Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Thornhaugh St. Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
Wheelchair accessible venue
Maps:  http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/
FREE ADMISSION

If you need accessibility support, help with transportation costs or more info:
 communities.of.resistance@gmail.com or www.co-re.org

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Film Screenings include:
« Excerpts from INJUSTICE (Ken Faro & Tariq Mehmood, UK, 2001)

A film about struggles for justice by the families of people who have died in police custody. [*If you would like to see the entire film, there will be a pre-event screening of Injustice from 5:00-6:30pm in the Khalili Theatre.]  http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk/

« Shorts from the INSIDE FILM PROJECT (UK, 2006)

Inside Film began in August 2006 in HMP Wandsworth with the aim of using film as a means of creative expression and as an educational tool. Out of the project emerged 5 exciting short films created and produced by prisoners, which use their own voices to tell their stories.  http://www.insidefilm.org/

« THIS BLACK SOIL (Teresa Konechne, USA, 2004) 58 minutes

This award-winning film chronicles the inspiring struggle of Bayview, Virginia, USA, a small and impoverished rural African-American community, which successfully defeated a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard and instead pursued a new vision of economic justice. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/this.html


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Prisoners Justice Day is an international event started by prisoners to acknowledge and remember all those who have died in prison and police custody. Since 1995, more than 2000 people have died in custody in Britain. This year alone, there have been 118 deaths in custody in England and Wales. As the British government currently embarks on a massive prison expansion project to create 20,000 new prison spaces, even more people will be vulnerable to such violence. This event will provide an opportunity to reflect on organizing against deaths in custody and to link with current struggles against prison expansion, immigration and psychiatric detention and state violence both at home and abroad.