prison system stronger. She helped organize the Norma Jean Croy Support Committee, which gained freedom for Croy after she was wrongfully imprisoned for 19 years by the state of California. Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex, whose 1998 conference at UC Berkeley drew over 3500 people. Writer scott winn met with Brown in her Oakland, CA home to discuss her current thoughts and involvement in political struggle.
Homelessness is a reflection of the criminalization of poverty in America.
We've always lived in a throwaway society. That's the whole thing about modernization. That's the danger of computers and eliminating the conveyor belts and putting in robots in factories. Well, this is America, and we certainly don't want to educate them, that cost money and then they could think. The United States government introduces drugs into particular neighborhoods.