Posts tagged “prisons”
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Angela Davis on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
February 17, 2011
Author Angela Davis discusses abolishing prisons on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight:
Tags: angela davis, are prisons obsolete, george stroumboulopoulos, prisons, video
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Aric McBay and COWS hold stakeout to prevent prison farm shutdowns in Ontario
June 16, 2010
Aric McBay, co-author of Deep Green Resistance with Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith, is involved in a stakeout to catch a criminal. The place: Kingston, Ontario’s Frontenac prison. The crime: Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s planned closure of Canada’s six prison farms — to be accomplished by quietly selling off the herds of cattle that provide prisoners with a viable occupation and the local regions with sustainable, sane local business and agriculture, in exchange for cheap imported goods, through NAFTA, from the United States. McBay and his citizen group intend to stop them.
Tags: aric mcbay, deep green resistance, ontario, prison farms, prisons, stephen harper
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Tony Hefner on the Port Isabel Detention Center
March 2, 2010
From Enrique Lopetegui’s article at QueBlog about the recent protests demanding the closing of the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas:
“This is the pain,” [Southwest Worker's Union member Anayanse Garza] said, holding a petition, “these are the 243 signatures of the people at Port IsabeI that have been tortured, beaten and humiliated, and these orders were coming from [ICE's field office director] Michael J. Pitts, who is sitting very comfortably in his air-conditioned room, while other people are being tortured and threatened with force-feeding by having a tube inserted through their noses. I don’t care if the government says that immigrants have no human rights. Immigrants do have human rights. It’s not a crime to hunger strike, it is your right, and that’s why [Pitts] should be tried.”
… “The very same thing that happened [in my time] is happening today [at PIDC],” said [Tony] Hefner. “Stealing money from detainees, beating detainees up … If detainees from two different countries were fighting, they would handcuff them together and push them into each other and take bets on them.”
Tags: articles, between the fences, current events, prisons, queblog, tony hefner
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Jerome Gold interviewed on Between the Covers
August 18, 2009
On August 6, 2009, Jerome Gold discussed Paranoia & Heartbreak with Jennifer Kemp of Between the Covers on KBOO-FM in Portland. Listen below.
Tags: jerome gold, memoir, paranoia and heartbreak, portland, prisons, radio
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Hwang Sok-Yong at Prison Deform in New York City
April 29, 2009
April 29, 6-7:30pm, Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Participants: Jose Dalisay, Hwang Sok-yong, Khet Mar, and Susan Rosenberg. Moderated by Jackson Taylor.
Even for those with a limited sentence, the deforming pressure of incarceration…
Tags: Authors, cuny, hwang sok-yong, interviews, new york city, old garden, pen voices, prisons
