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    SPONSOR INDIGENT JAILHOUSE LAWYERS PARALEGAL COURSES: The below is a link to the course you would sponsor. JL are the first line defenders of the poorest people for rights or wrongful convictions. This course would aid us all in this struggle

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  2. “There is no such objective thing as ‘crime’, only contested definitions and power relations” —Dylan Rodríguez (2011)

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  3. Prisons should be abolished. Not redesigned and relocated. "Dismantle the prison industrial slave complex"

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  4. Today that same prison struggle of resistance continues.

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  5. Remember the Attica Rebellion and rhe lives lost from trying to be heard. Ask yourself where are we today? Compare Attica demands next to the 2018 National Prison Strike 10 demands. More blood shed is coming.... #PrisonersResistance#PrisonersStrikes

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  6. Today, Sept 9th, is the anniversary of the Attica uprising. Today also happens to be the day in CA when GlobalTel is offering free calls on its prison phones. Are we supposed to be thankful?! Infuriating.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Were you recently incarcerated or know someone who is incarcerated now? Tell & how COVID-19 affected you or your incarcerated loved one by participating in an online research study, a quick anonymous survey: Please share!

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  8. 9 hours ago

    Join us tonight to learn about Attica!! Dr. Thompson is speaking to us in solidarity with the Scholar Strike. We’re also gonna be sure to ask her about Attica’s legacy, especially considering jail & prison conditions right now

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  9. we also discuss contradictions, possibilities and threats that have emerged with the slogan/demand of Defund The Police (and with it, discussions of abolition) being thrust into the mainstream.

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  10. Our latest, in response to 's call for national solidarity events and political education

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  11. Sep 8

    On today's date in 1971, an uprising began at Attica. The multi-racial group of prisoners, led largely by Black organizers, took over the prison with a series of demands for improvement of prison conditions. Days later, the state killed 29 prisoners and 10 guards.

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  12. People are literally dying in these prisons and jails from preventable deaths/murders. People are going insane due to conditions of confinement.

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  13. Today that same prison struggle of resistance continues.

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  16. Shout-out to and their national call for political education and outside events in solidarity with prisoners. Solidarity to everyone behind the walls, those working to get them out & those working towards a world without prisons

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  17. Remember the Attica Rebellion and rhe lives lost from trying to be heard. Ask yourself where are we today? Compare Attica demands next to the 2018 National Prison Strike 10 demands. More blood shed is coming.... #PrisonersResistance#PrisonersStrikes

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  19. On a lighter note....

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  20. "I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death." Suheir Hammad

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  21. Rochester’s police chief and deputy chief resign amid scrutiny over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who was put in a “spit hood” and restrained by officers in March.

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