#prisonabolition — Public Fediverse posts
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"The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's"
🔓 'The Odyssey' Cast's Queerest Movies and TV Shows, Ranked
https://www.them.us/entertainment/tv-and-movies/the-odyssey-cast-queer-roles -
"The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's"
🔓 'The Odyssey' Cast's Queerest Movies and TV Shows, Ranked
https://www.them.us/entertainment/tv-and-movies/the-odyssey-cast-queer-roles -
📰 As mass incarceration rose, corporate crime ran amok
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as
https://therealnews.com/as-mass-incarceration-rose-corporate-crime-ran-amok
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📰 As mass incarceration rose, corporate crime ran amok
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as
https://therealnews.com/as-mass-incarceration-rose-corporate-crime-ran-amok
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📰 As mass incarceration rose, corporate crime ran amok
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as
https://therealnews.com/as-mass-incarceration-rose-corporate-crime-ran-amok
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📰 As mass incarceration rose, corporate crime ran amok
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as
https://therealnews.com/as-mass-incarceration-rose-corporate-crime-ran-amok
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📰 As mass incarceration rose, corporate crime ran amok
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as
https://therealnews.com/as-mass-incarceration-rose-corporate-crime-ran-amok
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📰 Inmates face torture after prison riots in Sri Lanka
Following the massacre at Negombo Prison, in which 28 people were killed, two more prisoners have died in unexplained
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📰 Inmates face torture after prison riots in Sri Lanka
Following the massacre at Negombo Prison, in which 28 people were killed, two more prisoners have died in unexplained
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Anarchy Live! The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
"Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist."
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“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”
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Read: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
Print: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
Support Michael Kimble! https://www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelkimble
#zine #MichaelKimble #FreeMichaelKimble #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #anarchy #prisonabolition
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Anarchy Live! The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
"Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist."
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“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”
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Read: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
Print: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
Support Michael Kimble! https://www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelkimble
#zine #MichaelKimble #FreeMichaelKimble #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #anarchy #prisonabolition
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Anarchy Live! The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
"Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist."
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“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”
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Read: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
Print: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
Support Michael Kimble! https://www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelkimble
#zine #MichaelKimble #FreeMichaelKimble #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #anarchy #prisonabolition
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Anarchy Live! The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
"Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist."
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“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”
📖
Read: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
Print: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
Support Michael Kimble! https://www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelkimble
#zine #MichaelKimble #FreeMichaelKimble #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #anarchy #prisonabolition
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Anarchy Live! The Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Michael Kimble
"Because I am gay and black, because I will not tolerate racism or homophobia, because I have a burning hatred for authority, because I love freedom and believe in self-determination, I became an anarchist."
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“They call us criminals and indeed we are criminals when we act outside of laws made by the state. We are free only when we act outside of laws made by the state.”
📖
Read: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive.pdf
Print: https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/files/2015/08/anarchylive-imposed.pdf
Support Michael Kimble! https://www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelkimble
#zine #MichaelKimble #FreeMichaelKimble #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #anarchy #prisonabolition
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📰 Mujahed Mofleh: When the prison never leaves you
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/mujahed-mofleh-when-the-prison-never-leaves-you/
#FreePalestine #Justice #Mondoweiss #Palestine #PrisonAbolition
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San Quentin's $239M learning center sits empty amid staffing, budget constraints - Local News Matters
> “California cannot afford to keep pouring money into 15,000 empty prison beds while families are being told there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, food, and basic support.”
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San Quentin's $239M learning center sits empty amid staffing, budget constraints - Local News Matters
> “California cannot afford to keep pouring money into 15,000 empty prison beds while families are being told there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, food, and basic support.”
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San Quentin's $239M learning center sits empty amid staffing, budget constraints - Local News Matters
> “California cannot afford to keep pouring money into 15,000 empty prison beds while families are being told there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, food, and basic support.”
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Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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Angela Davis acquitted 1972 — spent five decades building abolition's intellectual infrastructure. Sylvester in gowns on national TV 1979 — never explained himself once, left his estate to AIDS organizations. Barbara Jordan before the Judiciary Committee 1974 — 285 bills before she reached Washington. None of them asked if the room was ready.
#AngelaDavis #Sylvester #BarbaraJordan #Blackhistory #queerhistory #prisonabolition #civilrights #resistance #activism
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My city's mayor (Mamdani) had iftar with Muslim inmates at Rikers yesterday. Your mayor....did not.
Now let's hope he has the courage to shut that place down.
