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]
Join us before the action to prepare banners:
https://www.facebook.com/events/313525265666932/
Learn more about the strike:
https://iwoc.noblogs.org/
https://supportprisonerresistance.net/
https://www.facebook.com/events/585509798294138/
