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#ARadicalPodcast #StatePower #CopCity #Atlanta #RICO #SocialJustice

I don't collect stamps, but I enjoy going to the post office and having them show me the latest ones.

Which makes it even more ironic that the only stamps I had on hand had the picture of a flag, and the word Freedom, for the Birthday card I'm sending to Willie.

A person who has been sentenced to die in prison (life without parole) for two convictions of receiving stolen property and one for a mugging.

#PrisonAbolition

I don't collect stamps, but I enjoy going to the post office and having them show me the latest ones.

Which makes it even more ironic that the only stamps I had on hand had the picture of a flag, and the word Freedom, for the Birthday card I'm sending to Willie.

A person who has been sentenced to die in prison (life without parole) for two convictions of receiving stolen property and one for a mugging.

#PrisonAbolition

I don't collect stamps, but I enjoy going to the post office and having them show me the latest ones.

Which makes it even more ironic that the only stamps I had on hand had the picture of a flag, and the word Freedom, for the Birthday card I'm sending to Willie.

A person who has been sentenced to die in prison (life without parole) for two convictions of receiving stolen property and one for a mugging.

#PrisonAbolition

Check out this online bookstore which helps cover the costs of sending books to folks in prison

https://massivebookshop.com/pages/b2p

#PrisonAbolition #Books

Our new police abolition essay "Kick the Cops off Your Block" is now available on substack. This essay gives an analysis of the police, many alternatives to the police, and ways to get to a world without hierarchical security forces and what they enforce

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/kick-the-cops-off-your-block

#anarchism #police #policeabolition #anarchy #socialism #communism #prison #prisonabolition #abolition #abolitionism #acab #cops #communal #utopia #praxis
#directaction #mutualaid #mediation
#transformativejustice
#restorativejustice #selfdefense #mediation #freeassociation #hierarchy #equality #statecraft #capitalism

They tore down a trailer park to make room for a new jail that nobody wants.

#KansasCity #NoNewJail #PrisonAbolition

Helping hands: The ‘Comeback Backpack’ helps prepare people for life post-incarceration

https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/article277861313.html

#PrisonAbolition

Willie sent me the Q3 catalog with the items he needs circled.

If you want to offset the cost of this, you can contribute to his general fund. Or directly to his canteen account. That information is on our webpage for him.

https://justiceforwilliesimmons.org/

#PrisonAbolition

Heyooo this is my #intro post pls boost

i'm a multiply #disabled #Autistic white #trans #lesbian living in the so-called uk (specifically on the island of #Britain), I'm Bargee, I live nomadically on a #narrowboat which I mostly successfully maintain myself. Interested in #RightToRepair and #repair more generally. A factor of the way autism manifests for me is hyperlexia (verbose speech, obsessive about choosing the exact right word, obsessed with learning new words and ways of speaking), this means my writing comes out really formal; read it as a class thing if you want but I'm working class, no now or future inherited wealth, no access to managerial or corporate power, lived paycheck to paycheck my whole adult life.

Politically speaking i'm into #greenanarchy, I love the #iww, i'm here for #familyAbolition and #policeabolition, #transformativejustice and #prisonabolition. I want an end to all colonial rule, capital, states, nations, borders and capital. In terms of the island I am on I am here for the end to the English occupation of the six northern counties in Ireland, the end of English rule/occupation/power in Scotland and Wales, and the end to all English overseas domination in all forms perpetrated under the flag of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I'm pessimistic about technology and I think it and legislation can't solve social problems.

I mostly post about disability justice, #CovidIsNotOver, queerness, transness, #ukpol, anarchism and anticapitalism.

I'm a linux user, obviously, and a #foss advocate.

I'll make a separate pinned post with a cw for sexy. Flirts welcome if you're a dyke, don't think covid is over and still mask up (or disability precludes you masking), and if you're like, older than mid twenties (i'm in my thirties). CIS AND TRANS MEN NO FLIRTING, THIS IS IN CAPS BECAUSE YOUR PEOPLE SEEM INCAPABLE OF READING COMPREHENSION.

