Bar None Winnipeg

Big thank you to @StopTheStackYYC for your work and for reaching out to us. We encourage all abolitionists and activists in Winnipeg to learn more about police repression of social movements happening in Calgary right now and support #stopthestackYYC however you can <3

ANNOUNCEMENT: INQUEST into SOLEIMAN FAQIRI’s death Announced. It will take place on November 20, 2023. For the first time in almost seven years there could be an opportunity for Transparency into Soleiman’s death by Ontario Correctional Officers. #justiceforsoli

@_aisthename Pretty much everything except text books or encyclopedias. Here’s a list of specific kinds of books we’d like.

WE NEED BOOKS! Drop them off this week at Millennium or St. J libraries, Eadha, or Thyme.

We would love to work alongside everyone who wants a true community-based, decolonial, abolitionist Portage Place <3

For the record, we were invited by True North Real Estate to a mtg about Portage Place! LOL It is our view that TN will displace & police people at PP no matter what & whoever participates will be named as a 'partner' when they try to justify their bullshit, so we'd rather not.

Love and support to @PFSWpg - our statement of solidarity in response to the police chief's blog post. barnonewpg.org/2023/04/26/sta…

Ongoing genocide

Free Lands Free Peoples, an anti-colonial abolition group, is raising funds to provide holiday care packages for incarcerated people on the prairies. Join us in caring for our relations inside <3 gofund.me/97bc03a3

Another government-sanctioned murder at the Remand Centre

There’s still time to join, or follow this thread from @WpgPoliceHarm if you can’t make it

Join us tomorrow outside the Remand Centre at 6:15pm for a Prisoners’ Justice Day vigil. Wear a mask!

People need rides to visit their loved ones in prisons outside Winnipeg, are you available to give them? Gas reimbursements are available if that’s a barrier barnonewpg.org/rideshare/

“The Manitoba government did not have any more information to provide on the Headingley Correctional Centre and said they would only make a further announcement if there was any risk to the public.” It’s outrageous that it needs to be said but: imprisoned people are the public

Join us in writing holiday letters to those who are incarcerated. Enjoy an afternoon of creativity, solidarity, and pizza and salad—and help spread the holiday cheer past prison bars. Proof of vaccination is required and all ages are welcome. RSVP at aboli.sh/isolation

Manitoba's new premier oversaw the privatization of the phone system in jails to a Texas-based company in 2016 while justice minister, a decision that resulted in greatly increased costs for prisoners ($3 per 15 mins) and calls being dropped with lawyers. winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/increased-phon…

We are raising funds to support the family of prisoner justice advocate Cory Cardinal, as they prepare for his funeral. Let us through this small act, remember what he fought endlessly for, to take care of our relatives, to take care of each other gofund.me/ca7127ac