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My city's mayor (Mamdani) had iftar with Muslim inmates at Rikers yesterday. Your mayor....did not.
Now let's hope he has the courage to shut that place down.
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“We Are Striking a Blow at the State:” The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike
by Michael Kimble February 24, 2026When prisoners rebel and demand to be treated as human beings, we are not just fighting inhumane living conditions and shitty food. We are striking a blow at the state, which maintains the situation of slavery and super-exploitation—by which each of us are robbed of the fruits of our labor every day.
Work strikes or “shutdowns,” as we like to call them down here in Alabama, are also geared toward consciousness-raising of prisoners as an oppressed class; and by refusing to work for free (which is slavery), we are asserting our power as workers and as human beings, thereby challenging the view that prisoner labor is free and exploitable.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal unless one has been duly convicted of a crime and ratified by Congress on December 6, 1865, which merely removed the ownership of slaves from the province of the individual citizen to that of the state, which then became the sole owner of other human beings (or slaves).
Alabama was the last state in the South to end convict leasing in 1928. Before ending convict leasing, the state hired out prisoner labor to the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills. In 1883, about 10 percent of Alabama’s total revenue came from convict leasing. In 1898, almost 73 percent. In 1922-1926, net profits from leasing and state-run mines exceeded $3 million.
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself. This new prison was to be the most advanced prison in the South, with the exception of the federal prison in Atlanta, styled as an industrial prison.
It was intended to house prisoners from the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills, which would all eventually be moved inside the prison itself. The prisoners manufactured cotton to make shirts that would then be sold on the market.
Just as slaves in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries challenged their dehumanization and exploitation via work stoppages and slowdowns, letting the crops rot in the fields, so too do prisoners in this day and time. Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down! In the 1970s, we had Inmates for Action (IFA), which organized a number of work stoppages to demand an improvement to their conditions.
We see work strikes as a weapon to be used to hit ’em where it hurts. There are many different strategies and tactics that prison rebels use, and work stoppages are just one of them. We organize around the knowledge that prison is slavery and super-exploitation of our labor power. Work stoppages are often violent due to the arena and conditions that prisoners are forced to maneuver in.
Prisons are, by nature, violent places. The guards are armed to the teeth with pepper spray, batons, sticks, knives, handcuffs, gas, and guns, and they use extreme violence as a mechanism of control. Moreover, organizers of work stoppages must navigate the different groups: gangs, shot-callers, influencers, and dope boys—and believe me, each of them has their own agendas.
Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down!
You have to get past the “pig thinking” in some of these guys who see any challenge to their captors as merely a provocation for the guards, riot squads, and CERT teams to search and confiscate their cell phones, drugs, and weapons—and to incite further harassment and beatings.
That’s how they ultimately control prisoners: through their fear of losing something. And it can get violent for those who attempt to break the strike and report to their slave jobs. These people are regarded as strike-breakers (scabs), and rightfully so.
For those out there in minimum custody, you can play a part by doing what’s in your capacity to do. You can make donations and phone calls demanding that slavery, the death penalty, and life without the possibility of parole be abolished. You can take to the streets. Or you can get creative and do what the George Jackson Brigades did in the mid-1970s in support of striking prisoners.
Check out the radical histories in the U.S. and you just may find yourself. Here in Alabama prisons, we are going on a work strike starting February 8, 2026, to protest forced labor (slavery), the Habitual Offender Act (three strikes law), Life Without the Possibility of Parole, and ultimately call for the total abolition of the system of caging people.
We are exercising our agency and our right to fight back. What’s wrong with that?
Donate to Michael Kimble here.
Follow Michael Kimble and get involved in supporting him here.
Print and distribute flyers uplifting the strike here, and access the list of demands, action items, and a syllabus on the history of resistance in Alabama here.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=28985 #alabama #AnarchistPrisoners #michaelKimble #northAmerica #PrisonAbolition #prisonStrike #prisonStruggle #slavery -
“We Are Striking a Blow at the State:” The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike
by Michael Kimble February 24, 2026When prisoners rebel and demand to be treated as human beings, we are not just fighting inhumane living conditions and shitty food. We are striking a blow at the state, which maintains the situation of slavery and super-exploitation—by which each of us are robbed of the fruits of our labor every day.
