A bit more frequent than usual, but there are a couple of important events coming up that we wanted to make sure to share. There's also just such a wealth of grassroots support and mutual aid examples that we wanted to share.

Next time we'll get back to our series describing the elements of abolition used in this project, but for now good reading, and maybe we'll see you at a rally, action or event in the days and months to come!

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Learning + Action

• August 10th is Prisoner Day of Justice. [Spring]

• There are events all around including:

  • Vancouver [Vancouver Prison Justice Group/Facebook]

  • Winnipeg (Aug 8) [Barnone]

  • Wiikwemkoong [Wiikwemkoong Unceeded Territory/Facebook]

  • Toronto [Incarcerated Voices of Ontario/Facebook]

  • Ottawa [CPEGP/Instagram]

  • Montreal [OPIRG McGill]

  • Halifax [Elizabeth Fry of Mainland NS/Facebook]

• September 23rd Grassy Narrows River Run Rally [Free Grassy]

• Grassroots and Mutual Aid projects moving us towards community safety

  • Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother during ICE’s Winter Invasion [Hammer and Hope]

  • ‘We want that bond to remain’: the program helping incarcerated fathers see their loved ones [The Guardian]

  • Mutual Aid Canada [Mutual Aid Canada]

  • A Brief History of Challenging E-Carceration Projects[Community Justice Exchange]

  • Book Club for Inmates [Book Club for Inmates]

  • Stop the Stack YYC [Stop the Stack]

  • Carceral Nutrition Program [Carceral Nutrion]

  • We are saying no more to the criminalization and disappearance of Community Members [Presente Maine/Instagram]

  • Walls Down Collective [Walls Down Collective]

  • If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure [Community Justice Exchange]