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People and Planet Not Pipelines and Prisons
Designed by Katie Garth
In 2016 the federal government announced the construction of a new migrant detention center in Laval. This prison, which is anticipated to hold up to 158 undocumented migrants, is intended to be built on Correctional Service of Canada grounds, right beside Leclerc prison, and is slated to open in 2021. While the Liberal government is attempting to spin this project as a more humane way to detain migrants, we call it what it is — a prison, and know that this is simply prettier window dressing on a violent system of imprisonment and deportation, one that keeps people locked in cages while tearing apart families and communities. We want a world without prisons or colonial borders, a world where people, not states, can decide how they can move and where they can stay. Stopping the construction of the Laval Immigration Detention Centre is one step in the struggle to tear down migrant prisons everywhere.
Block new prisons from being built and shut down the old ones!
This site is an information clearinghouse for news, analysis, and materials related to the struggle against the Laval Immigration Detention Centre.
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Cette prison, qui devrait enfermer jusqu’à 158 personnes sans-papiers, devrait être construite sur les terrains du Service correctionnel du Canada, juste à côté de la prison Leclerc, et devrait ouvrir ses portes en 2021. Alors que le gouvernement libéral argumente que cette nouvelle construction serait une façon plus humaine de détenir des migrant-es, nous appelons cela ce que c’est – une prison, en sachant que ceci est simplement une façade plus belle sur un système violent d’emprisonnement et de déportation, qui maintient les gens enfermés dans des cages en déchirant des familles et des communautés. Nous voulons un monde sans prisons et frontières coloniales, un monde où les gens, pas les États, peuvent décider comment ils peuvent se déplacer et où ils peuvent rester. L’arrêt de la construction du centre de détention de l’immigration de Laval est qu’une étape dans la lutte pour détruire les prisons des migrant-es partout dans le monde.
Bloquons la construction de nouvelles prisons et fermons les anciennes!
Ce site est un centre d’information pour partager; nouvelles, analyse et documents liés à la lutte contre le Centre de détention pour les immigrants de Laval.
For the connection of the struggles of the captive anarchists and the communities of fighting prisoners with the struggles which are being manifested in society.
For the attempt of bridging the gap of communication between the communities of struggle, inside and outside the walls, through critical solidarity and action.
For the continuous promotion of the existence of political prisoners, not so much for terminology purposes but in the frame of the underlying daily social war.
A war which already has losses (hostages and dead), because some parts of the oppressed chose to not capitulate to its single-sided attacks from the side of dominance.
For the promotion of the anarchist speech and connection/composition of the struggles inside the society-prison.
Beginning therefore, with the matter of the hostages of democracy, we want to extend the solidaric relations between all the people and communities who do not beg, neither do they tolerate, but organize and act against the state and capitalism.
Lets meet our refusals on a anti-state/libertarian prospect.
Let’s organize our attacks.
Solidarity between all those who fight, revolt, rebel.
- assembly of anarchists for the connection of the struggles inside the society-prison
Days from the 5th till 12th of February are the days of solidarity with repressed Russian anarchists.
In October of 2017 in Penza six anarchists and antifascists were arrested by officers of Federal Security Service on a charge of creating a terrorist group. Moreover, in that time the period of raids in anarchists and antifascists’ houses has started all over Russia. The objects of Security Service’s attention were different people from absolutely different towns. At last, a new wave of detentions was launched in January of 2018. An antifascist Victor Filinkov was kidnapped by Security Service in Saint Petersburg. The officers of Federal Security Service have been torturing him in the forest out of the city. They told Victor to admit his participation in mythical anarchy-terrorist group. Unable to withstand the torture Filinkov was forced to incriminate himself and now he is remaining in Temporarily-staying Isolation. Filinkov’s lawyer claims that he has never seen so serious damages and trails of the torture during his practice of struggle with a police outrage.
There is another antifascist who has claimed about torture in St. Petersburg. Ilya Kapustin was also threatened by officers from FSS, but he has refused to incriminate himself and after that he was released on bail. There weren’t any proofs that anarchy-terrorist group exists in real life, only the confessions gained by the threats and torture.
Nevertheless, police is doing everything in order to force people to confirm an existence of mythical terrorist organization named “Net”, spoofed by FSS. The officers affirm that this organization has a lot of cells in every town. It means that the situation which has occurred in Saint Petersburg will be observed in the other Russian towns very soon.
Obviously, everything what’s going on in our time is an attempt to clear out an anarchist movement before the Elections of the President in 2018. In recent years we could see how the anarchist movement increased its activity after the repressions of 2012 year. These repressions can only intimidate people and crush the anarchist movement.
In this case it’s necessary to show that we are not afraid and we can’t be destroyed by their force. Otherwise, the repressions will be used every time when the anarchist movement calls an attention of FSS. We should show them that the stronger their repressions, the more furious will be our resistance. Now it’s important to support the prisoners, to prevent the continuation of the “witch-hunting” and give a global publicity for this event.
