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How did we get here in Atlanta? A primer on #CopCity scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/cop-ci…
Phones and cameras aren’t allowed on Rikers Island, but “sometimes I saw things that I felt compelled to draw from memory later,” writes Medar de la Cruz, an illustrator who worked there as a library assistant. nyer.cm/sCAaNQJ
“atlanta activists are on the frontlines of the abolitionist movement”
“atlanta activists are on the frontlines of the abolitionist movement”
Anti-imperialist scholar and activist Walter Rodney was born on this day in 1942. "By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"
Young freedom fighters integrate the city library by signing up for library cards previously denied to Black people (Grenada, MS, 1966).
Join us for a screening of Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration 🎥 Date: March 21st Time: 7:00pm Where: Emory Joseph Jones Room at Woodruff Library Free & open to the public. Lite bites provided. #community #documentary #education #commongood
y’all would not believe the books that we have tried to send in to facilities across the state that have gotten denied
y’all would not believe the books that we have tried to send in to facilities across the state that have gotten denied
THREAD. Many progressives are not paying enough attention to what is happening with Cop City in Atlanta. The level of state violence against local people organizing to protect an essential forest from becoming a training center for militarized cops is escalating.
Join APBP for our next book discussion! We'll be talking about "Abolition. Feminism. Now." by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie, an excellent text from @haymarketbooks. Register by April 16 to attend: ung.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
We don’t need Cop City. We need access to housing. We don’t need Cop City. We need access to food. We don’t need Cop City. We need proper payment for our work. We don’t need Cop City. We need access to healthcare. We don’t need Cop City. We need a new economy, a new society.
A youth advocate today caught Georgia Capitol Police joking that Tortuguita should have shot “41 times Bourne style” “should’ve unloaded a clip” “should have been 100 times.” You truly cannot reform a system that worships and is predicated upon cruelty. #StopCopCity
I am wildly disappointed in Georgia’s senators. A person was killed by police, many more rounded up and charged with terrorism (for many for simply attending a concert) and somehow the concern lies with the poor, defenseless construction vehicle. People over property.
I am wildly disappointed in Georgia’s senators. A person was killed by police, many more rounded up and charged with terrorism (for many for simply attending a concert) and somehow the concern lies with the poor, defenseless construction vehicle. People over property.
From an incarcerated person in WV: "Because of your book program sending me Michie’s West Virginia Code Annotated, I was able to litigate an amended sentence order from life without parole to eligibility for parole after serving 15 years. In other words, you helped save my life."
Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners is seeking a new home. Do you know any local orgs that might be interested in renting space? Our library needs about ~500 square feet.
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"As public defense experts, we have seen firsthand how people in prisons like Orleans Parish Prison are particularly susceptible to climate change." @PFJ_USA's @GalvinAlmanza and Ashley Payne. #ClimateCrisis #NewOrleans #Incarcerated progressive.org/op-eds/incarce…
They don’t make prisons to be rehabilitative in this country because mass incarceration is an intentional profit system that only works by preying on the most vulnerable and under resourced communities. Funneling the same communities through the criminal system is a choice
BOOK OF THE MONTH ✨✨✨ (November) Intimate Direct Democracy by Modibo Kadalie
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512 Followers 972 Following founder @AppalachianPBP / literature professor / (she/her)i'm not able to be at City Hall today but i am hearing that the line to sign up for public comment (against increasing funding for Cop City) is MASSIVE. Atlanta doesn't want Cop City!!
“On the second and third floors of the infirmary, the hallways were so narrow that the book cart barely squeezed through. Men here were caged by themselves in “protective custody” and could rarely leave their cells. I passed them books through a slot.”
Phones and cameras aren’t allowed on Rikers Island, but “sometimes I saw things that I felt compelled to draw from memory later,” writes Medar de la Cruz, an illustrator who worked there as a library assistant. nyer.cm/sCAaNQJ
GSU faculty wrote a letter urging the university to invest in housing, public health, environmental justice, and our students NOT Cop City. They call on the school to end their relationship to GILEE and reassess GSUPD expenditures docs.google.com/document/d/1bo…
The construction of Cop City is part of a larger pattern of rampant police militarization and other examples of U.S. state fascism gearing up to repress oppressed peoples as well as liberation movements and organizations. We won’t let them win. #StopCopCity
We're so excited to be partnering with the WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative to start an associate's degree program in an Appalachian prison! Watch the video to learn more. #WVUHEPI #WVUDayofGiving
Because I work with the most amazing team on the planet, the WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative is participating in the #WVUDayofGiving, tomorrow March 22. It's our first time -- and we are learning a lot. Bloopers reel forthcoming. #WVUHEPI
Imagine being so indoctrinated to believe there is no alternative to capitalism that your only "solution" is to destroy potentially-liberating technology just so masses of people can continue slaving away in obsolete & unnecessary jobs. This is the power of capitalist propaganda.
Tucker Carlson really looked Ben Shapiro in the eyes and said “are you joking?” 💀🤣
BREAKING: Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz officially resigned this morning, two weeks earlier than anticipated. The billionaire returned last April to try to stop @SBWorkersUnited from growing. Back then, there were six unionized Starbucks. There are now 290+ unionized stores.
Time lost to false convictions has exceeded 25,000 years in this country. scalawagmagazine.org/2021/08/innoce…
✨Special Announcement✨ After a three year hiatus, in-person packing days (with masks required) are back! Come join us on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month to fulfill 📚book orders📚 for incarcerated young people in Illinois jails and prisons.
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I just want to say y’all, freedom is beautiful. Being free hasn’t got old yet!
NEW REPORT: ~1.9m people sit behind bars in the U.S. today. Since prison/jail pops hit their low point during Covid, numbers have shot back up. States & counties are returning to “business as usual” instead of maintaining their progress. See new data: prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie202…
My book is here! Prerelease is happening now!! A yearlong ethnography of religious life in a US women's prison, the book is about freedom and constraint through religious practice against the backdrop of carceral control.
Reply with a 🫴 and we’ll give you a labor law Starbucks broke.
Reply with a 🫴 and we'll give you a drink recommendation.
An observation my father made after visiting me in prison for a few years: cops are the only profession that gets ultimate authority over other human beings without ever having to earn it. They don't have to learn how to communicate, how to manage people, how to settle disputes.
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