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Eight years ago today, two cops let two women in their custody drown to pay the price for their recklessness.

This case is an illustration of how our “rights” actually work in practice. First, the police kill your loved ones. Then, years later, if you are lucky, those who killed your loved ones will be punished by having years of their lives be taken away, and/or you’ll get a bunch of money.

But your loved one is still dead.

Nobody should call this a “justice system,” and nobody should be able to get away with conflating policing and safety. Cops protect the rotten economic and political order we live under, not us.

Cops kill more than they save.
Cops rape more than they rescue.
Cops don’t enforce the law, they enforce hierarchy.

We’d be better off without cops.
And one day, we will be. by @incarceratedworkers

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21 days ago

53 years ago, the folk singer, educator, and Communist Victor Jara was murdered by the Chilean military junta after the US-backed coup of 1973.

Victor Jara was a cultural icon not only in Chile, but internationally. Slide 2 shows him at an anti-war rally in Finland. His targeting, torture, and murder was calculated, not incidental. President Nixon, National Security Advisor (soon to be Sec. of State) Kissinger, and CIA Director Helms oversaw the coup and the massacre of left-wing political opponents that followed.

He was captured seeking to defend the public university where he worked, and brought him to the Stadium with thousands of others. He was arrested on the 12th, but the 16th is believed to be the day he was killed. While he was being tortured in the Estadio National, which was made into an impromptu prison camp by the junta, Jara defiantly sang the song Venceremos (we will win). He was survived by his wife of 13 years, Joan Turner, who never remarried and passed away in 2023.

Decades after the fact, a chilean court convicted and sentenced 9 solders and officers for his murder. However, true justice has not been served while the monstrous system that Victor Jara was killed for opposing still stands.

To learn more about this, you can visit fundacionvictorjara.org and check out the Documentary “Massacre at the Stadium” on Netflix. by @incarceratedworkers

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23 days ago

55 years ago today, young men from across the state of New York, who had been corralled into Attica State Prison amid a growing backlash to the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, met organized force with organized force. The state, caught off-guard, responded by unleashing a reckless massacre rather than agreeing to reasonable terms that would have saved 43 lives.

The movement on the outside was also caught off-guard, and had to scramble to organize solidarity actions. Mass rallies were planned in cities across the country, but did not take place until the uprising - only 4 days in duration - was already over. It is deeply uncertain if things would be any different today, but IWOC (and other groups) exist and organize consistently in the hope that we can and will make a difference through consistent solidarity with our incarcerated community members in their struggle.

Down with white business supremacy.

Long live the Attica Uprising. by @incarceratedworkers

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a month ago

A prison in Missouri has no air conditioning in any housing unit. Last summer, geospatial scientist and AoC fellow Dr. Ufuoma Ovienmhada walked inside it as part of a legal team building a case that the heat there is unconstitutional.

She had been studying prisons like this one from space for years. Nothing prepared her for the vent in solitary confinement that barely moved air, or the cell walls reading 86°F before noon.

Her satellite data gave the case its scientific basis. A physician gave it medical weight. Lawyers forced open a door officials didn't want opened. And the men living there gave the case something none of the rest of the team could.

Ufuoma wrote the full account of that day for Agents of Change. Link in bio 🔗 by @incarceratedworkers

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2 months ago

When climate disasters hit, incarcerated people are often left behind with nowhere to go.

I co-founded The Toxic Prisons Mapping Project with @fighttoxicprisons to map real time environmental hazards (heat, hurricanes, wildfires, etc.) affecting carceral facilities.

Here is how community organizers have and are using it to support our incarcerated community members

1️⃣ Triaging: Overlay real-time hazard data to see exactly which facilities are at risk

2️⃣ Rapid Advocacy: Grab facility phone numbers and addresses for calling campaigns to get wardens to make protective moves before disaster strikes.

3️⃣ Analysis: Explore time-series data to understand historical exposure

🔗 Explore the map at toxicprisons.com (Link in bio!) #environmentaljustice #mutualaid #climatejustice #prison by @incarceratedworkers

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2 months ago

We are raising funds for Michael Kimble, a Black Queer writer and activist from Alabama who has been held captive by the state for 40 years. Join us in our efforts to support Michael as he continues to organize and fight for freedom. by @incarceratedworkers

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2 months ago

90 years ago today, the anarchists (organized into the CNT union), socialists (organized into the UGT union), communists (organized into the POUM) and other radicals and labor unionists of Spain responded to an attempted fascist military coup by initiating a long-awaited social revolution. For several months, life in much of Spain was socialized in a way that puts “social democracy” to shame. Factories and apartments were seized by workers, and social equality arose from below.

Although this revolution had excesses, notably the murders of priests and fascists POWs, this was mob violence that took place in the context of a war where the fascists were systematic in their use of mass execution and r-pe as terror tactics, and in which Catholic priests in Seville had given the fascists names of radicals to murder after the coup succeeded there. This aspect of the revolution is not something that should be hidden or excused.

After making “pragmatic compromises” that involved keeping the state in place, the war and the revolution were lost to the fascists, led by General Franco, who was financed by US oil oligarchs and armed by Nazi Germany. The moderate socialist government tried to appease the colonial powers to receive aid from them, but none came. Only Mexico, fresh off the heels of its own social revolution, send arms to the republic unconditionally. The USSR sent tanks and planes, but with conditions that ultimately meant the undoing of the social revolution.

Yet as long as exploitation lives on, so will resistance. Guerrilla fighters like Quico and Pepe Sabaté continued through the 40s, and partial general strikes still took place in Barcelona under Franco’s rule. In 1973, partisans blew the car of Franco’s pet Prime Minister so high into the air that it is still referred to today as the “Spanish space program.”

