Tell GMCA: No New Prisons In Manchester! Demonstration on 10/08/2016
With prison conditions ever-worsening in the UK, national and local government is gearing up to push a new “mega-prison” on Greater Manchester, committing the area to a future of expensive, ineffective and inhumane imprisonment and sucking up millions of pounds that should be going towards health and social services. In response, the past few months have seen Reclaim Justice Network has call for a moratorium on new prison construction — https://downsizingcriminaljustice.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/reclaim-justice-network-calls-for-moratorium-on-prison-building/ — and the National Union of Students Black Students’ Conference passing a motion calling for nation-wide prison abolition.
Join Manchester No Prisons on Prisoners’ Justice Day, an international call for “mourning, remembrance, advocacy and protest” in solidarity with those victimised by the world’s un-just prison systems, to demand that Greater Manchester Combined Authority commit to a ban on new prison construction in Manchester, and stand in solidarity with the past, present and future victims of the country’s criminal justice system.
We’ll be assembling outside the City Hall on Albert Square at 5PM, and then marching to the GMCA office at 6PM.
Everyone is also welcome at the placard-making / organising meeting the day before (Tuesday August 9th) at Partisan collective’s space on Mount Street.
