Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

StopMAX: Video: “Cruel & Inhuman”

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

http://www.afsc.org/stopmax/ht/d/Home/pid/33392

What is StopMax?

AFSC’s STOPMAX Campaign works to eliminate the use of isolation and segregation in U.S. prisons. Our strategies include research, grassroots organizing, public education and policy advocacy to abolish solitary confinement or reduce its use.

What Is Solitary Confinement?

Solitary confinement of prisoners exists under a range of names; isolation, control units, supermax prisons, the hole, etc. Prisoners can be placed in these units for many reasons; as punishment, while they are under investigation, as a mechanism for behavior modification, when suspected of gang involvement, as retribution for political activism or to fill expensive, empty beds, to name but a few.

Posted in Life, Within and Beyond Prisons | No Comments »

At MIT:

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

This is the 1st day in Cambridge, unloading our stuff and feeling to hot.

It is a month and 6 days since I moved to MIT campus and I am finally starting to relax. So off! I guess, I am still tripping from time to time about the changes.

Anyways, this Wednesday Sept. 9th will be my first day of class.  Exciting! and tomorrow is registration day. I will be meeting with my adviser Ute to chat about my academic future. Generally, I will be spending most of my time exploring methods for critical social engagements and real time actions to address various ethical-social dilemmas about how mass punishment manifest through the social and spatial landscape of the USA. This is a loaded subject matter but very important to look at in our times. Though, I need to refine these ideas. So, don’t take me as an expert on the subject, that’s why I’m here doing graduate work! Trying to figure things out!

Another note, I just added more pictures to the Sensible Housing Unit (SHU) archive page from The Counter Narrative Society. They document up to the 4th version of the project.  Visit this link.

Last note, here is the link to my profile at MIT. Here you can also meet my colleagues and their art.

[Picture: this is the 1st day in Cambridge. We are unloading our stuffs and feeling to hot.]

Posted in Life | No Comments »