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January 04, 2005
The We That Sets Us Free -- CD on women prisoners & abolition
CD website:
http://www.justinbianco.com/jnow.html
Justice Now website:
http://jnow.org
"The We That Sets Us Free" combines music, spoken word and interviews with activists inside and outside prison to challenge all of us to imagine new ways of living, to question what purpose prisons serve and to propose anti-racist alternatives to punishment and confinement.
This CD has been shaped by all the people who generously have shared their time and talents over the last two years. Throughout this process we challenged ourselves to imagine a world that would no longer rely on prisons as the solution to social problems — a task that required confronting and overcoming many of our preconceived ideas about equality, justice and safety. We are grateful to the artists, most of whom created roiginal pieces for this project. In particular we want to recognize the women inside who risked retaliation to have their voices heard and who, depsite daily assaults on their humanity, hold out great hope for our future.
"The We That Sets Us Free" is part of a national campaign — Building a World Without Prisons — bringing the voices of women in prison to public discourse, exposing human rights abuses in prison, and challenging the prison industrial complex.
This CD was produced by Justice Now, a human rights organization that works with women in prison and local communitities to build a safe, compassionate world without prisons.
Posted by craig at January 4, 2005 07:39 PM