HOLOBIONT LABORATORY is a working class, collaborative laboratory created in response to climate change and its many impacts on our communities. We use a combination of practical strategies, wild experimentation, affordable tools, and creative interventions to enhance community sustainability and local resilience to climate crisis. We understand ourselves (and others!) to be both both grassroots scientists of the imagination and on-the-ground strategists for our collective survival.
By Gb Kim and Avis Lee
HOW ARE WE FREE explores the nature of freedom and confinement through creative collaboration between people who have been sentenced to die in prison and visual artists outside the prison walls. Visual economies and regimes of power have been massively employed by the state and the media in order to criminalize people. This exhibit interrupts those regimes and instead invites viewers to investigate what actually creates conditions for safety, healing, justice, transformation, and liberation. How Are We Free was produced by LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty and has been exhibited across the state of Pennsylvania.
The HERE 4 Climate Justice (Housing Equity, Repair and Electrification for Climate Justice) coalition brings together community organizations, home repair providers, workforce and community development partners, and climate justice groups across Philadelphia to fight for safe, healthy, affordable, fossil-free housing for all.
The climate and the housing crises are interconnected, and we need solutions that address both at the same time. We seek to overcome racial and economic exclusion by prioritizing the communities most burdened by air and water pollution, severe weather, home disrepair, and the affordable housing shortage.
By Felix Rosado & Kate DeCiccio
LIFELINES: VOICES AGAINST THE OTHER DEATH PENALTY is a media/cultural project conducted in extensive, long-term collaboration with people serving Life Sentences Without Parole or Death By Incarceration sentences in Pennsylvania. The project uses interviews, creative media interventions, and sound installations to support an emerging statewide campaign to abolish Death By Incarceration. We use the term “LifeLines” to refer to the fact that this project highlights the stories and analysis of those serving life/death sentences and to point toward the many collective relationships and infrastructures of support (familial, community, activist, and beyond) that are forged in resistance to mass imprisonment.
CADBI Rally in Harrisburg, PA
The COALITION TO ABOLISH DEATH BY INCARCERATION believes that sentencing people to Death By Incarceration is a violation of their human rights and an affront to the humanity of us all.There are over 5000 people in Pennsylvania serving Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences. In Pennsylvania, a life sentence means your natural life–it is a sentence that condemns you to die in prison--which is why many choose to call LWOP “Death By Incarceration.” Our coalition is a joint effort of Fight For Lifers, the Human Rights Coalition, and Decarcerate PA on the outside, as well as Right to Redemption and numerous individuals currently serving “death by incarceration” sentences in Pennsylvania's prisons.