Tour Details

Thurs­day 28th Sep­tem­ber
Lon­don
7pm, 125 Cale­don­ian Road, Lon­don, N1 9RG
https://www.facebook.com/events/114869449183950/

Fri­day 29th Sep­tem­ber
Cardiff
With IWW Cym­ru Wales and No Pris­ons De Cym­ru
Con­nect Inter­na­tion­al Eng­lish Acad­e­my, First Floor, 26–28 Churchill Way, CF10 2DY Cardiff
https://www.facebook.com/events/129793397664005/

Sat­ur­day 30th Sep­tem­ber
Port Tal­bot
10.30am, Aber­avon Beach Hotel, The Princess Mar­garet Way, Swansea Bay, Port Tal­bot, SA12 6QP
https://www.facebook.com/events/116023012410416/

Swansea
With No Pris­ons De Cym­ru
7pm, Swansea Envi­ron­ment Cen­tre, SA1 1RY
https://www.facebook.com/events/115834292452554/

Sun­day 1st Octo­ber
Bris­tol
With Bris­tol Anar­chist Black Cross
7pm, Kebele, 14 Robert­son Road, Bris­tol, BS5 6JZ
https://www.facebook.com/events/686514301554356/

Mon­day 2nd Octo­ber
Man­ches­ter
With Man­ches­ter No Pris­ons
11am, Par­ti­san Col­lec­tive, 19 Cheetham Hill Road, M4 4FY Man­ches­ter,
https://www.facebook.com/events/695802160615245/

Tues­day 3rd Octo­ber
Leeds
With York­shire Cam­paign Against Pris­ons
Wharf Cham­bers, 23–25 Wharf St, Leeds LS2 7EQ
https://www.facebook.com/events/262431267610681/

Wednes­day 4th Octo­ber
Leices­ter
With Leices­ter Prison Resis­tance
Venue TBA
https://www.facebook.com/events/664969193699307/

Thurs­day 5th Octo­ber
Nor­wich
With DIT Col­lec­tive
Space Stu­dio, Swan Lane, Nor­wich, NR2 1HZ
https://www.facebook.com/events/538149689910439/

About

This Autumn, the Cam­paign to Fight Tox­ic Pris­ons from the US will be tour­ing the UK with Com­mu­ni­ty Action on Prison Expan­sion.

All over the world pris­ons are tox­ic envi­ron­ments caus­ing social and eco­log­i­cal harm. Folks from the US have been organ­is­ing resis­tance at the inter­sec­tion of mass incar­cer­a­tion and the envi­ron­ment, suc­cess­ful­ly delay­ing the only cur­rent Fed­er­al prison con­struc­tion for over 2 years!

Through grass­roots orga­niz­ing, advo­ca­cy and direct action they have been chal­leng­ing the prison sys­tem which is putting pris­on­ers at risk of dan­ger­ous envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions, as well as impact­ing sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties and ecosys­tems by their con­struc­tion and oper­a­tion. Learn about their strat­e­gy and tac­tics, as well as broad­er strug­gles of prison abo­li­tion, anti-racism, and envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice.

Infor­ma­tion will then be shared about resis­tance to the six new mega-pris­ons in Eng­land and Wales, which them­selves are pro­posed for tox­ic sites, includ­ing radi­o­log­i­cal con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and asbestos pol­lu­tion, as well as habi­tat destruc­tion at every site. Learn how you can get involved!

Learn more:

Check out a recent arti­cle we wrote: Fight Tox­ic Pri­ons: Mass Incar­cer­a­tion and Ecol­o­gy –  http://www.prisonabolition.org/fighting-toxic-prisons-mass-incarceration-ecology
Cam­paign to Fight Tox­ic Pris­ons – fighttoxicprisons.org
Com­mu­ni­ty Action on Prison Expan­sion – cape-campaign.org
Emp­ty Cages Col­lec­tive – prisonabolition.org