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Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons

Started by dalebert, November 26, 2012, 09:37:51 PM

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Wasn't sure the best place to post this so maybe a mod will decide to move it. She talks about the trans community at about 9:30 in.



Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons
--An interview with author Victoria Law
By Angola 3 News

Activist and journalist Victoria Law is the author of "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women" (PM Press, 2009). Law has previously been interviewed by Angola 3 News on two separate occasions. Our first interview focused on the torture of women prisoners in the US. The second interview looked at how the women's liberation movements of the 1970s advocated for the decriminalization of women's self defense. Taking this critique of the US criminal "justice" system one step further, Law presented a prison abolitionist critique of the how the mainstream women's movement, then and now, has embraced the same "justice" system as a vehicle for combating violence against women.