Prison Nation Opens
Posted June 16, 2008 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex opened this past weekend in Los Angeles. A show of prison-related posters collected and organized by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, it contains dozens of posters created around many prison-related issues, from overcrowding to women in prison, political prisoners to racism in the justice system. I've even got a couple posters in the show!
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex
William Grant Still Arts Center
2520 West View St.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Open Daily: 12-5pm
323.734.1164
Even though the opening has past, they have a huge schedule of events planned, if you are in LA, check some of this out:
Monday June 16, 2008
REMEMBER SOWETO Schools Not Prisons
Town Hall Meeting:
6 pm
Can We Build Our Way Out of Prison Overcrowding?
Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB will give a history of prison expansion in California and Gov Schwarzenegger's plans for 53,000 new prison and jail beds. http://www.curbprisonspending.org/
Panel Discussion:
7 pm
Moderated by Phyllis Jackson. Panelists include: Action Committee for Women in Prison; All of Us or None/A New Way of Life; Critical Resistance L.A; Drug Policy Alliance; Families to Amend Three Strikes; and Youth Justice Coalition, Free LA
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Saturday June 21
Art Workshops:
1- 4 pm
1. Poster Making Workshop: presented by Ami Motevalli and facilitated by Ami Motevalli and Jessica Guidel.
This workshop will look at Political Posters from the perspective of creating people's media that can be used for counter propaganda. We begin by looking at posters and the tools used to share information and convey research through graphics. We will then create our own posters to get a hands-on understanding of the principles of design that help convey a message.
2. Workshop to help build the 53,000 Paper Doll Ribbon - THWART AB900:Facilitated by Mary Sutton and Kay Brown
The paper doll ribbon represents 53,000 individuals who could potentially fill California's new prison and jail beds to be constructed under AB900-citizens of California that should not go to prison but be offered other services like, chemical dependency treatment, healthcare, housing and better education.
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Saturday, June 28
LA Social Forum Prison Workshops, http://lasocialforum.org/joomla/
9am - 6pm
Workshops by: Action Committee for Women in Prison; All of Us or None/A New Way of Life; Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB; Critical Resistance, LA; Families to Amend Three Strike; Youth Justice Coalition and more.
Shuttle busses will be available to transport people between the LA Social Forum activities at the USC Campus and those at the William Grant Still Arts Center.
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LA Social Forum Prison Workshops, http://lasocialforum.org/joomla/
9am - 6pm
Workshops by: Action Committee for Women in Prison; All of Us or None/A New Way of Life; Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB; Critical Resistance, LA; Families to Amend Three Strike; Youth Justice Coalition and more.
Shuttle busses will be available to transport people between the LA Social Forum activities at the USC Campus and those at the William Grant Still Arts Center.
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Saturday, June 28
LA Social Forum Party
7:30 -10:30 pm
Music and Refreshments
Music by Marcus Miller and Saturday Night Bath
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Saturday July 1
6-8 pm
Support the San Francisco Eight (SF8)
Film: Legacy of Torture and Panel with SF8
Defendants Ray Boudreaux and Hank Jones
www.freedomarchives.org
The San Francisco Eight defendants were arrested in January at their homes in Florida, New York, and California. Now they are being vindictively prosecuted for an alleged involvement in the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. In 1975, this same charge was thrown out of California courts when it was proven that police used torture to extract false statements.
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Sunday, July 12
The Poetry of Protest: 3-5 pm
Featuring: Sarah Husain- www.sarahhusain.com
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Sherman Pearl, Imani Tolliver
www.imanitolliver.com, and La Poeta Carmen Vega.
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex
The United States has the largest prison population in the world-over 2.3 million individuals. California, with over 170,000 inmates, is currently embarking on the largest prison construction project in the world. Since 1980 California has built 23 new prisons that have been filled at double capacity. People of color, the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill, youth, and women are a large part of the growing population. This phenomenal growth is due to mandatory drug sentencing laws, conspiracy provisions, a dysfunctional parole system, inadequate legal representation, and huge profits made by multi- national corporations building and servicing the prisons. The posters in Prison Nation cover many of the critical issues surrounding this overzealous system of mass incarceration including: access to education and health care, the death penalty, divestment, privatization, racism/slavery, re-entry into the community, sweatshop labor, Three Strikes, and torture.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Sandra Pettit and individual donors.
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