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ORFC 2025 9 – 10 Jan

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Oxford
Panel Discussion
16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Thursday, 5 January 2023

How Do Prisons and Policing Impact and Intersect with Our Struggles for Land Justice?

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16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Thursday, 5 January 2023

How Do Prisons and Policing Impact and Intersect with Our Struggles for Land Justice?

In this session, organised by the Justice Hub, speakers including transformative justice collective Cradle Community, urban mushroom farming cooperative Myco Manchester Coop and others will explore this question. The session will look at how the prison system, policing and punishment structure UK landscapes and geographies, and the multitude of ways that the racist prison state intersects with land justice issues, whether that be the bifurcation of rural and urban relationships, the imprisonment of protestors or the destruction of habitats and green space, amongst many other things. The second part of the session will explore ‘Abolition Ecologies’, looking at the many ways of living that could be a part of making prisons obsolete at the same time as securing an ecologically resilient relationship with the land. From land reparations to community gardens, webs of mycelium, mental health work and radical approaches to accountability, we will use this part of the session to collectively imagine how we can deal with harm in a way that prioritises healing, wellbeing, and living in community with both people and planet.