@rebeljustice
#JusticePunks NFT auction
by women with lived experience of the Justice System for
International Women’s Day March 8 2022
A folder of some of the artwork can be viewed here.
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
Rebel Justice is the social media identity of The View Magazine CiC and an inclusive platform for women with lived experience of the justice system. We campaign for the rights of women who are in conflict with the law. We are care leavers, survivors of state sanctioned trauma and violence, prison leavers, asylum seekers and women ‘on license’. We are supported by some of the world’s leading artists who took part in our auction in May 2020 #IncarcerationNation.
Our NFT artwork, for sale exclusively on Rarible, is based on original watercolor art. Each piece describes our personal quest for freedom and purpose. We refuse to reside at the peripheries of society, unheard and unrepresented. We are creators of powerful and compelling art, we reclaim our identities, our narratives and our futures.
We are raising funds through the sale of NFTs because we were informed by the Cabinet Office that they consider The View in ‘political conflict’ with the British Government, so we will never be given grant funding. Their aim is to silence, choke and punish us. No one can erase our identity as artists, creators, poets, visionaries for a better future. We have been undermined by so-called feminists, obstacles put in our way from the pinnacles of power in corrupt Governments. We have been deplatformed by the criminal justice “charities” meant to support us and the existing emasculating violence against women movement which does not recognise that we have been harmed, that we are also sisters under oppression. We refuse to be taken down.
Our protest is bigger than one woman. Together, we rise.
The funds raised from the sale of these NFTs,will be used to build an app to measure desistance and aid reintegration, we will make 150 short Truth films to to document the lives of women killed by the British State while in custody, detention or in secure units and we will create our own digital platform for The View Magazine.
The funds from our Rebel Justice NFT sales will be held by a lawyer in his digital wallet on agreed spending goals, which is outlined in the statement below and developed in documents that you can view here. These are also available on Juicebox. The $Justice4Women community will be organised and governed by The View’s existing policies and governance which you can see here.
We have started a $Justice4WomenDAO which will help to promote and raise awareness and funds for The View. It will own the IP for the series of Truth films we are making on deaths of women in custody. These women whose lives have been cut down needlessly will then exist as part of the Blockchain in eternity to commemorate their lives.
Individual digital portraits and watercolour paintings of these women will be uploaded as NFTs will also be sold to raise funds for The View with 10% of the royalties going back to the family, forever. If the family can’t be traced or do not wish to be involved, these will be surplus funds to be held by $Justice4WomenDAO to fund strategic litigation to increase the profile of the DAO and promote the rights of women in the justice system. There will be 3 multi-signers on this reserve. They will have the ultimate power to decide where and how money is spent if there is no consensus within $Justice4WomenDAO.
Support our rebellion against those whose financial and political interests are to ensure that we remain ‘unfree.’
Notes for Editors:
The View Magazine was started by three formerly incarcerated women, to campaign for less use of custodial sentences, for better and improved, properly funded mental health services and for an end to the rapidly encroaching Prison Industrial Complex which is making its way into all our lives with increased surveillance and monitoring and seemingly benign “pink punishment” justice solutions such as court imposed orders that restrict liberty, speech, assembly and movement, ASBOS, and women’s centers.
https://theviewmag.org.uk/justice-for-women/