Anyone relying on mainstream media wouldn’t know it, but the US prison system is shaking up right now. No one knows how big the initial strike was yet, but the information is slowly leaking out between the cracks in the prisons’ machinery of obscurity and isolation. Here are some speculative numbers we can share with confidence at this time:
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Let the Crops Rot in the Field
After a period of over 40 years of an accelerated rate of incarceration, the issue of Mass Incarceration and Prison Slavery have now reached its crescendo.
NYC-IWOC stands in solidarity with Standing Rock
On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, as thousands of prisoners across the world are striking against prison-slavery, several thousand indigenous tribal members of over 160 tribes and supporters of #BlackLivesMatter are collectively resisting white-supremacist and settler-colonialist capitalist powers.
Lexington: No more prisons in KY
Early Thursday morning, prison abolitionists dropped a banner over New Circle Road in Lexington, KY.
Bloomington: Strike Solidarity, Day 1: Democratic Campaign HQ Disrupted
On September 8th, in solidarity with prisoners taking action for the 9/9 prisoner strike, about a dozen people disrupted activities at the local Democratic Party campaign headquarters. Standing outside the building, people held a large banner announcing the prisoner strike while a statement was read and others passed out handbills.
T-Shirts Available to Benefit ‘Bama Prisoners
In celebration of the wave of resistance going down and about to go down, and as a tool to help raise money and highlight the rebellion of folks down in ‘Bama, a comrade has made this “Straight Outta Holman” shirt design. The idea came up in conversation with a prisoner at Holman, and went from there.
Hundreds of inmates riot at Florida prison
A nationwide prison strike planned Friday has Florida’s jails and state prisons on high alert through the weekend, bracing for possible upheavals by inmates protesting what they say is inhumane and violent treatment.
Spreading the Strike: Solidarity Actions Across North America for September 9th
Check original post for weekend updates: https://itsgoingdown.org/spreading-strike-solidarity-actions-across-north-america-september-9th/
Crimethinc Podcast #50: The History and Future of Prison Strikes
As we build momentum towards the September 9th national prison strike, we want to reflect on lessons learned from past generations of prison rebels, as well as how we can maintain energy on September 10th and beyond.
