Dec 12, 2020
Join PRS in imagining abolition by creating communities where we
care for and keep one another safe in a world liberated from cages,
police, and institutional state violence in part-two of our Toronto
Prisoners’ Rights Project interview pre-recorded and aired on
Thursday, December 10, 2020 on ckut.ca, 90.3 fm. TPRP
organizers, Rajean and Rosa get to the heart of their critical work
supporting those on the inside with a jail hotline, a prisoner
support fund and about the hard collective work of fostering real
and practical ways to fight against the prison industrial complex
and police by creating networks of self and community care and
reflecting on black and Indigenous freedom and liberation movements
like the Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter TO, the Bear Clan
Patrol, as well as the racist white supremacist settler-colonial
roots of policing in so called Canada, and the growing solidarity
between black and Indigenous abolition movements regionally and
across the continent.
TPRP is a coalition of researchers, law students, front-line
workers and people with lived experience engaged in public
education and mutual aid work to shed light on the harms caused by
incarceration, and connect incarcerated and recently released
populations with legal, community, financial, and health
supports.