Bored but not broken: Home, home on the range
Well, I've been here almost four weeks now, I'm all settled in and I've got the routine down. So now it's time for me to answer the question I get asked the most by folks on the outside: "So what do...
View ArticleBored but not broken: 'Oh shit... they've got gloves on!'
Today, February 4, we didn't get let out for breakfast. Or after breakfastLOCKDOWN.When this happens, the hatches in our cell doors get opened so the range workers can pass our food through. (range...
View ArticleBored but not broken: 'What did you do at school today?'
Today is Family Day.It seems like an appropriate time to talk about how the state uses the criminal justice system and the prison-industrial complex to rip apart families in poor, marginalized and...
View ArticleIntersections between gender and the Prison Complex
Publish Date: March 29, 2012Summary: A workshop that uses media to get folks thinking about prison and gender gender_equality52.jpgThis two hour long workshop outline uses group activities to...
View ArticleLebanon's Khiam prison now open
I go south to stay with M and his family, and over the next week see a number of Lebanon's significant sites of resistance and victory over the Zionist occupation of southern Lebanon, including a...
View ArticleBored but not broken: A series of unfortunate events
Saturday, March 17The past few days have been the worst yet. Since I got here, I've been putting a lot of effort into a few specific things: my health, a daily routine, responding to mail, working on...
View ArticleBored but not broken: Notes from Leah
Leah Henderson wrote these words and requested that they be posted here on Mandy's blog:March 29, 2012Why Me?So, this can't normally be said in jail: everything has changed.For those of you who don't...
View ArticleTwo on 'verge of death' as Palestinian prisoners hold mass hunger strike
Is this show currently playing? May 10, 2012 Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail are holding a mass hunger strike; two of the arrested have gone 70 days without food. YouTubeScreen Shot...
View ArticleFrom Dresden to Abu Ghraib: Western leaders get away with murder
June 7, 2012Cultivate Canada's media. Support rabble.ca. Become a member.Citing the U.S., U.K. and Israel as prime examples of democratic states infringing human rights, Democracy's Blameless Leaders...
View ArticleMandy Hiscocks: Am I getting jail-lite?
In my last blog I wrote about the anger management program I'd just started. Well, I slogged through all five sessions and while I did learn a few things I have to say that ironically it just made me...
View ArticleBored but not broken: And now, to answer the big question...
And now, to answer the big question...Today I need to start with an apology for how behind I've gotten in replying to my mail. I've been putting a lot of time and energy into the Peak's upcoming...
View ArticleLabour news this week: corporate tax cuts created few jobs; bad week for...
Corporations sitting on money saved from tax cuts rather than creating jobs, says CLC reportMost of the money businesses have saved from the deep cuts to Canada's corporate tax rates since 2000 have...
View ArticleGuantanamo hunger strike garners widespread support
rey-2013-05-13a.mp3The vast majority of prisoners in Guatanamo are now on hunger strike in protest against their continued detention without charge or trial. Some have been on hunger strike for three...
View ArticleLabour News: Veteran's union aims to stop office closures, federal inmates...
University of Manitoba faculty approves letting union call strike vote300 of 305 members of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) gave their bargaining team the mandate to call for a...
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