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work,

» People, of colour are the *
“majority of prisoners in'state ;

and federal prisons in the |

‘The purpose of the con
ence, was to show the deep
onnection between the cor-
porate economy. and punish
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while at the same. tinie eating’. : Sporting Goods use prisoners

to work their phone reserv

it this way: “Why go abroad,
when you can have a-disci-“’

“plined workforce at home?"

in.a video to. entice more:cor.

-* porations to join the “Joint,

Ventureship Program”: of.
placing factories in prison:

“. The Critical Resistance ,
Conterence launched a large:
scale campaign to combat the

» prison industrial coinplex and

: to show how prison issues are
connected to, work in other *

* political arenas.i!.6:

-! These ‘include police. vio-”
lence'and brutality, crimina
ization of communities of
‘colour and First’ Nations’ peo
ples, criminalization of sex

“3, workers, and the new form

of slavery like workfarc-and
indentured migrant labour.

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health, education, prisoner:

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industry.and media, partic
pants shared, networked and
strategized to fight this. 3.
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“the conference, testifying, to
how the prison industrial
complex is growing here.
* Critical Resistance has
rought: together activists
fromall over North America
to make, the conticctions:,
-between all our struggles and
‘the fight: for.prisoners rights
andthe abolition of the'p
ishment system. For updat
on Critical Resistance. see, the
-Prison Activist Resource 5;:'
Centre <www.igc.org/pris
ons>and. the. Web page of the

Critical Resistance Conference’

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