The politics of prisons: Women’s critiques and alternatives

The CENÎ Women's Office is organising an online panel discussion at 7 p.m. as part of the 'Solidarity Keeps Us Alive' campaign. Speakers include the founder of the Black Sovereign Nation, Njera Keith from the USA and Yara Hawari from Palestine.

Around the world, prison systems rely on systems and structures that oppress and subjugate groups of people for the purpose of exploitation and social control. Prisons are a site of struggle for many social movements, which believe in approaches to justice and social peace beyond authoritarianism, surveillance and violence. Why do prison struggles matter to women? What could prison abolition look like from a feminist perspective?

These and other questions will be discussed by women from different countries in an online panel discussion this evening at 7pm (CET). The panel is organized by the Kurdish Women's Office for Peace – CENÎ, which is based in Düsseldorf, as part of the ‘Solidarity Keeps Us Alive’ campaign.

Speakers are:

Njera Keith & Kristina Brown (United States)

Ayse Berktay (Turkey/Kurdistan)

Glenis Balangue-Dalkiran (Philippines)

Yara Hawari (Palestine)

Blandine Juchs (Colombia)

The event will take place on Zoom. Interested parties can write an email to [email protected] to receive the invitation link and password.

The panel discussion will be streamed live on Youtube: