Christiane Taubira
Christiane Taubira, France’s Minister of Justice, resigned today. As she explained, “Sometimes staying is resisting, sometimes leaving is resisting”. We’ll have something on Christiane Taubira in the next couple days. For the last four years, Brigitte Marti has written regularly, at Women In and Beyond the Global, about Christiane Taubira’s struggles to reform the French penal system, to restore justice to so-called criminal justice, all the while combating racist sexist attacks on her and her policies. Christiane Taubira may be leaving the government, but she is not leaving the struggle for women’s rights, immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights, prisoners’ rights, gay rights, minority rights and more, all in the context of a vision of a realizable just world. A just world is possible!
Christiane Taubira explains prison
Here’s a partial list of Brigitte Marti’s pieces that, from June 2012 to last year, profiled Taubira’s varied engagements and interventions:
Resistances, les femmes, le pouvoir et l’élection (June 18, 2012)
From Paris to Baltimore, our prisons are full but empty of sense (November 21, 2012)
In France, mandatory minimum sentences kill (June 27, 2013)
Scandal in France! Prison as a last resort! (August 19, 2013)
Evolution of a scandal in France (August 29, 2013)
Must punishment mean prison? Why are you asking? (September 21, 2013)
These racist attacks assault the heart of the Republic (November 13, 2013)
It is the responsibility of the State to defend reproductive rights and health (November 21, 2013)
French prison guards strike for global incarceration and dehumanization (May 13, 2014)
The false case against Christiane Taubira (May 24, 2014)
Can Christiane Taubira move France from repressive to restorative justice? (June 2, 2014)
France’s twisted road to restorative justice (July 22, 2014)
From Paris to Washington, all women need easy access to real help in times of crisis (August 29, 2014)
In France, isolation is not the answer to anything! (July 22, 2015)
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