Building Communities of Resistance

Against Prison Expansion in Britain

A Community Organizing and Strategizing Event

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Now: Sunday 22 November 2009

2-5:00pm Networking, Strategizing and Discussion Session

5:00pm Food / social gathering

5:30 pm Special Performance of "Prison?" by Charlie Ryder

Charlie performs using puppets, masks, physical theatre and silences to shine a light on his 8 months in prison.  This show will be followed by a question and answer session.

Location: LARC - London Action Resource Centre - (LARC) 62 Fieldgate St, Whitechapel, London E1 1ES

Location is wheelchair accessible including toilet. Wheelchair access through side entrance.

Please note event is limited to 40 people: To reserve a spot, please email by October 31: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Get involved in a grassroots campaign to stop the new prisons!

Background:

The British Government is currently embarking on a £3.2 – £4.6 billion prison-building spree. The government plans to create places for more than 10,500 new prisoners by 2014, on top of an existing 9,500 place expansion program.  These new prisons will be privately financed, built and run, taking vital resources out of our communities and investing them in a prison industry that wants to profit from locking people up.

CORE FILM & DISCUSSION NIGHT

for International Prisoners Justice Day

with speakers from the Inside Film Project, Justice for SOAS Cleaners Campaign, and Communities of Resistance

Friday August 7, 2009

Doors open 6:30pm, prompt start 7pm - 10pm

Location:  Khalili Lecture Theatre SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Thornhaugh St. Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG. Wheelchair accessible venue. Maps

Film Screenings include:

• Excerpts from INJUSTICE  (Ken Faro & Tariq Mehmood, UK, 2001) A film about struggles for justice by the families of people who have died in police custody. [If you would like to see the entire film, there will be an optional pre-event screening of Injustice from 5:00-6:30pm in the Khalili Theatre.] http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk/

• Shorts from the INSIDE FILM PROJECT  (UK, 2006) Inside Film began in August 2006 in HMP Wandsworth with the aim of using film as a means of creative expression and as an educational tool. Out of the project emerged 5 exciting short films created and produced by prisoners, which use their own voices to tell their stories. http://www.insidefilm.org/

• THIS BLACK SOIL (Teresa Konechne, USA, 2004) 58 minutes This award-winning film chronicles the inspiring struggle of Bayview, Virginia, USA, a small and impoverished rural African-American community, which successfully defeated a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard and instead pursued a new vision of economic justice. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/this.html

Prisoners Justice Day is an international event started by prisoners to acknowledge and remember all those who have died in prison and police custody. Since 1995, more than 2000 people have died in custody in Britain.  This year alone, there have been 118 deaths in custody in England and Wales.  As the British government currently embarks on a massive prison expansion project to create 20,000 new prison spaces, even more people will be vulnerable to such violence. This film event will provide an opportunity to reflect on organizing against deaths in custody and to link with current struggles against prison expansion, immigration and psychiatric  detention and state violence both at home and abroad.

This event is free.

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