[opirgyork] Prisoners' Justice Week Event Listings

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Prisoners' Justice Week Event Listings:

1. The Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force will be co-sponsoring an event to mark
Prisoners' Justice Day on August 10th at Holy Trinity Church (Eaton Centre)
between 11 am and 6 pm. We shall gather on this day to honour every inmate of
prisons everywhere and hope you will be able to join us. For those who chose to
fast in solidarity with those inside, we will break our fast with dinner at 6
pm. RSVP by August 6th to Garry 905.460.5274 garryg at golden.net

2. SPECIAL RADIO BROADCAST: PRISON JUSTICE DAY 2010

TUNE IN TUESDAY, AUGUST 10TH @ 12-6PM
Listen in live on 105.5 FM in Toronto & on the web at chry.fm
Archives will be available at: chrynews.wordpress.com

Commemorating the annual Prison Justice Day in Canada, CHRY 105.5 FM presents a
six-hour broadcast of special focus programming. We'll be featuring a variety
of voices on topics, including:

-The History of Prisoner Justice Day
-Women and Prisons
-Anti-Psychiatry and Prisons
-Local organizing against prison expansion
-The Fight to Save Prison Farms
-Prisoner-led Publications
-Political prisoners, resistance & organizing from within

Call us at: 416-736-5656
Send feedback or questions to chrynews at yorku.ca
Spread the word!

3. PRISONERS JUSTICE DAY –
Speakers, performances, vigil
August 10th, 2010 6:30-9pm
Don Jail (550 Gerrard St E.)

!!!ASL INTERPRETATION PROVIDED!!!

What is Prisoners' Justice Day?

It is a day of protest against all deaths in custody, the inhumane use of
solitary confinement, racist policing, the detention and deportation of
immigrants and refugees, the taking of land through colonization and the
criminalization of First Nations defence of their territories, the denial of
justice for Aboriginal women and transpeople, the disabling effects of prison,
the cruelty of psychiatric incarceration, poverty and homelessness, the
separation of families, security certificates, tasers for prison guards and
cops, the medical neglect of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, the incarceration of
people who use drugs, the incarceration of sex workers and the lack of harm
reduction in prison.

It is a call for alternatives to incarceration - at a time when governments are
enacting repressive U.S. style get-tough-on-crime laws to build more prisons
despite a falling crime rate. Join us for speakers, performers and a
candlelight vigil at dusk when we read the names of prisoners who have died.


4. DJs for Prisoners- a night of music and dance to raise money to for legal
fees for those detained during the G20 arrests- August 25, 2010, location TBD.
Featuring Cozmic Cat, Nik Red and more!

Upcoming:

August 23rd is the next mass court date for G20 detainees: need to provide court
support and solidarity (more info to come soon)

Early September- Panel discussion to make links between G20 and penal
abolition/prisoners' right issues/ everyday police brutality/repression (more
info to come soon)

Film screening- mini Prisoners' Justice Film Festival!

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LET THEM GO!
NO MORE PRiSONS!
FREE OUR FRIENDS!

No to the police state!

Andrea Ritchie (of Incite! and Safe and Streetsmart, NYC) passed on this
kick-ASS toolkit on police violence against women and trans people of color :
http://www.incite-national.org/index.php?s=103http%3A%2F%2Fwww.incite-national.org%2Findex.php%3Fs%3D103