Saturday, September 13, 2025 | 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center
210 S. 45th St., Philadelphia, PA

“If police, prosecutors, and prisons made us safe, we would be living in the safest society in the world.”

Join us for a discussion and Q&A with author Alec Karakatsanis on his recent book, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News, with ALC executive director Saleem Holbrook.

Alec Karakatsanis founded the Civil Rights Corps, an organization that challenges systemic injustices in the U.S. legal system. In the last decade, the organization’s work has freed hundreds of thousands of people from illegal confinement in jail cells, reunited hundreds of thousands of families, returned tens of millions of dollars to marginalized communities, and advanced inspiring alternatives to punishment as a means of preventing and addressing social harm. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice for designing and litigating landmark constitutional challenges to cash bail and modern debtors’ prison practices across the United States. The author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System and Copaganda (both from The New Press), he lives in Washington, DC.

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