Image by Jesse Purcell.
Created for the Critical Resistance ten year anniversary conference in Oakland, California, which took place in 2008. Critical Resistance Ten was a gathering of activists, educators, and allies of prisoners who came together to promote organizing efforts against the monstrous excesses of the US prison system.
Justseeds organized an art portfolio in collaboration with Critical Resistance Ten called Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex. The portfolio project involved twenty artists and one artist collective, with work coming from the US, Canada and Mexico. Each print critiqued or addressed alternatives to the prison-industrial complex.
A tall vertical image featuring a montage of handcuffs, a black silhouette of a raven or other bird in flight, prison bars, and a large red maple leaf. Text above states, “Indigenous peoples make up 3 percent of the total population, 21 percent of the male prison population, 30 percent of the female prison population.” Text superimposed over the red maple leaf states: “Canadian prisons, Apartheid in action.”
