Unlikely Allies

Directed by Anthony Pedone, 2024
NR; 95 minutes

In 2003, a low-level cannabis case would end Weldon Angelos's promising career in the music industry. But it would also give birth to a national movement to reform the US criminal justice system, uniting far-right conservatives like billionaire Charles Koch and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) with liberals such as Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ), journalist Van Jones, and musicians Alicia Keys and Snoop Dogg.

Admission is free and open to the public.

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