Headingley inmate said 'I can't breathe' more than 20 times while restrained by guards, video shows | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/william-ahmo-court-trial-video-1.6956574?cmp=rss

> CBC News viewed a nearly 21-minute-long video detailing a 2021 standoff between Headingly inmate William Ahmo and corrections officers that was shown in court last week during the trial of a corrections officer now charged in Ahmo's death.

#AbolishPrisons

Racial disparities plague Washtenaw County criminal legal system. New report has 65 solutions

from MLive.com
by Lucas Smolcic Larson

#Michigan #Washtenaw #ACAB #AbolishPrisons

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2023/09/racial-disparities-plague-washtenaw-county-criminal-legal-system-new-report-has-65-solutions.html

Thomal Meyer-Falk ist frei!
Willkommen in de Freiheit, Thomas.
Freedom to all prisoners!

#KnästeAbschaffen
#AbolishPrisons

https://t.co/jbdO19s7wO

Poem by Jason Walker: Jailhouse Blues
#EndPrisonSlavery #AbolishPrisons #ClassStruggle

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/25/poem-by-jason-walker-jailhouse-blues/

Queensland’s new laws will see children as young as 10, who are held in remand and haven’t been convicted of any crime, locked up and held indefinitely in adult watch houses. These egregious laws will go down as one of the biggest human rights breaches by an Australian government in recent history.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/25/queenslands-watch-house-laws-are-a-grotesque-affront-to-decency-and-an-immediate-danger-to-children?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise

Kent County passes $585.5 million budget, will hire 14 more corrections officers

from MLive.com
by Michael Kransz

#Michigan #KentCounty #ACAB #AbolishPrisons

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/08/kent-county-passes-5855-million-budget-will-hire-14-more-corrections-officers.html

INDONEZJA: POMÓŻ UWIĘZIONYM ANTYAUTORYTARNYM OSOBOM OPUBLIKOWAĆ ICH TEKSTY!

https://czarnateoria.noblogs.org/general/indonezja-pomoz-uwiezionym-antyautorytarnym-osobom-opublikowac-ich-teksty/

"Dlatego zwracamy się do międzynarodowych działaczy antyautorytarnych, anarchistów, antyfaszystów i sieci abolicjonistów o solidarność w naszych wysiłkach na rzecz publikacji naszych pism. Przeznaczyliśmy około 5,5 miliona IDR (327 euro) na koszty komunikacji w więzieniu, przemycanie narzędzi do pisania, edycję, drukowanie i dystrybucję książek. Pomóż nam opublikować nasze teksty w skorumpowanym systemie więziennictwa Indonezji i wesprzyj kampanie więźniów!"

#MiędzynarodowaSolidarność #InternationalSolidarity #AbolishPrisons #Antywięzienie

Well.. I mean..

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops

It’s never in the news but thinking of all the mostly indigenous folks in two correctional facilities in Fort Smith (and others in probably Yellowknife and other communities) not only disconnected from their communities, now their lands and who the fuck knows where they are or how they are #canada #turtleisland #nwt #ClimateChange #abolishprisons

“He said, ‘I thought I was dying in the cell last night’. He said ‘I couldn’t move’,”

She said the arrest was so violent it could have broken a bone when the young man was thrown to the ground. She claimed an ambulance was not called despite his seizures.

In May a NSW police officer was found guilty of assaulting a 16-year-old Indigenous boy in inner Sydney in 2020, when he threw the boy to the ground using a similar leg sweep manoeuvre.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/18/aboriginal-18-year-old-with-disability-thrown-to-ground-during-nsw-police-arrest-while-having-seizure?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #SovereigntyNeverCeded

Flint lockup closing, operations shifting to county jail as state funding dries up

from MLive.com
by Ron Fonger

#Michigan #Flint #AbolishPrisons

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2023/08/flint-lockup-closing-operations-shifting-to-county-jail-as-state-funding-dries-up.html

