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events
Prison Justice Day Memorial Aug 10 (6-8pm) Trout Lake, Vancouver (Claire Culhane memorial bench), 1
https://facebook.com/events/750663738837338
Joy James (author of Resisting State Violence) talk July 30, 22
https://actionnetwork.org/events/fypu-joy-james
https://fuc-series.org
Stark Raven radio show Aug 3/Sept 7/Oct 5 (7-8pm), 2
http://prisonjustice.ca/stark-raven
resources
phone number for people incarcerated in Alouette to call, 1
info@spartacusbooks.net
Coming Together Vancouver, 1
https://comingtogethervancouver.org
Downtown Eastside Response, 2
https://dtesresponse.ca
Who To Call Instead Of 911: BC Version, 25
https://i.redd.it/0llzn3607z751.jpg
calls to action
COVID 19 TV Donations, 1
https://lincsociety.bc.ca
Sign ‘Contain Covid-19, Not People’, 3
https://change.org/p/give-ontario-prisoners-access-to-free-phone-calls/u/25992231
Defund the Vancouver Police, 3
https://instagram.com/defundvpd
Sign to ban police street checks in BC, 3
https://act.bccla.org/banstreetchecks
End policing in Vancouver schools, 3
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdw7TzWwlzUCAdBTAewwwckxjwuYOb9uwUeFyFZv14_vRAOBg/viewform?fbzx=-8967389605019866402
Ban police use of facial recognition technology, 3
https://action.openmedia.org/page/63295/petition/1
Support demands of Maplehurst (Milton) hunger strikers, 12
https://docs.google.com/document/u/5/d/e/2PACX-1vRYJk6j0OLoGQvzb95gW4Yw7QM1W5uQ8oyEVtZjosKWlAdBj6bBthpEIXD2nGB9jqMExZ9ccXxH-i1Q/pub
Demand status now for migrants, 3
https://harvestingfreedom.org/2020/06/18/four-ways-you-can-take-action-in-support-of-farm-workers-demands-for-dignity
Denounce tracking bracelets on migrants, 4
https://solidarityacrossborders.org/en/tracking-bracelets
Sign to bring Abdulrahman home, 4
https://bringabdulhome.ca
Support people in Kashmir including free all political prisoners, 4
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-2607
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/canadian-government-urged-to-hold-india-accountable-in-regard-to-grave-situation-in-occupied-kashmir
news
Call for inquest into death at Mission from covid-19, 4
https://bccla.org/news/2020/04/thirty-eight-rights-groups-call-on-bcs-chief-coroner-to-direct-immediate-public-inquest-into-death-in-corrections-custody
Lawsuit from Mission against CSC, 4
https://noprisons.ca/federal
Lawsuit from Joliette against CSC, 4
https://noprisons.ca/federal
Petition for Collins Bay release, 4
https://noprisons.ca/federal
Prison Is A Death Sentence events, 5
https://springmag.ca/prison-is-a-death-sentence
Hunger strike Lindsay “super jail”, 5
https://facebook.com/TorontoPrisonersRightsProject/posts/171879661018615
Hunger strike OCDC in ON, 6
https://tpcp-canada.blogspot.com/2020/06/update-hunger-strike-ends-at-ocdc.html
Migrant farmworkers, 5
https://migrantworkersalliance.org/unheededwarnings
US prisoners and COVID-19, 6
https://propublica.org
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768249
Hunger Strike at NWDC in WA, 6
http://laresistencianw.org
AZ detainees file lawsuit, 6
https://firrp.org
Detainees strike against racism and abuses of healthcare, 7
https://www.ourprism.org/1952428
https://democracynow.org/2020/7/7/otay_mesa_covid_outbreak
WA farmworkers win strikes, 7
http://familiasunidasjusticia.org
inspiration
Noise demos at prisons, 8
https://fb.me/prisonjusticevan
Solidarity at Bordeaux, 9
https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/anti-carceral-group-organizes-noise-demonstration-outside-bordeaux-prison
Memorial at Bordeaux, 10
https://noprisons.ca/voices/may24
How Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project grew to 56 people, 11
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TXckQmgYK-s
https://torontoprisonersrightsproject.org
Decriminalize Seattle wins 50% cut to police budget, 12
https://decriminalizeseattle.com
publications
P4W Memorial and art, 12
https://www.modernfuel.org/files/Syphon%205.0_digital.pdf
https://p4wmemorialcollective.com
