Resistance to Trump: Abolition as a Powerful Weapon

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Resistance to Trump: Abolition as a Powerful Weapon


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Dear Friends,

This past week has been tumultuous for communities everywhere. In his first few days in power, Trump has removed any doubts of whether he will follow through on his racist and dangerous statements made during his campaign. So far, we have seen orders that target immigrants and sanctuary cities, commit to building a southern border wall and the fiercely resisted DAPL pipeline, and attack access to healthcare as a way to disempower and threaten the lives of women and trans people, especially people of color and the working class in the U.S. and globally. We are bracing for expansions of policing power, restrictions on travel for Muslims, and banning refugees from Muslim majority countries. Less discussed are Trump’s plans to unearth secret prisons for torture (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=f6672ca2e0&e=f269152a76) and the almost certain expansion of the prison system.

And yet, with so much to fear and fight, we remain hopeful, steadfast, and inspired.

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Protest outside of ICE in SF on inauguration day

The Trump regime’s barrage of executive actions and ominous promises were met with a powerfully resounding resistance from across grassroots movements, sectors, communities – here and across the globe. In cities all over the country, organizations joined one another to hold rallies, press conferences, demonstrations, and direct actions, making clear that people’s movements will not endure attacks from those in power silently and without a fight.

Because the state’s threats seek to disempower and criminalize the broadest range of people, we are seeing an incredibly broad front demanding a commitment and radical expansion to sanctuary spaces (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=ccce772995&e=f269152a76), non-cooperation with federal repression such as ICE, the development of rapid response networks (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=c2762c6ea1&e=f269152a76), and increased calls and efforts to not involve or rely on the police (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=e65c5e687f&e=f269152a76) when responding to harm (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=82ffc5ebce&e=f269152a76). Our lives are bound together, and our struggle is international. As always, we strive to highlight the importance of building with those who the state attempts to disappear in cages, just as we stand with communities everywhere that resist the separation and control of borders.

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As we anticipate more state repression and ever growing resistance, we at Critical Resistance recognize that our struggle for abolition of the prison industrial complex is fought on a long, hard road (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=ffa92441d2&e=f269152a76). We reflect during this time of political uncertainty, and draw on lessons from the past to sharpen our strategies for the future. For instance, in the compiled writings “The Hard Road to Renewal,” the great Stuart Hall stated that in the face of a rising right-wing Thatcher regime in the UK, the task for anti-capitalist movements was to make a radical alternative “become part of everyday life, to make itself ‘the common sense of the age.’” | Poster image by Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=218b7cb4be&e=f269152a76)

For us today challenging Trump, the prison industrial complex, and racial capitalism more broadly, we hold abolition high as a powerful weapon. We uplift it as a practical organizing strategy in our daily lives – one that informs our political efforts and communal relationships – as well as the common sense, beautiful, and alternative vision for the world we are fighting for.


In Struggle,
Critical Resistance

Resources and Reading

Don't Be A Bystander: 6 Tips For Responding To Racist Attacks (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=5ffc449522&e=f269152a76) (video)
By Project NIA and the Bernard Center for Research on Women

Know Your Rights Materials (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=97d0394bd8&e=f269152a76) (in English and Arabic, and for a range of issues)
Compiled by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)

FAQ + Information for Organizations about Trump's Immigration Orders (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=1150c37a60&e=f269152a76)
By the Immigrant Justice Network

Family Preparedness Plan for Immigrants (In English and Spanish) (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=a8f282f464&e=f269152a76)
By the Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Bay Resistance (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=d7a859e0fc&e=f269152a76)
A rapid resonse alert network for Bay Area communities

Oakland Power Projects - building resources and alternatives to the police (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=d704f92656&e=f269152a76)
By Critical Resistance - Oakland

Anti-Surveillance Technical Resources (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=5c677e0c79&e=f269152a76)
Compiled by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

Hate Free Zone in Queens, NYC (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=1fa233d3f1&e=f269152a76)
Organized by Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and endorsed by over 50 community organizations, including Critical Resistance - NYC

The Hard Road to Abolition // Strategies to Win (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=aa6737b351&e=f269152a76) (video)
By Critical Resistance with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mujahid Farid (RAPP), Mariame Kaba (Project NIA), and

Fighting Mass Incarceration Under Trump (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=42b8d56953&e=f269152a76)
By James Kilgore, published in Truth-Out


This is just a modest list. There are many, many more resources that comrades and allied organizations have created and compiled. We hope that you share these resources, explore others, pass along any you may have, and support the organizations doing this work as we move to strengthen our movements.

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By Fight Back! Editors

The election of Donald Trump has unleashed a storm of righteous anger, as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in cities across the country, blocking major highways, surrounding Trump-owned office buildings, and upending ‘business as usual.’ Among a broad section of people who cherish peace, progress and equality there is a deep revulsion that grows every time Trump opens his mouth or tweets another piece of his reactionary agenda.

Trump has been crystal clear about his views about what he wants to do - he plans vicious attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the environment, working people and labor movement. His racist rants about Mexicans and the fact he greenlights cops who kill are telling indicators of the what Trump’s America holds in store for African Americans, Chicanos, Latinos and other oppressed nationalities. When the bigot Trump talks, he should be taken at his word and we need to act accordingly.

Nor should anyone expect Trump to play the ‘isolationist,’ who will set about dismantling the U.S empire which dominates so much of the globe. His rants about China and Iran, the alignment with the most extreme and brutal trends in Israel, and his threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are signs of new wars ahead.

Compounding the real challenges we are up against, the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress guarantee a barrage of reactionary, rightwing legislation. In state houses around the country we can expect the Trump agenda will make itself felt with attacks on low-income people, collective bargaining, and ‘right to work’ (for less) legislation.

In light of Trumps agenda, and the shrill rhetoric of chauvinism that accompanies it, it would be a mistake to treat all this as some kind of ‘new normal,’ or a set of topics that reasonable people can disagree over. Sure there are contradictions among the people, and yes, there are some backwards ideas out there. In our workplaces and communities what is wrong can be corrected, but at the end of the day the earth is not flat and climate change is real. Sexual assault is not ok. When speakers appear in public, making Klan type statements like “Mexicans are rapists,” it is entirely right to disrupt and shut down their events.

The times we are now living in are anything but normal. The political center of gravity among the rich and powerful has shifted to the right and the response cannot be a search for common ground. The approach needs to be the opposite, one of steadfast struggle. Every major attack should be met with a powerful counteroffensive or with fightbacks that take as many people as far as they can possibly go. It should be a goal to make this country ungovernable.

The very last thing we need is Washington DC is government that ‘gets things done,’ because the things it ‘gets done’ are going to be attacks that set people back and enrich the billionaire class that rules this country.

The ascent of Trump to the White House stands as an indictment of a dying capitalism, where big business sits on top, calling the shots for its political representatives, who manage to be cartoonish without being funny. We had an election where two candidates represented Wall Street and the billionaire won. As the movement against Trump and his cronies grows and develops, everyone who can should join it, while we leave the corporate politics advocated by many leaders of the Democratic Party behind.

Nothing about the upcoming period is going to be easy, but people are already moving and is possible to build a powerful and determined resistance to Trump, his agenda, and the system he represents. A movement can be built that brings millions into the streets. We can never accept the unacceptable. A better world is necessary, and possible.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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The first 8 days


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A Federal Judge Just Issued a Stay Against Donald Trump's "Muslim Ban"

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Stop Trumps #MuslimBan Now


Chris,

Now: Protests at airports and other places where Muslims are being detained under Trump’s fascist #MuslimBan (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cCMbaono4rOdah7VBYYmlRaAamMBRpTT)

January 28: Protests at airports and other places where Muslims are being detained under Trump’s fascist ban on refugees and immigrants. Join them! Take all the refusefascism material (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R3AP33ndIad8fw1ovEk0gBaAamMBRpTT) you can find or reproduce – the NO! stickers, the posters, etc.

Currently, thousands are outside JFK International Terminal 4 arrivals.
Thousands of protesters at JFK, chanting "Let them in!" and "No hate no fear refugees are welcome here!" #MuslimBan
The crowd outside #JFK (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XVpPc%2FxfOyPS34MtEILaxhaAamMBRpTT) terminal 4 protesting #MuslimBan (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=32qwG0HOLJp%2BGwDhRVC2GxaAamMBRpTT) is around 2000 & still going strong. #Syria (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kUzLqdsSCNxCFOWAFSfaYhaAamMBRpTT)#NoBanNoWall (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JxtLas2qG%2Fb6USmttCBW1xaAamMBRpTT)

Hundreds are at Dulles International outside Washington DC
A crowd also at San Francisco International arrivals
Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, Newark protests are planned

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Protect the rights of incarcerated people by signing this petition today!


Maya Schenwar just started a petition (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7257?t=1&akid=6812.872082.MakiU6) to the United States Congress stating:

Please pass Congresswoman Duckworth’s Video Visitation in Prisons Act, which would require that the Federal Communications Commission ensure that correctional facilities that have video visitation do not ban in-person visits.

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Support the Video Visitation in Prisons Act,


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Dear Chris,

I just started a petition titled: "Help Me Make it Easier to Visit Loved Ones In Jail (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7257?t=5&akid=6812.872082.MakiU6)"

Here's why this is important:

When my sister began serving a sentence at Illinois' Lake County jail, I wanted to visit her right away. She'd been incarcerated in the past, and visiting her in person was always crucial to maintaining some human connection within an inhumane system. However, when I looked up visiting information about this jail, I discovered that in-person visits were banned, and all visits were to be conducted via video.

Research has proven that maintaining strong connections with loved ones helps incarcerated people endure long-term imprisonment and lowers the chances that incarcerated people will reoffend. If you believe in keeping families together, please sign this petition. (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7257?t=6&akid=6812.872082.MakiU6)

Video visitation is an important option for people who can't afford to travel far away to see their loved ones in jail or prison, as well as people with disabilities, illnesses or time commitments that inhibit their travel.

But according to the Prison Policy Initiative, jails are increasingly using video visitation, and, in most cases, replacing in-person visits entirely. Securus, a company providing phone calls and video visitation for jails, actually mandates this ban in some of its contracts. (The company says it will not include this clause in future contracts; whether it will keep that promise remains to be seen.)

Companies, like Securus, only want to put tighter rules around prison visitations purely for profit. These companies company make big revenue off the families of incarcerated people, who are forced to use this technology to communicate with their loved ones. If you believe in keeping families together, please sign this petition. (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7257?t=7&akid=6812.872082.MakiU6)

Still wanting to support my sister, I reluctantly tried video visitation. When I set up my first video visit with my sister, I ran into multiple problems. Securus' technology failed to connect me with my sister, so I spent the half hour on the phone with tech support instead, crying. I worried my sister would think I'd forgotten about our visit.

Aside from unreliable technology, video visits cost money, and many families go into debt to cover the costs.

But there's some hope. Please sign my petition to ask Congress to pass Congresswoman Duckworth’s Video Visitation in Prisons Act, which would require that the Federal Communications Commission ensure that correctional facilities that have video visitation do not ban in-person visits. (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7257?t=8&akid=6812.872082.MakiU6)

Face-to-face visits help people in correctional facilities retain vital ties with loved ones on the outside. Jail and prison, by definition, are places of isolation and disconnection. We cannot allow for the removal of one of the few opportunities for connection -- and one of the few human rights -- granted to people who are locked in cages.

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More than 900 protest Trump at pre-Super Bowl action (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=c2a847bb73&e=d323598fe4)

By staff

Over 900 people took to the streets during pre-Super Bowl actions in Houston to protest the reactionary agenda of Donald Trump. Demonstrators came from many struggles, particularly the immigrant rights and anti-racist movements.

They began at city hall with some speeches, and then marched to a major site where pre-Super Bowl activities were being held. Because many from Atlanta had come out for the game, they chanted "Move Trump, get out the way, get out the way Trump get out the way," an allusion to a well-known song by the Atlanta rapper Ludacris. Many of the people attending Super Bowl events loved the chant and started chanting along.

After rallying in front of the George R Brown Convention center, the police attempted to stifle further action by caging the protesters. They would not allow the protesters to march further, which resulted in a large confrontation. They chanted, "Whose streets, our streets" and demanded that police chief Acavedo let them march. After about 30 minutes, the protesters marched past the police and headed to the NRG Stadium where the Super Bowl was taking place.

During the march, the police became aggressive, snatched one of the protesters leading the action, and arrested him. This is only a few days after the police arrested a prominent member of the Peoples New Black Panther Party who was filming a police officer harassing a group of homeless people during a homeless solidarity rally. The police attempted to arrest more protesters at another large rally at the Super Bowl itself.

The action was organized by FIEL, an immigrant’s rights organization, and attended by members of Students for a Democratic Society, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Resist Houston, and Socialist Alternative.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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On Trump's Pro-Policing Executive Orders


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Yesterday, on the heels of swearing in Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Trump signed three executive orders that bolster, back, and expand the authority of law enforcement and policing in the U.S. Trump’s three executive orders are “fully and totally” supported by the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the country with more that 330,000 cops in its membership, clearly demonstrating whose interests are being served. Trump and Sessions chose to use lies about the “threats of rising crime,” in order to claim that these latest executive orders are about protecting the “health and safety of America.” However, in September 2016, the FBI showed in its latest Crime in the United States report (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=ae18d37eea&e=f269152a76) that crime rates overall remain at historic lows and that violent crime in particular is 16.5% lower than a decade ago. And, even then, we know policing is not a solution to what they call crime, nor does it ever increase healthy and safety.

