from It’s Going Down
A couple nights ago we went out and poured paint on a UPS Drop Box and blacked out some nearby security cameras with spray paint. UPS uses prison labor which is why we targeted them.
It was pretty fun and easy, here’s a link to find some boxes near you if you want to try it out too.
https://www.ups.com/dropoff
Click the menu “+See All Options” and then the menu “+Location Type” and check off “UPS Drop Box” for a map of all the boxes in the country.
from Instagram
#prisonstrike graffiti on bus stop at 8th and Lombard
Submission
September 10, 2016th
Last night was way too hot to be wearing a damn hoodie, but at least no one figured out i was the one who farted at the demo #worthit. Anyways some people came together and got a lil ignorant out front (actually to the side of) the youth prison in west philly, for the prison strike.
First Bernie showed up, but he got punched in the face and drove off in an Uber screaming about outside agitators. Then some reckless nobodies started shooting off fireworks left and right and slanging old sneakers on the nearby powerlines, real anti-civ shit. Cops were so scared that we couldn’t tell if they were sweating their underwear or pissing themselves. Taking pity on the knaves, people went to the police’s aid, helping them cover their video recording gear with black flags so it wouldn’t get wet during the flier storm. Some people drummed on buckets, some people drummed on the police’s camera, they weren’t into that. A masked up anarchist color guard of two traced obscene gestures in the air toward the cops, shouting 9/11 was an inside job.
We saw some waving from the inside, but not a lot, the fools who built the spot put a parking lot in the way so it was hard to see, plus even the parking lot had a wall on it, bruh!?! We took note of the parking lot as a potential place to dunk on the cops big time in the basketball game we call life, but like later, cause not now.
Some people had no chill. Like a cop got hit with an empty roman candle or a water bottle or something, like maybe a few times. A friend also got hit with a firework, but they were too hype to care, it just bounced off their aura, maaaan. People brought the whole toy store to the demo, like whistles, sparklers, flares, plastic harmonicas, even that new Furby that laughs when you tickle the belly, okay. On the way out some police car tried to lead the way, but we said “fuck off” and sent them some trash long-distance, maybe like half-court, crowd went wild.
No one got popped, locked or dropped as far as we know.
Long live the strike!
Free dat bois!
Toast marshmallows on the flames of insurrection!
Flip over prison society!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ some other people might write a serious one so hang in there if that’s your thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-Some overdressed sweaty bitches
from Instagram
Today is the day. #prisonstrike
from Facebook
A nationwide prison strike is beginning on September 9. Movement for No Society is offering this workshop to consider prison strikes in context of the struggle for liberation today.
Presenters will give report backs on the events and organizing that led up to the strike, followed by a discussion on the following questions:
▲ What are some ways to get involved and contribute to this struggle?
▲ What is the history of similar prison actions?
▲ How have prison uprisings in the past decade contributed to making prisons a focal point of the struggle against white supremacy and capitalism?
▲How can we be thinking about anti-prison organizing beyond the prison abolitionist framework that’s currently getting mainstreamed?
We invite people to share their experiences with agitating/ organizing against prisons as well as their ideas for moving forward.
[September 11 from 7pm to 10pm at A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave]
from Facebook
“This is a call to end slavery in America. This call goes directly to the slaves themselves. We are not making demands or requests of our captors, we are calling ourselves to action.”
Come out September 9th to show solidarity with prisoners across the country as they strike against prison slavery. We’ll be making noise at the Juvenile Justice Service Center to let prisoners know they have support on the outside, to high-light on the actions prisoners themselves are taking, and to show we’re watching and will not stand by as prison staff retaliate against individuals or deny them their collective right to organize.
Prisons are devastating our families and communities to turn a profit, this strike can end that.
“When we abolish slavery, they’ll lose much of their incentive to lock up our children, they’ll stop building traps to pull back those who they’ve released. When we remove the economic motive and grease of our forced labor from the US prison system, the entire structure of courts and police, of control and slave-catching must shift to accommodate us as humans, rather than slaves.”
Imprisonment affects all of us. With new prisons being built across Philadelphia and Pennsylvania we see more immigrants are being detained and deported, more of our loved ones are being held in pre-trial detention with extremely high bail, more of our youth are being locked away. Those who make it out are barred from access to social services, face with employment discrimination, and monitored by parole and probation officers.
Let’s show comrades and family inside we have their back.
[September 9 from 8 to 11PM at n48th St and Aspen St]
from Instagram
#prisonstrike September 9th
from Instagram
Saw some wheat pasted posters for the September 9th #prisonstrike in the Point Breeze neighborhood today. #iwoc #attica
from Facebook
Come out to paint banners, make signs, and eat snacks.
We’ll be getting ready for the upcoming prisoner strike on September 9th, and preparing for a noise demonstration on the same day in support of the striking prisoners.
