12 MARCH
Support the strike!
Theme day on ‘Abolition’
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SOAS
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10am
On Abolishing the University (Kerem Nisancioglu)
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11am
On Abolishing Prisons (Becka Hudson)
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12pm
Truth or Justice? (Brenna Bhandar, Lowkey and Daniel Renwick)
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1pm
Feminist Praxis and Civil Disbodience (Ghiwa Sayegh, editor-in-chief of Kohl: a journal of gender and body research)
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2pm
On Abolishing Prisons (Adam Elliott-Cooper)
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4pm
On Abolishing Food Banks (Camille Barbagello)
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12-4pm Abolition workshops @ Gazebo on the Green
Abolition Movements 101: Transformative Justice Practices in Our Organising Spaces
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Sodexo, Prison Labour and the Food System: Communities Against Prison Reform Presentation
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Sisters Uncut on the Holloway Prison Occupation
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BIRKBECK
4pm
Abolition Workshop: What’s wrong with Prison Reform? / Why we need Non-Reformist Reforms (Dr Sarah Lamble)
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Many people are sympathetic to calls for abolishing prison, but struggle to see how this might actually be achieved. This workshop will explore what’s wrong with traditional reform and why such reforms – despite good intentions – often tend to deepen and entrench the power of the criminal system. The workshop will then discuss the concept of “Non-Reformist Reforms” or “Abolitionist Reforms” and explore practical examples of what non-reformist reforms look like and how we might take up these strategies in our everyday lives, campaigning work and advocacy.
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5pm
Haringey anti raids - Immigration raids resistance workshop
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Immigration raids play a key part in enforcing the government’s hostile environment. In this teach out Haringey Anti Raids will explain how and where immigration raids take place, what people’s rights are if they are stopped by immigration enforcement officers and how you can contribute to community resistance in your local area. Haringey Anti Raids are a community group based in Tottenham who have been supporting a community approach to raids resistance over the last few years through outreach, workshops and community activity.
6pm
"Universities Challenged" quiz (Adimaya Keni)
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OPEN INVITATION: Calling all pickets! After days in the cold, wet and often wonderful, you deserve a treat, so let's get quizzical with the Birkbeck School of Law. If you are feeling a bit 'action short of a total strike' by now this quiz is definitely what you need. Together we'll test our knowledge of random stuff related to our striking lives and institutions, AND experience a whole new way of counting (jelly) beans and earning a few (chocolate) pennies. Up for grabs is a dose of total solidarity and a visit to a REAL PUB at the end.