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Despite the lies of Trump, Sessions, and the Fraternal Order of Police, we know policing itself is a health hazard and an inspiring, broad movement has been mounting to fight it. Last year, the APHA passed a milestone policy statement entitled “Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue.” The statement abstract puts it clearly: “Harassment and violence by law enforcement officers result in deaths, injuries, trauma, and stress, which disproportionately affect people of color and other marginalized populations such as immigrants, individuals experiencing homelessness, members of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community, and individuals with mental illness.” The APHA statement joins growing and broad demands to decrease the violence of policing and divest from law enforcement, as it has a decades-long, if not centuries-long relationship of violence to people of color and other marginalized communities.

More than 1,000 people were killed by cops (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=c061137e41&e=f269152a76) in 2016. This is the tip of the iceberg of the violence of policing: the 2.3 million people who are currently imprisoned were harassed, detained, arrested and abused by police officers before being caged. An additional 4 million people on parole and probation are also living under threat and risk of interactions with police which could send them back to prison and separate them from their loved ones, communities, and livelihood. And every day, people are stopped, ticketed, fined, and humiliated by law enforcement. As many other media outlets have noted, no mention was made of these continual/repeated acts of state violence that communities are forced to endure, despite outrage and resistance. Trump’s position seeks to protect his own interests, citing the deaths of police officers who died in 2016. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, being a police officer doesn’t even make it into the top ten list of most dangerous jobs (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=9ba6e6c843&e=f269152a76).

Under the liberal rule of Obama, we faced a status quo that endorsed reforms that reinforced policing and did not reduce it. Now, under Trump, we instead have to fight a policing that is growing and bolstered with overt law and order enthusiasm. These executive orders will increase funding for programs that train and assist local police; increase resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to further criminalize immigrants and those involved in street organizations all with the goal of putting more people behind bars. It is this same type of federal assistance to states (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=4a5d428437&e=f269152a76) that made possible the beginning of the growth and expansion of the Prison Industrial Complex in the mid-1960s to what we know it to be today. We hope that we can rely on the strong movements we have built and the lessons learned from the Stop the Injunctions campaign (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=2ef16826f6&e=f269152a76) to NY’s efforts to delegitimize Stop and Frisk as we seek to curb this escalation in policing.

We know that these actions will impact our communities: materially, emotionally and socially. We remain resolute in our commitment to resistance. We look to you all, our comrades, allies and partners in struggles, to strengthen our way forward. As the enemy is attacking on many fronts, we must back each other and deepen our commitment to the struggle against policing and white supremacy.

KEEP FIGHTING, KEEP RESISTING.

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RESOURCES AND EDUCATION:

- See CR’s “Origins of Policing” timeline, which we created for our Abolition of Policing workshop, linked here (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=9a133f84b8&e=f269152a76) for an in-depth look at the roots and ideology of policing.

- Understand how Trump's Executive Orders are part of the Prison Industrial Complex (diagram and text below).

- Read up: Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter and more, here (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=f3d5eb2cc9&e=f269152a76).

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Looking at our diagram of the prison industrial complex, a visual designed by CR-Los Angeles, we see how the sets of interests in the middle (politicians, governments, law enforcements, unions protecting the violent, coercive State arms such as guards and police) are driving and benefitting from these orders. These orders and Trump’s regime are empowered by racism, xenophobia, sexism, capitalism, and homophobia. They are using the tools of policing, criminalization, social control, the media, militarization, courts and prisons. Trump and Sessions are rolling them out as a response to social problems and political dissent. Given that policing is not a neutral set of relationships, we know (both historically, theoretically, and from living in our current moment) that orders to increase and strengthen policing will have a violent impact on people of color, immigrants, poor people, young people, queer people, women, and political dissenters.

Increases in policing produces these results: insecurity; broken families and occupied communities; divestment of public resources for education, health, recreation, housing; disenfranchisement for communities targeted by policing and courts; fear and hatred; more inequality; more racism; more human rights abuses; more violence; public debt as the militarized state redoubles itself; and environmental injustice.

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Chipping away at mass incarceration


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In January 2017, Pennsylvania Judge Robert Mariani ordered you to provide Mumia Abu-Jamal with potentially life-saving treatment for his active, chronic hepatitis C infection. Do so immediately, for him and for all prisoners suffering from hepatitis C.

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International Women's Strike and Resistance


Stand against gender oppression and violence
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"Against state and personal violence, we demand that our lives and labor be treated with dignity for they form the basis of this society."

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Critical Resistance is proud to be one of over 100 organizations endorsing the internationalist and anti-imperialist platform authored for International Women's Strike (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=ac501d003c&e=f269152a76) for a global day of action today, March 8th. The platform, below, echoes the many platforms that CR has amplified and authored over the years as we work towards an end to the interlocking components of the prison industrial complex. This platform names these harms directly: the violence of policing, immigration raids, state policies that worsen and consolidate poverty, and the devastating impact of state violence on Black and Brown communities. Abolition of the prison industrial complex is an essential strategy for women, queer, and trans liberation (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=c8356187b0&e=f269152a76), Black liberation, and Third World self-determination.

In addition to standing with the other organizational endorsers who "come from many political traditions but are united around the following common principles," we also want to lift up the life and dignity of all women and gender non-conforming people who, from inside jails, prisons, and detention centers, have been leading struggles for freedom and ending state violence. We cannot forget the bold and creative organizing that people behind bars push forward, despite being under the harshest conditions of confinement and state repression. Nor can we forget the survival and resistance of transgender and cisgender women outside of imprisonment who endure economic and social hardships while simultaneously fighting for their loved ones.

As CR Los Angeles member Shabina Toorawa points out, “as women of color, as mothers, and as primary care givers, we support reproductive justice and trans power, and we know what true gender empowerment is. It certainly isn’t imprisonment, lock-up, and jail expansion.”

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As Critical Resistance continues to fight againstthe proposed women's jail (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=94884dea4e&e=f269152a76) expansion in Los Angeles, defend the victory against new jails in San Francisco, and fight the proposed cuts to visiting hours for maximum security prisons in New York (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=fd1b868249&e=f269152a76) that would cause additional hardship on women, loved ones, and children, we uplift this platform as a radical and internationalist guide to inspire our struggle not just on March 8, but every day that we fight for freedom.


International Women's Strike US Platform

An End to Gender Violence

All women deserve a life free of violence, both domestic and institutional. Working women, trans women, and women of color face the worst aspects of direct institutionalized violence, be it in the form of police brutality, immigration raids, or day-to-day violence in the form of state policies that create and consolidate poverty in our communities. Against all such state and personal violence, we demand that our lives and labor be treated with dignity for they form the basis of this society.


Reproductive Justice for All

We stand for full reproductive justice for all women, cis and trans. We want complete autonomy over our bodies and full reproductive freedom. We demand free abortion without conditions and affordable healthcare for all, irrespective of income, race or citizenship status. The history of sterilization of women of color in this country goes hand in hand with the attack on abortion rights. Reproductive justice for us means the freedom to choose both whether to have children and when to have them.


Labor Rights

Labor rights are women’s rights because women’s paid labor in the workplace and unpaid labor at home is the basis of wealth in our society. All over the world millions of women are forced to work for slave wages in dangerous sweatshops and other ‘hell factories’ that kill thousands every year. In the United States 46% of union members are women and a majority of them are women of color. All women, irrespective of citizenship status, sexuality or race, must have equal pay for equal work, $15 minimum wage, including for caregivers, free universal child care, paid maternity leave, sick leave, paid family leave and the freedom to organize a fighting union in the workplace. As working women who hold up half the sky we refuse to be divided over the kind of labor we perform, whether skilled or unskilled, formal or informal, sex work and domestic work.


Full Social Provisioning

Decades of neoliberal policies have seen the violent dismantling of social provisioning that has affected all women. While our working lives have been made increasingly precarious, social services that might have provided a safety net against such harsh exploitation of labor, have either been attacked or removed completely. Against these attacks, we demand an expansive restructuring of the American welfare system to serve the needs of the majority, such as universal healthcare, robust unemployment and social security benefits, and free education for all. We demand that the welfare system work to support our lives rather than shame us when we access such rights.


For an Antiracist and Anti-imperialist Feminism

Against the open white supremacists in the current government and the far right and anti-Semites they have given confidence to, we stand for an uncompromising anti-racist and anti-colonial feminism. This means that movements such as Black Lives Matter, the struggle against police brutality and mass incarceration, the demand for open borders and for immigrant rights and for the decolonization of Palestine are for us the beating heart of this new feminist movement. We want to dismantle all walls, from prison walls to border walls, from Mexico to Palestine.


Environmental Justice for All

We believe that both social inequality and environmental degradation are due to an economic system that puts profit before people. We demand instead that the earth’s natural resources be preserved and sustained to enrich our lives and those of our children. The struggle of Water Protectors against the Dakota Access Pipe Line inspires us. The emancipation of women and the emancipation of the planet must go hand in hand.


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100 Disruptions: Support your local library


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As any bookworm knows, libraries rank among the best places in the world — and right now they're a powerful part of the resistance. Librarians across the country are fact-checking the Trump administration’s lies, promoting books about refugees, and hosting community discussions about critical thinking. And many libraries are serving as sanctuary spaces in reaction to the Muslim ban and deportation orders.

Today's action is to support your local library. You can do that by participating in any of its resistance efforts, making a donation or suggesting ways to combat Trump's hate. This article (http://act.freepress.net/go/16705?t=1&akid=6183.9036884.BOxh_y) and the @LibrariesResist (https://act.freepress.net/go/16706?t=2&akid=6183.9036884.BOxh_y) account on Twitter are great resources if you need to nudge your local library to move in the right direction.

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Prisoners Speak Out on Repression and Resistance


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Trump and the Current Political Moment

"Now is the time to stand with our free-world allies as they daily protest Trump's latest ugly declarations and executive orders. In our thoughts and in our prayers, with our hearts and with our words, we stand with the oppressed and all progressives fighting for social justice. Never before have I been so surprised and inspired by the outpouring of unity that's coalescing in the sea of courageous people stepping up against tyranny."


Robert Chan (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=00978e0b29&e=f269152a76), imprisoned at California State Prison - LA County


"Trump's regime will greatly affect me, along with the community at large as well as all presently incarcerated people... Trump's regime serves a deliberate and specific purpose in sustaining white terror, power, and domination. In other words, the relationship between people of color, along poor white folks in America and the holders of state power in the United States is similar to that which exists between the colonized and the colonial master."
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As we continue our work chipping away at the prison industrial complex, Critical Resistance honors freedom fighters past and present who have been imprisoned, policed, surveilled, or killed by the state in an effort to squash our movements. We reject the normalization of repression, systematized imprisonment, and routine law and order policing. In so doing, we understand that abolition is commonsense and crucial to fighting state repression.

We are entering an era of potentially greater political repression, isolation, and silencing of dissent, and it is imperative that we do what we can to bolster inside/outside organizing and share even more of the experiences and analysis of imprisoned people speaking out against the prison industrial complex. Since our founding, Critical Resistance has received guidance, research, analysis, and partnership from imprisoned contacts that propels our campaigns forward towards abolition.

Recently, we asked imprisoned people to share their reflections on Trump's presidency and how to strengthen our resistance to what some see as rising fascism. Lacino, Robert, and Asar (quoted here), as well as others have generously offered their analysis and experience. Their letters are compiled together in a narrative form and also shared in full on our Prisoner Analysis (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b889bf00a3&e=f269152a76) webpage. The testimonies include excerpts of letters from immigrants, Black men and other men of color, people sentenced to the death penalty or life without parole (the other death penalty), gay people, and people imprisoned in California, Pennsylvania, Florida, and South Carolina.

In spite of walls and cages attempting to separate us, we are encouraged and inspired by imprisoned comrades who continue fighting and sharing their analysis and experiences.

"Repression doesn’t come and go, it merely becomes more or less evident, as its "spectacular episodes" are spaced closer or farther apart. Donald Trump being an expression of a "spectacular episode". Repression is a permanent blanket covering the movement. Many people don't think this is so, because you don't notice the difficulty you have trying to breathe. This is because you’ve become accustomed to the reality and the weight of the blanket, long gaps between "spectacular episodes” have given many of us the impression that the blanket had been "pulled back” or “lifted". But it’s been here all the time, before Trump was elected president, and we’ve learned to move under its weight, and now consider this type of repression to be normal."

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[TomLeftist]

You know I think that many oppressed poor people who voted for Donald Trump, have not changed their minds and still support Donald Trump and the whole Republican Party. This country, the USA with all its bright lights, shinning stuff out there in the cities, commercial centers, and the way people live, sort of turn people into a drugged mental state (but without drugs). The way of life, the whole system, the urban planning, the excess of capitalist utopian propaganda. The excess of utopian, ultra-optimist thinking (a crazy anti-real, Matrix movies mentality, beautiful magic kingdom virtual reality believe, makes people get out of real-reality and live in an ultra-optimist fake-belief alternative reality).

And that's why they idealize Donald Trump like a sort of revolutionary progressive small business economic system Bernie Sanders, progressive anti-war Ron Paul, a progressive John F. Kennedy, Eisenhower, a progressive Jimmy Carter. And I think that's the way most people who support Donald Trump still see him. They are falling in love with the Donald Trump family. Such a great leftist revolutionary family. Ivanka Trump even lied in one of the pre-elections Donald Trump events and meetings. About how all poor US citizens are like her own family. This is the way these people lie. How the hell can Ivanka Trump claim that she loves poor people, when her father is about to privatize medicaid, medicare, food-stamps, family first, social security programs and public school education and public university education.

