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table of contents
reports from ‘inside’
The Mallard inmate newsletter, Mission (Medium), 1
https://penalpress.com/en/name/mallard
resources
Stark Raven radio show, 1
http://prisonjustice.ca/stark-raven
https://open.spotify.com/show/4RUonYoa5UkyA7e1Kytdf9
action calls
Rights, Regularization, Status for All, 3
https://migrantrights.ca/events/sep18
Free Maddesyn George, 3
https://freemaddesyn.com
Keep Letty, Andres, Isaias and Claudia Home, 3
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/letty-andres-isaias-claudia
https://sanctuarycityvan.com
grant Adriana and Alberto’s family permanent residence, 3
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/keep-adriana-and-alberto-home
https://gofundme.com/f/support-adriana-and-alberto
ban police street checks in BC, 4
https://act.bccla.org/banstreetchecks
Stop the violence against Wet’suwet’en land defenders: RCMP off the land, 4
https://leadnow.ca/RCMP-CGL
https://yintahaccess.com
No to a second extradition of Hassan Diab, 4
https://iclmg.ca/diab-letter (inside “Canada”)
https://iclmg.ca/diab-letter-intl (outside “Canada”)
allow workers of all skill levels permanent residency, 4
https://migrantrights.ca/take-action/permanent-resident-status
Free Jack Letts and 43 Canadian Kids, Women and Men in Syria, 4
https://change.org/p/children-forced-to-eat-sand-sign-to-free-jack-letts-43-canadian-kids-women-men-in-syria
Write to Canadian diplomat regarding human rights defender Salah Hammouri
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-to-canadian-diplomat-regarding-human-rights-defender-salah-hammouri
Justice for Salah, – العدالة لصلاح , 5
https://justiceforsalah.net
#Free Brittany Martin, 5
https://chng.it/YXv5vBYSz9
clemency to Leonard Peltier, 5
https://change.org/p/joe-biden-leonard-peltier-has-covid-46-years-in-prison-hospitalize-and-free-him-now
https://whoisleonardpeltier.info
Close Gauntánamo, 5
https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/96987/action/1
Ban Weaponized Drones, 5
https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6180
Art Project by Oso Blanco, 6
https://freeosoblanco.org/art
news
Prison Justice Day (Aug 10) videos, 6
https://fb.me/prisonjusticevan
https://breachmedia.ca/prisonerjustice2022
BC RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) sued, 6
https://aptnnews.ca/tag/c-irg
fund initiatives for Indigenous-run alternatives to prison, 6
https://prisonjustice.org/letter-to-premier-horgan-calling-on-bc-to-fund-initiatives-for-indigenous-run-alternatives-to-prison
US Guilty Of Genocide! Proceedings of the International Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples, 6
https://tribunal2021.com/full-final-verdict
“About the People” podcast, 6
https://twitter.com/_AboutThePeople
BC ending immigration detention arrangement with CBSA, citing human rights, 7
https://cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cbsa-immigration-detention-ending-1.6528001
Join the call to other provinces, 6
http://welcometo-canada.org
Theatre in the Pen: New theatre program in Prince George helps inmates find their voice, 7
https://cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/theatre-in-the-pen-prince-george-1.6521399
prisons (not prisoners) routinely break the law, 8
https://sencanada.ca/media/lbcaty5i/220513_honkimpate_final2-med_res.pdf
exclusion of federal prisoners from the definition of ‘insured person,’ 8
https://johnhoward.ca/canada-health-act
Protect the Rights of Trans Prisoners, 8
https://caefs.ca/public-statement-and-call-for-action-advocates-call-on-government-and-csc-to-act-to-protect-the-rights-of-trans-prisoners
new policy proposals could set [Trans] rights back even more, 8
https://xtramagazine.com/power/trans-prisoners-canada-legal-fights-209961
Alberta Police Misconduct Database, 9
https://policemisconductdatabase.ca
Police fight against defunding, showing their true colours, 9
https://theconversation.com/thin-skinned-blue-line-police-fight-against-defunding-showing-their-true-colours-183784
Police see major budget increases despite majority support for defunding, 9
https://breachmedia.ca/police-see-major-budget-increases-despite-majority-support-for-defunding
Police Intervention Program … Targeting Minors and Indigenous Women, 9
https://breachmedia.ca/terrifying-canadas-police-going-all-in-on-pre-crime-intervention
Truth Never Mattered at Guantánamo, 9
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/11/the-truth-never-mattered-at-guantanamo
sudden silencing of Guantanamo’s artists, 9
https://bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62399826
released Palestinian prisoner Khitam Saafin, 9
https://english.palinfo.com/51005
inspiration
#Justice For Jared, 10
https://indiginews.com/vancouver-island/one-year-after-rcmp-killed-wetsuweten-man-jared-loved-ones-push-for-justice
Defund [Police], 604 network, 10
https://fb.me/defund604network
https://defund.ca
hear directly from previously incarcerated people, 10
https://youtu.be/watch?v=gNZPw25Dr5s
Abolition Coalition syllabus, 10
https://noprisons.ca/abolition-syllabus-2022
three trans women, Cedar, Moka Dawkins, and Tami Starlight about prison, 11
