Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Join Resistance Behind Bars author Victoria Law for a reading and discussion on women's acts of resistance and organizing behind prison walls.

Although the dramatic increase of women in prison has led to a growing interest in female incarceration, the voices and actions of the women inside often remain unheard. How are women inside challenging and organizing against prison conditions? How can activists and organizers on the outside support their actions and resistance?

What Does the Left Need to Know about Prison?

Placated by TV-cop-show justice, worried about economic survival, most of the U.S. Left – like the U.S. mainstream – ignores the ongoing reality of prison in the lives of poor people and revolutionaries, alike. Yet prison in this country is the basis for the creation of new forms of increasing government/corporate control. The prison system has already played a critical role in ensuring that popular rebellions, like those of the mid-20th century, do not occur again.

In Chapel Hill or Asheville? I'll be facilitating discussions in both cities at the end of March:

Thursday, 3/25, 7 pm
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Howell 104

Friday, 3/26, 3:30 to 5:30 pm

For those of you who missed it (or those of you who simply have to hear it again):

Ashanti Alston (former BLA member and Prisoner of War, current co-chair of the Jericho Movement) will read from his upcoming memoir.

No upcoming events at the moment. In the meantime, here are some photos from the panel discussion on Incarceration, Resistance, Costs and Consequences in Oakland!