Food & Freedom: Dreaming Food Just Futures Through Prison Abolition

Food & Freedom: Dreaming Food Just Futures Through Prison Abolition was a panel event exploring the intersections between policing, prison abolition, and food justice.
The panel discussed the present-day relationship between food security and policing, surveillance and incarceration in Toronto and beyond, and explored existing and future community-based models which bring together principles of abolition and food sovereignty.
We welcomed three incredible speakers at the panel:
Butterfly GoPaul (Jane Finch Action Against Poverty)
Kanav Kathuria (The Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project)
Rinaldo Walcott (University of Toronto)
And host Moe Pramanick (FoodShare).
Here are some resources shared by panelists:
• Black Food Matters - Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese
• Freedom Dreams by Robin DG Kelley
• The Communism of Love by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
• The Nation on No Map Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson (Author), Saidiya Hartman (Foreword), Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (Afterword)
• Three Cities Report: www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pd...
• Here is some writing about TAVIS: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...
• Falconer Report which was done in 2008 following the shooting death of Jordan Manners at school, the report created a massive community-driven list of changes that needed to happen to improve community safety in Toronto schools. Learn more here: www.falconerschoolsafetyrepor...