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Tenacious: Art & Writings from Women in Prison #18 now available!

Issue #18 of Tenacious: Art & Writings from Women in Prison is now out!

50+ pages of art and writings from women incarcerated throughout the country, including:

  • an open letter to NJ lawmakers from a woman incarcerated in New Jersey
  • the moving of a prison
  • a dental nightmare in prison
  • one woman's journey from abusive relationship to imprisonment
  • one woman's defiant farewell letter to the segregation unit that held her for years
  • losing faith in the prison system
  • one woman's account of learning to love her

interview on Angola 3 News!

I recently did an interview for Angola 3 News about solitary confinement and incarcerated women.

Here's a snippet:

Torturing Women Prisoners -- an interview with Victoria Law

Resistance Behind Bars and Tenacious reviewed in make/shift #6!

make/shift magazine reviewed both Resistance Behind Bars and Tenacious in its latest issue!

U.S. Court of Appeals ruling on the shackling of women in labor

Dear Friends and Allies:

On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (the federal level appellate court that reviews decisions from federal district courts in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, and Arkansas) issued the long-awaited decision in Nelson v. Norris. In this case, Shawanna Nelson argued that being forced to go through the final stages of labor with both legs shackled to her hospital bed was cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution.

Resistance Behind Bars reviewed in The Red Pill!

Read or download the pdf here: http://issuu.com/gjredpill/docs/07_05

Edmonton media about Resistance Behind Bars

I'll be appearing on Adamant Eve, feminist news show on CJSR 88.5, Edmonton’s community radio station, at 5:30 (MST) this Friday, October 2nd. More about the show can be found on their blogspot.

In addition, there's a short feature in the Vue Weekly:

Women behind bars

Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair--October 2 & 3, 2009

I’ll be delivering the keynote speech at the 2009 Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair on Friday, 2 October. The talk starts at 7 pm; doors open at 6:30 pm.

The talk will be at Ukrainian Centre: 11018-97st Edmonton. A map of the area can be found here.

In addition, on Saturday afternoon, from 2:30 to 3:30 pm, I’ll be facilitating a workshop on how anarchists and other outside activists can support women struggling and resisting on the inside.

Help free human trafficking survivor Sara Kruzan

When Sara met G.G., the 31-year-old man who would become her pimp, she was 11. Sara's mom struggled with drug addiction, so when G.G. would drive Sara and her friends to the roller skating rink or the mall, it felt like having a real parent around. He gave Sara presents and told her she was special- so special, that she should never give sex away for free. He convinced her she was a product.

G.G. groomed Sara like this for two years before he raped her. By then, his control was complete and he forced her into prostitution. Sara and the other girls who G.G.

help free DV survivors Bea Smith-Dyer, Martina Olea & Patricia Joellen Johnson

Greetings friends of Free Battered Women,

We are working to help secure the release of three domestic violence survivors Bea Smith-Dyer, Martina Olea & Patricia Joellen Johnson, and we need your support.* Currently we are having trouble with our online fax-alert so we are asking you to please email and call the Governor directly!*

  • - Call the Governor at 916-445-0873 and tell the Legal Affairs staff that you support Bea Smith-Dyer, Martina Olea and Patricia Joellen Johnson's release on parole!

news article: Oklahoma woman is bucking the system

Oklahoma woman is bucking the system

Documentary Sweethearts follows rodeo team of female prisoners

Published: September 14, 2009

"I just wanted to get outside the fence, you know, the legal way, because I'd been locked up for so long," she said. Brooks is one of several former inmates at the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft who will step out of the shadows of prison life and into the limelight of national television Thursday during the Cinemax premier of "Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo."

The documentary, directed by Bradley Be

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