We call you for a solidarity campaign with repressed anarchists from the 5th till 12th of February.
Arrange different street actions, evenings of solidarity, distribute information in the media and in the Internet. Do everything you can come up and implement.
The only one weapon we can counter the face of the state terror is the unity and solidarity with each other. Without these two things we will be crushed by this monster one by one.
We are ready to provide the space for publication solidarity actions, just send them on media_ns[at]riseup[dot]net
The address for your solidarity letters: to
VIKTOR SERGEEVICH FILINKOV, UL. SHPALERNAYA, D. 25, G. SANKT-PETERBURG, 191123, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
(Only PAPER letters)
Fund-raising: paypal [email protected]
From Prison Books: Let’s help 2017 go in like a lion with this year’s New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations. In the words of comrades in Montreal: “Prisons were created to isolate people from their communities. Noise demonstrations at prisons are a material way to fight against repression and isolation.
We want to extend a message of solidarity to folks inside, and wish them a happy new year. Although, a truly happy new year would be one without prisons and the world that needs them.” Here’s a list of events we were able to find, but check in with the prison abolition group in your area to see where you can get plugged in:
- Portland, OR
- Dallas, TX
- Norfolk, VA
- Chicago, IL
- Omaha, NE
- Durham, NC
- Asheville, NC: March from Vance Monument, 7pm EST, Patton & Broadway/Biltmore.
- NYC, NY
- Philadelphia, PA
- Montreal, QC
Download Poster Here
Here is a poster (11×17) for the upcoming nationwide prisoner strike on September 9th. Download, print and put it up around your city if you feel it.
For more information about the strike and the ongoing wave of prison rebellions across the country, check out these articles:
Text from the poster:
“We are not beasts and we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such… What has happened here is but the sound before the fury of those who are oppressed.” – L. D. Barkley, participant in Attica rebellion
On September 9, 1971, the inmates of Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York seized control of the prison. The Attica uprising, which lasted for five days, was not the first and certainly not the last prison rebellion. And yet its importance is indelibly marked within the history of the struggle against white supremacy and the prison society we still inhabit today.
In the forty years since Attica, prisons have swelled to bursting with the tragedies of disrupted lives, fractured families, and broken communities. In the last decade, resistance movements have steadily grown behind the prison walls. From the statewide work stoppage in Georgia prisons of 2010 to the hunger strike that spread throughout the California prison system in 2013; from fires lit in I.C.E. detention centers in Texas to riots and prison takeovers in Nebraska and Alabama, prisoners across the country are wide awake and on the move.
This September, prisoners, their families, and supporters on the outside are coordinating a nationwide prisoner strike to take place on the 45th anniversary of the Attica rebellion. This historic effort holds within it the potential to expand and embolden the movement against the horrific conditions of confinement, the prisons themselves and the society that creates them.
Towards the destruction of all prisons and the creation of a free and genuine human community!
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AGAINST PRISON SLAVERY | CONTRA LA ESCLAVITUD CARCELARIA | ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΚΛΑΒΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΦΥΛΑΚΗΣ
On September 9th 1971, prisoners took over and shut down Attica, New York State’s most notorious hellhole.
On September 9th 2016, prisoners in struggle will launch work stoppages and other actions to shut down prisons all across the U.S., to push for a final end to prison slavery.
That the fires of solidarity spread across the world!
Presentation & discussion about the prisoner strike with a comrade from Portland ABC (USA)
Thursday August 4th at 20:00 at the terrace of the anarchist squat on 58, Themistokleous Street, Exarchia, Athens
Themistokleous 58 squat | Anarchist Black Cross [Greece] Anarchist solidarity cell | Contra Info translation counter-information network
Saturday, August 13 at 1PM - 6PM
We will be marching from Kibble Park Gosford down to Gosford Leagues Club Oval. #Younglivesmatter This is a family friendly event, a peaceful march to show our disappointment in the treatment of young men & women in Northern Territories Youth Detention Centres and to ensure this ABUSE/TORTURE is stamped out of Juvenile Detention Centres across Australia.
The recent images of torture at Don Dale prison has shocked many Australians, but it shouldn't. Such treatment of children and adults is commonplace at prisons across the country. Prisons are the ultimate site of cruelty and social control, but also sometimes places of inspiring acts of rebellion and resistance.
While much of the media and popular discourse around the #DonDaleKids has been of their victimhood, something here is being missed. Don Dale has seen multiple riots over the past couple years and numerous breakouts. In 2014, two youths reportedly broke out of the prison, stole a car, drove back to the prison and used the vehicle to ram through the fences, to break more youths out.
Torture and collective bashings of prisoners is a basically universal screw response to prison riots. The brutality of the screws at Don Dale is an attempt to crush their rebellious spirits. To break their resolve, to domesticate them, to make them controllable.
