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SATURDAY, 9 TO 10:30 AM:
"AIN'T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN US AROUND": the development of a national movement of women prisoners, women released from prison, and their allies.
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SATURDAY, 2 TO 3:30 PM:
MEDIA ACCESS FOR PRISONERS
August 4, 2008
Email: maha@chorus.net
Molly Stentz/Rainbow Books
608-257-6050
John Peck
I'll be a presenter in two sessions:
One such Sunday morning session concerned the growing prison industrial complex in the United States. Currently, one in every 100 adults is incarcerated in this country. Women are said to be the fastest growing population due to mandatory sentencing policies and the “war on drugs.”A panel of prisoner advocates conducted a workshop, Media Access For Prisoners.
*Letters, musings and poems from mothers separated from their children
*Incarcerated women's tributes to their own mothers
*Reflections on the relationships that women form while in prison
*Health care (or the lack of health care) in prison
*Fighting for clean drinking water in a Texas prison
*An open letter to the governor of Colorado about higher education programs in women's prisons
*Colorado's new prisoner farm crews
While working towards the long-term goal of prison abolition, we must also take on more immediate efforts to support those silenced by incarceration. Those dedicated to independent media should consider reaching out to and collaborating with those lacking media access as a way to amplify marginalized voices and to make the movement for participatory media more inclusive. This session will include a discussion with independent media makers and prison activists on current initiatives, barriers and possibilities of media access for prisoners, sustainability and growth of prisoner-focused media.
with Kameelah Rasheed of the Building Bloc Collective, Dannette Hoarde of Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance and Anthony Rayson of the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
also, with Mai'a Williams, I will be facilitating the Radical Parenting Caucus on Saturday, June 21st, from 12:20 to 2:10 pm: