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Messages from Behind Bars

March 6, 2014 by East Point 2 Comments

East Point conducts weekly workshops in Kingian Nonviolence inside the San Bruno County Jails.  We are working with a group of 11 men, certifying them to become trainers in the philosophy, and we also conduct a regular workshop with a group of 48 men.  These are some of their words, poems, stories, and artworks.

By Anthony Johnson

By Anthony Johnson

“Do You Still Care?”
By Steven Henry Green
In the eyes, of violence I despise, the struggle of my cries.  Friends have died, leaders have lied, and my neighborhood deprived, filled by drugged lives, and hard times, seeming to forget what’s happening to our kind, is history about to rewind? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Art Music & Poetry, Prison & Jail Work Tagged With: Art Music & Poetry

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