Prisoners’ Justice Day 2022 — Events
Prisoners’ Justice Day 2022
Events
Eddie Nalon died alone in a segregation cell in Millhaven Institution located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on August 10th, 1974. A year later, Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD) was first observed by imprisoned people held in the same Canadian federal penitentiary who engaged in a one-day hunger and work strike in support of their demands to end solitary confinement and other injustices behind bars. Since then, PJD has been marked by people inside and outside prison walls across the world. PJD events are taking place across the country on August 10th to commemorate the lives lost to human caging and to stand in solidarity with prisoners who are demanding an end to draconian conditions of confinement that have only become more barbaric during the COVID-19 pandemic. In support of these efforts, the Abolition Coalition is organizing PJD TV on August 10th from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. The online broadcast will feature footage from local PJD events, as well as segments with criminalized people and community organizers, to expose the brutalities of imprisonment and work towards abolitionist futures where we keep each other safe and respond to harm in our communities in transformative ways.
PJD 2022 NATIONAL BROADCAST
PJD TV 2022 (hosted by El Jones and Desmond Cole)
August 10, 2022
6:30pm-9:30pm ET
The Breach (with ASL)
https://breachmedia.ca/prisonerjustice2022/
* Pre-broadcast coverage from 6:00pm-6:30pm ET and post-broadcast coverage from 9:30pm-10:00pm ET will be available via No Prisons Facebook Live
https://www.facebook.com/Noprisonsca
https://www.facebook.com/events/594619738915524
MI’KMA’KI / HALIFAX
Prisoners’ Justice Day: Regulation Cannot Wait Any Longer
August 10, 2022
6:00pm – 8:00pm ADT
North End Community Library (2285 Gottingen Street)
Eventbrite Link
TIO’TIA:KE / MOONIYANG / MONTREAL
Workshop: Fuck the New Migrant Prison in Laval
Saturday, August 6, 2022
3:00pm-4:45pm ET
CÉDA, room 123
2515 rue Delisle
Métro Lionel-Groulx
Workshop: What happened to Prisoners’ Justice Day?
Prisoner Justice Day 2022 organizing collective
Saturday, August 6, 2022
11:00-12:45pm ET
CÉDA, room 123
2515 rue Delisle
Métro Lionel-Groulx
VIGIL
Prisoners’ Justice Day / Journée de la justice pour les détenu.e.s
Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal
August 10, 2022 / le 10 août 2022
18h30-20h30 ET
Park Vinet (CEDA), 550 Rue Vinet, H3J 2L5
Metro Lionel Groulx
UNCEDED AND UNSURRENDERED ALGONQUIN ANISHINAABE TERRITORY / OTTAWA
Prisoners’ Justice Day Release Camps for People Released
from the Ottawa Courthouse and Jail
August 6 and 10, 2022
9:30am-4:00pm ET
Locations to be announced
Cabaret Solidarité for the Prisoners’ Justice Day Review:
A Fundraiser for the JAIL Hotline
August 9, 2022
Starts at 8:00pm ET
Avant-Garde Bar (135 Besserer Street)
Prisoners’ Justice Day Vigil
August 10, 2022
6:00pm-8:00pm ET
Major’s Hill Park
KATAROKWI / KINGSTON
Prisoners’ Justice Day Healing Circle
August 10, 2022
Starts at 1:00pm ET
Prison for Women | P4W (40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard)
Prisoners’ Justice Day Special Broadcast in Remembrance
of Those Who Have Died Behind Bars
August 10, 2022
4:00pm-10:00pm ET
CFRC 101.9FM, CJAI 92.1FM or cfrc.ca
TKARONTO / TORONTO
Prisoners’ Justice Day – August 10th 2022:
No More Deaths in Custody!
August 10, 2022
4:30pm-7:30pm ET
Allan Gardens Park (Gerrard Street and Shelbourne Avenue)
TREATY 1 TERRITORY / WINNIPEG
Prisoners’ Justice Day:
A Vigil in Solidarity With Those Who Have Died in Custody
August 10, 2022
Starts at 6:15pm CT
Winnipeg Remand Centre (141 Kennedy Street)
UNCEDED AND ANCESTRAL TERRITORIES OF THE xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (MUSQUEAM), (səl̓ilwətaɁɬ) TSLEIL-WAUTUTH AND (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) SQUAMISH COAST SALISH NATIONS / VANCOUVER
Prison Justice Day Memorial
August 10, 2022
6:00pm-8:00pm PT
Claire Culhane Memorial Bench
Trout Lake Park
Prison Justice Day Memorial
August 10, 2022
6:00pm-8:00pm PT
Claire Culhane Memorial Bench
Trout Lake Park