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Resource List The themes of this year's show are the militarization of police and the police targeting of people of color. For more information on this topic, we've gathered a list of websites of organizations who work with these particular issues, and hope that you find helpful resources on them. (Clicking a link will re-direct you off of SFMT.org; We are neither responsible for nor endorse the content on these sites, but present them as resources for our reader)

Organizations that are Sending Representatives to Post-Show Talkbacks

• The Office of the San Francisco Public Defender
• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) of Northern California
• ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition
• The Stop Mass Incarceration Network
• SCRAM! (Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization)
• Sin Barras (Without Bars)

Other Organizations

• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints
• Blackout Collective
• National Lawyer's Guild, S.F. Bay Area Chapter

Resource List - Books (links will lead to AmazonSmile - same as Amazon but if you enter SF Mime Troupe as the non profit you wish to support, the Troupe will get 5% from every purchase!)

• The Spook Who Sat by the Door, distributed by United Artists, based on the novel by Sam Greenlee
• On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, a book by Alice Goffman
• Rise of the Warrior Cop: the Militarization of America's Police Forces, a book by Radley Balko
• Days of Destruction Days of Revolt, a book by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco

Resource List - Documents, Articles

• Database of Department of Defense Equipment Given to Local Police (Under "LESO 1033 Program")
• Order 13688, "Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition"
• "Recommendations Pursuant to Executive Order 13688"
• NPR: "Obama To Limit Police Acquisition Of Some Military-Style Equipment"
• New York Times, "University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Shooting Death of Samuel Dubose"
• New York Times, "The Videos That Are Putting Race and Policing Into Sharp Relief"

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Post Show Discutions After several shows, the Mime Troupe invited guest speakers to participate in a post-show discution about the militarization of police and police targeting of people of color. Our invited guests were joined by Freedomland's playwright Michael Gene Sullivan for a 30 minute for the following4 performances:

Fri. July 3 - Dolores Park, SF
     Alan Schlosser, Senior Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
     Gloria La Riva, ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition
     Rebecca Young, Co-Chair of the Racial Justice Committee, Deputy Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco

Sat. July 18 - Cedar Rose Park, Berkeley
     Professor Brandi Wilkins Cantanese, Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies; Vice-Chair of Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies: University of California, Berkeley
     Michael Gipson and Marta Reyes, Stop Mass Incarceration Network

Listen to this post show discution. Audio courtesy of KALW.
Sat. Aug. 15 - San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz
     Pietro Calogero, Lecturer in Planning and Policy, University of California, Berkeley
     Abbi Samuels, SCRAM (Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization), Freedom Sleepers, and Food Not Bombs
     Peter Gelblum, Chair of Santa Cruz ACLU, Member of SCRAM
     Willow Katz, Sin Barras

Sun. Sept. 6 - Dolores Park, SF
     Jeff Adachi, Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco
     Hector Velez and David Ramos, Stop Mass Incarceration Network
     Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs, SCRAM (Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization)

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