But the millions of americans who are drugged with a dose of utopian-thinking, ultra-optimist Harry Potter, Snow White, Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland magical thinking are still waiting for the socialism of wealth that Donald Trump will provide to them. This is the way people are. When peoiple fall in love with a celebrity, baseball star, politician or any popular person. They don't see the real-reality of that person. Because when people love politicians and popular celebrities, love itself blinds reality, destroys reality and all they see is a perfect person, like Romeo and Juliet. Thats why Napoleon Bonaparte claimed that love is dangerous, because love destroys rational thinking. And maybe what is happening is that millions of americans have fallen in love with their messiah Donald Trump and I think that's what happend with Obama. That millions of black, latinos and poor americans fell in crazy love with Obama and voted him into power in 2012, despite Obama being just like Bush-2

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Here's the thing, Tom. It's very tempting to look at these rural workers and believe that it's Trump economic populism that attracts them. I myself remembered when he scrapped the TPP and I was actually ready to believe that Trump supporters were genuine economic populists rather than the vile, racist dirtbags that they are.

But in the end, the sad truth we have to face is the workers at this point don't care about themselves. They would sell their own children into slavery if it meant that they can bash immigrants and make America white again. The media has this narrative they like to play where people "held their nose" and voted for Trump - that it was actually it his populism that attracted voters and in spite of his downsides. But that's just a load of garbage. Trump brought more first time voters to the booth than any politician in recent memory; Trump flipped a lot of democrats; Trump flipped won a lot of independents. It's not because these people agree with his economic views - he doesn't even have economic views, it's just a load of hot air - it's because he attracted racists from every side and from under every rock; he gave these people a voice, and mobilized them. And now this country has regressed about 50 years because of it.

There was a time when my idealism and pro-worker attitude extended to these rural whites along with all workers - I saw them as victims, too. Now I don't care anymore. If they want to destroy themselves by going down this road, let em. I don't honestly don't even care anymore at all. I give up.

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Women and the Criminal Justice System


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Only 5% of the world’s female population lives in the United States, but our country accounts for nearly 30% of the world’s incarcerated women. The U.S. incarcerates twice as many women as China and four times as many women as Russia.

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$1.4 Trillion to War?!


Dear Friends,

My name is Sam Koplinka-Loehr. I work as a nanny for two kids where I live in Philadelphia. I am also a part-time community organizer with the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC (https://www.warresisters.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1453&qid=950524)). Besides having a very long name, here’s the short version of what we do: we support people who refuse to pay federal income taxes that fund war and redirect their tax dollars instead.

As we approach tax day on April 18th, Trump's proposed budget for the coming year promises increased military spending and drastic cuts to discretionary spending. In this moment I write to say we are not alone, and there are more comrades than we realize. Can you give $25 today to support WRL’s work—to Disrupt, Resist, and Build—for the coming year? (https://www.warresisters.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1445&qid=950524)

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War tax resistance is one way to challenge the violence and oppression of our government. From federal prison cells to Standing Rock to the streets of Ahwar in southern Yemen, our government is targeting Black, Brown, and Native people for destruction. Whether by drone strikes or police bullets, the U.S. government is in the business of maintaining white supremacy with violence--a business paid for by our tax dollars.

This coming year, an estimated $1.4 trillion, that's 48%, of the federal budget will go to the military. On top of that, an additional $23 billion will go to federal prisons and law enforcement, not to mention the military equipment that is transferred to local police departments and used in our streets.

War tax resistance is direct action, literally refusing to pay for state violence. Instead, war tax resisters redirect money to resistance led by Black, Brown, and Native, and working-class organizers. Disrupting, resisting, and building, all at the same time.

The Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes “Pie Chart” (https://www.warresisters.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1446&qid=950524) flyer is a resource created by WRL and NWTRCC. We hope it might become a tool for you to DISRUPT with. If you take a look at the back, you’ll notice that extreme, exorbitant military spending is not new. War Resisters League’s NoSwatZone campaign addresses the totality of militarization in places around the U.S., while WRL’s nonviolence strategy and trainings make our activism smarter and our movement stronger. RESIST war taxes that pay for violence, and redirect those funds to BUILD with those who are imagining and creating the world anew.

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As long as there has been oppression, there has been resistance. As long as taxes have been used for violence, we have refused to pay.



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Support US Army Pvt. Ryan Johnson, Imprisoned War Resister


Support War Resister Pvt. Ryan Johnson

Imprisoned a decade after refusing crimes of his country

Please support US military war resister Army Private Ryan Johnson by making a tax-deductible donation to his support fund, hosted by Courage to Resist. Doing so will help Ryan through the remainder of his prison sentence, and help Ryan and his wife Jenna relocate after his release. Donate today:
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We at Courage to Resist are reaching out to you to help imprisoned Army soldier Ryan Johnson and his wife Jenna. We’re helping them get on their feet upon Ryan’s expected May release from Miramar Brig in Southern California. Your support is critical to help them begin their next chapter.

Ryan Johnson hasn’t gotten many easy breaks. He lost his father at the age of three. Growing up he would face years of abuse at the hands of a new stepfather. As a teen Ryan escaped into patterns of drug abuse, self-harm, and finally dropped out of high school. Now he endures insult of military imprisonment after literal injury serving the US armed forces. This pall of unfortunate circumstances doesn’t mean there isn’t light in Ryan’s life. He has persevered, with his compassion, kindness, and conscience intact.

Another bright spot appeared in Ryan’s life when he met Jen at a concert in 2000, through a mutual friend. They bonded immediately, and they’ve been inseparable since. In Jen’s statement to Ryan’s court martial judge she shared a touching story. Early in their relationship Jen was driving when Ryan turned and thanked her. “For what?” she queried. “For inspiring me to want to be a better person”. Ryan had found hope. Soon after they planned to marry, using their union as a fulcrum toward a new start for the both of them.

In spite of their thriving relationship, work options in their California valley town were sparse. The US Army was an escape route that promised deliverance for Ryan and his new wife. In 2003 Ryan Johnson and the United States Army entered an agreement. The Army never intended to honor its agreement (which his superiors confirmed), yet expected 100% unconditional compliance from Ryan.

The US Army promised Ryan a lot of things it wouldn’t deliver, and delivered a lot of things it didn’t promise. Ryan was promised a non-combat supply logistics career. He got a transfer to a non-supply combat unit. He was promised military healthcare. He received medical malpractice- an untreated spinal cord injury with 2 crushed vertebrae. Also a broken jaw, nine missing teeth, and a floating bone fragment from a dental procedure gone awry. Ryan was promised honorable service to his country. He instead got orders to an illegal war, injuries be damned. With a year’s worth of opiates and a duffel bag, the Army was set on sending a broken soldier to a war zone. Ryan and his wife of now 15 years were forced to make an impossible decision. The stakes were high: Ryan’s well-being, that of Ryan’s fellow soldiers, and his very freedom.

Ryan made the decision not to go to war; he and Jen packed their car in the wee hours and drove off base. With assistance from the GI Rights Hotline, they learned their options. They found they weren’t alone in resistance. They attended a court-martial for Navy war resister Pablo Paredes. They met Army conscientious objector Camilo Mejia. They met prominent Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan. They were seeing resistance was possible.

When the Johnsons didn’t feel safe at home in California, they packed up and sought refuge in Canada. Ryan and Jen became active among a tight-knit group of US war resisters in Toronto. They helped launch a chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War for GI’s north of the border. Ryan went on a Canadian national tour to bolster support for US resisters in the country.

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Why Trumpcare could have passed


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Trumpcare went down in flames, thanks to you.

The Republican plan—which would destroy Medicaid, raid Medicare, raise insurance premiums for Americans who need them most, and leave 24 million uninsured, all to give a massive tax handout to billionaires, health insurance CEOs, and big pharma—was just abandoned by its biggest cheerleaders, Paul Ryan and Donald Trump. Social Security Works members and allies delivered more than one million petition signatures and made thousands of phone calls to Congress.

Massive resistance from grassroots activists around the country won this battle. But our fight is only beginning.

Since the Affordable Care Act was enacted, insurance companies have continued to raise premiums, and drug corporations have continued to raise prices. The ACA did a lot of good, but it depended on insurance companies to do their part. And they have instead acted as cold blooded profit-making machines.

That’s why we fight to expand Medicare and Social Security. That’s why we fight to lower prescription drug prices.

The best way to keep insurance companies honest is to allow Medicare to compete with them. We should lower the eligibility age—not raise it. And we shouldn’t stop lowering the age until it hits zero.

Defeating Trumpcare is an extraordinary feat. But we can’t rest. Paul Ryan and Donald Trump won’t.

We are in this for the long haul. We are fighting to expand Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and lowering prescription drug prices for everyone.


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100 Disruptions: Police surveillance


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Law enforcement agencies are using surveillance technology more and more. But studies show that police surveillance chills free expression, disproportionately harms communities of color, and is used to target protesters — especially people demonstrating against police violence.1

Equipping police departments with surveillance technology doesn’t make communities safer. Our friend Laura Moy has done extensive research on this topic through her work at the Center on Privacy & Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Today’s action is to read her article “Want to Reduce Chicago Gun Violence? Fund Community Programs, Not Police Surveillance (https://act.freepress.net/go/16744?t=1&akid=6250.9036884.p0HYzp)” and share it with a friend.

Thanks for all that you do—

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Don't let Sessions bring back cruel private prisons!

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Private prisons are truly abominable. Companies make a profit off the suffering of others: the suffering of crime victims and the suffering of people incarcerated in some of the worst conditions in the United States.

Private prisons are consistently found to be less safe, offer less support and do a worse job of rehabilitating their inhabitants. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AxT_I/zSrl/t8hl) Not only that, but they're more expensive than government-run facilities. That's why former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates' groundbreaking order to phase out private prisons was such a welcome idea.

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Frankly, I'm not surprised. Private prison operators are hefty donors, and the GOP's love affair with free markets and private industry withstands all facts and appeals to reason. It's simply more important to reward wealthy private donors than to actually do a good job at running the federal prison system.

Join me to help ensure not one more taxpayer dollar is spent on cruel and inefficient private prisons. Tell Attorney General Sessions to rescind his reversal and continue phasing out private prisons. (http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AxT_I/zSrl/t8hl)

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The Abolitionist is here, get the latest issue!


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Our current political climate is characterized by increased attacks on communities, the stripping away of access to resources, and the bolstering of the state's repressive forces and institutions. Yet it has also been marked by some of the largest demonstrations of resistance in recent years. With the growing need to build strong movements and effective formations of resistance, it is even more important that we study and learn from the legacy of the Black Panther Party and other movements for liberation.

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Sessions is re-negotiating an agreement with Baltimore that in its current form includes a community oversight task force, an independent federal monitor, and the requirement that officers receive instruction about implicit bias.

Sessions has asked his subordinates to review agreements with other police departments to be sure that they accomplish such goals as boosting morale and the recruitment of police. A memo from Sessions states flatly, "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies.”

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100 Disruptions: Inauguration Day


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On Inauguration Day, hundreds of protesters were arrested and charged with felony rioting. More than 200 of them are now facing up to ten years in prison and a $25,000 fine for protesting the Trump administration.

Police also swept up journalists and legal observers alongside protesters — indicating that police were acting indiscriminately when they detained people. The severity of the charges and punishment is almost unheard of in U.S. protest history.1 This raises the question: Are these arrests an attempt to make an example of protesters early on during the Trump administration?

Today’s action is to read “How the government is turning protesters into felons (http://act.freepress.net/go/16785?t=1&akid=6309.9036884.C8RQYe)” and share it with a friend.

The media have not been adequately reporting about the consequences these protesters face — let’s spread the word.

Thanks for all that you do,

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1. “How the Government is Turning Protesters Into Felons,” Esquire, April 12, 2017: http://act.freepress.net/go/16785?t=5&akid=6309.9036884.C8RQYe


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#DeadlyExchange


Dear Chris,

It’s a dystopic riddle for our times: what do you get when you bring US police, border agents, ICE officers, and FBI officials from the US together to learn with soldiers and cops in Israel?

The answers are deadly serious:

- An apartheid army empowered as a global gold standard.

- Police and soldiers shooting people in the streets with total impunity.

- Massively expanded spying and surveillance programs holding entire communities captive.

- Unprecedented levels of deportation and imprisonment separating families and destroying futures.

- Physical and legal attacks on human rights defenders, gutting movements for justice.


Indeed, one of the most dangerous places where the regimes of Trump and Netanyahu converge are in exchange programs that bring together law enforcement and military personnel from both countries. Thousands of the highest ranking police officials and law enforcement executives across the country have participated in these exchange programs, which are primarily billed as opportunities for U.S. law enforcement to learn counterterrorism tactics from the Israeli military and police. In these programs, both sides exchange worst practices that promote and extend discriminatory, repressive, and violent policing and surveillance.

That's why we are launching a campaign to end this Deadly Exchange. Sign up here to bring the campaign to your community. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6Q73GkEG2nq%2BK%2FZq2weT9YabkCgJN8Zm)

The sad truth is that the majority of these programs are run by Jewish organizations, including the neo-conservative Jewish Institute on National Security of America (JINSA), local trips led by Jewish federations, and a large program run by the Anti-Defamation League. All with the buy-in of local elected officials who send police on taxpayer time.

