Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Wednesday, February 19
6:30 p.m. Discussion

Sociable Cider Werks
1500 Fillmore St. NE
Minneapolis

This event is FREE and open to the public.
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Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry.

In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death matches before packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. If all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches. But CAPE’s corporate own­ers will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences.

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