Milwaukee, WI: Anarchists Storm Bastille Day Festival in Solidarity with #PrisonStrike
Kicking off the week of support and outreach for the #August21 #PrisonStrike, anarchists in Milwaukee put on a show at the Bastille Day festival.
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Censorship, staff negligence, and extreme heat at the Telford Unit, Texas
NOTE: This article was originally censored by the mailroom, on the grounds that the original version of the article mentioned Jason's affiliation with the New Afrikan Black Panther Party in the byline.
Deadly Extreme Heat & Deliberate Indifference inside Texas Prisons: The Culture of Neglect and Abuse Continues
“Plaintiffs allege that “sweltering temperatures inside buildings where [TDCJ] houses inmates”, including the Wallace Pack Unit, have caused at least twelve prisoners in the Texas prison system to die from heat stroke, and hundreds more prisoners to suffer from heat-related illnesses since 2011/ They (plaintiffs) allege that defendants (TDCJ) have done nothing to lower the temperatures inside t
Video Call to Action from Inside Angola Prison
Decarcerate Louisiana member broadcasts a video message from inside Angola prison on their goals to organize incarcerated people against the racist and exploitative nature of the prison system and society as a whole. This video and call to organize comes on the heels of Juneteenth and as momentum begins to build toward the national prisoner strike August 21-September 9.
Prison Strikers Issue Statement: "ABOLISH ICE!"
Solidarity with those detained (children, women, and men) by immigration and Customs Enforcement and the families you are forcibly kept from. You are held in those for profit gulags, whose aims are to maintain a rotten nationalist- racist- capitalistic social order. The August 21st National Prison Strike called for strikes and boycotts in and against those so called immigration detentions for a reason, to acknowledge for the world that our struggles are not separate.
All Eyes On Florida and Texas!: Heat Turned Up Around Juneteenth Call To Action
August 21st is Going to be LIT
This August we’re expecting a firestorm of resistance and rebellion to rage through US prisons.
Staff and Inmates Both Endangered by Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons
Peace and blessings sisters and brothers! It is late May as I write this, and already the heat is reaching unbearable limits inside Texas prisons.
I personally am in the midst of my annual Ramadan fast, and the extreme heat places an extra bit of intensity to our obligatory fast.
If Black Lives Matter to you – then please by all means necessary help us support and sustain the San Francisco Bay View!
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
Peace & blessings, sisters and brothers!
IWOC Endorses National Prison Strike and Pledges Support
"Whereas, we, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee of the IWW have heard their call for support and find the strike and its goals completely aligned with our material work and with all points of our Statement of Purpose,
Be it resolved, we endorse the strike, pledge our support and furthermore, embrace the work of solidarity."