But torture is not just the exceptional treatment of unmanageable inmates, prison itself is torture. The act of confining and isolating human beings in cages is inhumane and degrading to the human spirit.
The colonial invasion of this land introduced the paradigm of police, prisons and private property to a territory where land was communal, communities settled disputes and meted out punishment without recourse to incarceration or a specialised armed force to control and surveillance everyone’s behaviour.
With the rise of modern capitalism, prisons have become the ideal place to store and manage surplus people, those without a stake in the market and for whom bosses have no use.
The royal commission declared by Turnbull is a farce and a distraction to dissolve the anger, to pretend “something has been done” then move on as if nothing ever happened.
If we wish to live in a world without scenes like the torture in Don Dale, we need to do more than just protesting and write petitions and letters to politicians. Abolishing prisons also means the abolition of capital and state.
When the fires of rebellion break out at any prison, it is our responsibility to spread the fires outside and beyond the walls, to government institutions, police stations, to the homes or cars of the screws carrying out the abuse. We need to keep the fires burning till they have engulfed this territory and laid waste to the structures of colonialism.
The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) is a collaboration with the Abolitionist Law Center. FTP’s mission is to conduct grassroots organizing, advocacy and direct action to challenge the prison system which is putting prisoners at risk of dangerous environmental conditions, as well as impacting surrounding communities and ecosystems by their construction and operation. At this time, FTP is focused on opposing the construction of a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky.
FTP is inspired by the abolitionist movement against mass incarceration and the environmental justice movement, which have both been led by the communities of color who are hardest hit by prisons and pollution.Both these movements also have long histories of multi-racial alliances among those on the front lines of the struggle and those who can offer support and solidarity, which we aim to build on.
FTP has been informed by the ongoing research and analysis of the Human Rights Defense Center’s Prison Ecology Project, as well as the work of the Earth First! Prisoner Support Project and June11.org
You can see much more about this project, learn about the convergence, and donate or register for the event at https://fighttoxicprisons.org
POSTER READS:
Prisons in revolt, neighbourhoods in tension, the exploited are angry – LET’S ATTACK ON ALL FRONTS
“Locked up like rats. The hygiene is deplorable, it stinks in the cells.” Since the beginning of the strike of the guards, which has lasted 13 days, the prisoners have not been out of their cells.
“No showers, no yard, no visits, no activities, sometimes not even food or medicine. There are some who fall ill, who get infections, who go crazy. Buried alive, 24 out of 24, left to rot.”
We are on the verge of a riot. “Everywhere, in all the jails, it is the same story. The prisoners are about to do the best thing they can do now: smash the cells and destroy the jails. In the prisons of Tournai, Arlon, Huy, Lantin, Andenne … incidents have already broken out: cells on fire, wings flooded, rampages in the corridors.”
“It’s unheard of.” This Saturday, May 7, a devastating mutiny shook the Merksplas prison in Antwerp. Entire wings were demolished and burned by the insurgent prisoners. Walls razed to the ground, fences down, sections vandalized.
Now is the time to act. The prisons are about to explode, the neighbourhoods are infested with soldiers and the cops are growling, the anger of the exploited is threatening to launch a new attack on the government.
Now is the time to act. Show your solidarity with the prisoners in revolt. Give your body and soul to your anger. Break habit of resignation. Throw a sublime challenge to power: the challenge of freedom and solidarity.
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https://bxl.indymedia.org/spip.php?article10960&lang=fr
Translaed by Act for freedom now!
The Human Rights Defense Center’s Prison Ecology Project is creating tools to dismantle toxic prisons. We are focused on organizing at the intersection of environment and mass incarceration. Your contributions will provide needed start-up funds for on-the-ground work to bridge the gap between criminal justice reform and environmental movements.
The prison industry has a long history of ecological violence. Rikers Island prison in New York City was literally built on a trash heap, and evidence suggests a high incidence of cancer among guards and prisoners. In California and Texas prisoners have little recourse but to drink arsenic-laced water. In Alabama, an overpopulated prison habitually dumps sewage into a river where people fish and swim. In Kentucky, construction of a new prison is poised to clear 700 acres of endangered species habitat. Stories like these are too common. The issues impact millions of people in and around prisons across the US but are largely ignored.
Prison Ecology Project is uncovering these abuses and building a clearinghouse of data you can use to fight toxic prisons in your community.
We are a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a national non-profit that advocates for protecting the fundamental rights of people held in U.S. detention facilities, including their access to communications from outside sources. For 25 years, HRDC has published Prison Legal News, a monthly publication with subscribers in all 50 states and internationally. HRDC engages in litigation, conducts media and educational campaigns, provides testimony before legislative and regulatory bodies, and also does significant work around government transparency and accountability issues. Read more about HRDC’s history, staff, and extensive work on its website.