Civil rights organizations and Jewish communal institutions have no business participating in further endangering those in Trump’s and Bibi’s crosshairs by dispatching police, ICE and FBI agents to exchange tips with an occupying army. And cities— especially so-called progressive or sanctuary cities— must end their participation in these programs.

As a Jewish organization dedicated to safety and justice for all people, it’s our duty to draw the line at these exchanges. Join us today. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RIb5bbGCLCopqeaf2nQK0IabkCgJN8Zm)

We can’t end this exchange, or uproot the deeper systems it exposes, without first educating ourselves and each other. We have a full curriculum ready-to-go, and we’ll coach you on every step of the process through an online training. All you have to do is sign up and we’ll walk you through the rest.

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There is so much going dangerously wrong these days, it's hard to know what to pay attention to. But in fact, all the threats we face are inextricably connected. And if we are going to fight back effectively, we have to recognize and address these connections.

The US and Israel are premier propagandists of the dangerous lie that violence against some communities will create security for others. This campaign is an opportunity to upend that deadly myth. We know that real safety is created through joint struggles for justice. We build together by showing up to protect and defend one another. It is that exchange— not between police, but peoples’ movements— that we must grow.

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War Making and State Repression


Chip away at the tools of the PIC
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Last week, news broke that as Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeks to assert a “tough on crime” approach in his position, he is committed to ramping up the disastrous “war on drugs.” A few days later on Thursday, the US dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the world on Afghanistan, a brazen continuation of the devastating “war on terror.” And this past Tuesday, Trump’s administration set its sight again on immigration, vowing to bolster the “war on gangs.” These efforts have for decades resulted in the criminalization, destabilization, and attack on communities here and around the world, and ultimately, have only served to expand the prison industrial complex and its repressive reach.


Under any administration, and especially under Trump, we at Critical Resistance see that the expansion of the PIC to fight “crime” – whether that be categorized as drugs, terror, or gangs – will not only exacerbate broader social and economic problems – it will also be used to grow the repressive power of the state to target those of us fighting for gains, big and small. The intensified criminalization policies, sentencing, surveillance technologies and practices, and policing tactics that these “wars” have brought about have long been used to stifle dissent and attempt to crush resistance movements.

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For instance, with regards to the war on drugs, John Ehrlichman, who was counsel for Domestic Affairs under president Nixon, admitted (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=c25cfdefce&e=f269152a76):

“We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.”

Although the war on drugs has not been the primary driver (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=f8468f0beb&e=f269152a76) of the US imprisonment system’s growth as is often believed, it has still served as a significant force of criminalization (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=3fa5e4cdc5&e=f269152a76) and was a major repressive tool, alongside COINTELPRO, to bring down the Black Panther Party and other liberation movements of the 60’s and 70’s.

Similarly, the war on terror has reinforced mass surveillance and the targeting of Arab and Muslim leaders and Palestinian solidarity activists, including the cases of Sami Al-Arian, Aafia Siddiqui, the Holy Land Five, and most recently, the imprisonment and impending deportation of Rasmea Odeh (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=91012b4a23&e=f269152a76). More broadly, technologies and military equipment developed on the pretext of counterterrorism, such as the Stingray and Bearcat, are in wide use by local police departments (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=fcf769931c&e=f269152a76) and are regularly deployed for protests, rallies, and demonstrations (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=bc4e48f26e&e=f269152a76).

The fight for abolition is a fight to protect and defend our people and movements. Alongside many, we strive to chip away at the PIC, seeking to strip away the state’s arsenal of tools and resources tools that are used to keep us from strengthening our resistance, and ultimately, achieving liberation.

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100 Disruptions: Net Neutrality or Bust


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Chris,

Last month, we organized a silent walkout in support of Net Neutrality at the FCC’s open meeting. This week, we took things up a notch by live ‘Rickrolling’ Chairman Ajit Pai at the beginning of the FCC meeting.

It was epic — and now we need you to join in the fight.

Today’s action is to register for the Net Neutrality or Bust organizing call (http://act.freepress.net/survey/internet_nn_resistance/?t=1&akid=6328.9036884.ixmDWV) taking place on Thursday, April 27. During the call, we'll update you on what’s next in the fight for Net Neutrality plus you’ll hear from activists about their experiences during the recent FCC action and receive a toolkit for organizing protests in your own community.

Pai has already met with his buddies in the industry and the Trump administration to build a plan to kill Net Neutrality2, so it’s time to roll up our sleeves and show up in a big way.

Thanks for all that you do–

Collette, Saurav, Brandon, Mary Alice and the rest of the Free Press team
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P.P.S. Check out our blog (https://act.freepress.net/go/16794?t=4&akid=6328.9036884.ixmDWV) on this week's FCC protest — which includes a video of us Rickrolling Chairman Pai. lulz.

1. “Ajit Pai, F.C.C. Chairman, Moves to Roll Back Telecom Rules,” New York Times, April 19, 2017: https://act.freepress.net/go/16795?t=6&akid=6328.9036884.ixmDWV


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There was a time when my idealism and pro-worker attitude extended to these rural whites along with all workers - I saw them as victims, too. Now I don't care anymore. If they want to destroy themselves by going down this road, let em. I don't honestly don't even care anymore at all. I give up.

At the exact moment where you need to go to battle, you choose to GIVE UP? What is wrong with you?
I mean, it's not just about them destroying themselves, it's about them making life shit for everyone else as well.

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This Mother's Day - Let's Free Our People


Movement for Black Lives


Chris --

In the weeks after May Day, nearly two dozen local and national groups are working together to bail as many incarcerated mothers as we can so they can spend Mother's Day with their families. We will support Black birth mothers, trans mothers, and other women who mother and are entangled in the criminal legal system.

Without our support, this mother’s day, many mothers could be languishing in cages, separated from their families and loved ones simply because they cannot afford bail! Join us in bailing out as many mothers as we can the week before Mother’s Day. (https://movementforblacklives.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbrooklynbailfund.org%2Fdonate%2F national-bail-out&e=93038e216e7fdb12052b05a44d3a3daf&utm_source=movementforblacklives&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mamabaillaunch&n=5)

When our mothers are locked in cages, our families and communities suffer. For all of our mothers and our trans mothers specifically, nearly a third of whom report sexual assault in local jails, a few days behind bars can result in irreparable physical and emotional harm

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This Mother’s Day, we are raising money to bring our Mamas home. The Mama’s Bail Out Day is rooted in the tradition of our enslaved ancestors who went to every length, including harnessing their collective resources, to purchase each other's freedom and keep their families together. This year, we are taking a stand against a money bail system that tears our families and punishes our Mothers for being poor.

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It’s on: Net neutrality repeal announced


BREAKING: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai just gave Comcast a giant gift--and a slap in the face to the rest of us.
In a speech today, Pai--a former Verizon lawyer--laid out his plan for letting ISPs like Comcast and Verizon censor and control what we see and do online.[1]

The public submitted 3.7 million comments to the FCC in the fight to make net neutrality the law of the land. We need to organize millions more to protect net neutrality now.

Will you chip in today to stop Comcast from censoring the Internet? (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3wA/ni0YAA/t.26t/HgNIo3rEQW-p2lXXnofUTA/h0/Pa8otjfmmhIzvTMTCB8ZJJUXf-2BRddPW57EVXPeuxLv-2BF7pLuJJIgr18RgbACRPE8PHkihLEmVw0XcwTgjjHN18EKrbg q3vw4ykFpc9f-2FsoHKQ12a0JRLEXaJlIc0zP0Bu8O00tr0h8Sy2krS6MS-2BD8IVmmecx3zOrUe-2BhEpf0Bdf1Kr1ZVjk2WqgS-2FQg71knskBPmhMEjIrJ2kqp3Iynhg0ApdlHQmdjBCpnmUcLz9 6i1mJUC-2Focdsct-2Fs0H9-2BQiSrLMtFm9X-2BHtHWVbnnsNDHdp-2BNDcsI1rXNk2JpzS70XTcBCTn4KlFVBPfzIQS3t-2B-2FrWVxO1VKkdSFNJUsJD5fs-2FrKdW0OID1EgeWTbF4m4m-2FFjN4Ga9oM3LNdLkdjjsw)

Pai thinks that corporations should voluntarily commit to not censoring and controlling their customers' internet usage.[2]

But even with net neutrality regulations currently in place, telecom companies have already tried to break the rules. AT&T tried to stop iPhone users from using FaceTime.[3] T-Mobile used its Binge On service to slow down YouTube download speeds.[4] Comcast put data caps on its broadband customers but exempted their own streaming service.[5]

But we can win this fight, because we've built a large coalition that includes conservatives and liberals that support net neutrality. Big online companies, like Netflix and Etsy, and hundreds of small startups are on our side as well.[6][7]

We have fought too long and too hard to lose net neutrality now. Will you chip in to help us save it?

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Thanks for speaking out,
-Tiffiniy Cheng, Fight for the Future

[1] C-SPAN: https://www.c-span.org/video/?427558-1/fcc-chair-ajit-pai-expected-unveil-net-neutrality-proposals&live
[2] Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/net-neutrality-fcc-237543
[3] Save the Internet: https://www.savetheinternet.com/press-release/99480/att-blocking-iphones-facetime-app-would-harm-consumers-and-break-net-neutrality
[4] BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35232288
[5] The Daily Dot: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/net-neutrality-isp-reporting/
[6] Variety: https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/internet-association-1202029621/
[7] Engine: http://www.engine.is/startups-for-net-neutrality


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BREAKING: Our Internet


Chris,

The days of the essential open Internet protections we won in 2015 “are numbered.”1

That proclamation against Net Neutrality — a founding principle of the web, that all content be treated equally — was made today by new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, speaking to a crowd of Team Cable’s lobbyists and allies.2

Chairman Pai and his team of open web enemies intend to roll back the Title II Order, the hard fought consumer protections that more than four millions Americans fought for and won just two years ago.3 Those same protections — that keep the Internet from becoming a series of slow lanes, for those who can’t pay, and fast lanes, for the few who can — are in grave danger because of Chairman Pai.4, 5

This is going to be the biggest battle the Internet has ever seen and to prevail we need to build an army even bigger than the one that ushered in that massive Internet win in 2015, and we need to do it now. Will you ask your networks on Facebook (http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GvKbZ6xifldrTPZ6Ntrh50zW5z7nX1%2F1), Twitter (http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=e1zk1jIlibMan%2FiL1wWLAKSq5VmydUsv) and however else you reach them, with this link: act.openmedia.org/defendtheinternet

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Chairman Pai is moving incredibly fast. Tomorrow, the plan will be announced formally, and it will be voted on and pushed through by the FCC on May 18.6 We need to show the FCC that Americans will not stand for assaults on our open Internet.

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The future of the Internet depends on this — can we count on you?

Yours for an open, affordable web,

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Footnotes
[1] Chairman Pai Speech on the Future of Internet Regulation: Federal Communications Commission
[2] Internet regulation speech by Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai: C-Span
[3] The day the Internet stood still: TechCrunch
[4] Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules: Ars Technica
[5] FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has kicked off his campaign to kill the agency’s net neutrality rules: ReCode
[6] F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules: New York Times

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REVEALED: Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality


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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai finally revealed his plan to kill net neutrality.

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AT&T has tried to stop iPhone users from using FaceTime.[1] T-Mobile used its Binge On service to choke Youtube download speeds.[2] Comcast put data caps on its broadband customers and then exempted their own streaming service.[3] Time Warner cable throttled Netflix and the popular game “League of Legends”.[4]

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Back when net neutrality rules were built on Title I (“title one”) Verizon sued the FCC and won. Courts were very clear: the FCC couldn’t ban “fast lanes” under Title I. So even if Ajit Pai introduces good net neutrality rules—which seems unlikely given his questions—if he switches to Title I the rules are guaranteed to get struck down in court. And that’s his plan.

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The time to use the internet to save the internet is now.

Thanks for all that you do,

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[1] https://www.savetheinternet.com/press-release/99480/att-blocking-iphones-facetime-app-would-harm-consumers-and-break-net-neutrality

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35232288

[3] https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/net-neutrality-isp-reporting/

[4] http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/9/14548880/time-warner-lawsuit-new-york-league-of-legends-netflix



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[LaborTech] Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security


Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security

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Users trying to access online encyclopaedia via Turkish internet providers receive ‘connection timed out’ error message

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Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, the country’s telecommunications watchdog has said, citing a law that allows it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security.

Later on Saturday, Turkish authorities said they had sacked more than 3,900 civil servants, and military and police personnel as the purge of alleged anti-government officials continued, and also banned TV dating shows.

The move to close down Wikipedia access is likely to further worry rights groups and Turkey’s western allies, who say Ankara has curtailed freedom of speech and other basic rights in the crackdown that followed last year’s failed coup.

“After technical analysis and legal consideration … an administrative measure has been taken for this website,” the BTK telecoms authority said in a statement on its website.

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It cited a law that allows it to block access to individual web pages or entire sites for the protection of public order, national security or the wellbeing of the public.

BTK is required to submit such measures to a court within 24 hours. The court then has two days to decide if the ban should be upheld.

A block on all language editions of the online encyclopaedia was detected at 5am GMT on Saturday, monitoring group Turkey Blockssaid on its website.

“The loss of availability is consistent with internet filters used to censor content in the country,” it said.

