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Shockwave (SW) Punk-Rock
Hailing from the working-class city of Saint-Étienne, the three brothers have been touring for over a decade, spreading their message through their high-energy concerts. Inspired by punk and hardcore classics, ODC represents 10 years of punk, rage, and shared experience.
Fight!
Because the deaths in solitary confinement
and isolation wards
According For our lives in pieces by Gwenola Ricordeau
(Duration: approximately 12-13 minutes)
Fight! It's a short play inspired by a story of a mutiny that took place in Fleury-Mérogis prison on May 1, 1971. On that day, a group of prisoners refused to return to their rooms at the end of their exercise period because "it was May Day, and the weather was beautiful." This simple right to spend a little time in the sun is something those who grow up and live in the shadow of the prison walls will have to fight for.
Inspired by several essays on prison abolitionism, this performance aims to highlight the violence of prisons and the treatment meted out to the women and men who languish there. When politicians still try to make us believe that prison is a hotel, when the Minister of Justice wants to eliminate all recreational activities within prisons, when maximum-security prisons are back on the agenda, we want to restore empathy for these prisoners and affirm our opposition to this violent repression, which heals neither society, nor the victims, nor the perpetrators. Because prison, «is the justice of men, of good family men, of those who are within their rights, of those for whom the laws were written. […] Because neither racism, nor capitalism, nor patriarchy has ever trembled before their courts and their prisons.»*
Fight! It's not a particularly serious show, though, where the guards have pig heads—a farce that borrows from the conventions of glove puppetry. These are popular, rebellious puppets that can perform anywhere. Small theaters that are quick to set up, perform, and disappear just as quickly. They create shared experiences around seemingly simple stories that offer a perspective on our society.
And despite the victims of the prison system, there might well be some escapes to keep a little hope alive.
«"For a night will come when we will dance on the ashes of their police stations, their courts, and their prisons."*
*All quotes are taken from the text For our lives in pieces by Gwenola Ricordeau, published as an introduction to the book Crimes and punishments, Thinking about penal abolitionism by Gwénola Ricordeau
What is the Naked Self-Defense Fund Against State Repression (CANCRE)?
We want to give concrete expression to solidarity with those accused and the victims of police and judicial repression of social movements, and to reduce the risk of finding oneself in dire situations with the police and the justice system, in particular:
–> By informing before, during and after movements and demonstrations about the risks involved in different activist actions, about the functioning of the police and its surveillance, and about our rights during an arrest, in police custody and before a judge.
–> By linking the victims of repression with the rest of the social movement, to inform and enable support to be organized.
–> By helping to pay fines, lawyer fees, prison canteen, medical expenses, etc.
Repression is intensifying; we need to support each other against the state that is becoming fascist, and to organize outside of its institutions.
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