TIL THE COWS COME HOME: Documentary Screening and Discussion on the Prison Farm Struggle

Title: TIL THE COWS COME HOME: Documentary Screening and Discussion on the Prison Farm Struggle
Location: MacKinnon (MCKN) room 233, University of Guelph campus
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Description: Please join us for a film screening and discussion about the community movement to stop the closure of the Frontenac Prison Farm in Kingston, Ontario.

After the film, author and activist Aric McBay will lead a discussion and answer questions.

“When Canada’s Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, Canada’s rehabilitative prison farms are one of the first casualties. A strong opposition forms towards the farm closures and for two days in the late summer of 2010, hundreds of angry protesters stand in front of Frontenac Prison Farm in the heart of Kingston, Ontario, ready to block cattle trucks brought in to remove the hundred-year-old prize dairy herd. The dramatic standoff between protesters and police lasts two days, through pouring rain and hot sun. Black-clad police arrest 24 people, the youngest 14 years old, the oldest, 85.

TIL THE COWS COME HOME tells the story behind this extraordinary display of civil disobedience, filled with gripping confrontations and a cast of colourful characters, from irate farmers to passionate nuns to endearing ex-cons. It asks provocative questions about the Canadian government’s hardening approach to criminal justice, food security….and democracy itself.”

http://www.prisonfarmfilm.org/

58 minutes, 2014. Produced by Lenny Epstein, Elaine Foreman, Clarke Mackey and Jamie Swift.
Start Time:  5:30 pm
Date: 2015-01-30
End Time:  7:30 pm