When attempting to access the webpage using Turkish internet providers, users received a notice that the site could not be reached and a “connection timed out” error.

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Monitoring groups have accused Turkey of blocking access to social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, particularly in the aftermath of militant attacks.

The government has in the past denied doing so, blaming the blackouts on spikes in usage after major events.

Technical experts at watchdog groups, however, say they are intentional, aimed in part at stopping the spread of militant images and propaganda.

The latest purge of officials was reported in the government’s official gazette. The expelled included prison guards, clerks, academics, and employees of the religious affairs ministry, all of whom were suspected of links to “terrorist organisations and structures presenting a threat to national security”, the government said.

It is the second large-scale purge since the narrow victory of an 16 April referendum giving Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sweeping powers.

On Wednesday more than 9,000 police personnel were suspended and another 1,000 detained for alleged links to the network of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Ankara blames for the failed coup.

Also suspended were 1,127 employees of the justice ministry – including prison guards and clerks – plus 484 academics, and 201 employees from the religious affairs directorate, the government said on Saturday.

About 120,000 people have already been suspended from jobs ranging from the civil service to the private sector, and more than 40,000 arrested, following last year’s failed coup.

Mass detentions immediately after the attempted coup were supported by many Turks, who agreed with Erdoğan when he blamed Gülen for orchestrating the putsch – which killed 240 people, mostly civilians. But criticism mounted as the arrests widened.

Relatives of those detained or sacked since July say they have nothing to do with the armed attempt to overthrow the government, and are victims of a purge designed to solidify Erdoğan’s control.

Turkey also banned hugely popular television dating shows, a move that been mooted for months by the government.

“In radio and television broadcasting services, such programmes in which people are introduced to find a friend.... cannot be permitted,” said the text of the decree.

Deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said in March that the ban was in the pipeline, arguing the shows do not fit in with Turkish traditions and customs.

“There are some strange programmes that would scrap the institution of family, take away its nobility and sanctity,” Kurtulmus said at the time.


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With tender spirits and heavy hearts, we at Critical Resistance bid farewell to one of our co-founders and long time leaders, Rose Braz, who braved a long fight with cancer and passed away peacefully on Tuesday.
Rose’s contributions to Critical Resistance (CR) and the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex are immeasurable; neither CR nor the international modern-day abolitionist movement would exist as powerfully as they do today without Rose’s tireless work. When Angela Davis put out the call to “do Critical Resistance!” at the end of the first CR conference in Berkeley, CA, 1998, the phone kept ringing for “more Critical Resistance” and it was Rose who answered. Part of the original conference planning committee, she became the organization’s first staffer, making real the struggle to move beyond the prison industrial complex (PIC).

Inspiring, seemingly unstoppable, and a fierce movement builder, Rose laid an indelible foundation for CR and the broader movement against the PIC. With sharp media and strong campaign organizing skills, Rose was a driving force behind the Delano II campaign, which halted the gargantuan 20-year prison building boom in California and integrated environmental justice and anti-prison approaches for the first time.

The brilliant legal attack against the proposed Delano II prison highlighted how the habitat of the endangered Tipton kangaroo rat would be compromised by the construction of "a prison that wasn't needed" (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=75c3325041&e=f269152a76) and created space for statewide grassroots organizing. Her fierce messaging and coalition-building power put the California prison regime on its heels, burst the mainstream bounds of the term environment, and amplified the environmentally toxic and racist impacts imprisonment has on our communities. (We recommend this article by Rose and Craig Gilmore, "Joining Forces (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=78c102b7c6&e=f269152a76)," which lays out with nuance what has become a primary strategy in fighting new jail and prison construction.)

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Her key leadership grew CR into a national organization and force for abolition. Through these fights, Rose played an instrumental role in co-founding the now 70+ member-strong Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and the Coalition for Effective Public Safety, two coalitions that have resulted in thousands fewer people being imprisoned. She advanced abolition when it was almost-taboo and emboldened our movement, joining Justice Now at the forefront of the fight against women’s imprisonment (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=877dd37865&e=f269152a76) in 2006 and supporting the CR-NYC and the Community In Unity coalition defeat jail expansion plans in the Bronx (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=696464f5a2&e=f269152a76) in the same period. CR was honored and privileged to have her on staff for 13 years and through four national conferences.

In just the few days since her passing, countless memories have been shared, with the most common reflection being that "Rose was one of the most important mentors in my life." Her legacy will undoubtedly live through present and future efforts, seeding the way to a more beautiful, enlivened abolitionist struggle and liberated world.

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With Rose’s leadership, and participation in the organization from its inception in 1997 until 2012, CR boldly put forth a vision of the world we know is possible, one without policing or imprisonment, but rather one based on collective care, support, and dignity.

For all of us who share that vision, we are indebted to Rose’s life and efforts for spreading it far and wide. Please join us in celebrating her life.

With Love and Solidarity,
Critical Resistance


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Dog the Bounty Hunter exploits Black women and their families

Dog the Bounty Hunter and the entire bail bonds industry profits off the suffering of Black women and families.

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It's time for California to transform the dangerous money bail system.

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Chris,

California is on the brink of passing landmark criminal justice reform that would end the cruel cycle of incarceration and bail debt for thousands of families. But corporate bail profiteers and the Trump coalition are pulling out all the stops trying to kill it.

At a recent bail reform hearing, our partner, Essie Justice Group -- a powerful organization that harnesses the power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration -- came to tell their stories and push for bail reform. The bail industry was also there -- represented by a troubling coalition. Known-racist and proud Trump supporter Dog the Bounty Hunter was their celebrity guest and they even tried to pass off the leader of ‘Blacks for Trump’ -- a bail bondsman herself -- as representing the interest of the Black community.

Essie Justice Group’s members’ response to being confronted by overt racism from people desperately trying to hold on to their share of the incarceration business is to fight back by calling on Black communities and our allies to send a clear message that we demand an end to this corrupt and racist system.

Join us in standing with the thousands of Black women and families in California harmed by the corrupt and racist system of money bail. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/ca-bail-reform/?t=3&akid=7421.872082.S5k5jL)

The bail bond industry makes billions exploiting poor Black people and they don’t hesitate to criminalize our communities to keep the money flowing. Like Donald Trump and so many ‘Law & Order’ politicians, the industry employs scare tactics about mythical crime waves and ‘Law & Order’ talk to protect their profit margins.

It’s no surprise then that they would bring Dog the Bounty Hunter Chapman, who lost his television show after a recording of him going on an N-word filled rant forbidding his son from dating a Black woman, to represent them. What they really represent is the vile agenda to reverse the national trend toward bringing down incarceration rates in order to protect a system that criminalizes communities of color for profit. He should be nowhere near any conversation about reform.

The real experts on California’s criminal justice system are the women and families that have been impacted by it. They know that too many people are trapped in jail, awaiting trial because they cannot afford to buy their way out. They know that whether guilty or innocent, a single arrest could lead to long jail stays and long-term bail debt. They know that families can lose their homes, jobs and even be broken apart because California operates a system that locks people up if they can’t afford to pay.

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Black women and low-income women bear the brunt of the vicious bail bond industry. Women become trapped in debt and are forced to make the difficult decision of paying for basic needs for their families and paying off a bail to a for-profit bail bond company.1 Others, like Sandra Bland, have died in jail while waiting to make bail.

This has gone on long enough and we can’t let frauds who hate Black people block progress in a state like California. Instead, if we can push this reform over the finish line, we can build momentum to defeat the industry for good. Ending the money bail system in a state like California will be a huge turning point for other states to follow suit.

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Until justice is real,

Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Anay, Clarise, Enchanta, Malaya, and the rest of the Color Of Change team


References:

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Plans are in the works to employ drone pilots in more U.S. cities. And U.S. Customs and Border Protection has drones in the skies near, and not so near, U.S. borders, as well as loaned out to local police. Little by little, the wars come home.

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Nonviolent protesters near Syracuse, N.Y., have for years now risked prison to educate and build pressure against the use of drones to kill in U.S. wars. In March a jury acquitted four of them, and a judge dismissed charges against others stemming from a separate action.

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Don’t let Trump sell federal contracts (Sign the Petition)


Trump’s bringing back private federal prisons after one of the largest and worst private prison companies gave big $$$ to get him elected.

TELL THE FEC: Investigate potentially illegal political contributions from GEO Group!

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Chris —

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators, gave generously to elect Donald Trump president. Then they were awarded a $110 million contract to run a new immigration detention center in Texas.1

In 2016, President Obama’s Justice Department decided to phase out private prisons. And for good reason. Private prisons are notoriously overcrowded and understaffed,2 provide substandard medical care to inmates, and are more dangerous for both corrections officers and inmates. Despite the hype, they don’t even provide substantial cost savings.3

So why in the world would President Trump’s Department of Justice rescind the ban on private prisons?

Maybe it has something to do with GEO Group giving a sketchy $225,000 to a super PAC that worked to get Trump elected. GEO also gave $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration to make sure the message got across.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Investigate private prison operator GEO Group’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump! (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=3&akid=5773.610737.JC3WtX)

GEO Group is a very bad actor in an already troubled industry.

In 2009, GEO pulled out of a private prison it ran in Pennsylvania after it was the subject of several wrongful death suits. It ran the largest juvenile detention center in the country until it was hit with a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the facility.4

Now GEO Group is facing allegations that it asked Republican lawmakers in Texas to file a bill that would make it legal for immigrant children to be held indefinitely in its detention centers, allowing it to make as much money as possible.5

There’s a reason federal contractors are banned from making political donations. It is a direct path to rampant government pay-to-play.

That’s why the FEC needs to investigate this contribution immediately. Sign our petition today. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=4&akid=5773.610737.JC3WtX)

GEO tried to route this donation through a subsidiary group, but the evidence shows there’s effectively no distinction between the groups and both rely on taxpayer dollars.

With President Trump just firing FBI Director James Comey, who was looking into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the election, we need tough investigations to make sure the Trump administration is operating above-board.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Don’t let private prisons buy their way into government contracts. Investigate GEO’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=5&akid=5773.610737.JC3WtX)

Thanks for taking a stand,

Carli and the Rootstrikers Team


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Sources:
1. Mic, "Private firm wins $110 million contract for new immigrant detention center in Texas," April 14, 2017.
2. NPR, "Investigation Into Private Prisons Reveals Crowding, Under-Staffing And Inmate Deaths," August 25, 2016.
3. Time, "This Is the Real Reason Private Prisons Should Be Outlawed," August 24, 2016.
4. Newsweek, "Private Prison Company GEO Group Gave Generously to Trump and Now Has Lucrative Contract," May 11, 2017.
5. Ibid.


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PETITION: Tell the FEC to investigate possible illegal contributions to Trump


Trump’s bringing back private federal prisons after one of the largest and worst private prison companies gave big $$$ to get him elected.

TELL THE FEC: Investigate potentially illegal political contributions from GEO Group!

SIGN THE PETITION (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=2&akid=5794.610737.NTvXeE)


Chris Kaihatsu —

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison operators, gave generously to elect Donald Trump president. Then they were awarded a $110 million contract to run a new immigration detention center in Texas.1

In 2016, President Obama’s Justice Department decided to phase out private prisons. And for good reason. Private prisons are notoriously overcrowded and understaffed,2 provide substandard medical care to inmates, and are more dangerous for both corrections officers and inmates. Despite the hype, they don’t even provide substantial cost savings.3

So why in the world would President Trump’s Department of Justice rescind the ban on private prisons?

Maybe it has something to do with GEO Group giving a sketchy $225,000 to a super PAC that worked to get Trump elected. GEO also gave $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration to make sure the message got across.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Investigate private prison operator GEO Group’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump! (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=3&akid=5794.610737.NTvXeE)

GEO Group is a very bad actor in an already troubled industry.

In 2009, GEO pulled out of a private prison it ran in Pennsylvania after it was the subject of several wrongful death suits. It ran the largest juvenile detention center in the country until it was hit with a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the facility.4

Now GEO Group is facing allegations that it asked Republican lawmakers in Texas to file a bill that would make it legal for immigrant children to be held indefinitely in its detention centers, allowing it to make as much money as possible.5

There’s a reason federal contractors are banned from making political donations. It is a direct path to rampant government pay-to-play.

That’s why the FEC needs to investigate this contribution immediately. Sign our petition today. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=4&akid=5794.610737.NTvXeE)

GEO tried to route this donation through a subsidiary group, but the evidence shows there’s effectively no distinction between the groups and both rely on taxpayer dollars.

With President Trump just firing FBI Director James Comey, who was looking into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the election, we need tough investigations to make sure the Trump administration is operating above-board.

Tell the Federal Election Commission: Don’t let private prisons buy their way into government contracts. Investigate GEO’s possibly illegal contributions to Trump. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fec-investigate-private-prison-illegally-donated-trump/?source=rootstrikers&t=5&akid=5794.610737.NTvXeE)

Thanks for taking a stand,

Carli and the Rootstrikers Team


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Sources:
1. Mic, "Private firm wins $110 million contract for new immigrant detention center in Texas," April 14, 2017.
2. NPR, "Investigation Into Private Prisons Reveals Crowding, Under-Staffing And Inmate Deaths," August 25, 2016.
3. Time, "This Is the Real Reason Private Prisons Should Be Outlawed," August 24, 2016.
4. Newsweek, "Private Prison Company GEO Group Gave Generously to Trump and Now Has Lucrative Contract," May 11, 2017.
5. Ibid.


