
Interesting work from ADPSR (Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility:
They are "pledging to not participate in the design, construction, or renovation of prisons. We also invite you to learn more about the prison system, to join us in envisioning more just and productive alternatives to incarceration, and to work towards a society that treats all its members with dignity, equality, and justice."
It is time to stop building prisons.
Our prison system is both a devastating moral blight on our society and an overwhelming economic burden on our tax dollars, taking away much needed resources from schools, health care and affordable housing. The prison system is corrupting our society and making us more threatened, rather than protecting us as its proponents claim. It is a system built on fear, racism, and the exploitation of poverty. Our current prison system has no place in a society that aspires to liberty, justice, and equality for all.
As architects, we are responsible for one of the most expensive parts of the prison system, the construction of new prison buildings. Almost all of us would rather be using our professional skills to design positive social institutions such as universities or playgrounds, but these institutions lack funding because of spending on prisons. If we would rather design schools and community centers, we must stop building prisons.
To learn more, and support them: http://www.adpsr.org/prisons/
April 1, 2013 at 4:30pm to July 1, 2013 at 5:45pm – Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence
Prison Mindfulness Institute's FREE Post Release / Community Meditation and Yoga class at the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence: Every MONDAY, 4:30 - 5:45 with Richard Sylvester a…
Organized by Carter (PDN Admin) | Type: class, -, every, monday!
0 Comments 1 LikeMay 6, 2013 at 7pm to May 23, 2013 at 9pm – Online
With Fleet Maull May 6 - 23 Six Sessions, (Mondays & Thursdays for three weeks) Hope you can join us! Hours for the training are: 7-9pm Eastern 5-7pm Mountain Time 4-6pm Pacific This program is…
Organized by Carter (PDN Admin) | Type: facilitator, training, webinar
0 Comments 4 LikesJune 29, 2013 at 11am to June 30, 2013 at 6pm – California Institute of Integral Studies
The Prison Yoga Project (PYP) in collaboration with the Insight Prison Project is offering a special training at San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies (C.I.I.S.) for yoga teachers…
Organized by jennifer@insightprisonproject.org | Type: yoga, facilitator, training
0 Comments 0 LikesAugust 4, 2013 to August 14, 2013 – Yoga Farm, Grass Valley, CA, USA
Yoga Alliance certification CEUs available Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit…
Organized by Durga Leela | Type: certificate, training, course
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