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New Report Documents Poor Quality of Food and Health Care for Prisoners
April 3, 2018: Kansas City, MO. Widespread problems with food and health care quality are standard in U.S. prisons, according to a new report by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and Research Action Cooperative. 65% of prisoners reported that food made them sick in the last year and 63% reported being denied needed health care.
Why I am calling for an international day of action on Juneteenth!
“The plantation system in the American South no longer exists in its earlier historical form. The wage system of the North clearly established its hegemonic position over its competitor after the Civil War. However, the fundamental issue the abolitionists raised—the matter of slavery and slave society—was not only never resolved, but has been normalized, legalized, and expanded.
Let Lucasville Prisoners Tell Their Own Story!
Twenty-Five years after the longest prison uprising in which people died, the full story has not been told. April 11, 2018 will be the 25th Anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising, a defining event in the history of criminal justice and prison systems in Ohio and the United States.
NCAA: stop enslaving student athletes!
From The NCAA Says Student-Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid Because the 13th Amendment Allows Unpaid Prison Labor, Shaun King, The Intercept, February 22 2018:
Featured Resources
The Incarcerated Worker Volume 8 - February 2018
This 8th issue announces the formation of the first Incarcerated Workers Industrial Union 613 branch, IWW election results, several essays covering issues related to re-entry and other writings and artwork from incarcerated members.
Free Alabama Movement: Let the Crops Rot in the Field
Important strategy document from the Free Alabama Movement.
The Incarcerated Worker - Issue 7 Summer 2017
Issue 7 includes an important announcement of IWOC's restructuring, theory and strategy from incarcerated workers, exposés on conditions in the prison industrial complex and more.
Freedom First!
Freedom First, a new zine by Firehawk and Ben examining the role of prisoner resistance in prison abolition efforts.