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Public Health Professionals Identify Policing as a Health Threat!


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In 2016, a group of public health students, researchers, and organizers felt that it Image by Kate DeCicciowas past time for the public health field to take a stand on the issue of policing and its harms. They recognized the daily violence of policing against Black and indigenous people, communities of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, people experiencing homelessness, and other marginalized communities as a devastating and pervasive public health issue, and that there needed to be a more urgent effort to advance people-oriented solutions.

These public health advocates collaborated to write and pass a policy statement through the American Public Health Association (APHA) (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=db8371c4ff&e=f269152a76)* that names policing as a public health issue and urges for steps to decrease its power, including:

• divesting public resources from policing and investing instead in racial and economic equity;
• eliminating policies such as gang injunctions and anti-homelessness laws that lead to harrassment of and violence against specific communities;
• decriminalizing many activities;
• decreasing the acquisition and use of military equipment and reducing the number of SWAT teams and the frequency of their deployment;
• supporting alternative practices for creating community safety and addressing harm that do not rely on repression and surveillance.

The tireless grassroots protests in recent years against the violence of policing meant that such a statement could not be ignored by the APHA. The statement was approved as policy for a one-year term. This is a unique victory that we are calling on you to help amplify!

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• Use it in advocacy work– to bolster testimony, to strengthen letters to decision-makers, or call people to action.

• Quote it to the media if you’re doing a campaign around the harms of policing. This can be in a press release, an article or through a speaker at a press conference.

• Are you an educator? Include it in your curriculum this year and empower young people and soon-to-be-professionals to make abolitionist recommendations to reduce the role of policing in our lives.


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We hope that this statement advances our struggles and inspires a growing body of health workers, educators and professionals to protect public health from the harms of policing and imprisonment.

Toward liberation,
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About the future of the APHA statement:

The APHA is a professional association with over 25,000 members that adopts policy statements which they use to inform advocacy efforts of organizations and its members. The statement won approval for a one-year term. The authors are in a process now of revising the statement and organizing for its permanent adoption. Regardless of what the APHA decides for next year, we very much hope that groups will use the statement now while it is official APHA policy!

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If the federal budget were a pie...


...Trump would try to give us the burnt crust.


Dear Chris,

After seeing the Trump administration's leaked education budget, we can't help but imagine how Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos plans to answer for these attacks on America's most vulnerable students.

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Budget Breakdown

The Trump administration is about to formally release its full budget proposal. Based on what we’ve seen in his “Skinny Budget (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186834/1637061?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) ," especially when considered side by side with his tax principles, we’re pretty sure it’s going to be yet another opportunity for him to promote deep cuts to essential programs for working families to make room for giant tax cuts for corporations and the uber-wealthy.

Fortunately, presidential budget frameworks are just a suggestion, not the final word on our nation’s spending. But if we’re going to keep Trump’s allies in Congress from enacting the worst of his budget, we’ve got to spread the word and make his proposals as politically toxic as possible.

• Want to tell President Trump & House Speaker Paul Ryan how these budget cuts would affect you? Share your story at HandsOff.org (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186835/1637062?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) .
• We’ve already seen a glimpse of his education budget, and it’s a direct attack on vulnerable students (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186836/1637063?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) , teachers, and schools.
• On the flip side, the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ People’s Budget (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186837/1637064?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) is much more in line with our principles for a budget that works for women and families (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186838/1637065?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) .

Moms’ Equal Pay Day

Tomorrow is also Moms’ Equal Pay Day, the date that represents how much further into the current year working moms must work in order to be paid the same amount working dads were paid by the end of last year. Like the other Equal Pay Days we observe throughout the year, it’s an important opportunity to raise awareness about the combination of factors that make economic justice elusive for too many women and families—and to promote policy solutions that advance equality.

• Learn more about motherhood and the wage gap (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186839/1637066?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) .
• Join us, MomsRising, and a host of other advocates for a #MomsEqualPay Twitter storm (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186840/1637067?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) on Tuesday, May 23, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
• If you find yourself debating the existence of the wage gap, we’ve got you covered for all the rebuttals you need (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186841/1637068?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) . (Pro-tip: pay special attention to the “Mommy Tracker” for tomorrow.)

Resistance Must-Do's

• Keep telling Congress: support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186842/1637069?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=&emci=3b410bfe-1e3f-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&emdi=e5ad3e88-283f-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=7739164028&mp=&wp=&ep=&oc=&p=Mr&s=).
• While you’re at it, tell them to support the Paycheck Fairness Act (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186843/1637070?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=&emci=3b410bfe-1e3f-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&emdi=e5ad3e88-283f-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=7739164028&mp=&wp=&ep=&oc=&p=Mr&s=), too.
• It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Remember to keep self-care on your to-do list (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186844/1637071?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) , too.

Resistance Must-Reads

• Walmart isn't doing right by pregnant employees, so we're suing them (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186845/1637072?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) .
• Take note, Betsy DeVos: when it comes to helping student survivors of sexual assault, voters overwhelmingly support ensuring that schools follow their obligations under Title IX (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186846/1637073?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) .
• Check out how some low-income moms are breaking into the tech industry (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186847/1637074?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) .
• When it comes to politics and work, what rights do employees have (https://click.everyaction.com/h/186848/1637075?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJlNWFkM2U4OC0yODNmLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiM2E0MTBiZmUtM WUzZi1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzYjQxMGJmZS0xZTNmLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=W2GDn6RjYJPQ4XKs8BT3zD7NjRf194Y7RcBUQxFUAFg=) ?


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Republicans just committed political suicide


A new poll shows that voters are ready to kick the GOP to the curb because of Trumpcare -- and California alone could flip enough seats to make the difference. Will you chip in $5 to help take back Congress in 2018?

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Dear Chris,

Trumpcare would never have passed without the support of the 14 California Republicans who voted for it.

Now, a new poll shows that voters are so furious about Trumpcare that it could be a career-ending vote for dozens of Republicans all over the country.(1)

And since seven of the California Republicans who voted for Trumpcare come from districts that Trump lost, we can go a long way toward taking control of Congress just in California alone.

Nancy Pelosi told the Republicans after the Trumpcare vote that "you will have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead ... you will glow in the dark on this one."(2)

Courage Campaign is going to make that prediction come true. Will you chip in $5?

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This new poll shows that voters prefer a Democrat who voted against Trumpcare to a Republican who voted for it by 14 points. That's a HUGE margin that could put dozens of Republican held seats in play -- including those in districts that would otherwise be considered out of reach.

That's why Courage Campaign will be reminding voters that every single one of our GOP congress members -- the California 14 -- voted for Trumpcare.(3)

For instance, in the 49th and 45th districts -- which include the Camp Pendleton Marine Base and tens of thousands of military veterans -- we won't let voters forget that Darrell Issa and Mimi Walters voted to allow insurers to deny coverage to people with post-traumatic stress disorder.

And in the 25th district, north of Los Angeles, where a majority voted for Hillary Clinton, we'll make certain everyone knows that Steve Knight voted to defund Planned Parenthood and allow insurers to treat sexual assault as a pre-existing condition.

But to translate that voter anger into votes, we need to make sure voters actually know how their representatives voted. That's why Courage Campaign is building a war chest for a creative, sustained voter education effort in key districts that will take us all the way to 2018.

We're organizing "retirement parties" outside the offices of key congressional members. We're organizing "adopt a town hall" actions to give GOP members an earful when they're home for recess. We'll run ads and organize protests. And we won't stop until, as Rep. Pelosi said, they "glow in the dark."

We're playing the short game to defeat the American Health Care Act. And we're playing the long game to win back Congress in 2018. Will you chip in $5 to Courage Campaign PAC? (https://couragecampaign.actionkit.com/go/4948?amount=5&t=21&akid=4130.2053337.uvRYF6)

Yours in the fight for health care for all,

Susannah, along with Annie, Brenna, Caitlin, Cassie, Cheyenne, Eddie, Emma, Kelsey, Lindsay, Mahdi, Mary, Molly, Raquel, Scottie, Tim, and William (the Courage team)

1. http://time.com/4780046/health-care-vote-polling/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/04/politics/nancy-pelosi-gop-health-care-bill/
3. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-the-california-fourteen-voted-to-rip-health-care_us_59167adae4b00ccaae9ea2fe



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RiseUp! eNewsletter May 23-24


Chris --

RiseUp! Stop Mass Incarceration Network eNewsletter

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In the Name of Humanity,
We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!
Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime!

In this issue...

▪ Carl Dix: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Revived as Part of a Renewed 'War on Drugs'
▪ Killer Cop Who Murdered Terence Crutcher Walks Free - Enough Is Enough!
▪ Ten Days of Vicious Moves Against Black People, Immigrants, and Protesters
▪ Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera Freed!
▪ Welcome the Release of Whistle-blower Chelsea Manning!
▪ Stonewall 4 Case Adjourned to June 20
▪ Watch the Video: Fascism in America?

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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Revived as Part of a Renewed 'War on Drugs' (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsable.madmimi.com%2Fc%2F18987%3Fi d%3D633269.9547.1.d3eab8d663f8eabc422303b337406927&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=1)

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by Carl Dix, Co-Founder, Stop Mass Incarceration Network

On May 10, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo instructing federal prosecutors to “... charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.” To make sure the meaning of this policy change was clear, the memo goes on to say: “the most serious offenses are those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimums.” In other words, hit people with the most serious charge you can and give them the longest sentence possible.

This will mean intensifying the mass incarceration in this country, which imprisons more people than any other country in the world. And this will hit Black and Latino people hardest. Mass incarceration of Black and Latino youth is itself a notorious crime that calls into question the whole legitimacy of the system. It came about in the first place because this capitalist-imperialist system had no future for the masses of Black youth. Beginning with Nixon and going through decades of both Democratic and Republican administrations, the capitalist-imperialist rulers penned Black people up, locked them down by millions, and even killed them off. All this was justified thru criminalizing Black people and drawing on and reinforcing white supremacy and racism.

This was met with resistance all along. With the publication of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and the outpourings that began after the murder of Trayvon Martin and intensified after the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, things took off. People came into the streets against this terror and incarceration in a major way, exposing the injustice of this setup to the eyes of the world and calling into question the legitimacy of the whole system. The rulers were forced to make a show of backing up. In his second term, Obama pushed reforms like body cameras for police and policies that led to a slight decline in the prison population overall and a slightly more significant one in the federal system. Read more here. (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsable.madmimi.com%2Fc%2F18987%3Fi d%3D633269.9548.1.45131f68e73289f07d7f671951eccebe&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=2)

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Killer Cop Who Murdered Terence Crutcher Walks Free (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsable.madmimi.com%2Fc%2F18987%3Fi d%3D633269.9550.1.9eeaf8ede62f5af1f0dbca7408a0e8dd&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=4)

Why Do Police Keep Murdering Unarmed Black People…And Getting Away With It?

May 18, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=5)

Last night another murdering pig walked free, video evidence be damned. This time it was the cop who murdered Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old unarmed Black man, last September in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Righteous protests broke out in Tulsa right away—and more are needed.

On September 16, Terence was driving in north Tulsa Oklahoma when his car stalled. He got out, apparently to get help. Then the police came.

Videos show what happened next. Terence is slowly walking to his car with his hands up, away from the police. A cop in a helicopter above can be heard saying, “He’s got his hands up there for her now” and “this guy’s still walking and following commands.” In other words, Terence is clearly not threatening anyone. Terence reaches his car, puts his raised hands on the side of his SUV. By then four cops are about 10 feet away, guns drawn. Terence barely moved, if at all, yet within seconds one cop tased him, and then another—Betty Jo Shelby—shot him dead.

Terence Crutcher didn’t do a goddamn thing to justify being shot down. He was murdered. But the system only charged the murdering pig, Shelby, with manslaughter. She claimed she feared for her life, that she was afraid Terence was moving like he was reaching for a gun inside his car.

But there was no gun and no evidence of threatening moves. (According to the New York Times, “Prosecutors also argued that Officer Shelby fired several seconds before the gesture the defense cited as the basis for her fear.”)

The truth behind the murder was blurted out by another pig in the helicopter above seconds before Terence was murdered. He didn’t know anything about Terence other than he was Black, but he said, “That looks like a bad dude.” Bad dude!? In other words, to the police every Black person is a suspected criminal and a danger, and someone the police “had a license to murder,” as Carl Dix put it at the time.

Continue reading here... (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsable.madmimi.com%2Fc%2F18987%3Fi d%3D633269.9551.1.22f82408c5022a2809471aaf9e09dc97&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=6)

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Ten Days of Vicious Moves Against the Rights and Lives of Black People, Immigrants, and Protesters (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsable.madmimi.com%2Fc%2F18987%3Fi d%3D633269.9552.1.82702d6fdbaab211219e49e05cd7e35f&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=7)

May 15, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may_23_24&n=8)

Trump/Pence Clampdown Intensifies

This past week, Trump and his administration have been embroiled in the controversy that has erupted in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comey. But the Trump/Pence regime is forging ahead with fascist moves—in particular, measures to surround and suppress Black and Latino people, immigrants, and other oppressed people. Among the moves in just the last 10 days under the fascist Trump/Pence regime:

▪ Enforcing Draconian War on Drugs Policies On May 11, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo to U.S. attorneys across the country—directing them to pursue the most serious charges possible against people arrested for drug crimes and to reinstall the practice of mandatory minimum sentences. This means more people will go to prison and get much longer sentences. Sessions’ memo explicitly reverses a 2013 memo issued by Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, which told prosecutors to omit, in some cases, information about drug quantities, in order to not trigger long mandatory sentences and encourage shorter sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. The Holder memo also said defendants not part of large-scale drug trafficking organizations qualified for lesser charges and less prison time. Sessions’ memo will now trigger mandatory minimum sentences, typically tied to the quantity of drugs involved. It will implement the most draconian policies of the war on drugs—which have subjected people convicted of nonviolent, lower-level drug crimes to unfairly harsh sentences. For decades, such policies have been a huge factor feeding mass incarceration, disproportionately affecting Black and Latino people.

