Self Determination Inside Out – Interference Archive

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Exhibitions / Self Determination Inside Out

Self-Determination Inside/Out

September 11, 2014 - November 16, 2014

September 11 – November 16, 2014 Opening: Thursday, September 11, 7-10pm Interference Archive presents Self-Determination Inside/Out, a comprehensive exhibition and public program series featuring the cultural materials produced by incarcerated people and their allies. Ranging from the Attica Rebellion to political prisoners, AIDS education to prisoners-as-laborers, the struggles of incarcerated women and queer people to the current wave of hunger strikes in prisons and detention centers across the country, these materials fundamentally recast the history of the prison-industrial complex.

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Self-Determination Inside/Out Catalog

full color offset printed booklet/timeline $5

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Self-Determination Inside/Out Poster

Screenprinted exhibition poster $15

Events

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Film screening: Out in the Night

Saturday, November 15, 2014 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Saturday November 15, 2014 Screening & discussion 5 pm-7:30pm Closing party to follow Join director blair dorosh-walther and nd Terrain Dandridge, Patreese Johnson, and Renata Hill of the New Jersey 4 for a screening of Out in the Night.

Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians from Newark, who were out one night in 2006, in the gay friendly West Village in New York City, when they were violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defended themselves and were charged and convicted in the courts, and smeared by the media as a 'Gang of Killer Lesbians'. Come hear how the NJ 4's courage and resistance challenges the misogyny, racism, and homophobia of society and the (in)justice system, and sheds light on who is granted the right to self-defense.

Closing party for the exhibition Self-Determination Inside/Out to follow the screening!

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Steps Toward Prison Abolition: A Strategic Conversation

Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Thursday, November 13th 7-9 pm As part of Self-Determination Inside/Out, Milk Not Jails and RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison) host this informal discussion about the different political strategies we embrace in our fight for prison abolition.

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Riot, Conspiracy, or Rebellion: The Pontiac Brothers Slideshow

Sunday, November 9, 2014 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Sunday, November 9 **PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE!** 4-6pm Dr. Toussaint Losier, Assistant Professor in African Americans and the Law at the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, presents a 35mm slide show created in the late 1970s to raise consciousness and support for the Pontiac Brothers, and discusses the reaction of the state of Illinois, which prosecuted 17 of the incarcerated men for murder. We will examine how the Pontiac and Stateville prison revolts reverberate through organizing into the present day.

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Revolution from within: political prisoners in the 45-year narrative of U.S. prisons

Saturday, October 25, 2014 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Saturday, October 25th, 2014

2:00-4:00 pm

Revolution from within: political prisoners in the 45-year narrative of U.S. prisons

As part of Self-Determination Inside/Out, former political prisoners, family members and advocates lead a tour and share stories related to the exhibit.

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Screening: Control

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Tuesday, October 14 7-9pm As part of Self-Determination Inside/ Out, Interference Archive will be screening Control, an observational documentary about the ways the juvenile justice system permeates the lives of the people it targets. Join us for this screening and discussion about the impacts of the juvenile justice system and some of the current struggles against it. With filmmakers Chris Bravo and Lindsey Schneider, and special guests TBA.

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Shattering Captivity: Struggles of Incarcerated People Against Solitary Confinement, Control Units, and Communication Management Units

Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Thursday, October 2 7-9pm As part of Self-Determination Inside/ Out, Interference Archive brings together people and family members of people formerly incarcerated in isolation for a spirited discussion exploring the history of isolated confinement, as well as historical and contemporary organizing against it. With Tyrell Muhammad, Five Mualima-ak, Susan Rosenberg, and Sharmin Sadequee.

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Private Prisons Fueling Criminalization: Climate Change, Immigration, and Prisons

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 7-9pm Private prisons and their major investors are fueling the criminalization and incarceration of immigrants and people of color. As climate change accelerates and creates large refugee communities of color, how will the prison industry respond? Join this talk hosted by Enlace with organizers from National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR), Families for Freedom, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, CUNY Prison Divest, and Columbia Prison Divest.

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Self-Determination Inside/Out Exhibition Tour

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 7-9pm Join the curators and other prison activists for a tour and roving discussion of Self-Determination Inside/Out: Prison Movements Reshaping Society!