Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex

Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex

Just Seeds: Visual Resistance Artist Cooperative
Screenprinted Poster Show

Show runs January 19 to February 1

 

This historic art show consists of 20 prints, each by a different
artist, that all either critique the prison-industrial complex or
address alternatives to incarceration.

Just Seeds Artists Cooperative [3] has produced this print portfolio project that is touring across North America in connection with the historic Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference. The posters will be available for purchase by on-line auction in February.

The Jan. 22 opening will feature:

* music by the Smokin' Contra Band [4]
* presentations by local prison justice groups

Also featured at the opening:

* Calendar Launch
[5]
Certain Days 2009 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar [5]
42 gorgeous full-colour pages of art & writings, featuring DRUM (Desis
Rising Up and Moving), Philly's Pissed, Incite!, Sumoud, Alvaro Luna
Hernandez, Inside Books Project, Laura Whitehorn, Robert Seth Hayes,
David Gilbert, Herman Bell, Peter Collins, The Cuban Five, Victory
Gardens, Common Ground, Native Youth Movement and more!

The calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between
organizers in Montreal and Toronto, and three New York state Political
Prisoners: Herman Bell, David Gilbert and Robert Seth Hayes.

* Book Launch

Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners [6] / Edited by Matt Meyer
Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses,
histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and
poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the
campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom.

This is a co-presentation brought to you by:
Books Beyond Bars
Anarchist Black Cross - Halifax
Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group
CKDU 88.1 FM

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