https://p4wmemorialcollective.com/cedar
https://p4wmemorialcollective.com/mokadawkins
https://p4wmemorialcollective.com/tamistarlight
protect the rights and freedoms of gender identity and expression, 11
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/protect-bill-c-16
Indigenous Prison Arts and Education Project, 11
https://ualberta.ca/native-studies/research/indigenous-prison-arts–education-program-ipaep.html
Coalition for Justice and Human Rights, Edmonton, 11
https://fb.me/coalition4justiceandhr
Alberta Prison Justice Society, 11
https://albertaprisonjusti.wixsite.com/website
Palestinian Jerusalema dance challenge video, 11
https://youtu.be/watch?v=kbuJ61WBdpo
Migrant Farmworkers in Canada Demand Status For All!, 12
https://cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jamaican-migrant-workers-open-letter-1.6557678
Why Canada Must Stop Funding the Philippine Counter-terrorism Campaign, 12
https://ichrpcanada.org/2022/05/18/why-canada-must-stop-funding-the-philippine-counter-terrorism-campaign
World Without Prisons, 12
https://worldwithoutprisons.org
https://twitter.com/withoutprisons
Mass Action Against Police Brutality, 13
http://maapb.org
No Police Military Base in Weelaunee Forest, 13
https://stopcop.city
dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline, 13
https://dignityinschools.org
Clinic to get your record expunged, 13
https://neighborprogram.org
Open Arms Lifeguard Sea Rescue, 13
https://openarms.es/en
Virtual Palestine tours, 13
https://eyewitnesspalestine.org/virtual-delegations
Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR), El Salvador, 13
https://fb.me/movirsv
Association of Families of the Detained/Disappeared of Guatemala, 13
https://fb.me/FAMDEGUAG
publications
Dark Traveller podcast podcast created by incarcerated artists William Head on Stage, 14
https://whonstage.weebly.com/dark-traveller-2021.html
Voices Inside and Out podcast, 14
https://voices-inside-and-out.simplecast.com/episodes
Pandemic Struggles of Prisoners’ Families, 14
https://doi.org/10.18192/jpp.v31i1.6445
Prison Ricochet: Loved Ones of Incarcerated Persons in Canada, 14
https://prisonricochet.ca
Does the Criminal Code apply to federal prisons?, 14
https://youtu.be/watch?v=pya-ORwZ9fk
role of prison in genocide and crimes against humanity, 14
https://prisonjustice.org/news-release-pls-releases-paper-documenting-canadas-ongoing-genocide-against-indigenous-people-in-its-prisons
“Joe Buffalo” film, 15
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/a-cree-skateboarding-legend-grapples-with-the-trauma-of-canadas-residential-schools
“Holy Angels” film, 15
https://www.nfb.ca/film/holy-angels
Can you imagine a world without prisons?, 15
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/issues/view/september-october-2021
Organizing against education’s jailers, 15
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/organizing-against-educations-jailers
Defund, Demilitarize and Abolish Police, Prisons, and All Forms of Carcerality, 15
https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/scholarstrike-2022-teachins
Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders, 15
https://sites.google.com/view/imagining-abolition
experiences of Mothers in Nova Scotia provincial prisons, 15
https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15154
https://wellnesswithinns.org
Fatherhood, Interrupted, 16
https://cbc.ca/radiointeractives/docproject/fatherhood-interrupted
Dad HERO, 16
https://cfcn-rcafd.org/dadhero
Disibility Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada, 16
https://ubcpress.ca/disability-injustice
Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition, Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 16
https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/jpp/issue/view/601
Why Indigenous women account for half of all female inmates, 16
https://cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/15910888-why-indigenous-women-account-half-female-inmates
Life in the City of Dirty Water, Clayton Thomas-Müller, 16
https://lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com
Disaster Land Grabs Worldwide and in BC, 16
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/06/20/Disaster-Land-Grabs-Worldwide-BC
campaign highlights the systemic barriers facing im/migrant sex workers, 16
https://swanvancouver.ca/you-choose-justice-campaign
Under Siege: Islamophobia & the 9/11 Generation, 17
https://mqup.ca/under-siege-products-9780228011194.php
https://youtu.be/watch?v=_E6eRf7b5IU&t=260s
Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada, 17
https://btlbooks.com/book/disarm-defund-dismantle
https://youtu.be/watch?v=wm1QcXa8tJ4
Defund Defined, 17
https://mediaindigena.libsyn.com/defund-defined-ep-283
Reimagining Safety: What happens when we defund the police?, 18
https://youtu.be/watch?v=lQhVT_Ls5BU
Labour for Defunding Police: Moving our Unions to Action, 18
https://facebook.com/briarpatchmagazine/videos/1622563891466007
Disruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal, 18
https://utorontopress.com/9781487525910/disruptive-prisoners
