All the ingredients for #fascism already existed in the #USA long before Trump took over.

#USPolitics #PrisonIndustrialComplex #MassGrave
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/families-in-disbelief-after-hundreds-of-bodies-found-buried-behind-mississippi-jail

“They Can’t Beat All of Us”

https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/15/they-cant-beat-all-of-us-a-reportback-from-the-florida-abolitionist-gathering

A report from the Florida Abolitionist Gathering, where a determined network of anarchists and rebels shared strategies for radical organizing in the belly of the beast.

Next Saturday, March 22nd, Firestorm will be hosting Rattling the Cages co-creator Eric King in conversation with two veterans of the George Jackson Brigade—Janine Bertram and Mark Cook. Together they'll reflect on their experiences as political prisoners and the legacy of one of the most prolific US revolutionary groups in the 1970s, which synthesized movements for women's liberation, queer liberation, and Black power.

Register for this free event and find copies of "Ratting the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3337-rattling-the-cages-looking-back-at-the-george-jackson-brigade.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #QueerHistory #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #GeorgeJacksonBrigade #FirestormCoop (- L)

Stopping Unnecessary Jail Expansion with Decarcerate Sacramento

https://www.radical-guide.com/stopping-unnecessary-jail-expansion-with-decarcerate-sacramento/

Decarcerate Sacramento is again preparing to mobilize against the Main Jail expansion on February 26 when Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will be reviewing recommendations for the next stage of the $2 BILLION jail expansion, and the community needs to show up and fight back!

Joell Ortiz - Modern Day Slavery ft. Immortal Technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-CcIBWHcc

cursed in the city
like we cursed in the field
cursed on the border
and cursed by the new world order…

//burn down the plantation//

We're just two days away from the next event in the Rattling the Cages series! Join former political prisoner Eric King who will be speaking with family members of political prisoners about how the repression and violence of incarceration impacts more than just those imprisoned. Sharon Shoatz (daughter of former political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz), susie day (partner of former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn), and Rochelle Bricker (Eric's partner) speak to the familial harm of prison repression and the unswerving love and solidarity that keeps hope alive.

Register for this free event and find copies of "Ratting the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3312-rattling-the-cages-abolition-is-a-family-affair.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

I was excited to realise yesterday that not only is there a second season of Andor starting next month, but I only watched the first half of Season 1. Onto episode 8 tonight.

The prison complexes on the ocean planet immediately reminded me of the floating super-prison in the MCU. Then I had a dark thought. What if this is the endgame of SeaSteading technology? The ultimate Guantanamo ...

These Inmates Are Stopping The LA Fires by Hasan Piker & Caroline Kwan
#LA #California #wildfires #prisonindustrialcomplex #prison #HasanAbi #hasanpiker #carolinekwan
https://youtu.be/3LzipRhzK1c?si=pyFeUyKFY8ctTXOt

Video Reveals NY Prison Guards Beat Prisoner Robert Brooks to Death While Handcuffed

The New York Civil Liberties Union said in a statement, “It shouldn’t take a cold-blooded killing captured on film to be a wake-up call to our leaders that the culture of officer brutality in NY prisons must be stopped.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/headlines/video_reveals_ny_prison_guards_beat_prisoner_robert_brooks_to_death_while_handcuffed

In 2024 our co-op collaborated on nine incredible events with Eric King and Josh Davidson, co-editors of "Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners!" Next Saturday, Eric and Josh will be joined by Rattling the Cages co-creator Sara Falconer to share how they started this oral history project, the importance of inside-outside collaboration, and how replicating these oral histories is something you can do, too. Sarah and Josh will additionally talk about a quarter century of creating the Certain Days calendar, building relationships with political prisoners, and why our support matters!

Learn more about this event and sign up for free at https://firestorm.coop/events/3304-rattling-the-cages-how-we-did-it-and-how-you-can-too.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

Today in Labor History December 18, 1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaimed the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA. However, the thirteenth amendment included the following clause: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being incarcerated and subjected to legal slavery. Some were even rented out to the same plantations that had used chattel slaves in the past. But with the U.S. having both the world’s highest number of incarcerated people (2.1 million) and the highest incarceration rate (665 per 100,000), there are plenty of people from all ethnicities who continue to be subjected to legal slavery.

I'm going to say something controversial - I don't think the US government should own slaves anymore! More than 150 years after the Civil War?!

#fyp #letsmakethempay #usa #eattherich #fyparty #educational #history #slavery #prison #prisonlaborisslavery #prisonindustrialcomplex #blackhistory #southernhistory

https://open.substack.com/pub/letsmakethempay/p/uncle-sams-prison-plantation?r=2brusa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Tomorrow evening, we're hosting an important conversation in the Rattling the Cages series, with a focus on politicized prisoners! Series creators Eric King and Josh Davidson talk with Hector “Bori” Rodriguez and Farhan Ahmed, both of whom spent decades imprisoned in New York where they became politicized as they fought for their freedom.

Learn more about this event and sign up for free at https://firestorm.coop/events/3292-rattling-the-cages-becoming-politicized-in-prison.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #PoliticizedPrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

Shares in #PrivatePrison companies have gone up with #Trump's election since that's partly the point. The #PrisonIndustrialComplex will make a fortune on his mass #deportation policy and the #ConcentrationCamps it will require. It's all a titanic grift.

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/11/21/donald-trumps-victory-has-boosted-shares-in-private-prison-companies