Political Prisoner Periodicals
The
modern movements for prison abolition and against inhumane practices
and conditions reached an initial high peak of struggle and mass
militancy during the 1970s, with rebellions and protests at many prisons
nationwide, the writings and example of George Jackson, and the
historic rebellion at Attica State Prison. This collection includes a
wide range of publications grown out of this ongoing movement, including
the Anvil, War Behind Walls, Big Mama Rag, The Outlaw, The Struggle Inside, Politics of Crime, and Arm the Spirit.
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![International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA), 9th annual opening plenary panel](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Recording is from the opening panel at ICOPA conference in Toronto, Canada. Panelists include Mark Mauer, who discusses how the criminal justice system has come to punish people primarily in low-income communities of color; John Clark from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, who discusses how law and criminality are used to enforce the needs of power and privilege and how this affects the poor; and Patricia Montour Angus, a Mohawk woman from Canada, who discusses the historical and contemporary relationshpi between Canadian law and its repression and force used against aboriginal people particularly now with incarceration.
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