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Radio Paca

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Barcelona
Spain
41° 23' 6.2304" N, 2° 10' 24.2544" E

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Radio Paca is a feminist and women's net-radio project based in Barcelona/Spain and was founded in 2004. The Radio Paca Association - which runs the project since 2007 - aims to support women in achieving competences in communication technologies and information technologies (ICT) through workshops about content management in audio, video and online media, e.g. various workshop and radio projects developed for and with women in prison.

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Anthology call for submissions - Challenging Convictions: Survivors Writing on Solidarity with Prison Abolition

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Call for Submissions

Working Title: Challenging Convictions: Survivors of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Writing on Solidarity with Prison Abolition.

DEADLINE EXTENDED Completed submissions due: June 15, 2012.

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Books & Articles
Calls & Submissions
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Activism
Gender studies
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Prisoner Support
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
Sex and sexualities
Sexual violence
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

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In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.

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Books & Articles
Topic: 
Activism
Gender studies
Prisoner Support
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Tenacious: Art and Writing from Women in Prison. An interview with Vikki Law from New York, United States

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Prisoner Support
Zine
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Tenacious zine started in 2003 after Vikki Law was approached as an outside publisher and co-editor by women incarcerated in Oregon; they needed a self-determined forum for female prisoners' voices after the mainstream media kept ignoring their proposals. Vikki wrote a piece called "Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media" for the feminist magazine, Off Our Backs, detailing this background, and recently published a book entitled Resistance Behind Bars from her involvement in prisoner support and incarcerated women's struggles. An interview with Vikki on the role that zines play in movements for social change, and the importance of striving for liberation for all in freedom, not equality for some in injustice.

Off Our Back article, ""Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media", http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3693/is_200701/ai_n19512053

Interviewee: 
Vikki Law
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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