After the return of liberal democracy following Franco’s death, the CNT came up from underground. Although it has had two major splits since, one into the more pragmatic CGT, then again between the CNT-AIT and the CNT-CIT, it exists and scores wins for workers to this day as a sister union to the IWW and several others like it around the world. by @incarceratedworkers

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3 months ago

Cynthia Scott is a 58-year-old Black/New Afrikan woman currently imprisoned at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for women in Virginia. Over the last few years of her imprisonment, Cynthia's health has dramatically declined due to intentional medical neglect by a carceral system that prioritizes saving money over saving human lives.

This led her and other women at FCCW experiencing the same medical neglect to file a class action lawsuit against the prison and the Virginia Department of Corrections. Cynthia was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit Scott v. Clarke. Though the settlement of the lawsuit was meant to improve access to medical care, medical neglect at FCCW persists.

As a result, Cynthia's health has declined even further and to such an extent that she has sent funeral arrangements to her daughter. This is blatant state-sanctioned murder under the guise of the "color of law." We ask that you support Cynthia by doing the following:

-- Sign and share Cynthia's freedom petition at https://linktr.ee/IWCSP to help her win early release via parole and/or clemency.

-- Email the Governor at abigail.spanberger@governor.virginia.gov asking her to grant Cynthia's request for a conditional medical pardon. You can begin your letter stating, "Dear Governor Spanberger: My name is ______ and I support Cynthia Scott's request for a conditional pardon. I believe she is rehabilitated and that she deserves to be released early because _____." Please write whatever pours from your heart at this point. Also, please add "Cynthia Scott No. 1099763" in the subject line and blind copy the IWCSP at contact.iwcsp@gmail.com;

-- Lastly, write words of support to Cynthia at the following address (please keep your letters to a maximum of two pages front and back):

Cynthia Scott No. 1099736
Fluvanna Correctional Center
P.O. Box 1000
Troy, Virginia 22974

Thank you in advance for your care and support:

Graphic credit: @beautifully.asani

#prisons #womeninprison #clemency #freeher #freethemall by @incarceratedworkers

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4 months ago

Our comrades in Alabama are asking our support. From Queens to Atmore, we recognize our goal of abolition as one struggle, one fight. We at QJS demand justice for incarcerated workers at Fountain Correctional Facility.

DEMANDS
1. Prisoners receive the wages immediately, including back pay, and all future payments be made on time
2. An investigation by a legal organization independent of ALDOC to look into the work practices at Fountain Annex on suspicion of engaging in convict leasing

WHO TO CONTACT
Fountain Correctional Facility Main Line
(ask for warden Kenneth Peters)
251-368-8122

Commissioner Greg Lovelace
334-353-3883

Governor Kay Ivey
334-242-7100 by @incarceratedworkers

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4 months ago

TIE UP THEIR LINES!

Solidarity with the Adelanto hunger strikers and all those subject to hate and violence because of imaginary lines.

Have you called? by @incarceratedworkers

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4 months ago

ICE is retaliating against hunger strikers. Action kit in bio.

Call the LA ICE Field Office as soon as possible and demand an end to any retaliation against the hunger strikers. Urge officials to protect their First Amendment rights and ensure they can maintain contact with their families and supporters.

🔗 bit.ly/adelantostrike20
Toolkit includes: call scripts, hunger strikers demands, donations to commissary funds, visitation signups.

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ÚLTIMA HORA: ICE está tomando represalias contra los huelguistas de hambre y se ha cortado la comunicación con sus familiares.

Llama a la oficina local de ICE en Los Ángeles lo antes posible y exige que se ponga fin a cualquier represalia contra los huelguistas de hambre. Insta a los funcionarios a que protejan sus derechos amparados por la Primera Enmienda y garanticen que puedan mantener el contacto con sus familias y simpatizantes.

🔗 bit.ly/adelantostrike20demandas
El kit incluye: guiones para llamadas, demandas de las personas en huelga de hambre, donaciones al fondo de comisaría e inscripción para visitas. by @incarceratedworkers

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4 months ago

Hybachi LeMar is being released this week!! Let's raise some funds to help smooth his transition back home. Hybachi will need a new phone right away, and funds to cover basic necessities as well as to support him as he gets back on his feet after nearly three years in prison.

Hybachi LeMar is a community organizer with the Black Autonomy Federation and author of many zines and books including "The Ghetto-bred Anarchist", "The Anarchybalion", and "The Deprived and Depraved". Since his arrest in May 2023, Hybachi has been held in Illinois and Pennsylvania state prisons; from behind bars he has continued to publish writings that can be found on his website HelpACompa.com.

More details on how you can support Hybachi coming real soon so please stay tuned!

https://givebutter.com/Ew1ao2
https://helpacompa.com
Venmo: @ LiberationPress

All donations go directly to Hybachi LeMar. Consider also purchasing a copy of "The Ghetto-bred Anarchist" (which is nearly sold out, so please check if it's in stock!) or "The Anarchybalion", available at the IWW Store, PM Press, Firestorm Books (Asheville NC), Black Lantern Books (Inglewood CA), throughout Chicago at Quimby's Books, Pilsen Community Books, The Underground Bookstore, Skunk Cabbage Books, and Tangible Books; and in New York at The P.I.T. (Brooklyn), The Word is Change (Brooklyn), and Black Bird Infoshop (Kingston NY). Prerelease fundraiser for Hybachi LeMar by @incarceratedworkers

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