@Veeren_Jubbal
great video where
@legittayupdates
speaks about why she refuses to serve in the army and participate in the military oppression of Palestinians
"chokehold bans = please find another way to kill Black people
body cameras = please press record when you kill Black people"
-Rosamond S. King
"Breathe. As in"
All the Rage (2021)
quoted in the Re-Form chapter,
No More Police
by
@prisonculture
and
@dreanyc123
why so many cop cities being built?
one reason: because finance capitalists need some safe profits from their investments, and government bonds for cop construction are a safe bet
also, cop cities are prioritized because jails/prisons built since the 80s haven't aged out yet
Study found that youth incarcerated in adult correctional facilities are at a 33% higher risk for an early death b/t the ages of 18-39. The study also found that formal encounters w/ the legal system put youth at risk for a shorter lifespan.
"We have to stand up and take our own future into our own hands through direct actions like this. We need as many as people as possible to join in this fight... The more of us that are willing to... put their bodies on the line... then we will win."
-Ayeola
#StopCopCity
"…policing is sexual violence, and sexual violence is a tool of policing and a corollary to criminalization. … The only way to end police sexual violence is to reduce police contact and power, and ultimately, to end policing."
No More Police
by
@prisonculture
and
@dreanyc123
One in every five Palestinians has been arrested and charged under the 1,600 military orders that control every aspect of the lives of Palestinians living under the Israeli military occupation.
@grassfay
if you read far enough into most RJ or transformative justice texts, eventually they always admit that sometimes taking matters into your own hands is necessary for true justice. this is usually buried on like page 200.
@BoringDrew
my hot take that nobody asked for: "13th" perpetuates the myth of private, for-profit prisons being central to the prison industrial complex because ava's interest is in reforming capitalism, not abolishing it.
@Chalja_
@fakerapper
If the only thing holding a person in jail is unpaid money bail, it means the court has decided the person is safe to be in the community.
"…a future *without policing* is not the same as a future without *police*.
…police are not the state's only mechanism of criminalization and control… To end the violence of policing, we can't stop at eliminating cops…"
from No More Police
by
@prisonculture
and
@dreanyc123
🔥 stop replacing old jails with new jails 🔥 stop replacing old jails with new jails 🔥 stop replacing old jails with new jails 🔥 stop replacing old jails with new jails 🔥 stop replacing old jails with new jails 🔥 stop replacing old jails with new jails 🔥
@Lee48xo
I feel like this isn't the dunk many think it is. why did these Jewish people have these European surnames in the first place? Weren't there repressive laws that required Jewish people to adopt surnames?
Milwaukee Freedom Fund wants to extend our support to protesters in Kenosha. Our request help form is here: . We help with bail/tickets/connecting protesters to lawyers.
#StopCopCity
protesters are outside of a Hilton in Manhattan now protesting a hiring event for Atlanta cops. Chants of “Tortuguita! We remember!” & “Cop City will never be built!” NYPD has already pushed protesters away from the front of the hotel & threatened to make arrests.
to put this in perspective for USians, Gaza is geographically the same size as Philadelphia, ~140 square miles, but with ~400,000 more people
imagine if the army dropped leaflets from the sky saying that the entire population of Philly has to immediately evacuate to South Philly
@DaShaunLH
here's a google lens translation.
it's always about "safety":
"For your security and safety
You must not return to your homes until further notice from the Israeli Defense Forces
…
For your safety and the safety of your families
You must evacuate your homes immediately…"
@Lee48xo
I guess my point was that there is not a lot of attachment to the European surnames because the names were forced on people. so pointing out the Euro surnames highlights the oppression Jewish people experienced in Europe
Anyway, Free Palestine.
NO NEW "CRIMES"
NO NEW COPS
NO NEW SCHOOL COPS
NO NEW BORDER PATROL
NO NEW JAILS
NO NEW JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS
NO NEW DETENTION FACILITIES
NO NEW COURTS
NO NEW PROBLEM SOLVING COURTS
NO NEW PRETRIAL SERVICES
NO NEW PROBATION OFFICERS
NO NEW PRISONS
NO NEW PAROLE OFFICERS
"FUCK THE POLICE
FEED THE PEOPLE
FIGHT THE POWER
FEEL THE POWER
FUCK THE PIPELINES
FUCK THE PRISONS
FREE THE PRISONERS
FUCK THE PILGRIMS
FUCK THE POLITICIANS
FUCK THE PROFITS
FUCK THE PROPAGANDA
FUCK THE PRESIDENT
FOR THE PEOPLE
+ + +"
-
@decolonize_this
FTP3 Operations Manual
BREAKING.
Mass direct actions are shutting down construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at two locations. People have swarmed both sites, and a total of four people have locked-down to construction equipment.
#NoMVP
@discoscientist
@thotscholar
women being jailed for child support is common in states that allow it. often it is due to "child support" owed to the state to repay foster care costs.
"Toward an Anarcha-Transfeminist, Youth Liberationist, Anti-Racist, Anti-Rapist Prison Abolitionism
...
8. Abolishing prisons therefore necessarily entails liberating a population of survivors who killed their rapists."
@BISBAAS_
@_Mokawama_
but also many Jewish "family" names had only recently been picked in the 1700-1800s to comply with repressive laws in several European countries
which stage of abolitionist thought are you at?
1.
people accused of nonviolent crimes who are legally innocent should not be locked up for money bail they can't afford
2.
people accused of nonviolent crimes who are legally innocent should not be locked up for money bail
"The largest prison break in human history is happening right before our eyes. For decades 2 million Palestinians have been brutalized, starved, and made martyr by Israeli settler apartheid.