Work strikes or “shutdowns,” as we like to call them down here in Alabama, are also geared toward consciousness-raising of prisoners as an oppressed class; and by refusing to work for free (which is slavery), we are asserting our power as workers and as human beings, thereby challenging the view that prisoner labor is free and exploitable.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal unless one has been duly convicted of a crime and ratified by Congress on December 6, 1865, which merely removed the ownership of slaves from the province of the individual citizen to that of the state, which then became the sole owner of other human beings (or slaves).
Alabama was the last state in the South to end convict leasing in 1928. Before ending convict leasing, the state hired out prisoner labor to the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills. In 1883, about 10 percent of Alabama’s total revenue came from convict leasing. In 1898, almost 73 percent. In 1922-1926, net profits from leasing and state-run mines exceeded $3 million.
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself. This new prison was to be the most advanced prison in the South, with the exception of the federal prison in Atlanta, styled as an industrial prison.
It was intended to house prisoners from the lumber yards, mines, and cotton mills, which would all eventually be moved inside the prison itself. The prisoners manufactured cotton to make shirts that would then be sold on the market.
Just as slaves in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries challenged their dehumanization and exploitation via work stoppages and slowdowns, letting the crops rot in the fields, so too do prisoners in this day and time. Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down! In the 1970s, we had Inmates for Action (IFA), which organized a number of work stoppages to demand an improvement to their conditions.
We see work strikes as a weapon to be used to hit ’em where it hurts. There are many different strategies and tactics that prison rebels use, and work stoppages are just one of them. We organize around the knowledge that prison is slavery and super-exploitation of our labor power. Work stoppages are often violent due to the arena and conditions that prisoners are forced to maneuver in.
Prisons are, by nature, violent places. The guards are armed to the teeth with pepper spray, batons, sticks, knives, handcuffs, gas, and guns, and they use extreme violence as a mechanism of control. Moreover, organizers of work stoppages must navigate the different groups: gangs, shot-callers, influencers, and dope boys—and believe me, each of them has their own agendas.
Alabama has a long history of shutting shit down!
You have to get past the “pig thinking” in some of these guys who see any challenge to their captors as merely a provocation for the guards, riot squads, and CERT teams to search and confiscate their cell phones, drugs, and weapons—and to incite further harassment and beatings.
That’s how they ultimately control prisoners: through their fear of losing something. And it can get violent for those who attempt to break the strike and report to their slave jobs. These people are regarded as strike-breakers (scabs), and rightfully so.
For those out there in minimum custody, you can play a part by doing what’s in your capacity to do. You can make donations and phone calls demanding that slavery, the death penalty, and life without the possibility of parole be abolished. You can take to the streets. Or you can get creative and do what the George Jackson Brigades did in the mid-1970s in support of striking prisoners.
Check out the radical histories in the U.S. and you just may find yourself. Here in Alabama prisons, we are going on a work strike starting February 8, 2026, to protest forced labor (slavery), the Habitual Offender Act (three strikes law), Life Without the Possibility of Parole, and ultimately call for the total abolition of the system of caging people.
We are exercising our agency and our right to fight back. What’s wrong with that?
Donate to Michael Kimble here.
Follow Michael Kimble and get involved in supporting him here.
Print and distribute flyers uplifting the strike here, and access the list of demands, action items, and a syllabus on the history of resistance in Alabama here.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=28985 #alabama #AnarchistPrisoners #michaelKimble #northAmerica #PrisonAbolition #prisonStrike #prisonStruggle #slavery -
(Radio Aktiv Berlin) English edition: update on #Mumia Abu-Jamal & Prison Abolition in the US
https://archive.org/details/2026-01-21-16h-radio-aktiv-mumia-update-abolitionism-engl
#FreeMumia #FreeThemAll
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(Radio Aktiv Berlin) English edition: update on #Mumia Abu-Jamal & Prison Abolition in the US
https://archive.org/details/2026-01-21-16h-radio-aktiv-mumia-update-abolitionism-engl
#FreeMumia #FreeThemAll
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#PunkHousePlaylist #NowListening to Tuesday's episode of #PrisonRadio from the #CKUT archive
https://ckut.ca/archiveplayer.php?version=4&show=27763&archive=27676
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#PunkHousePlaylist #NowListening to Tuesday's episode of #PrisonRadio from the #CKUT archive
https://ckut.ca/archiveplayer.php?version=4&show=27763&archive=27676
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Ahhhhhh this #MariameKaba presentation on zines as community archives was thrilling. Loved the connections with early pamphlets and magazines made by Black people in the US, and her thoughts on the relevance of DIY publishing in, uh, high censorship environments.
