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This document announces a talk by Heather Ann Thompson from Temple University titled "From the Possibilities of Prisoner Rebellion to the Problem of Punitive Justice Policy". The talk will discuss the 1971 Attica prison uprising where over 1,200 prisoners took over the maximum security prison in upstate New York to negotiate for better living conditions and civil rights. After 4 days of negotiations, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state troopers to forcibly retake the prison, resulting in a ma

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