IWOC | #PrisonStrike @iwoc@anticapitalist.party

#Fuck12 and DAs too.
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RT @nwmalinowski@twitter.com
NYC District Attorneys have secret lists of dirty cops. They won't make the lists public and continue to take cases that involve cops who have committed misconduct. Candidates for Queens DA weigh in - only 3 would make the list public.

https://queenseagle.com/all/queens-da-candidates-release-cop-database-cb69j
https://twitter.com/nwmalinowski/status/1121582232240578560

RT @davidminpdx@twitter.com
For much of the last 3 decades, the press served as stenographers for police, prosecutors. The massive deluge of police, prosecutor corruption that the press has exposed in the past couple of years, speaks to just how much of this has been going on while the press looked away

Just waiting for some centrist to propose that prisoners get 3/5ths of a vote.

#Right2Vote

Hero.

(but in the future, let's not get caught.)
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RT @_cryptome_@twitter.com
Man arrested after throwing bricks at dozens of LinkNYC spy kiosks in Manhattan, NYPD Says
https://www.amny.com/news/linknyc-kiosks-manhattan-1.30182073
"Juan Rodriguez, 41, of Kips Bay, threw bricks at more than 40 LinkNYC kiosks in Manhattan. Photo Credit: NYPD" [LinkNYC spy camera clip provided to NYPD]
https://twitter.com/_cryptome_/status/1121442939123765248

As much as our problems are with the whole of a political class and the sham displays of democracy theater....

FUCK JOE BIDEN.

And to fixate reform on (state defined!) "nonviolent offenders"....

That is the "3/5ths Compromise" of the present moment.

Seconded.
This moment over the #Right2Vote is telling....
Like lancing a boil with all the bile of dehumanizations coming out.
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RT @jaybeware@twitter.com
People need to understand, those classified as "violent offenders" (a virtually meaningless classification when deeply examined) make up about half of the population of the prison industrial complex.

The *system* wants you to lobby on behalf of only nonviolent offenders
https://twitter.com/jaybeware/status/1121387261763960833

"We want to push forward beyond that to restore access, not just from Books to Prisoners Seattle, but to all the groups, and to ensure the DOC can’t just sneak out another policy like this in the future,” she said.

https://southseattleemerald.com/2019/04/23/doc-ended-the-book-ban-but-the-media-celebrated-too-soon

RT @garrett_felber@twitter.com
Radical political prisoner and one of the greatest organizers and jailhouse lawyers of the movement, Martin Sostre honored in the ⁦@nytimes@twitter.com⁩ with an "Overlooked" obit. Rest in Power (1923-2015). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/obituaries/martin-sostre-overlooked.html

RT @SlaveryPrison@twitter.com
Spot on! No legitimate organizations or movement for the people should #BurnThePrisons https://twitter.com/filthysnowflake/status/1121205194019094528

RT @IWW_IWOC@twitter.com
Day 14 of Kenneth Traywick's hunger strike.
See below for the kind of retaliations he is facing even while in an infirmary bed.

Press release: https://unheardvoicesotcj.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/updates-on-traywicks-hunger-strike-4-24-19/

Day 14 of Kenneth Traywick's hunger strike.
See below for the kind of retaliations he is facing even while in an infirmary bed.

Press release: https://unheardvoicesotcj.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/updates-on-traywicks-hunger-strike-4-24-19/

RT @jaybeware@twitter.com
Big March in Philly this Saturday for Mumia, demanding his freedom, will be followed with a People's Forum and Book release party for his latest book. Hope to see some of you there!

RT @SlaveryPrison@twitter.com
From down the pipes @JailLawSpeak@twitter.com . The search is on for those that will help get this podcast up off the ground. We cannot lead host because as prisoners we couldn't keep a consistent schedule. If of interest be sure to dm @JailLawSpeak@twitter.com or me or email JLS directly

RT @prisonculture@twitter.com
This is not an argument about voting. It’s that many people don’t believe incarcerated people are human. It’s about dehumanization and about how the punishment mindset actually distorts their own humanity.

"I discovered years ago that, despite all I’ve learned, I'm still not free to write what I want about prison. Not as long as I'm in one."

"... I'll be "validated" as a gang member in a file I'm neither allowed to see nor dispute. At some point, I might get out of the Hole, but I'll never get out of that file."

I take notes in a coded shorthand that only I can read. And I smuggle the notes like contraband — because that's what they are. If I'm caught with them, guards will take me to the Hole and... "

"I've earned trust by listening to their stories. And because they know that my circumstances have never been any less miserable than theirs. "

"Most prisoners trust me. I know that every group in the prison coheres around a culture of oral history preserved and carried forward by the elder, respected members of the group."