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Prisoner Justice Week

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March 20 to 27, 2009

Featuring the Just Seeds art exhibit “Voices from Outside: Artists against the prison industrial complex” and nightly events!

Description of the project, adapted from: JustSeeds website

Recently, Justseeds has completed a portfolio project for the Critical Resistance ten-year anniversary conference in Oakland, California that took place on September 26-28.

The project involved twenty artists from the US, Canada and Mexico who each created an original print that either critiqued or addressed alternatives to the prison-industrial complex. Each artist pulled 100 prints and the amazing JS crew at the Portland distro assembled the portfolios and created the covers that are displayed in the photos.

The point of the portfolio project was to donate work and to share graphics with groups working against the prison-industrial complex. In the end, each portfolio included the 20 prints plus a cdr with copy-right free TIFF files of the images (plus other anti-prison images from the recent book Reproduce and Revolt (edited by Favianna Rodriguez and Josh MacPhee.)

Justseeds donated the bulk of the portfolios to Critical Resistance and 30 other groups who are organizing against prisons.

Much thanks to all the artists and the organizers who donated their time and energy to the project.

All Events @ 7PM, (poster) (handbill)

Free but regrettably not wheelchair accessible

  •  Friday March 20th – Kick-off Prison Justice Art exhibit w/ and DJ
  •  Saturday March 21st – Panel Discussion: From Prisons to Colonialism : Global Apartheid w/ Jaggi Singh, Abdullah Al-Malki, Yavar Hameed (representing AbousfianAbdelrazik).  Abdullah Almalki is a Canadian citizen who was detained, interrogated and torture in Syria because of information that could have only originated from Canadian government agencies.Yavar Hameed is a lawyer representing Abousfian Abdelrazik. Mr. Abdelrazik was abducted, illegally detained and held in captivity by Sudanese authorities for approximately two years at the recommendation of CSIS. While in detention, Mr. Abdelrazik was subjected to coercive interrogation and torture by Sudanese officials with direct Canadian involvement. For the past five years, the Canadian government has been illegally blocking Mr. Abdelrazik’s right to return to Canada. Jaggi Singh is a no borders, anti-capitalist, migrant and indigenous solidarity organizer based in Montreal. He is currently active with No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Solidarity Across Borders and other groups. (poster)
  • Sunday March 22nd – Prisoner Letter Writing and Crafts Night
  • Monday March 23rd – Film Night – Life Inside Out, NFB production, a vérité-style documentary that takes us inside the walls of Grand Valley Institution for Women.
  • Tuesday March 24th – Panel Discussion: Indigenous People and the Criminal Injustice System featuring: Kim Pate – Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies; Sheila Grantham – Researcher on The Aboriginal Women and Stigma Project (poster)
  • Wednesday March 25th – Prisoner Letter Writing and Crafts Night
  • Thursday March 26th – Speaker Event and Journal for Prisoners on Prisons Issue 17 Release w/ Sophie Harkat, Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee (poster)
  • Friday March 27th – Fundraiser Costume Dance Party.

PS :  help spread the word – downloading the posters and put them up in your neighbourhood!