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Ahhhhhh this #MariameKaba presentation on zines as community archives was thrilling. Loved the connections with early pamphlets and magazines made by Black people in the US, and her thoughts on the relevance of DIY publishing in, uh, high censorship environments.
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Free the Thunder, Free the Flame.
Call to action in support of Elías Rodríguez and Casey Goonan, from October 25th to November 1st
Please share and take action.
#Palestine #Gaza #FreeElias #FreeCasey #DirectAction #Solidarity #PrisonAbolition #Anarchism #Socialism #Inkscape #MadeWithInkscape #EliasRodriguez #CaseyGoonan #OperationCampusFlood #USpol #PoliticalPrisoners
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Free the Thunder, Free the Flame.
Call to action in support of Elías Rodríguez and Casey Goonan, from October 25th to November 1st
Please share and take action.
#Palestine #Gaza #FreeElias #FreeCasey #DirectAction #Solidarity #PrisonAbolition #Anarchism #Socialism #Inkscape #MadeWithInkscape #EliasRodriguez #CaseyGoonan #OperationCampusFlood #USpol #PoliticalPrisoners
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Writer Who Survived ADX Supermax Prison Describes How It “Entombs” People
Having survived the most restrictive supermax prison in the country on a trumped-up charge, Eric King tells what he saw. -
Shout-out to Janetta Johnson, who was mentored and nurtured by #MissMajor and succeeded her as director of the TGI Justice Project.
https://tgijp.org/a-message-from-ceo-janetta-johnson-february-2025/
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Shout-out to Janetta Johnson, who was mentored and nurtured by #MissMajor and succeeded her as director of the TGI Justice Project.
https://tgijp.org/a-message-from-ceo-janetta-johnson-february-2025/
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Shout-out to Janetta Johnson, who was mentored and nurtured by #MissMajor and succeeded her as director of the TGI Justice Project.
https://tgijp.org/a-message-from-ceo-janetta-johnson-february-2025/
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Shout-out to Janetta Johnson, who was mentored and nurtured by #MissMajor and succeeded her as director of the TGI Justice Project.
https://tgijp.org/a-message-from-ceo-janetta-johnson-february-2025/
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Shout-out to Janetta Johnson, who was mentored and nurtured by #MissMajor and succeeded her as director of the TGI Justice Project.
https://tgijp.org/a-message-from-ceo-janetta-johnson-february-2025/
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@thefinalstrawradio @abcbelarus
A great show and an important topic. I find the local and international perspectives particularly enriching. I myself was in prison for a while and precisely because I am familiar with the situation in prisons, I experience it as painful not to be able to change anything structurally.
When friends and comrades suddenly find themselves behind bars, I experience it particularly painfully today, as a former left-winger.
Sometimes I feel exhausted, but the (care) work must also be done.Practical solidarity is essential: writing letters, visits, demonstrations and talking again and again about what is going on behind the thick prison walls.
A little advertising at the end: on October 26th there will be live broadcast here from Freiburg (south west of Germany), in connection with the A-Radio Days.
Solidarity and warm greetings.
#prison #solidarity #abc #anarchistblackcross #abcbelarus #belarusian #freedomforall #prisoners #prisonabolition #prisonersolidarity #aradioberlin #aradionetwork #freiburg #thursday #ThursdayMorning #thursdaypost #usa #russia #uk #unitedkingdom #anarchism #anarchismus
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In Black August, We Turn Destructive Spaces into Laboratories For Liberation
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I Survived a Deadly Disease in Prison. No One Else Should Have To Face It.
While incarcerated at California’s Wasco State Prison in November 2024, I woke up drenched in sweat. I quickly became sicker: body aches, shortness of breath, and no energy. I recognized the symptoms of valley fever, a lung infection caused by fungus that grows in the Southwest. Despite repeated requests to be tested for it, I was instead told it was pneumonia and given antibiotics.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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I only see freedom in the flames of burning prisons
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I only see freedom in the flames of burning prisons
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I only see freedom in the flames of burning prisons
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I only see freedom in the flames of burning prisons
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Midwest Prison Censorship Update 2025: Exposing the IDOC Mail Scanning Scam
"Prison censorship is a front in the fascist american project. For the millions buried by the largest prison system on the planet, we know that access to communication and reading materials remain one of the only ways people behind bars can maintain humanity. Prison is censorship, a system of walls and borders that criminalizes people and ideas: a system we are determined to break by building bridges of solidarity – through sharing books and publishing zines."
