Will you be at the US Social Forum in Detroit? Join us at the Defending the RNC 8 workshop and the Prison Justice Movement Assembly

by Webmaster ~ June 16th, 2010. Filed under: Events.

Resisting State Repression, Defending the RNC 8 Workshop
Wednesday, June 23rd – 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Event Location:
WSU Old Main: 1129
Detroit, MI 

This workshop will include background and an update on the case of the RNC 8, as well as a strategizing session to help create a movement response to their October trial. We seek to support their struggle and connect repression locally to the crackdown on dissent and resistance nationwide. A movement is only as strong as the defense of its arrestees and prisoners, and its challenge to the structures that allow the state and the prison industrial complex to operate. Thus, the desired outcome of this workshop is to create concrete plans for both supporting the RNC 8 during trial and defending everyone’s ability to organize towards a world based on justice and liberation for all.
http://organize.ussf2010.org/workshops

June 24th Prison Justice Movement Assembly
1:00pm
Cobo Hall Room O3-45
U.S. Social Forum, Detroit, MI

 

The United States is a prison empire: racist mass incarceration and widespread criminalization, torture and the targeting of political dissidents. From policing to the prison, state repression disrupts families, destroys lives, and debilitates movements. This repression impacts the grassroots: people of color, the poor, immigrant communities (including Latinos and Arab and Muslim people), women, queer and transgender people, and radical organizers from many communities and movements.

A number of vibrant and diverse organizations and networks are struggling to end this state violence by resisting the drug war and new modes of criminalization; challenging the incarceration of youth, women and queer and trans people; fighting against prison expansion, solitary confinement, torture, and the death penalty; and working to free political prisoners and establish civil and human rights for formerly incarcerated people. But we have been limited by geographic isolation, generational gaps and the sheer amount of work to be done on both sides of prison walls.

Although we face particular challenges by region or circumstance, we share a vision of justice and solidarity against confinement and control. We need to make our work more national in scope and more coordinated in action. The U.S. Social Forum and the Prison Justice Movement Assembly is our time to build greater coordination in regional campaigns around shared issues and develop a national strategy of action that unites our diverse campaigns against imprisonment and repression.

Sponsored/endorsed by (list in formation): California Coalition for Women in Prison, California Prison Moratorium Project, Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition, Freedom Archives, Human Rights Coalition, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jericho Amnesty Movement, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Resistance in Brooklyn, RNC8 Defense Committee, Scott and Carrie Support Committee, The Ordinary People’s Society, War Resisters League, Grand Jury Resistance Project

 

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