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Tuesday August 5, 2003

Sentenced to Life
Directed by Marie Cadieux

SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings
7:00 pm. Admission by donation.

Sentenced to Life is the story of Dianne Charron. Diane is shuttled back and forth between prison and a psychiatric hospital, a vicious cycle that epitomizes the injustice of the impossibility of trying to address mental health disabilities in prison.

Friday August 8, 2003

Rock Against Prisons
Benefit Concert, with performances by...

Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac St.
8:00 pm. Donations at the door - all proceeds go to local prisoner support groups.

Cease Wyss Coast Salish Welcome
Shelley Lennox
Stuart Stonechild
Chrystos
Kathleen Yearwood
LOUD
Sunday Skool Dropoutz

This is an all ages event. Children welcome.

Sunday August 10, 2003

27th Annual Prisoners' Justice Day Memorial Day Rally

11am - 12:30pm
Claire Culhane Memorial Bench
SE Corner of Trout Lake, East Vancouver

Speakers include ex-prisoners, prisoners rights activists, plus poets and performers. This is a day to remember all the men and women who have died unnatural deaths inside Canadian prisons.

Everyone welcome. Kids activities on site. Rain or shine. ASL interpretation.

August 4, 6, 7, 9 & 11

Prison Justice Radio: on community radio stations in Vancouver

Mon Aug 4th, 7-8 pm on Stark Raven on Co-op Radio, 102. 7 FM
Wed Aug 6th, 4-5 pm on Radio PIRG, on CJSF, 90.1 FM
Thurs Aug 7th, 5-6pm  Kla How Ya FM, Co-op Radio, 102.7 FM

PRISON JUSTICE SPECIAL PROGRAMMING:
Sat Aug 9th, 1:30 -  6pm, on Co-op Radio, 102.7 FM

BROADCAST OF PJD RALLY
Mon Aug 11th, 7-8pm, Stark Raven, on Co-op Radio, 102.7 FM

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Saturday August 9, 2003

A special day of broadcasting commemorating Prisoners' Justice Day
presented by CHSR 97.9 FM

Tune in to 97.9 FM or listen live on the internet www.unb.ca/chsr for featured programming:

2 pm: Prison Labourers as a Slave Class w/ Candace Mooers

3 pm: Exposing the Truth About Prisons w/ Jenn Thomas

4 pm: Prisons: A Local Problem w/ Jon Cleveland

5 pm: Frederictonians Wrongfully Arrested - a panel discussion facilitated by Asaf Rachid

8 pm: Mother & Child Incarcerations in Canada w/ Mandy Ginson

9 pm: Conditions for Women Prisoners in Canada - interviews w/ Womyn 4 Justice and Kim Pate (Elizabeth Fry
Societies)

10 pm: Angela Davis: The Prison-Industrial Complex (AK Press)

11 pm: Prisons on Fire: George Jackson, Attica & Black Liberation (AK Press)

Midnight: Ward Churchill: Doing Time: The Politics of Imprisonment (AK Press)

1 am: Christian Parenti: Taking Liberties: Prisons, Policing & Surveillance in an Age of Crisis (AK Press)

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Sunday August 10 - Presented by Womyn 4 Justice

Screening of the film Sentenced to Life

Memorial Plaque

The installation of a plaque with the names of federally sentenced women who died inside prison or on parole, the plaque unveiling ceremony will be at the Kingston E-Fry House until Womyn 4 Justice have their own transition house.

Demonstation & Gathering

A demonstration in front of correctional services of canada headquarters and then a gathering in a nearby park.

For more info contact womyn4justice@yahoo.ca

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Friday August 8, 2003

Rock Against Prisons

8pm sharp (doors open at 7:30pm)
Sala Rossa, at 4848 Boulevard St-Laurent
This event will be MC'd by former prisoners. There will be a cover charge on a sliding scale of $6 to $10.

No photographic or video cameras.

It will feature five musical acts in a wide range of musical styles DJ Lynne T (Elektrolysis CKUT), La Jeunesse Apatride, 1-Speed Bike, Ark of Infinity and F.B.I. Jedeyez and many speakers who will expose and denounce how the prison system impacts various groups, including First Nations peoples, refugees and immigrants in detention centers, sex trade workers and, of course, prisoners themselves.

Saturday August 9, 2003

Video Night with DJ Static & Aum Supreme & Info Tables

8pm sharp (doors open at 7:30pm)
Sala Rossa, at 4848 Boulevard St-Laurent
This event will have no cover charge, although donations will be solicited.

No photographic or video cameras.

Video interviews with prisoners, about prisons and prison struggles, will be shown. There will also be information tables from many different organizations exposing the different repressive and oppressive facets of the prison system, prisoner rights activists and former prisoners will be attending.

The proceeds from these events will go to two groups.

The first is the Justice for Joe David Committee. Joe David was a Mohawk Warrior at the Siege of Oka in 1990. In 1999, he was shot in the back by Kanasetake Mohawk Police, which caused him permanent paralysis: he is now quadriplegic, and needs funds for both medical and legal expenses (he is involved in a
civil suit against the police).

The second half of the proceeds for this benefit will go to the group Continuité-famille auprès des détenues et ex-détenues (CFAD). The CFAD helps mothers in prison by arranging trailer visits to unite mothers with their children. CFAD also helps many mothers after their release or when they are in half-way houses, providing a place where they can work, share and be listened to.

Sunday August 10, 2003

Special Radio Programming on CKUT 90.3 FM

There will be six hours of special radio programming on CKUT 90.3 FM, featuring interviews with former prisoners and information about prisons in Canada and internationally. The programming will begin with a description of how Prisoners' Justice Day began as well as an in-depth interview with two prisoners‚ rights activists who will discuss deaths in prison and what is a life sentence. Also, there will be interviews with former prisoners who will discuss everything from the difficulties for prisoners to get a fair parole hearing to psychological abuses committed by Correctional Services Canada and much more. This first part of the programming will be in English and the second half will be in French.

Also tune into CKUT during the week leading up to Prisoners' Justice Day and you will hear other prison-related interviews, including interviews with prisoners. For more information, or to listen online, go to www.ckut.ca

For more information visit the Montreal Prisoners‚ Justice Day Committee website at www.geocities.com/pjd_mtl

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at pjd_mtl@hotmail.com

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Sunday August 10, 2003

These events are being organized by PASAN, Rittenhouse, John Howards, JustUs, Aboriginal Legal Services the Anglican Diocese Working Group on Justice and Corrections.

The Working Group and The Bridge have organized a day of speakers, music, art and worship at the Church of the Holy Trinity from noon -6:00pm

At 8:00 pm there will be a rally at the Don Jail with more speakers and the evening will end with a candlelight vigil to commemorate all the prisoners who have died inside.

For more info contact: info@pasan.ca , www.pasan.org

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