Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Inquiring Minds Bookstore
6 Church Street
New Paltz, NY

Join author Victoria Law as she shares stories from her NEW edition of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women to:

• examine the specific issues inside women's prisons
• discusses the obstacles they face when trying to organize inside
• challenge the audience to examine *why* these actions have not been (and are not being) recognized and talked about in discussions about the prison-industrial complex and prisoner activism and resistance
• generate discussion of concrete ways (both big and small) that outside people, especially those dedicated to resisting and abolishing the prison-industrial complex, can provide support to people inside women's prisons

And, for those who just can't get enough social justice talk, Don't Leave Your Friends Behind will be at the Saugerties Inquiring Minds Bookstore the next day...

Saturday, October 20th, 2 pm

How do we create new, non-hierarchical structures of support and mutual aid and include all ages in the struggle for social justice?

Join Victoria Law, coeditor of the new book Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities, and contributors Traci Picard and Jennifer Silverman for a reading and discussion about ways to support families in social justice movements and communities. Let's build an all-ages, all-inclusive revolution that leaves no one behind!

Vikki Law is a writer, photographer, and mother. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and the zine Tenacious: Art & Writings from Women in Prison.

Traci Picard is a practicing herbalist with an apothecary of handmade medicines. She grows and forages plants for my community and teaches classes about plant identification and herbs. She writes about plants, foraging, holistic health care and life and maintains a blog of photos and thoughts at fellowworkersfarm.wordpress.com while homeschooling her 3 children. She believes a sense of humor just may save the world.

Jennifer Silverman is a NYC-based mama of two sons and an unrepentant coffee addict. She is a coeditor of My Baby Rides the Short Bus (PM Press, 2009), a contributor to Moms Gone Mad, and has had essays and articles published in HipMama magazine, Newsday, off our backs, and many regional newspapers and parenting magazines. Jennifer has also spoken about raising her son with autism, intergenerational movement building, and/or community organized childcare at conferences including the Left Forum, National Conference on Organized Resistance, Mama Gathering, and several bookfairs, and is looking forward to the day when there is less talk and more action on these issues.

Hope to see you there!