https://youtu.be/watch?v=4L_gyi54RvE
Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice, 18
https://haymarketbooks.org/books/1881-abolition-feminisms-vol-1
Prison-Industrial Complex Goes Beyond Cops and Jails. It’s All Around Us, 19
https://jacobin.com/2022/08/prison-industrial-complex-race-capitalism-abolitionism
Social movements and radical legal support organizing, 19
https://mediacoop.ca/audio/social-movements-and-radical-legal-support-organiz/37125
Washington Prison History Project, 19
https://waprisonhistory.org
“Rattling the Bars” podcast, 19
https://therealnews.com/rattling-the-bars
series “The Zo” by incarcerated writer Ivan Kilgore, 19
https://willisraised.wordpress.com
Sentences Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life In Prison, 19
https://pen.org/prison-writing/the-sentences-that-create-us
https://youtu.be/watch?v=4PC_M5USHJQ
Alliance brought the racial attacks on, and divisions between, Blacks to a halt, 20
https://sfbayview.com/2022/04/blood-in-the-clenched-fist-alliance
https://rashidmod.com
poetry in this zine was created by Eric King, 20
https://indd.adobe.com/view/b770eac4-9eff-4d82-bacc-5308d7086c67
https://supportericking.org
Poetry for Political Prisoners, 20
https://youtu.be/watch?v=KT0azYOICcU
https://thejerichomovement.com
Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, 20
https://aclu.org/report/captive-labor-exploitation-incarcerated-workers
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, IWW, 20
https://incarceratedworkers.org
Revolutionary Prison Writing and Praxis, 21
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/revolution1313/7-13
Joy James: Writings and Works, 21
https://sites.williams.edu/jjames
Visualizing Abolition, 21
https://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2021/visualizing-abolition
“The Long Term” film, 21
https://vimeo.com/288443571
https://p-nap.org/cultural-projects
Out of Control – A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, 21
https://freedomarchives.org/Out_of_Control
“The Facility” film, 22
https://fieldofvision.org/the-facility
Bucket Jail first performance by a Trinidad prison theatre group in a public setting, 22
https://youtu.be/watch?v=YapzbfmQZC4
Conversations With the Dead by Richard Frankland (Gunditjmara), 22
https://currency.com.au/books/indigenous-playwrights/blak-inside
http://richardfrankland.com.au
The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition, 22
https://routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Penal-Abolition/Coyle-Scott/p/book/9781138354098
https://youtu.be/watch?v=Dm8jWmpnxnE
Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform, 22
https://ucpress.edu/book/9780520343474/carceral-con
How DHS’s massive biometrics database will supercharge surveillance and threaten rights, 22
https://t.co/xF6g0zcgBt
https://notechforice.com/digitalprisons
Data-Driven Deportation, 23
https://americandragnet.org
More than 98 percent of Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet’s post-2018 awards from the U.S. federal government are from military, intelligence, or law enforcement, 23
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/microsoft-military-union-cwa
Capitalist World-Economy in Crisis: Policing, Pacification, and Legitimacy, 23
https://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/issue/view/79
Rehearsals for Living, 23
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/rehearsals-for-living
https://youtu.be/watch?v=tyi8oO4oU5U
From Data Criminalization to Prison Abolition, 24
https://youtu.be/watch?v=FTg20fo3nyk
Understanding E-Carceration, 24
https://thenewpress.com/books/understanding-e-carceration
https://youtu.be/watch?v=fc2JaRJWcFM
Deconfiguring the Security State, 24
https://inquest.org/deconfiguring-the-security-state
Abolition. Feminism. Now., 24
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/abolition-feminism-now
https://youtu.be/watch?v=xvJCjh9ZbRM
See You Soon, girl’s worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance, 24
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/see-you-soon
https://youtu.be/watch?v=uHpphQ9pa70
Intimate Partner Violence and Abolitionist Safety Planning, 24
https://youtu.be/watch?v=QEVuJuBrj5A
Social Work and Family Policing, 24
https://youtu.be/watch?v=Q7xo9PsA7ic
Beyond Alternatives: Disability, Madness and Prison Abolition, 25
https://youtu.be/watch?v=CqaOgVzwCZ4
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, former political prisoner of the Sisi regime in Egypt, 25
https://sevenstories.com/books/4410-you-have-not-yet-been-defeated
https://youtu.be/watch?v=QdUpDKJ7tKg
“What Happened to Prisoner Justice Day?” podcast (5 episodes), 25
1 http://prisonradioshow.libsyn.com/guest-material-what-happened-to-prisoner-justice-day
2 http://prisonradioshow.libsyn.com/guest-material-what-happened-to-prisoner-justice-day-2
3 http://prisonradioshow.libsyn.com/guest-material-what-happened-to-prisoner-justice-day-0
4 http://prisonradioshow.libsyn.com/guest-material-what-happened-to-prisoner-justice-day-4
5 http://prisonradioshow.libsyn.com/guest-material-what-happened-to-prisoner-justice-day-5
Who To Call Instead Of 911: BC Version, 26