The Palestinians have taken decolonization into their own hands. Free Palestine 🇵🇸"
"Key questions that can help us…
Does it expand or legitimize a system we are trying to dismantle? ❌😊
…
Does it mobilize people most affected… for ongoing struggle? ✅😊
…
Does it spread awareness of its ideas?" ✅😊
from No More Police
by
@prisonculture
and
@dreanyc123
⚡️BREAKING:
Ansarullah Yemen seized Israeli ZIM Haifa ship
This is the second Israeli vessel seized by Ansarullah
We are witnessing the total control of the Axis of Resistance over the maritime Chokepoints in the Middle East
@IMwireman
@jibarisimo
my hot take that nobody asked for: "13th" perpetuates the myth of private, for-profit prisons being central to the prison industrial complex because ava's interest is in reforming capitalism, not abolishing it.
@HeatherTDay
I volunteered for many years as a restorative justice circle facilitator for kids who got in trouble with the cops, and so many of the situations ultimately boiled down to the lack of affordable housing
@RaiseUptheSouth
FYI, someone sent this:
"I’m with the Union of Southern Service Workers. I’m a Waffle House worker… Instead of giving Waffle House workers higher wages, quality health insurance, and improving the stores…, Waffle House is funding Cop City."
#StopCopCity
hey babe, wake up, thread of info about cop city in Pittsburgh PA
(not to be confused with Pittsburgh neighborhood in Atlanta)
#StopCopCity
#BlockCopCity
"What if our goal is not to seize the carceral state in an effort to transform it, but to seize power and resources from the police state to create conditions under which new economic systems and forms of governance can emerge?"
No More Police
by
@prisonculture
and
@dreanyc123
@haymarketbooks
@b3tvnia
Not all cops who kill are "strangers" to their victims. Many times they know each other. For example, see the case of Sylville Smith in Milwaukee.
@talilalewis
@radicalamy
This may be of interest: Infographics developed from federal civil rights data showing extreme disparities in public school referrals to law enforcement affecting students of color with disabilities in Madison, WI. Sample below, complete set in link:
"During the last week of action in Atlanta, some of us sabotaged various parts of Norfolk Southern’s rail infrastructure on the outskirts of the city. Norfolk Southern is one of Cop City’s funders."
#StopCopCity
#BlockCopCity
did you know that jail cells are made in a factory? a jail cell factory! check out these white folks touring the jail cell factory. they love to see some jail cells being made. gonna lock up some Black folks in madison wisconsin soon. gonna be humane and shit!
3.
people accused of crimes who are legally innocent should not be locked up for money bail
4.
people accused of crimes should not be locked up for money bail
5.
people accused of crimes should not be locked up
6.
people should not be locked up
7.
people should be free
hey abolitionists: please tell me about your successful campaigns targeting elected officials. what demands were won? how did you do it? looking for some inspiration. thank you!
(please don't reply if your campaign was in California. looking for responses from other places. ty!)
"…whatever happens at the ballot box will be too late.
WE WILL HAVE TO DO IT OURSELVES.
The people will have to enforce their own stop work order."
#StopCopCity
This is happening: After RICO charges, the movement in opposition to Atlanta’s $90 million police training facility says that thousands will engage in direct action under
#BlockCopCity
in November.
There is a website:
"…whatever happens at the ballot box will be too late.
WE WILL HAVE TO DO IT OURSELVES.
The people will have to enforce their own stop work order."
#StopCopCity
" THE RED NATION STANDS
WITH PALESTINE 🇵🇸 &
THEIR STRUGGLE…
FROM NATIVE LANDS
TO PALESTINE
ANNEXATION IS A CRIME!
'The Liberation
of Palestine
Represents an
Alternative
Path for
Native Nations'
🇵🇸
"
NDN Collective stands in solidarity and deep mourning of Gaza. For too long have the Palestinian people demanded their freedom, the reclamation of their homelands, their peace, and their liberation.
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
"DECOLONIZATION IS NOT AN ABSTRACT THEORETICAL LENS BUT THE REVOLUTIONARY, MATERIAL PRACTICE OF THE DIRECT LIBERATION OF ONE'S COMMUNITY FROM THE YOKE OF THE OPPRESSOR. WE SUPPORT DECOLONIZATION.
DECOLONI
ZATION IS
A
PRACTICE"
in Kenosha County, Black people are 33% of people on probation and parole supervision, and 48% of people in jail, but only 7% of residents.
#JusticeForJacobBlake
#KenoshaUprising
#DefundPolice
photo of Dept. of Corrections Probation Office in Kenosha on fire
with all these cop cities in the works, is this what it felt like to be a prison abolitionist in the mid 1970s when all the new prisons started to be built?
#StopCopCity
#BlockCopCity
@prisonculture
Ppl need to read actual Scandinavian abolitionists' thoughts on the issue. Nils Christie's "Limits to Pain" is a good place to start. There is also a downloadable PDF that's googleable.
@thotscholar
just wanted to say your facts and analysis are 100% correct and on point.
i worked for many years for
@CFFPP
, an org that advocates for ending the harms caused by child support enforcement and its links to TANF and Medicaid. we talked to families in GA:
"Who Pays? Who Benefits?"
Georgia incarcerated, or threatened to incarcerate, up to 4,758 parents for unpaid child support. But parents have told CFFPP that when the state threatens jail, their family and friends pay to keep them out of jail. Read more:
"From the moment of birth, Palestinians must contend with being criminalized for existing. We are surveilled and censored, our oppression normalized, and our bodies corralled into various open-air and closed prisons."
by
@RiverToSea48
and
@AManInTheSun
in
@scalawagmag
On Juneteenth 2023, we are proud to contribute to
@scalawagmag
‘s Abolition Week with our piece “Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens”