Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca will be the keynote speaker at the American Friends Service Committee's Stopmax Campaign Conference, May 30-June 1, 2008, at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. The conference is meant to raise awareness about "the horrors of solitary confinement and other human-rights violations in U.S. prisons." It will include networking, skills building, panels, films interactive workshops and resource-sharing sessions. Baca is an award-winning writer who spent five years in a maximum-security prison in Arizona. He opens the grassroots organizing event at Eastern State Penitentiary, where solitary confinement was first practiced in the U.S. The opening will include a performance by Aztec dancers "with loved ones in isolation." It's not too late to submit a workshop for the conference; deadline is March 15.

Stopmax Campaign Conference

   

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