Calendar

Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Film Screening and Facilitated Discussion about Girls and Women in Prison
2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy (1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite #404)
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
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Film Screening of award-winning film "Stranger Inside (2001)" (w/French subtitles) and documentary "Unlocking the Gates (2012)" followed by a facilitated discussion led by the Life After Life Collective; a 2110 action group dedicated to the de-carceration and de-criminalization of girls, women and transgendered people.  The first film is about incarcerated queer women of colour in a US prison while the documentary focuses on Aboriginal women's struggle with the revolving door in Canada. Both are presented as part of the 2110 Centre's annual "Summer Night" Film Screenings. French whisper translation will be available during the discussion.


Wednesday August 8th 2012
Inside/Out: Celebrating the Life and Work of Marilyn Buck
casa del popolo, 4873 boul. st-laurent
6-8pm
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in english
Marilyn Buck was an anti-imperialist, a feminist, an artist and a revolutionary, who spent almost half of her life in prison as a result of her participation in revolutionary armed movements in the united states. Amongst other things, she was convicted of helping to break Assata Shakur out of prison. While incarcerated she developed uterine cancer; she was released on July 15, 2010, and died a couple of weeks later, on August 3. Join us now for a celebration of Marilyn's life, and a book launch for Inside/Out, a recently published collection of her poems, with readings by local Montreal activists, and brief talks about Marilyn, about political prisoners, and resistance.


Friday August 10th 2012
Vigil, Testimonies, Audio Documentaries, and Commemoration in memory of those who died in custody
1701 Parthenais street, outside the Coroner's office
2pm-4pm
Every year people die in prison, murdered by a system that refuses them adequate care, puts them in situations of abuse, subjects them to violence, is designed to rob them of their humanity. August 10 is a day in which we remember those who have died on the inside, and demand an end to the travesty that is the prison system. Join us for a vigil in front of the offices of the coroner, whose job it is to cover up deaths on the inside.


Friday August 10th 2012
Presentation by Kim Pate
5pm-7pm
Café Touski, 2361 rue Ontario Est (métro Frontenac)
in english with whisper translation into french
Kim Pate is a criminologist. She has more than 30 years experience working with incarcerated women, and is particularly interested in the conditions of First Nations women. We have asked her to give a presentation about how the policies being put in place by the Harper government will impact the prison system, and especially how they will impact women. We want to better prepare ourselves to resist and fight back.

Friday August 10th 2012
Presentations about the prison system at the Maison Norman Bethune
1918 rue Frontenac
19h
in french
As part of the Week Against Prisons, the Maison Norman Bethune is giving three short presentations which explore certain questions raised by the reality of prisons in contemporary capitalist society: the role of prisons in capitalist society; prison as a site of political organizing; and the situation of women in prison.

Saturday August 11th 2012
Solidarity in a Culture of Criminalization: Transformative Justice in the Community
2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy (1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, Suite #404)
1pm-5pm
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in english
Transformative Justice 101, followed with facilitated discussion on how to respond to several challenging hypothetical scenarios without turning to the police and a creative response session.




Sunday August 12th 2012
Street Festival - Freedom for All Political Prisoners
1pm-6pm
Square Phillips, corner of St. Catherine and Union
Metro McGill
Join us for an afternoon of food, theater, and music in solidarity with political prisoner struggles around the world!