Come join the Family Advocacy Network of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children at an opening reception for
INVISIBLE PUNISHMENT: A Photovoice Exhibit on Prisons and Our Communities
Thursday, November 17th @ 6pm
Asian Resource Gallery
310 Eight Street at Harrison
Oakland Chinatown
Great Food! Music! Poetry!
(photo at right by Nancy Johnson)
This project is a culmination of a year’s worth of work in which community photographers from three different groups documented the impact of prisons on the everyday life of their families, their neighborhoods and themselves. Invisible Punishment is an intergenerational project, bringing together formerly incarcerated women in recovery, high school students, and family members of prisoners to create a snapshot of the many invisible consequences that mass incarceration has on the community. It challenges the failed “tough on crime” attitudes and “war on drugs” policies that have led to prison overcrowding, needlessly punitive conditions, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world.
The exhibit also includes posters from a design competition launched by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) Prison Design Boycott campaign, which promotes the idea of collective resistance to expanding the prison system. Over 400 architects and design professionals have signed ADPSR’s pledge not to work on prisons or jails.
Join us at the reception for this remarkable exhibit, and hear participants from all three projects talk about their photographs. There will be great food, music and poetry.
For more information, contact Greg at 510-532-9692 or Maisha at 415-255-7036, ext.306
Sponsored by A New Way of Life, East Bay Asian Local Development Corp., Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Family Advocacy Network and OASES High School
