A Gathering Against the Prison Society 31st Oct/1st Nov 2009 Brighton, UK

Timetable : A Gathering Against the Prison Society

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31st Oct/1st Nov 2009 - Cowley Club, 12 London Road,
Brighton, UK

2 Days of discussions & presentations about the struggle
for liberation, inside and outside of the prison walls.
Organised by random anarchists and the Anarchist Black
Cross.

As the economic crisis hits deeper and people get
organised and angry, the state needs media diversions like
the War on Terror, escalating political repression,
paramilitary policing, new prisons & immigration detention
centres, biometrics, surveillance, relentless imperialist
incursions - All to maintain the class divisions that
ensure continued economic exploitation. The UK State,
leading others, is about to proceed on a major prison building project, whilst more and more our societies already
resemble open prisons. It all has to go.

This is a call for debate and exchange, to reflect and agitate...

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Provisional Timetable

Sat 31/Oct

9.30 Breakfast

10.30 Introduction of the event and of people.

11.20 Campaign Against Prison Slavery
Forced labour, long a feature of prisons around the globe, has many
functions: as punishment, to extract reparations for the cost of
imprisonment and even simply as a means of keeping prisoners physically
exhausted so they are less likely to rebel. However, it is increasingly
being used both as an integral component of prison control and discipline
regimes and as a method of generating capital from a section of society
that up till now has been held to have no intrinsic labour value.

- - --.--

Talk with the anarchist comrades from Portugal
"It doesn't seem realistic to us to talk about an anti-prison struggle in
Portugal. There is an ongoing tension and struggle against this
prison-society. We commit to fighting not just one repressive aspect of
it. The problems are everywhere and our enemy is this whole system. With
this we don't mean that we haven't targeted prisons or fought in
solidarity with rebellious prisoners. It is quite clear for us that
prisons are a fundamental pillar of the state's repressive system. They
are a direct threat for all of us.
And so, we've had experiences of aiming our attack against the
penitentiary system.. It is about these experiences and their context in a
larger/global struggle that we would like to talk. We're interested in
sharing the practice we had and the reflections that came from that
practice so far. We want to debate the theory and the methods we choose,
so that we determine the way we want this struggle to be. We're also
interested in mentioning some specific cases because of their unexpected
outcome- both positive and negative."

13.00 Lunch + Break

14.00 Feedback from Greece
Revolutionary solidarity in theory and in practice. An anarchist comrade
from Athens speaking about the increasingly repressive aftermath of the
December uprising and also about the outcome of the November 2008
prisoners hungerstrike. There will be an overview of the cases of
bankrobbing anarchist prisoners Giannis Dimitrakis and Gorgos
Voutsis-Vogiatzis, and details of the mass repressive measures taken
against immigrants.

15.00 Presentation from anarchist comrades from Berlin, Germany
Some comrades from Berlin are going to give a brief overview about the
situation there for what concerns the increasing of acts of attack against
state and capital and the reaction to it by the agents of repression: one
of the examples are the ongoing trials against several comrades and the
widening of social control. Partly-privatization within german prisons and
other developments within the prison world are going to be touched, as
well as moments of resistance against it, both from the outside as on the
inside.

16.00 Discussion

- - --.-- Close

20.30 Benefit Gig "All Cops Are Brothers" w/ Spanner, Crowzone & Jesus
Bruiser. Donations entry.

- - --->

Sun 1/Nov

10.30 Breakfast

11.20 Open Session (...)



- - --.-- Lunch + Break

--.-- Open Session (...)

- - --.-- The Shape of Things to Come
Presentation by Tony Bunyan of StateWatch.org, about new European security
architecture, biometrics & surveillance technologies and the open prison
society.

- - --.-- Combating the open prison : Closing Discussion
Our modern consumer capitalist societies are becoming increasingly like
open prisons, watched and spied on, monitored and databased, the average
UK citizen is in a prison of monstrous proportions. We need a social and
libertarian revolution for a world where we control the direction of our
own lives.
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Friday, 7 August 2009
Gathering Leaflet