New Zine: Starting an Anarchist Black Cross – A Guide
Source: https://solidarity.international/index.php/2018/07/07/new-zine-starting-an-anarchist-black-cross-a-guide/ The Anarchist Black Cross is an international network of anarchist groups and individuals engaged in practical solidarity with prisoners and broader anti-repression struggles that started over 100 years…
New Publication: Prisoner Writings on Prison Abolition
The Empty Cages Collective and the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England have published a joint publication called Prisoner Writings on Prison Abolition. Download it…
New IWOC Newsletter: The Imprisoned Worker #1
Our friends at the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee have produced a new newsletter called The Imprisoned Worker. We share their post: https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/2018/06/29/new-iwoc-newsletter-the-imprisoned-worker-1/ This zine has been put together by the…
New Book – Bang Up and Smash: Women’s Prisons, Probation and Bail Hostels
Bang-up and Smash is an overview of women’s prisons in the UK, and a political analysis of their physical and ideological construction. From the moment of arrest, to coming home,…
Prison Action News: Vol. 9, Issue 1
From Boston ABC: We are thrilled to announce the release of Prison Action News volume 9 issue 1! This is a special issue devoted to writing by women and trans…
Video: Beyond reform – abolishing prisons
In this TEDxBaltimore video, Maya Schenwar explores the failures of criminal justice and imagines a world without prisons. The United States has the highest imprisonment rate in the world. But…
January 2016 Incarcerated Worker Newsletter
Source: https://iwoc.noblogs.org/post/2016/01/20/january-2016-incarcerated-worker-newsletter/ In This Issue: – Artwork by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson – A Change Has Got To Come – Mary Sue Shields – The Incarcerated Lumpen – Jose H. Villarreal…
Wildfire: An Anarchist Prison Newsletter #2
From Wildfire: [Download Issue #2] (Prints 8.5×11) The past months have seen a continuation of prison struggle in its many forms, as well as a blanket of repression from state…
Radio Interview: Capitalism and the changes in the UK legal aid system
From Anarchist Radio in Berlin: In the following interview we made with an UK-based prisoner support activist, we talk about recent changes in judicial law, especially concerning legal aids and…
Radio Interview about Action Camp against the North Wales Mega Prison
Anarchist Radio Berlin talked with an UK-based organizer from the Reclaim the fields initiative. This interview is about the planned international camp in North-Wales, the relationship of food sovereignty and…
New Zine: The struggle against the maxi-prison in Brussels
The struggle against the maxi-prison in Brussels – A chronology of attack & antagonism PDF links (high res, low res and imposed): http://personsunknown.noblogs.org/post/2015/07/12/the-struggle-against-the-maxi-prison-in-brussels-a-chronology-of-attack-antagonism/ The Belgian State has been announcing it…
New Zine – Repression & Solidarity in Bristol: A collection of writings from anarchist prisoner Emma Sheppard & others
A new publication has been produced with writings from anarchist prisoner, Emma Sheppard. There are also articles from local groups such as Bristol Defendant Solidarity, communicating recent police attempts at…
New article – Prison Abolition
We have recently had a feature spread in the Occupied Times. This article introduces prison abolition: When the Empty Cages Collective facilitates workshops on prison abolition we ask participants to…
New Article – The Prison-Industrial Complex in the Occupied Times
We have recently had a feature spread in the Occupied Times. This article is about the prison industrial complex in the UK: Right now over 90,000 people across the UK are…
New Article – Resisting Prison Expansion in the UK
We have recently had a feature spread in the Occupied Times. This article is about prison expansion in the UK: The United Kingdom is facing an unprecedented expansion of the…
New Resource: Treatment Industrial Complex
A new report from the US is available on how for-profit corporations are undermining efforts to treat and rehabilitate prisoners for corporate gain. Download it here: http://afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/TIC_report_online.pdf
Transformative Justice & Ending Child Abuse
Source: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/ending-child-sex-abuse-five-generations Helen Mills on the potential of generationFIVE, an initiative to end child sexual abuse in five generations. By: Helen Mills Date: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014 ‘There is a…
New Poster series calling out the Met Police
Source: http://strikemag.org/totally-pointless/ “Advertising is legitimised lying.” – HG Wells. The Metropolitan Police Force spend ridiculous sums of our money trying to convince us – and themselves – that they’re not…
Community Action on Prison Expansion Tour
Public Meetings in Cardiff, Liverpool & Manchester Local groups from Community Action on Prison Expansion have organised public meetings in Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester this November. The aim of the…
New publication: Never Alone – A zine about supporting prisoners by those on the outside
To download the zine click here: Never Alone Never Alone was created to give a voice to those that support people in prison. Often invisible, unsupported and unrecognised, thousands of…
Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
This weekend the Empty Cages Collective facilitated a workshop on Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex at the Anarcha-Feminist Conference. As two workshop facilitators that identified as women this felt…
New zine: “What about the rapists?” – Anarchist approaches to crime & justice
This zine is aimed at anarchists thinking about how to deal with abuses of power and acts of domination in their communities. It brings together a collection of articles representing…
The Right to Life Under Threat From the State
Don’t miss the London Campaign Against Police & State Violence’s annual conference this October: