From Activist to 'Terrorist' - three messages
On Tuesday evening, April 4th, Jake Conroy spoke at Tory St in Wellington. Jake describes himself as 'a scrawny white American vegan who got sentenced to time in a US prison'. About 40 people attended his talk 'From Activist to Terrorist'. He left us with three key messages: Think about prisons and prisoners, the lives people are forced to live there - the spaces they are forced to inhabit. One simple thing to do is write letters to people inside. Don't be scared of the threat of state repression. Do fight-back. Figure out what you can do and find like-minded people and strategise how to bring about liberation. At the Freedom Shop we have a range of books written by people inside or those involved in prison abolition and penal politics, including: Abolitionist Demands: Toward the End of Prisons in Aotearoa by No Pride in Prison Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of a Penal Colony by Clément Duval Hauling Up the Morning: Writings and Art by political prisoners and pri