Now even more Black and Latino people, especially the youth condemned to America’s dungeons, will have their lives ruined and thrown away—spending years or decades behind bars, even for very minor drug offenses like possessing small amounts of weed. And this will continue to reverberate throughout Black and Latino communities—with families losing fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters. This is a genocidal program.

* Moving to Take Away Voting Rights From Black and Brown People
Trump created a new commission on May 11 to investigate supposed voter fraud. Its real purpose: to promote voter suppression and validate Trump’s lie that three million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. Trump appointed Mike Pence, his Christian fascist vice president, and Kris Kobach, a notorious voting rights suppressor, to head the commission.

Efforts to suppress voting rights have historically targeted poor people and Black and other minority nationalities. Studies show that voter ID laws, requiring proof of citizenship, disproportionately affect Black and Latino people, who are more likely to be unable to get officially approved IDs or face other difficulties acquiring such documents. One study found that strict ID laws doubled the turnout gap between whites and Latinos in the general elections, and almost doubled the white-Black turnout gap in primary elections. State laws denying voting rights to those with criminal convictions have also disenfranchised millions of people and led to a situation where 13 percent of Black men have lost their right to vote.

Kobach is now poised as point man for the Trump/Pence regime’s move to suppress voting rights even more vigorously. Last year, a circuit court of appeals found Kobach had engaged in “mass denial of a fundamental constitutional right” by blocking 18,000 voter applicants from registering in Kansas, where he is secretary of state. Kobach is a big proponent of voter ID laws. In Kansas, African-Americans, who are six percent of the voting pool, are 18 percent of those lacking documents like birth certificates or passports. In 2010, when Kobach was a law professor, he drafted Arizona’s notoriously racist “show me your papers” law (since overturned in part as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court). This measure, targeting immigrants and Latinos, gave cops the power to demand proof of citizenship from anyone cops suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

The whole electoral process serves to draw people into the killing confines of this capitalist-imperialist system, and allows the rulers to claim they represent the “will of the people” as they carry out brutal exploitation and oppression here and around the world. But everybody should have the democratic right to vote, and it is an outrage that this right, which Black people and others fought and died for, is being denied.

* Clamping Down on Immigrants
On May 7, the Christian fascist governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed SB4, a viciously anti-immigrant law banning sanctuary cities, cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Trump had issued an executive order, now in the courts, threatening to cut federal funds from sanctuary cities. SB4 is the first law to make it mandatory for state police agencies to obey demands by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that a person jailed or detained for any reason be held until federal authorities check the person’s immigration status. The Texas law will mean more parents suddenly picked up and deported, their children not even knowing what happened to their mothers and fathers. Around the country, immigrants live with constant fear that they could be picked up at any time or place and be deported. In Towson, Maryland, ICE agents detained people coming out of the courthouse, including one immigrant who had just gone to pay a ticket for driving on a suspended license and was taken into custody.

* Criminalizing Peaceful Protest
Oklahoma took repressive measures against political protest to a new level, imposing draconian punishments on protesters convicted of minor infractions of the law. This is part of a wave of state laws criminalizing peaceful protest like marches, sit-ins, and encampments. Two new Oklahoma laws are in large part a vicious response to protests by Native Americans and others at Standing Rock and elsewhere for Native rights and around the environment. Nonpolitical trespass in Oklahoma had been a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of a $250 fine; damaging or stealing property during trespass was punishable by a maximum of six months in jail. A new law makes trespassing while protesting at a so-called “critical infrastructure facility” (like a gas or oil facility) a felony, carrying up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine. If property is damaged or facility operations are “impeded,” protesters can get up to 10 years in jail and a $100,000 fine. Organizations “found to be a conspirator” with protesters—a group calling a protest where civil disobedience or trespassing occurs—now face fines up to $1,000,000! A second bill (not yet a law) would subject anyone who “compensates” a protester (perhaps even by providing housing for someone later arrested) with civil liability (i.e., they could be sued for recovery of any damage the protester allegedly caused).

* Putting a Stamp of Approval on Police Murder of Alton Sterling
Last July, Baton Rouge cops murdered Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, for the “crime” of selling DVDs outside a store. On May 3, the Department of Justice announced they will bring no federal charges against the killer cops, because the “law requires that the reasonableness of an officer’s use of force on an arrestee be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with added perspective of hindsight.” In other words, this wanton murder meets the standard of legal action by “reasonable” police. Hundreds of unarmed people, disproportionately Black and Brown, are killed by the cops every year, and the murdering police are almost always let off free. Now, the U.S. is led by a fascist regime that has declared 100 percent backing for cops and made clear they will not put even minimal limits on local police.

* Attacking Black Colleges and Universities
In a spending bill signed on May 5, Trump raised the possibility that federal funding will be blocked for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other programs such as Native American housing block grants. Trump suggested such funding is unconstitutional because it allocates benefits “on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender.” Tucked away in the last paragraph of the bill, the White House announced it would treat a program that helps HBCUs get low-cost construction loans “in a manner consistent with the [constitutional] requirement to afford equal protection of the laws.” One reflection of discrimination and inequalities in education today is the fact that HBCUs have, on average, one-eighth of the endowment that white schools do. The U.S. Department of Education currently provides federally backed loans to HBCUs for the construction of buildings and other facilities. Now Trump has issued an open threat to deny such funding on the totally bullshit argument that these programs “discriminate” against white people.

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Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera Freed!

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This week, Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican nationalist and one of the leaders of the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional), an organization dedicated to fighting for independence of Puerto Rico from U.S. imperialism, was released from prison after more than 35 years as a political prisoner.

A major controversy has erupted after organizers of the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City, scheduled to be held on June 11, announced they were honoring him as a “National Freedom Hero” and having him march at the head of the parade.

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This week: Resist!


Chris:

We hope you had a restful and family-filled holiday weekend.

We also hope that you will now resist and persist with us by contacting your members of Congress, who are in their home districts this week.

There’s so much at stake … from the Senate scheming to sabotage and repeal the Affordable Care Act to President Trump’s cruel and immoral budget proposal.

Millions of people stand to LOSE health coverage. Trump also wants to gut Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood, end Meals on Wheels and make devastating cuts to our nation’s safety net programs.

And we aren’t fooled by Trump’s phony, dangerous and completely disingenuous paid leave proposal. You don’t help working families if you propose a grossly inadequate parental leave (only) benefit on one hand and take away health coverage and erode unemployment insurance on the other.

That’s why, at the National Partnership, we plan to stand strong and continue resisting.

Here are a few ways you can get involved to protect our care, fight back for reproductive rights, advocate for paid leave and fair pay, and speak out about other issues that matter to you:

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Together, we’re in this for the long haul.

Thanks for all that you do.

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Sign now: Stop Trump’s “major elimination” of rules reining in Wall Street


Chris Kaihatsu,

Wall Street's hoping you’re too busy looking at Trump's scandals to see them slip a wishlist of deregulations through Congress.

They're really banking on you not paying attention. Every year Wall Street’s pet Republicans introduce a bill to eliminate the financial protections that could prevent another economic crash like the one in 2008.

But now Trump’s in the White House. He’s itching to sign Wall Street deregulation into law and give his banker friends everything they’re asking for.

SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Congress not to give Wall Street its wishlist. They need to oppose the Wrong CHOICE Act. (http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/petition-tell-congress-oppose-wall-streets-wrong-choice-act_copy/?source=rootstrikers&t=1&akid=5826.610737.hQ8tq4)

Trump has been promising bank executives for months that he would kill the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform reining in the big banks.

Trump told a room full of CEOs that after he does “a major elimination” of Dodd-Frank, “the bankers in the room, they'll be very happy.”1

The Wrong CHOICE Act is exactly the type of Christmas present for big banks that Trump was talking about. Here's a quick tour of why it’s an unbelievably bad idea:

• It would gut Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB. After returning $12 billion over the past 6 years from banks and financial companies to the customers they’ve cheated, the Wrong CHOICE Act would ban the Consumer Bureau from getting that kind of money back to cheated consumers.2

• It would effectively kill Dodd-Frank by eliminating key parts of the law's ability to rein in Too Big To Fail banks.3

• It would give free rein to predatory lenders, and block the Consumer Bureau from working to stop subprime mortgage lenders and payday loan centers from sucking borrowers into a debt trap.4

It's as if Wall Street is fine risking another 2008-style crash -- as long as they can make some extra money in the meantime.

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Sources

1. Reuters "Trump's Message to Bankers: Wall Street Reform Rules May Be Eliminated" April 12, 2017
2. NJ.com, “Bamboozled: 3 Ways Lawmakers Are Gutting Consumer Protections” May 11, 2017
3. San Francisco Chronicle, “The House of Representatives Takes Aim at Dodd-Frank” May 6, 2017
4. Consumerist, “‘Financial CHOICE Act 2.0’ Would Eliminate Government’s Ability To Go After Shady Payday Loan Operations” May 9, 2017


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Local Stage, National Wins


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In the past few weeks, FREEAMERICA founder John Legend traveled to Louisiana and New York to advocate for criminal justice reform.

Beginning in Baton Rouge, Legend testified before the Louisiana House Judiciary Committee (http://letsfreeamerica.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8d77905838f4fc4e09fc0523&id=adbbc28a99&e=1f58aa20ef). There, he urged the Committee to pass legislation that would help the state to reduce incarceration rates overall, and also save $78 million over the next decade.

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Regaining the Right to Vote

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed a bill that restores voting rights to thousands of formerly and currently incarcerated individuals. "For thousands and thousands of people who did not have the right to vote, it gives them the opportunity to vote," said FREEAMERICA friend Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who has fought for decades to re-enfranchise those with criminal records through his nonprofit, the Ordinary People Society.

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Progress in Philadelphia

In a stunning victory, ultra-progressive Larry Krasner secured the nomination as the Democratic candidate for district attorney in the Philadelphia primaries. This win could signal a major shift for the criminal justice system in a city known for its tough-on-crime policies, as prosecutors are arguably the most powerful actors in the system.

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Florida's Prison Overhaul

Florida has a notorious reputation for its juvenile arrest practices and high rate of transferring children into the adult criminal justice system. But change may be on the horizon, as the Florida Department of Corrections has put forward legislation to divert youth who are first-time offenders to community-based rehabilitation programs and counseling.

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The Wounds Doctors Can't Fix

Ohio is working to battle the idea that “hurt people hurt people” by investing in services and rehabilitation programs to help victims of street violence overcome physical and emotional trauma. This statewide initiative stems from the criminal justice system but will rely on a holistic approach for success: drawing upon the services of health care providers, social workers, and mental health professionals to break the cycle of violence that results from untreated psychological wounds.

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Jeff Sessions wants to keep private prisons ALIVE


GEO Group is cashing in on Trump's presidency.

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It is time for the FEC to expose the private prison industry's scheme to make profits off of people.

TAKE ACTION! (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-pay-for-play/?t=4&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV)



Chris,

GEO Group -- one of the country’s largest and most profitable private prison companies -- had a big plan this election season. Step 1: Pay big money to get Trump elected. Step 2: Make private prisons rich again. It all started during the 2016 presidential campaign when GEO Group illegally donated more than $225,000 to a Trump PAC, Rebuild America NOW.1 Then as soon as he was sworn in, Jeff Sessions lifted the ban on the federal use of private prisons. And just last week, Sessions ordered 94 U.S. Attorneys to seek the harshest punishment for drug offenses. This is all music to GEO Group’s ears. The company knew by bankrolling Trump’s move into the White House, they would see their profits rise with each prison bed.

This all happened right in front of the eyes of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) -- the group that is responsible for overseeing campaign finance laws and ensuring electoral and democratic integrity. It is against the law for companies that receive government contracts to donate to political campaigns. The Campaign Legal Center has led the fight in exposing the profiteers and filed a complaint against GEO Group with the FEC but the FEC has failed to do its job. It is time for the Commission to step up immediately and hold GEO Group accountable.

GEO Group and the Trump administration’s cozy relationship is dangerous and threatens our communities. Demand FEC holds GEO Group accountable for illegally scheming to make money off the presidential election. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-pay-for-play/?t=5&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV)

There is no reason for private prisons to exists -- these institutions do not serve the public’s best interest nor does it increase public safety. For decades, the cruel and money-hungry system has contributed to mass incarceration and the U.S. having the world’s largest prison population. After years of activism and community mobilization, The Obama administration was finally making the effort and took action to create prison reform. In August 2016, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced that the Obama administration would begin phasing out private prisons.2 After the announcement, GEO Group’s stock took a deep nosedive. But they kept banking on Trump to crawl their way back into big profits.

