I WON'T DROWN… Grassroots organizations call for answers after the failed evacuation of the Orleans Parish Prison during Hurricane Katrina, the building of a makeshift prison behind the local bus depot, and the disappearing of family members to prisons around Louisiana or lost to the flood.

What begins as a simple dialogue on why a labor union for textile workers would support an anti-prison conference expands into a eloquent analysis of how globalization affects jobs and economy, how capital flight frames crime policy, and how race, gender and class prejudice the vision and potential of the Left.

The first of two videos about Critical Resistance's 2003 Southern Conference, an 18 minute piece that follows the 2-year organizing process leading up to the conference.

An accidental circumstance of counter-surveillance to keep state power in check, it is a brief glimpse of the flexing of state power in communities whose voice is more criminalized than listened to and respected.

The second video following a campaign to shut down the notorious Tallulah youth prison in Northern Louisiana, following a movement of parents, community and advocates through public hearings where bereaved parents get the chance to spell out their frustrations to law makers and demand a prison be closed.

A grassroots protest dances its way through New Orleans on September 8th, 2001. Led by parents fed up with their children’s abuse at the hands of the state's notorious youth prison, this video documents their demand to shut it down.

3,000 people from around the South and the U.S. pour into New Orleans’ Tremé community to share stories, responses and analyses of the growing prison system which affects so many in so many different but connected ways. One of the seminal Critical Resistance conferences that built today’s movement.

A nine minute video essay based upon the optimistic stock projections announced to Wall Street stock analysts by a private prison company, when Cornell Company made public its hopes that private prison companies may get fat government contracts to build interment camps for Arab Americans.

To better understand what struggles we face today, we can look to history to help us interpret the present and our place within it. A brief yet compelling portrait of one of the U.S.’ most infamous rebellions, and a most brutal example of state repression that was deployed to destroy it.

Asking one of the biggest questions surrounding today’s prison expansion, "Where do new prisons get built?", this 20-minute documentary explores why new prisons are being built and why they are typically placed in remote, rural communities.