Stark Raven Radio: A Closer Look at Prisons & the Psychiatric Survivor Movement

Mon May 7th, 2012: FOCUS ON PRISON JUSTICE: Unlocking the Gates to Health for Women || Voices From the Inside
*Unlocking the Gates to Health and the Doing Time Project. Hear about these projects developed by ex-prisoners on how to improve the health and social supports for women as they are released from prison into the community.
*Voices From the Inside: Hear recent writings from Prisoners.

Mon June 4th, 2012: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY: Will Hall || FOCUS ON PRISON JUSTICE: Raising the Civil Dead Prisoners and Community Radio
*Raising the Civil Dead Prisoners and Community Radio. Interview with Heather Anderson on her new book on prisoners and community radio around the globe.
*Will Hall, acclaimed mental diversity counselor and advocate, and host of “Madness Radio

First Monday of each month, 7-8pm.
In Vancouver at 102.7FM, and online: www.coopradio.org
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The Crime Omnibus Bill: What is to be done?
Read an article by Christopher Majka. Find it here.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Challenging Convictions: Survivors of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Writing on Solidarity with Prison Abolition
Completed submissions due (Deadline extended): June 15, 2012.
Full details: survivorsinsoli.blogspot.com

DOCUMENTARY FILM: Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment
UK-based documentary on prison, punishment and alternatives.
Click here to view it online.
More info on the film: www.newfuturemedia.net


Prison Justice Day Pins
*Support Prisoner Solidarity work by purchasing a pin. More info

Literature you can download! Updated Aug 2011
Find 11 leaflets that you can download on our virtual table, on topics ranging from FASD to Alternatives to incarceration to Transgender prisoners in Canada. Includes a new bilingual (French/English) PJD leaflet.

Updated Statistics Aug 2008
Statistics Canada information for year 2005-6.

Mon April 2nd, 2012: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY: Will Hall || FOCUS ON PRISON JUSTICE: Sexual Assault Survivors and Prison Abolition
Listen to the program.
*Will Hall, acclaimed mental diversity counselor and advocate, and host of “Madness Radio”
*Challenging Convictions: Survivors of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Writing on Solidarity with Prison Abolition survivorsinsoli.blogspot.com

Mon March 5th, 2012: PAT CAPPONI || PRISONER VOICES
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*DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY: Activist and Author, Pat Capponi, gives voice to the silent space of the psychiatric patient.
*Voices From the Inside: A Prisoners perscpective on the Omnibus Crime Bill, Joe Convict on hunger strike

Mon Feb 6th, 2012: CENTRALIZATION OF GIRLS INCARCERATION IN BC || DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY
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*DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY: A woman from Runaway House in Berlin talks about her experiences surviving the psychiatric system.
*CENTRALIZATION OF GIRLS INCARCERATION IN BC: Justice For Girls on their concerns with the BC Ministry of Children and Families' plans to centralize the location of incarcerated girls in BC.

Mon Jan 2nd, 2012: CAPTURED BY THE STATE: THE ANTIVIOLENCE MOVEMENT AND THE NON-PROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Listen to the full talk.
*Native American Anti-Violence Activist and Academic, Andrea Smith's keynote address at the 9th Annual Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference held in Montreal, Quebec in 2009.

Mon Dec 5, 2011: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY || WORLD AIDS DAY BEHIND BARS
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*DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY: Mary O'Hagan from New Zealand talks about her work on making a difference to the way society and services respond to people with major mental distress.
* WORLD AIDS DAY BEHIND BARS: Highlights of an interview with Sandra Chu, Senior Policy Analyst with Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, on Bill C-10, the tough on crime omnibus bill, and on harm reduction behind bars in light on the the Supreme Court's recent decision about INSITE, the supervised injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Listen to full the interview.

Mon Nov 7, 2011: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY || FOCUS ON PRISON JUSTICE
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*DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY: Erick Fabris, on his new book Tranquil Prisons: Chemical Incarceration Under Community Treatment Orders. Erick Fabris's original, multidisciplinary research demonstrates how clients are pre-emptively put on chemical agents despite the possibility of alternatives. Vancouver book launch at Gallery Gachet on Nov 10.
*FOCUS ON PRISON JUSTICE: 40 years since the Attica Prison Rebellion, the Omnibus Crime Bill and Angela Davis speaks at Occupy Wall Street.

Mon Oct 3, 2011: WOMEN, MANDATORY MINIMUMS AND DRUG POLICY || DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY
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*Activist and researcher Susan Boyd on mandatory minimums, the Conservative government's drug policy and the impact of these policies on women.
*Deconstructing Psyhchiatry: Daniel Hazen, on Voices of the Heart, a program that provides short-term housing to individuals experiencing mental health crisis, as an alternative to hospitalization

Mon Sept 5, 2011: PRISON JUSTICE DAY RALLY
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*Hear highlights from the 2011 Vancouver Prison Justice Day Memorial Rally, held on August 10th in East Vancouver.
View the PJD Rally video online.

Mon Aug 1, 2011: PRISON JUSTICE DAY SPECIAL.
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*Filis Iverson, long time Prison Justice Day organizer on prison expansion, the campaign against the Omnibus Crime bill and upcoming Prison Justice Day events.
*Update on the Pelican Bay SHU Supermax prisoner hunger strike.

Mon July 4, 2011: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE
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*Artist, Activist and prisoner P. Collins on the censorship of his portrait of Ashley Smith.
*More on the current Hunger Strike at the Special Handling Unit at the infamous Pelican Bay Maximum Security Prison in California.
*Psychiatric Survivor movement interview with Peter Lehmann from Berlin, publisher of books on alternatives to mainstream psychiatry.

Mon June 6th: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY.
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*Daniel Hazen, an educator and advocate, speaks for human rights of psychiatric prisoners. He is is part of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and is presenting at the PsychOUT conference in NYC in June 2011. Audio Coming Soon.
*Investigative journalist, Rob Wipond, shares his thoughts on why BC’s Mental Health Act is draconian in its mandated treatment of mental patients. Audio Coming Soon.

Mon May 2nd: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHIATRY.
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*'Deconstructing Psychiatry' - breaking the silence of psychiatric oppression. Hear from investigative medical journalist, Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. Audio Coming Soon.