To People of Colour: I collect my cousins, particularly white trans/disabled girls and autistics. If someone is doing a racism from an instance mine is federated with and you want collection please let me know. If I see this myself I do my best to not need asking. Being gracious and grateful when receiving criticism and asks for accountability or change in my behaviour is important to me and I do not expect your tone to be a certain way for me to hear it, and I am grateful for any time you take a chance on me and do me the generosity of feedback. I understand that feedback does not have to be complete and that a gift of feedback does not obligate the giver to provide further explanation/education/contact. I understand what diunital thinking is and do my best to employ it. I can usually keep my temper and own feelings in check when collecting and recuse myself when they get in the way of constructive action. I have no qualms with conflict, upsetting people and being "mean" where necessary, however. This paragraph is here for your informed consent and does not obligate you to like or trust me or interact with me.

A note on language: I use nondisabled, disablis(t/m) to honour the disability activists I have known and organised with in Britain, over the more common americanisms abled, ablis(t/m) but I don't care what anyone else uses. I use C(oercively)AFAB and CAMAB over AFAB/AMAB and if you're TME I think you should do the same. I don't really mind what language other trans women and TMA people use but I would encourage you to look into the terf historical useage of FAB (female at birth) and the transmasc transmisogynist useage of AFABulous, as well as to think about how CAMAB both decenters our ASAB and centers the violent upholding of cisgenderism, and think about whether this might be a useful lingustic distinction for you. But I'm not the boss of you, do what feels important/right to you.

“Immensely Invisible”

Immigrant Women in ICE Jails Face Sexual Abuse Despite Reforms, Report Reveals

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/21/maria_hinojosa_immensely_invisible_ice_detention

#PrisonAbolition

Nope! #PrisonAbolition

Prison guard lost job for taking in inmate’s baby: ‘It was the right thing to do’

Corrections officer Roberta Bell said she has no regrets. ‘I sensed that Katie was a good person who had just made some bad choices in her life,’ Bell said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/15/corrections-officer-baby-fired-louisiana/

#PrisonAbolition

It’s Like Being Baked in a Concrete Oven

During record-breaking heat, prisons without air-conditioning can kill inmates and staff.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/its-like-being-baked-in-a-concrete-oven/

#PrisonAbolition

Despite oaths, EMTs, nurse to participate in Alabama executions

The state confirmed the medical professionals' positions in a court hearing ahead of Thursday's scheduled lethal injection of James Barber

https://www.treadbylee.com/p/despite-oaths-emts-nurse-to-participate

#PrisonAbolition

Death Knocking on My Cell Door

Incarcerated writer, Karim Diggs, writes about the death he witnessed while surviving over a year of covid in prison

https://thedes1790.com/2023/07/14/death-knocking-on-my-cell-door-incarcerated-writer-account-of-surviving-covid-19-in-prison/

#PrisonAbolition

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science - No Justice (For Political Prisoners) ft Meshell Ndegeocello

https://piped.video/watch?v=UlfFGsy5PdQ

#PrisonAbolition #Jazz

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science - No Justice (For Political Prisoners) ft Meshell Ndegeocello

https://piped.video/watch?v=UlfFGsy5PdQ

#PrisonAbolition #Jazz

"Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Often dismissed or set aside as a US-based movement, Gracie and Ruth sit down together to explore how we can think about the histories, legacies and politics of abolition in the British context and beyond. They map how local instances of political organising express themselves globally, as well as interrogating how past struggles express themselves in the present."

#UK #abolition #RuthWilsonGilmore #Podcast #PrisonAbolition #SustainedCreativeAgression #StuartHall

https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/locating-legacies-episode-6-abolition-in-the-uk-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore/

Did nurses in Walker County Jail delay treatment of Tony Mitchell?

Nurses claim medical staff ordered Mitchell transported to the ER. Jail officials wrote they were told the transfer could wait

https://open.substack.com/pub/treadbylee/p/did-nurses-in-walker-county-jail

#PrisonAbolition