Inmate dies after medical incident at Michigan jail

from MLive.com
by Brad Devereaux

#Michigan #BerrienCounty #AbolishPrisons

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2023/08/inmate-dies-after-medical-incident-at-michigan-jail.html

@abolitionbb

In #Alabama hat ein Gefangener einen Wärter als Geisel genommen und ein Video veröffentlicht, um gegen Rassismus und Gewalt in den Knästen zu demonstrieren. Er sagte: "Sie nutzen Verbrechen und Strafe als Mittel um weiße Vorherrschafft aufrecht zuerhalten ... Sie geben vor für Recht und Gesetz zu stehen, doch sie folgen keiner Art von Gestzen, sie brechen die Gesetze!"

#Abolishprisons #Knäste abschaffen #Solidarität #Dresden #Sachsen

Ten Comrades Arrested in Police Operation Against Anarchist Newspaper in Italy
#AnarchistPrisoners #Italy
"On August 8, at dawn, the public prosecutor’s office of Genoa and the Digos (antiterrorist police) of La Spezia led yet another operation of repression against the anarchist movement. Ten anarchist comrades are accused in this investigation, including five comrades from Carrara, for whom the prosecutor initially asked for detention. In addition to searches in the homes, the Anarchist Cultural Circle “Gogliardo Fiaschi”, the historic center of anarchists in Carrara, has been the subject of a descent. Magazines, books, leaflets, posters and computer supplies have been seized. The preliminary investigation judge has decided on four residential assignments with all restrictions, five house arrests with return to prison at night. One comrade is not subject to any restriction. Luigi, one of the four residential comrades had no official residence: he was therefore transferred to the Spezia prison."
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/09/ten-comrades-arrested-in-police-operation-against-anarchist-newspaper-in-italy/
via @amwenglish
#Repression #EU #Prison #abolishprisons

"Herman and I called it an “antirape squad.” We set up guidelines for the other prisoners who wanted to stand with us: Work in pairs; never alone. Use violence only as a last resort. Every Thursday on fresh fish day we armed ourselves and went down the walk, introduced ourselves to the new prisoners, and told them they were now under the protection of the Black Panther Party. We escorted them to whatever dormitory they were assigned to and we explained the type of games that a prisoner played to sexually assault or rape another prisoner, or coerce him into becoming a sex slave. “Don’t borrow anything,” we told them. “Don’t take anything that’s offered, don’t ask for favors, don’t accept favors. If you do you are opening yourselves up to being in debt to sexual predators.” We told them if they needed anything to come to us. We’d help them find what they needed—whether soap, toothpaste, deodorant, or “zuzus,” the term we used for snacks like potato chips and candy. If we came upon anyone threatening another prisoner with rape we stopped it. Sometimes all it took was to say something—“Brother, leave that, go ahead on” or “This ain’t gonna happen”—and that would be enough. Other times we had to fight. We put the word out that if you messed with someone under our protection you had to deal with the Black Panther Party. As the presence of the party grew on the walk we knew the prisoner “shot callers”—those who had profitable gambling, drug, and prostitution businesses within the prison—were watching us. I never had a direct confrontation with any of them, but we always traveled in groups of two or three. That wouldn’t protect us from being attacked but it made us feel better.
Wherever we were, in the dorm, at our jobs, on the chow line, on the walk, Herman and I talked about the Black Panther Party. Some guys would make remarks to me like, “Damn, man, that’s all you talk about, the Panthers.” I didn’t deny it. For me it was always the Panthers. Our list of enemies was long. It wasn’t just the prisoner pimps and drug dealers, both white and black, who hated us. Snitches gravitated to us too, trying to get information they could sell. Security officers overheard us. We knew we were a threat to the status quo. I got scared of being killed sometimes. But I believed what I was struggling for was more important than me. It never occurred to me to stop what we were doing."

