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NEW YEARS EVE NOISE DEMONSTRATION – SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED PROTESTERS December 23, 2011 Saturday, 31 December 2011 - 4pm-6pm outside HMP Holloway Prison, Parkhurst Road, N7 0NU, closest tube station Holloway Rd. Since student protests last year, when thousands took to the streets to demand an education accessible for all, and the large scale riots this summer [...]
Archive for the ‘The Prison’ Category
Anti-fascist prisoners: send letters for Xmas
Posted: December 20, 2011 by jamesrrellison in Events, The Political, The Prison, The StadiumBeing locked up is grim at the best of times, being locked up over Christmas, away from friends and family, is always going to be an especially difficult time, so we urge all decent anarchists and radicals to send a letter, messages of support, of just a few lines to the five anti-fascist prisoners still [...]
For the Prison group: Don’t know if anyone’s seen it but just thought of this film which is pretty relevant and also v good, about 3 (innocent) men who are incarcerated together and escape jail. It’s fairly light-hearted as it stars Roberto Bernini and Tom Waits, also its set in New Orleans (Kate!). If anyone [...]
Be realistic, demand the impossible
Posted: December 7, 2011 by tatiana in The PrisonTags: news, proposals
(prison project update) … the Situationist slogan is stuck in my head after receiving last Friday email from David, the one about making presentations of our project pans, proposals… It could be coming from the condition of my art background, and Goldsmiths Art department’s obsession about presentation, but I think it is utterly uncomfortable to [...]
An update from the prison group (meetings 1-3)
Posted: December 5, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The PrisonWhere & when can we work/facilitate? Ideas about working inside and outside the prison. Can we utilize the archive the prison has created as a way to provide a narrative based approach, can we use prison profiling, will we be allowed to access the private information of prisoners? Should we work with the Koestler, what [...]
Nearly fifty artists, poets, and activists examine the contemporary prison system through heartrending art and community Through my random research, I found this article about a prison’s project took place in the US few years ago. I thought the following statement is interesting: “our aim was to illuminate the simple fact that prison impacts all [...]
Guideline for writing Offender Apologies
Posted: November 24, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The PrisonI was stumbling on google as you do to avoid writing essays and came across a guideline document for writing apologies from offenders by: Anne Seymour, Sharon English and Jill Weston. (2001). Washington, D.C.: Justice Solution. The pdf link is here; http://www.justicesolutions.org/art_pub_offender_apologies.pdf Also I found this anti apology letter from an offender with to quote another brilliant Daily Mail headline [...]
Film screening and Q&A with Charlie Ryder
Posted: November 19, 2011 by tatiana in The PrisonTags: political prisoners, screening
This is just to keep the record and to make sure everyone is in tune with what’s going on, this screening – of paticular interest to those “going to prison” is on Monday 21 November @ 5pm. Goldsmiths, NAB LG01. This is the description of the event announced though Facebook, and a link to the [...]
1971 psychological study on guard and prisoner mentality. Funded by US Navy to find the causes of conflicts in military prisons. Wikipedia has the story. In addition BBC has the footage of the experiment, and several interviews with participants. Stanford prison experiment continues to shock. In 2002 BBC held so-called BBC Prison Study, released as [...]
