*** Media Release *** 15 September 2000 Olympic Event Prison Film Show - Penal Colony revisited The No New Womens Jail Campaign is proud to present a prison film show of some of the best short films about prison life and especially women in jail. The event will be a fundraiser for the campaign against the construction of a new $42 million women's jail. The film show will take place 11am Sunday 17 September at Dendy cinema, Martin Place. The program is as follows: Prisoners, a short film on the prisoners action group, 1977. introduced by Mark Stiles, director No way to forget - a short film based on a field officers experiences during the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, 1996 and introduced by an indigenous speaker. Hear from Kerry Nettle, No New Women's Jail campaign co-ordinator. and watch Above Water - a short film about a young mother jailed for social security fraud, who struggles to maintain contact with her teenage daughter. We will also be launching a new documentary, "The Jails are the Crime." The event will be chaired by Lee Rhiannon, Greens MLC. Tickets $15/$5 available presales ph. 9281 5100 Kerry Nettle, co-ordinator of the No New Women's Jail campaign, today said =8C This is an important campaign to support because it has been proven again and again and most recently by the NSW Upper House Select Committee into Increased Prison Population, that prison is not the best place to rehabilitate women.=B9 =8CIt is also an opportunity to view some brillant Australian short films and learn about the experiences and struggle of ordinary women, children and Indigenous people caught in the prison system.=B9 continued Ms Nettle. For more information: Kerry Nettle 0402 436 006 Please log into the Justice Action Web site, designed and sponsored by Breakout Design & Print, exercising good corporate citizenship: http://www.justiceaction.org.au -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