Bring paint, markers, banner material, brushes, and anything else you want to work with.
Noise Demonstration:
https://www.facebook.com/events/615768345272416/
Learn more about the strike:
https://iwoc.noblogs.org/
https://supportprisonerresistance.net/
https://www.facebook.com/events/585509798294138/
[September 4 from 3 to 7PM at LAVA Space 4134 Lancaster Ave]
from Facebook
Black August is a period of reflection and action on prisons and resistance to it, in the spirit of people like Jonathan and George Jackson. In this discussion, we’ll focus on what prison means for community and what community means for prisoners.
[August 24 from 7PM to 8:30PM at 704 n5th St #311]
from Latino Rebels
The following is an open letter of demand to Jeh Johnson written by 22 mothers detained at Berks Family Residential Center:
The reason for this letter of demands is to make it known to you that since Monday August 8th we have started an “INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE.”
The Immigration Department has made a public announcement stating that in family detention center parents and children are detained no longer than 20 days.
WE WANT TO DISPROVE THIS INFORMATION!!
We are 22 mothers who are detained at Berks Family Residential Center, being mothers who have been from 270 days to 365 days in detention with children ages 2 to 16 years old, depriving them of having a normal life, knowing that we have prior traumas from our countries, risking our own lives and that of our children on the way until we arrived here, having family and friends who would be responsible for us and who are waiting for us with open arms and that immigration refuses to let us out.
Seeing these injustices, we have decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike until we obtain our immediate freedom because all of us left our countries of origin fleeing violence, threats and corruption that not even the government of each of our countries in Central America can control.
On many occasions our children have thought about SUICIDE because of the confinement and desperation that is caused by being here. The teenagers say BEING HERE, LIFE MAKES NO SENSE, THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO BREAK THE WINDOW TO JUMP OUT AND END THIS NIGHTMARE, and on many occasions they ask us if we have the courage to escape.
Other kids grab their IDs and tighten them around their necks and say that they are going to KILL themselves if they don’t get out of here. The youngest kids (2 years old) cry at night for not being able to express what they feel. For a long time, the children have not been eating well, but they have never paid attention to our complaints about the food until now.
We are desperate and we have decided that: WE WILL GET OUT ALIVE OR DEAD.
If it is necessary to sacrifice our lives so that our children can have freedom: WE WILL DO IT! Putting aside the threats we are receiving from one of the psychologists and some doctors in this facility.
We are calling on the government to take action on this matter and open their eyes, letting them know that IMMIGRATION is acting against the law and is mocking them, making arguments that are false; besides our children are entitled to freedom according to the case of Flores, and still they are here with us.
We hope that our voices are heard, so that we can have the FREEDOM that we NEED so much.
Signed,
The following call to arms is via immigration lawyer Carol Anne Mauer Donohoe:
HEY! Everyone who pretends to, or actually does, care about the fact that our government has imprisoned mothers and children who have committed no crime but to ASK FOR SAFETY, here’s your chance to actually DO SOMETHING. Call Field Office Director Thomas Decker at 215-656-7164 and tell him to release these families. Call your spineless Berks County Commissioners at 610-478-6136 and ask why they’re spending our tax dollars to make this suffering continue. Email Ted Dallas from the PA Department of Human Services, in charge of the WELFARE OF CHILDREN in the Commonwealth and ask why they are allowing the refugee prison to remain open even though the license has been revoked at [email protected].
Submission
#PrisonStrike at Springfield near 51st
from Facebook
Eric McDavid is a green anarchist who was entrapped by an FBI informant and charged with a single count of conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property.
After serving nearly 10 years in prison his judgment and sentencing were vacated when it became known that the FBI had failed to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. Eric pleaded guilty to a lesser charge that carried a 5 year maximum sentence. He was released almost immediately.
Come hear Eric tell his story.
Presented by Burning Books. BURNING BOOKS is an artist-run, weirdness-driven organization dedicated to the production and publication of unmuzzled literature, music, and art. It was founded by writer/editor Melody Sumner Carnahan and artist/designer Michael Sumner in Oakland, California, in 1979.
Event is handicap accessible and free, though donations are very appreciated, as Eric is traveling all the way from Northern California with almost no funding.
[August 15 at 7pm at Wooden Shoe 704 South St]
from Instagram
A beautiful day in the #italianmarket #prisonstrike #sept9 #cleanup
from It’s Going Down
Eric McDavid, a former Anarchist prisoner will be talking about ten plus years of experiences including federal prison time, the post release period and moving forward as well. The importance of supporting political prisoners will be brought up along with so much more. If you are in the area of any one of the locations listed at the bottom, please come, check it out and tell a friend!
[7pm, Monday, 08-15-2016
Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street, Philadelphia, PA
https://www.facebook.com/events/655433154607268/]
