Prisoners’ Justice Day - 10 August
International Prisoners' Justice Day on 10 August is a reminder that we must end the violence of human caging and fight against the world that allows it to exist. When you look at who's in prison in countries around the world, it is so obvious that prisons have been and are tools of colonising empires and capitalism. Prisons are blatant examples of the criminalisation of the indigenous, of the poor, of people identified as 'other' and different by states the world over. In this country the reality of our history of colonisation is laid bare: Māori are vastly over-represented in prison statistics. It is in prisons that the racist and class nature of capitalism is clearly exposed. The fight to end prisons is a fight for a just world. At the Freedom Shop we have some books and zines about prison, including: Hell Is A Very Small Place: Voices From Solitary Confinement by Jean Casella Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society's Crimes by Ann Hansen Hauling Up the Morn