Austerity is Prison (communiqué from Oakland)

http://www.bayofrage.com/featured/austerity-is-prison/ Now, finally, the money is gone. The world has run out of future, used it up, wasted it on the grotesque fantasies of the rich, on technologies of death and alienation, on dead cities. Everywhere the same refrain, the same banners and headlines: there is nothing left for you. From the US to Greece, [...]

BEYOND BRICKS AND BARBED WIRE: The logic of corrections

http://againstprison.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/broadsheet.pdf Prisons and correctional apparatuses start with the assumption that society as a whole is an efficient, functional body, albeit with a few deficiencies, and therefore any instances where the norm is broken must be the result of some flaw within individuals, not a symptom of a broader problem. In this way of thinking, troubles [...]

STARVE THE VULTURES: Analyzing Canada’s prison restructuring

http://againstprison.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/broadsheet.pdf The summer left us in a downpour of repression that sought to bury its discontents beneath the bureaucracy of courts and behind the walls of prison. The end of June marked an encounter between radicals, outlaws, rebels, etc, and the G20 police state in Toronto. A series of prison reforms and amendments to the [...]

Reclaim Your Mind : Manifesto – An Urgent Message for all those who have or are in danger of being labelled mentally ill

Urgent message for all those who have or are in danger of being labelled mentally ill Selling cures for the problems they created It is well known that depression has been on a steady rise in the past few decades. This increase apparently isn’t about to stop since the World Health Organization (WHO) recently predicted [...]

Take Your Mark, Get Ready, Ablate: 3 Positions Against Prisons – August O’Clairre

1) There are no political prisoners, only prisoners of war. “I am not a crook.” — Richard M. Nixon Between the realm of criminality and that of the political there is a wide chasm. Politicians make the law, criminals break it. In this context, the idea of the political prisoner emerges as a contradiction in [...]