Resisting Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex --An interview w/ Victoria Law (tags)
Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the 2009 book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press). Law’s essay “Sick of the Abuse: Feminist Responses to Sexual Assault, Battering, and Self Defense,” is featured in the new book, entitled "The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism," edited by Dan Berger.
L.A. gang members go union (tags)
'They take that street toughness that puts them into Corcoran or Pelican Bay [state prisons] and put it into this.... What we require is no fear. They're perfect for us.' Robbie Hunter, president of the Ironworkers Union
LA: Don't Just Protest, Organize! (tags)
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Nov 1st: Protest at Gov. LA office (tags)
Protest to closed the state's brutal youth prison system: the California Youth Authority.
If the plan for reform at the California Youth Authority goes through, it could become a model of community-based rehabilitation. The promise of such major transformation has some activists asking: Is it too good to be true?
System Failure/ Movie Showing in Riverside, CA (tags)
Video Showing about abuses in the California Youth Authority. Video by the Ella Baker Foundation and WITNESS.
10/8 Protest the CYA, in Chino (tags)
The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC), our ally in Los Angeles, is organizing a protest in support of Dyron Brewer's family at the California Youth Authority (CYA) prison in Chino, outside of L.A.
LAPD Raids on the Homeless (tags)
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