-- Albert Woodfox
Former Angola 3 political prisoner
from Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope

This solidarity is the reason the Louisiana prison authorities tortured the Angola 3 political prisoners -- Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace, and Robert King -- in solitary confinement for over 40 years.

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition

“The purpose of the chief repressive institutions within the totalitarian capitalist state is clearly to discourage and prohibit certain activity, and the prohibitions are aimed at very distinctly defined sectors of the class–and race–sensitized society. The ultimate expression of law is not order–it’s prison. There are hundreds upon hundreds of prisons, and thousands upon thousands of laws, yet there is no social order, no social peace. Anglo-Saxon bourgeois law is tied firmly into economics. One can even pick that out of those Vital Statistics. Bourgeois law protects property relations and not social relationships. The cultural traits of capitalist society that also tend to check activity–(individualism, artificial politeness juxtaposed to an aloof rudeness, the rush to learn 'how to' instead of 'what is')–are secondary really, and intended for those mild cases (and groups) that require preventive measures only. The law and everything that interlocks with it was constructed for poor, desperate people like me.”

--George Jackson, Blood In My Eyes

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #FuckCapitalism

Prison, Where Is Thy Victory?
- Huey P Newton

“When a person studies mathematics, he learns that there are many mathematical laws which determine the approach he must take to solving the problems presented to him. In the study of geometry, one of the first laws a person learns is that “the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts.” This means simply that one cannot have a geometrical figure such as a circle or a square which in its totality contains more than it does when broken down into smaller parts. Therefore, if all the smaller parts add up to a certain amount, the entire figure cannot add to a larger amount. The prison cannot have a victory over the prisoner because those in charge take the same kind of approach to the prisoner and assume if they have the whole body in a cell that they have there all that makes up the person. But a prisoner is not a geometrical figure and an approach which is successful in mathematics is wholly unsuccessful when dealing with human beings.

In the case of the human, we are not dealing only with the single individual, we are also dealing with the ideas and beliefs which have motivated him and which sustains him, even when his body is confined. In the case of humanity, the whole is much greater than its parts, because the whole includes the body which is measurable and confineable, and also the ideas which cannot be measured and which cannot be confined. The ideas are not only within the mind of the prisoner where they cannot be seen nor controlled, the ideas are also within the people. The ideas which can and will sustain our movement for total freedom and dignity of the people cannot be imprisoned for they are found in the people, all the people, wherever they are. As long as the people live by the ideas of freedom and dignity there will be no prison which can hold our movement down. Ideas move from one person to another in the association of brothers and sisters who recognize that a most evil system of capitalism has set us against each other, when our real enemy is the exploiter who profits from our poverty. When we realize such an idea then we come to love and appreciate our brothers and sisters who we may have seen as enemies, and those exploiters who we may have seen as friends revealed for what they truly are to all oppressed people. The people are the idea; the respect and dignity of the people, as they move toward their freedom is the sustaining force which reaches into and out of the prison. The walls, the bars, the guns and guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. And the people must always carry forward the idea which is their dignity and their beauty.

(cont in thread)

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

- Toni Morrison

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops

Call for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners 2023 // 23 – 30 August

"(...)
Extreme right, conservative and authoritarian politics are increasing all around the world. Some use it to start Wars and kill thousands of people, some build fences and guard what they think is their property and others use it to arm up in the digital world. Surveillance is increased and the states are leaping more and more into our private spaces, analyzing our private conversations and collecting data about us with a depth of detail we could never have imagined. The tools of the states to crush resistance, crush even the idea of fighting the system, are sharpened with every minute. Many anarchists, anti-authoritarians, environmental activists, and antifascist around the world face repression because acting anonymous in a digitalized world is as difficult as never before.
https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/05/call-for-international-week-of-solidarity-with-anarchist-prisoners-2023-23-30-august/

https://solidarity.international
#Anarchism #Prison #freeThemAll #abolishprisons

It's been a hectic morning..

(we're ok, I wrote the note to leave at the neighbour's house)

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #Solidarity