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AUDIO: Center for Non-Violent Solutions fund-raiser

Here is a fairly poor recording of the Oct. 6, 2011 fund-raising luncheon for the Worcester, Mass.-based Center for Non-Violent Solutions. The recording has a lot of echo because it was made from an MP3 recorder just sitting on one of the audience tables. Click on the carat of the bar below to launch an audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening (75 minutes, 75.3MB).

AUDIO: Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative

For more than a decade, Bryan Stevenson has headed the Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative. EJI lawyers and staff use the courts to seek to overturn convictions, seek rehearings or exonerations for inmates under 18 who have been incarcerated for life without parole, on the basis that life  imprisonment for crimes committed during youth -- other than homicide -- represents cruel and unusual punishment.

Now Stevenson is working on a broader initiative that will spotlight racial injustice and poverty as key social problems which are part of what causes youth to be tried and imprisoned as adults.  On Oct. 3, 2011, Stevenson spoke to approximately 150 New York University law school students about EJI's work.

Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch an audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.