«54th European Group Conference»
Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organizing for Social Liberation.
🗓️ 1–4 September 2026
🏙️ Vitoria-Gasteiz
(🧵💬 SPA ↑ / EUS ↓)
#antipunitivism #europeangroup #antiracism #anticolonialism #Abolition #prisonabolition #basquecountry
Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organizing for Social Liberation.
🗓️ 1–4 September 2026
🏙️ Vitoria-Gasteiz
(🧵💬 SPA ↑ / EUS ↓)
#antipunitivism #europeangroup #antiracism #anticolonialism #Abolition #prisonabolition #basquecountry
![[Morning schedule (September 2nd).]
Venue: EHU Araba (Calle Los Apraiz 2).
‣ Wednesday 2nd.
9:30–11:00
Panel 1: Confinement, punishment and sentencing.
Panel 2: Childhood and youth deprived of freedom.
Panel 3: AI, technology and surveillance.
11:15–12:45
Panel 4: Prisons and collective resistance.
Panel 5: Affections, political movements and social transformation.
Panel 6: Neoliberalism, far right, imperialism and coloniality.
Workshop 1: Continuing critical pedagogies.
13:00–14:30
Panel 7: Courts and legality.
Panel 8: Racism, detention and borders.
Panel 9: Psychiatry, prison and colonialism.
Panel 10: Criminalisation of dissent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7sezvfn3o2upf7ejux3tqsq5/bafkreibk7lru54lnhux55ieq2k2ijvnxttqqvz27tvfennpfmzawp3jyhq)
![[Morning schedule (September 2nd and 3rd).]
Venue: EHU Araba (Calle Los Apraiz 2).
‣ Thursday 3rd.
09:30–11:00
Panel 11: Community, mutual support and mental health.
Panel 12: Institutions, pedagogy and punishment.
Panel 13: Environmentalism, ecocide, extractivism and the green transition.
Panel 14: Addressing gender-based violence.
11:15–12:45
Panel 15: Women on the margins: trafficking, surrogacy, sex and prison.
Panel 16: Housing and structural violence.
Panel 17: Prison and accountability.
Panel 18: Critical criminology and abolitionism in Abya Yala.
13:00–14:30
Panel 19: Community and ancestral justice/
Panel 20: Teaching and studying law as power.
Panel 21: Fascism, transphobia, gender wars and resistance.
Roundtable: Grammars of punishment: law as a limit to political imagination.
‣ Friday 4th.
09:30–11:00
Panel 22: Imperialism, genocide, war and colonial violence.
Panel 23: Abolitionist art, narratives and testimonies.
Panel 24: Social exclusion, exploitation and control.
11:15–12:45
Workshop 2: Critical criminology or abolition of criminology?
Workshop 3: An ending or a beginning? Closure and replacement of a prison.
Workshop 4: Social work responses to state violence.
Workshop 5: Depolicing and alternatives to the police.
13:00–14:30, General Assembly.
[logos: Salhaketa, Salhaketa Araba, UPV, European Group.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7sezvfn3o2upf7ejux3tqsq5/bafkreighaazxkkt6uwoka5v2ldmazsyqkgqagzj7xq7nxxqgxk32q5fyei)
![[Afternoon schedule:]
‣ Tuesday 1st.
Centro Cívico Aldabe, Calle Portal de Arriaga 32.
18:00 Opening event: Alternatives from the territories
With Gasteiz Antirrazista, Herrizoma, Araba Bizirik, and Lumagorri.
‣ Wednesday 2nd.
17:00, Anti-tourist free tours.
Facultad de Relaciones Laborales y Trabajo Social (Calle Los Apraiz 2).
⁃ Political diagnosis of Alde Zaharra; Auzoan Bizi (housing).
⁃ Resistances from periphery; Abetxukoko Ekimen Elkartea (community development).
⁃ March 3rd memmorial (memory).
⁃ Community experience with migrant youth of Gasteiz; Ongi Etorri Alde Zaharrera (antiracism).
‣ Thursday 3rd.
Espacio Sumendi (Calle Benito Guinea 14).
17:00, Antipunitivist Bookfair.
18:00–20:00, Roundtable: Alternatives to prison and the police.
With Salhaketa Araba (moderator), Noa Miralles of A l'Aguait (Manresa), Ekiñe Sagastibeltza of AukeraZ (Pamplona), Nuria Olmedo and Marta Dueñas of Traba (Valencia), and Valentina González of Sin Poli (Madrid).
‣ Friday 4th.
15:00–17:30, Community lunch and closing of the conference, at the Auzolana fronton (Calle Fray Zacarías Martínez).
19:00, Antipunitivist concert and party (5€), in Vitoria's Gaztetxe (same street calle), with Hitz Tantak, Animal Lee, and Kogío con pinsa.
[logos: Salhaketa Araba, Salhaketa.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7sezvfn3o2upf7ejux3tqsq5/bafkreifbooeeeh7cagpik66t7u7y46j2jnwpr5i34wk62ycxcttg73i6ne)
August 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM
«54th European Group Conference»
Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organizing for Social Liberation.
🗓️ 1–4 September 2026
🏙️ Vitoria-Gasteiz
(🧵💬 SPA ↑ / EUS ↓)
#antipunitivism #europeangroup #antiracism #anticolonialism #Abolition #prisonabolition #basquecountry
Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organizing for Social Liberation.
🗓️ 1–4 September 2026
🏙️ Vitoria-Gasteiz
(🧵💬 SPA ↑ / EUS ↓)
#antipunitivism #europeangroup #antiracism #anticolonialism #Abolition #prisonabolition #basquecountry
![[Poster announcing the presentation of the book/magazine «El Sentido Común Punitivo» from Zona Estrategia, november 28th 2025 at 19:00 CET in La Cinètika (Rambla de Fabra i Puig 28), Barcelona.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7p4pbes77hhseeifiozhobxl/bafkreiglbmn4bi2xjjfxzldw3ok3qoxde3736wjtlln7nvtfkgksui4n5m)
![[Poster announcing a conference with the CAMPA (a support colective for imprisoned women and "dissidents"), November 29th 2025 at 19:00 CET in Espacio Ajuntaera (C/ Simón García 5), Murcia.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7p4pbes77hhseeifiozhobxl/bafkreicukd6cxh5sfbei3drwokkhknsjsy7lskkxjv3ncehjwzyrdmgnei)
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Imma link your own post, 'cause I like irony. :P
Admittedly, it's not the same: video uses antipunitivism in its strict sense (policial/carceral justice).
This minirant its lax one instead (reparative justice, mediation).
I don't feel these to be significantly different beyond scope, though.
(3/3)
Admittedly, it's not the same: video uses antipunitivism in its strict sense (policial/carceral justice).
This minirant its lax one instead (reparative justice, mediation).
I don't feel these to be significantly different beyond scope, though.
(3/3)
(4/5) "Yet, the same people...have visceral reactions whenever I apply those beliefs to real-life cases, especially if it concerns domestic violence or violence against women." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbhW...
How Women Become Carceral Feminists
YouTube video by Olurinatti
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Imma link your own post, 'cause I like irony. :P
Admittedly, it's not the same: video uses antipunitivism in its strict sense (policial/carceral justice).
This minirant its lax one instead (reparative justice, mediation).
I don't feel these to be significantly different beyond scope, though.
(3/3)
Admittedly, it's not the same: video uses antipunitivism in its strict sense (policial/carceral justice).
This minirant its lax one instead (reparative justice, mediation).
I don't feel these to be significantly different beyond scope, though.
(3/3)