If you haven't already, consider ordering a copy of #HowToAbolishPrisons and downloading our study guide here:
haymarketbooks.org/books/2212-how…
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Save the date!
Assessing the Impact of the Ontario Government's Kemptville Prison Plan: An Earth Day Webinar and Press Conference
Monday, April 22, 2024
12:00pm-1:00pm
Livestream on YouTube
More event info in 🧵
#SaveFarmland
#StopTheKemptvillePrison
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Big thanks to everyone involved in this project! You know who you are!
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
I know where I'll be Thursday night (the #HowToAbolishPrisons virtual launch) and looking forward to it!
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Thank you CPEP Group Ottawa Prison Law Practicum Debaser and all who contributed funds to #SaveFarmland and #StopFordsKemptvillePrison at these fundraisers.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages in Kemptville / unceded & unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe Territory + anywhere else for the matter.
New op-ed from me via Ottawa Citizen: 'Premier Ford needs to build communities, not prisons'
Check it out:
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/column…
#NOPE | No to Ontario Prison Expansion
#YES | Yes to Equity and Supports
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Thanks to recent fundraisers Debaser Pique Festival & the Ottawa Prison Law Practicum Trivia Night fundraiser we just sent over $2500 to the CAPP Kemptville legal fund to #SaveFarmland & #StopFordsKemptvillePrison .
We're grateful for the community's support!
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
NEW from Lindsay Jennings, Jeffrey Bradley & Alex McClelland of Tracking (In)Justice: 'Canada must end the pervasive culture of inhumanity inside prisons'
#PrisonKills
#Divert | #Decarcerate
#DemandPrisonsChange
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/opinio…
Great show Samantha McAleese, Ph.D. Ontario Today It's so important to bring the humanity to this important issue. #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
Great music and a good cause!
All proceeds support the legal challenge waged by Kemptville residents against the Ford government's plan to build a 235-bed prison on farmland in Kemptville.
#SaveDontPaveFarmland #StopFordsKemptvillePrison #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
#ottmusic
#PrisonKills #divert #decarcerate #DemandPrisonsChange in the short-term, while working #TowardAbolition and a #JustTransitionFromThePIC for captives and captors alike in the long-term. #BuildCommunitiesNotCages #PJD
Through poetry, letters, essays, and interviews, THE LIFE SENTENCES OF RIK MCWHINNEY relates the harrowing experiences of a man who spent nearly thirty-five years in the Canadian prison system.
#prisonersjusticeday #buildcommunitiesnotcages #PJD #pjd #prisonrightsactivism
Inside Ottawa Valley: '‘We had not got to the heart of the matter, legally’: Kemptville residents seek appeal following dismissal of jail judicial review'
#SaveFarmland
#StopFordsKemptvillePrison
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
insideottawavalley.com/news/we-had-no…
CAPP Kemptville
Looking forward to the Judicial Review on February 8.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages #SaveDontPave
It takes one to know one!
We need this clown OUT!
His decisions result in ALARMING rates of Humans dying at the hands of our correctional system and guards.
#BuildCommunitiesNotCages
#NoOntarioPrisonExpansion
#incarceratedlivesmatter
#NoMoreDeathsInCustody
#OnPoli