We Can’t Police the Pandemic dialogue videos, 13
https://youtube.com/channel/UCkH3byXyGKX0yAET_O9Iprg
Webinar videos, 14-16
https://facebook.com/TorontoPrisonersRightsProject/videos
or https://facebook.com/CSSDPRyerson/videos
Defunding Police and Prisons
A Wall is Just a Wall: Open Mic
Prison Is A Death Sentence
Indigenous Knowledge & Abolition
Supporting Those Left Inside
Censorship in Prisons webinar video
https://tpcp-canada.blogspot.com/2019/04/care-and-compassion-in-community-not.html
Black Liberation and Prison Abolition webinar video
https://facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1008665122881563
Learning Together (while staying apart): Online Events video links
https://haymarketbooks.org/blogs/124-learning-together-while-staying-apart-online-event-schedule
Decarceration from the US to Palestine
Abolition Can’t Wait: An Online Teach-in with #8toAbolition
A Stronger Desire to Live: PEN Prison Writing
Celebrating Juneteenth with Critical Resistance
The Fire This Time: The New Uprising Against Racism and Police Violence
with Marc Lamont Hill and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Abolish ICE is Not Just a Slogan: Immigrant Justice in the Age of
Coronavirus with John Washington and Justin Akers Chacón
Mutual Aid: Building Communities of Care During Crisis and Beyond with Mariame Kaba and more
On the Road with Abolition
Ruthie Wilson Gilmore with Naomi Murakawa
Sick of the System – new Ebook
https://btlbooks.com/book/sick-of-the-system
Never Go Back to Normal by Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity, 17
https://michiganabolition.org/2020/06/06/were-never-going-back-to-normal
Pandemic and prison in WA, 18
https://waprisonhistory.org/pandemic-prison
Defund police in “Canada”, 18-19
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/06/09/End-of-Policing
http://tiny.cc/defund-police-elearning
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/07/13/Locking-Youth-Up-After-Overdose-More-Harm
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/defund-police-canada-black-indigenous-lives_ca_5ed65eb2c5b6ccd7c56bdf7d
https://vice.com/en_ca/article/bv8med/racism-kills-in-canada-as-much-as-in-the-united-states
How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable video, 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhANo6wzBAA
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/building-accountable-communities
#DefundPolice Toolkit
https://issuu.com/interruptingcriminalization/docs/defund_tooklit
Cancel Canada Day video with Idle No More, 22
https://facebook.com/IdleNoMoreCommunity/videos/608003983157857
Canada Day What? Fighting Colonialism & Anti-Black Racism, speakers Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Indigenous Climate Action) and El Jones (Black Power Hour https://ckdu.ca/shows/227), 22
https://facebook.com/MigrantRightsCA/videos/913957022455076
Uprising for Black Lives video, 20
https://haymarketbooks.org/blogs/173-sayhername-charleena-lyles-police-murder-and-the-uprising-for-black-lives
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 20
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-ruth-wilson-gilmore
Solutions are with us, 21
https://nacla.org/blog/2020/05/14/opportunistic-border-logic-pandemic
Black political prisoners in US, 21
https://pageone.noblogs.org/files/2020/06/BL_PPzine5.pdf
https://thejerichomovement.com
Fire This Time video with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa
Johnson, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Josh Kun, 22
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3I22E2Sezi8
Storming migrant detention, 22
https://trueleappress.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/168.-freeheartlandkids-miigrant-detention-center-stormed.pdf
Border militarization video, 22
https://tni.org/en/article/walls-must-fall
Black Lives Matter in prison, 23-24
https://halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/black-lives-matter-in-prison-too
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