Rose Braz, a defense lawyer in Oakland and the program director for Critical Resistance, a group that monitors prisons and criminal justice issues, said the state's new numbers were evidence that the Delano prison was not necessary.
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The chapter, Rebellion Politik : A Tale of Critical Resistance Through Hip-Hop from St . Paul to Havana was authored by Brian Lozenski and discusses the theoretical development of Rebellion Politik, which has become the band s operating strategy.
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Critical Resistance popularized the idea of challenging the prison industrial complex after their first conference in 1998, which drew thousands of former prisoners, family members, activists, academics and community members, and by many accounts re-invigorated anti-prison activism in the United States.
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"The way to reduce prison spending is to reduce the number of people in prison and the number of prisons, like some states across the country have done, " said Rose Braz, director of Critical Resistance, a California-based group opposed to prison expansion.
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Critical Resistance developed the Oakland Power Projects to combat the negative effects of the Oakland Police Department, it was found that many community members would resort to calling 911, which most definitely involved the arrival of the Police, when faced under pressures of immediate harm.
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"If the state didn't need 2, 000 new beds in December, why does it need 5, 000 new beds now ? " said Rose Braz, program director for the Critical Resistance in Oakland, which challenges the proliferation of prisons and is a main plaintiff in the suit against the Delano prison
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The plaintiffs, Critical Resistance of Oakland and the National Lawyers Guild Prison Law Project in San Francisco, also cited figures, released by the corrections department last week, showing that the state prison population over the last year dropped for the first time in more than two decades, a period that coincided with a prison-building boom.