There is clear, research-based evidence that private prisons do not work. Jeff Sessions still reversed the ban on federal private prisons. Sessions said the ban on private prisons hurt the prison system’s ability to meet the future needs for housing.”3 This, of course, is all code for increasing the imprisonment of people for profit. And it’s time to connect the dots. As soon as Sessions ended the Obama administration’s ban on federal private prisons, GEO Group became the first for-profit company to receive contracts to operate private detention centers under the Trump era.4 The payoff is HUGE. Two former aides of Jeff Sessions now work as lobbyists at GEO Group to help drive their influence. They even lobbied for and wrote legislation in Texas that would increase jail time for immigrant children and end safety regulations at the detention centers where these children are locked up.5 Since 1989, companies like GEO Group have spent over $35 MILLION lobbying and supporting political campaigns to keep Black people in jail. They’ve lobbied for longer sentences, “three-strikes” rules, and anti-immigration legislation like Arizona’s notorious racial profiling law. And they will keep giving the most money to any politician who will boost their agenda.

The private prison system isn’t meant to reduce crime. It is just an excuse to keep GEO Group’s bottom line intact. Demand an investigation. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-pay-for-play/?t=6&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV)

For decades, the private prison industry has fueled mass incarceration, disproportionately affecting Black people. Over the years, too many neighborhoods and communities of color have been demolished and decimated by the “War on Drugs,” over policing and militarizing streets. We’ve seen these devastating effects in cities like New York, where the “Rockefeller” drug laws which set an automatic life in prison sentence for drug addicts and even those carrying just small amounts drugs. And even in Los Angeles, where in the 1980’s and 1990’s under the leadership of Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, homes were raided, and people were rounded up and shot and killed by police. The War on Drugs ruined lives all because of some “tough on crime” stance by greedy politicians to help the prison industrial complex grow and remain strong.

The private prison industry’s stronghold on profits takes away real funding and investment in safe, affordable housing, education, jobs, and community defense for Black people. Harsh and extreme drug and sentencing policies benefit the pockets of private prison companies. As of 2014, Black and Brown people made up roughly 60% of the prison population.6 This is what GEO Group wants. The more Black people who are jailed in their unsafe and poorly operated facilities, the more money they will have in their bank accounts.

Tell FEC: Investigate GEO Group’s “pay to play” arrangement with the Trump administration. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-pay-for-play/?t=7&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV)

The Federal Elections Commissions has the opportunity to hold this private prison company accountable. By stepping up to investigate the wrongdoing of the GEO Group it will be a major force in exposing the corrupt nature of an industry that locks up Black people and stalls Jeff Sessions new "War on Drugs" effort and other racist policies. The FEC should not turn a blind eye to this pay to play scheme that is fundamentally hurting the lives of Black people and other vulnerable communities. A real investigation needs to happen NOW.

Sign the petition. (https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-pay-for-play/?t=8&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV)

Until justice is real,

Rashad, Arisha, Scott, Anay, Clarise, Enchanta, Malaya, Katrese, and the rest of the Color Of Change team


References:

1. "Pay to Play: The giant private prison operator GEO Group may have illegally funded a Donald Trump super PAC," VICE, 12-20-2016 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7971?t=10&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV

2. "PRIVATE PRISON COMPANY GEO GROUP GAVE GENEROUSLY TO TRUMP AND NOW HAS LUCRATIVE CONTRACT," Newsweek, 05-11-2017 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7972?t=12&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV

3. "Justice Department Keeps For-Profit Prisons, Scrapping an Obama Plan," New York Times, 02-23-2016 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7973?t=14&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV

4. "FOLLOWING SUPER PAC SUPPORT, PRIVATE PRISON COMPANY WINS TRUMP ADMIN CONTRACT," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 04-11-2017 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7974?t=16&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV

5. "PRIVATE PRISON CORPORATION WROTE TEXAS BILL EXTENDING HOW LONG IMMIGRANT CHILDREN CAN BE DETAINED," The Intercept, 05-02-2017 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7975?t=18&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV

6. "Study: More People of Color Sentenced to Private Prisons Than Whites," Huffington Post, 04-23-2014 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7976?t=20&akid=7536.872082.eWl3WV


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Support Prisoners on Hunger Strike!


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Last Thursday, May 25, prisoners held in isolation at California's Folsom State Prison began an indefinite hunger strike to protest against inhumane conditions and demand dignity. The prisoners, who are held in Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg), have released a list of demands, including an end to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) practice of depriving prisoners of sleep, access to legal assistance, and to be provided adequate clothing.

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To support the strikers, their loved ones and anti-prison organizers with Sacramento Solidarity Network and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition are holding a rally on Sunday at Folsom prison, from 12pm to 2pm. There will also be a rally in Los Angeles at the same time in front of Twin Towers Jail. The prison administration has recently claimed that the strike has ended, but until we hear from the prisoners directly that their demands have been met, we will continue to support them from the outside. At least two prisoners on strike have been transferred to other prisons, and CDCR will continue to retaliate unless we organize on the outside.
The prisoners’ demands are direct, clear, and powerful, as they illustrate the centrally repressive function of imprisonment, and particularly of solitary confinement like Ad Seg. The state uses imprisonment for broad social control as well as targeted attack on individuals. Within the prison system, Ad Seg and locking people in solitary confinement are additional tools to repress those who do not comply with the prison regime's rules of domination. Strikes are a powerful tool to combat this repression. When prisoners are going on a hunger strike simply to demand adequate clothing and educational programs, they delegitimize all myths that imprisonment is meant to “rehabilitate,” and expose it for the racist, violent, and dehumanizing system that it is.

Take Action

To support the strikers, please contact the following people. You can use a sample script below. Sent to a secretary or voicemail? Leave a message for the official you are contacting.

• Folsom Prison Warden Ron Rackley: 916-985-2561 / [email protected]

• Chief Deputy Inspector General Roy Wesley: 916-255-1102

• Ombudsman Sara L. Smith: 916-324-5458 / [email protected]

• CDCR Secretary Scott Kernan: [email protected]

• CDCR Undersecretary Ralph M. Diaz: [email protected]

• Governor Jerry Brown: 916-445-2481

• Chief Officer of the Ombudsman Sara Malone: 916-327-8467 / [email protected]

• Folsom Prison Information Officer Jack Huey: 916-985-2561 / [email protected]


Sample Script:

“Hello, my name is ____________and I’m a resident of _______(name your state). I am calling in support of the hunger strike that began May 25th at Folsom State Prison. I am deeply concerned about the cruel and inhumane conditions of confinement that have brought this on. I strongly urge you to meet the Hunger Strikers’ reasonable human rights demands, and do not retaliate against them.”

The Folsom prison strikers also see that their struggle today is part of past and broader struggles against the prison industrial complex. In a statement they released (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=42a0379bbe&e=f269152a76), they connect their strike with the 2011 and 2013 strikes led by solitary prisoners in Pelican Bay, a fight that CR supported through dedicated media and grassroots organizing:

“Some might assume the impact of the struggle men endured within the SHU to gain fair, dignified living conditions would have a long-lasting effect, yet, men stand again, just as unified, ready to sacrifice their bodies, health, and life to achieve what has already been hard fought for and accomplished. Why must California prisoners continue to sacrifice health and life, involve lawyers and courts, in order to be treated like human beings? We will continue to remind CDCR officials they will be held accountable for this type of treatment."

The Prisoners' Demands

1. PROVIDE ADEQUATE ACCESS TO COURTS AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE

2. PROVIDE MEANINGFUL EDUCATION, SELF-HELP COURSES AND REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMS

3. ALLOW POSSESSION OF TELEVISIONS

4. PROVIDE EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING PULL-UP BARS, FOR MEANINGFUL EXERCISE IN YARD

5. END CRUELTY, NOISE AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION OF WELFARE CHECKS

6. KEEP ORIGINAL PROPER PACKAGING FOR COMMISSARY AND CANTEEN

7. GIVE NON-DISCIPLINARY STATUS TO QUALIFYING PRISONERS

8. PROVIDE ADEQUATE AND APPROPRIATE CLOTHING AND SHOES

9. PROVIDE FOOD BOWL AND CUP

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As we continue to build on resistance past and present, we stand in deep solidarity with the struggles of those that the PIC attempts to keep most repressed. Please follow the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition website (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=f394fe9104&e=f269152a76) for updates and to learn more.

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RiseUp! June 2-3 National eNewsletter


Chris --


RiseUp! Stop Mass Incarceration Network eNewsletter

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In the Name of Humanity,
We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!
Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime!

In this issue...

▪ Alert! Fascist Bill in Congress Aims to Drastically Enhance Police Powers—This Must Be Defeated!
▪ Support the Hunger Strike of California Folsom Prisoners
▪ This Must Be Stopped: Trump/Pence Regime’s Fascist Terror Against Immigrants
▪ Trump Green Lights Escalating Police Violence and Targets Protest Against Police Murder and Terror
▪ Book Event: LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America
▪ Stonewall 4 Case Adjourned to June 20
▪ Watch the Video: Fascism in America?


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Alert! Fascist Bill in Congress Aims to Drastically Enhance Police Powers—This Must Be Defeated! (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2Fa%2F491%2Ftrump-pence-clampdown-intensifies-en.html&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=1)

May 29, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

For decades, under both Democrats and Republicans, America’s police have profiled, harassed, beaten, tortured, and murdered millions of people, especially Black, Latino, and Native American people. In recent years, there has been an upsurge in protest against this terror carried out by the officially sanctioned murderers in blue, from Ferguson to many other cities big and small across the country. And there has been other righteous resistance, like the thousands fighting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and in defense of Native Peoples’ rights and in defiance of repression by heavily armed law enforcement, and the millions who have come into the streets in the Women’s March and other protests against Trump.

In the face of this, the Trump/Pence regime from the beginning has made clear its fascist determination to “restore law and order”—to give a full green light to the pigs in blue and an escalation of police brutality and murder to a whole new level. Trump, Pence, and the rest of the regime have been turning reality upside down by accusing people protesting murder by police of fomenting violence, and they have all but openly threatened to criminalize those who condemn, or even criticize, the police or refuse to cooperate with them. And now, the regime’s Republican forces in the Senate and House have introduced a toxic bill called “Back the Blue Act of 2017” that aims to dramatically increase police powers.

Revcom.us will continue to cover this, but here are some key things about this bill:

The Trump/Pence regime would be empowered to override local prosecutors who the regime deems not aggressive or draconian enough in going after opponents of the police, including victims of and protesters against police brutality, and other protesters against the regime and the whole system. The bill would create new federal crimes for assaulting or killing a state or local cop. This applies to any law enforcement agency receiving federal aid—and since almost all police agencies receive some federal funding, the bill would cover nearly all local cops. What this means, for example, is that federal prosecutors under the Trump/Pence regime could step in and take over local cases to charge a victim of police brutality with a serious federal crime that carries possible years in prison. This would not be difficult to do, since it’s already the case that people who are brutalized by police, including while protesting police violence as well as in other kinds of protests, are often falsely arrested and charged with “assaulting” the pig who beat them.

Victims of police brutality and families of people murdered by police would find it almost impossible to file civil suits against cops. Continue reading here... (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2Fa%2F493%2Ffascist-bill-in-congress-aims-to-drastically-enhance-police-powers-this-must-be-defeated-en.html&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=2)


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Support the Hunger Strike of California Folsom Prisoners

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May 27, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Courageous prisoners of B4 Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) at the Folsom State Prison in California began a hunger strike on May 25. A Statement from Prisoners released through their relatives said this protest is “in response to ongoing mistreatment, dehumanization and unbearable living conditions.” These conditions include not being given bowls so prisoners are forced to eat food out of ziplock bags instead, not being given cups so prisoners have to drink water out of old milk cartons, no cleaning supplies for toilets or cells, no rehab or education programs, no TVs or any property, and mail withheld up to a month or longer with no reason provided.

The statement calling for support said in part:

Hunger strikes are a last resort, a measure taken by those who truly have no other way out. They often come with high risks and heavy costs to prisoners. Incarcerated people commonly face disciplinary actions, retaliation by prison officials, abuse and further denial of their basic human rights during hunger strikes—simply for exercising their free will and resisting their mistreatment.

California prisoners had braved several hunger strikes before. The authorities had promised some improvements in conditions in exchange for an end to the struggle. The first hunger strike began in July 2011 and demanded an end to long term solitary confinement. It was initiated and led by prisoners in California’s notorious Pelican Bay Segregated Housing Unit (SHU). During that first strike, there were reportedly at one point 6,600 prisoners participating; the second later in 2011 was said to have drawn in 12,000; and the third in 2013 reportedly drew in 30,000—each strike grew statewide.

The statement asks the painful yet indicting question:

Why must California prisoners continue to sacrifice health and life, involve lawyers and courts, in order to be treated like human beings?

This question hits at the deep injustices and outrages faced by prisoners in California and elsewhere: prisoners brutalized, dehumanized, and caged up in this country of mass incarceration—and it demands an answer. Support the Folsom prison hunger strikers--info here (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fprisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.w ordpress.com%2F2017%2F05%2F26%2Ffolsom-hunger-strike-began-may-25-2017-your-support-is-needed%2F&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=4).


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This Must Be Stopped: Trump/Pence Regime’s Fascist Terror Against Immigrants

May 21, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Today, in this country—over 400 people will be ripped away from their lives, families, and jobs by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). People getting ready for work. People taking their kids to school. People relaxing at home. People “doing the right thing” and reporting to authorities like they’re supposed to. The Trump/Pence regime was inaugurated on January 20—and this is what has been happening every day under their rule.

A few of the many incidents since the inauguration: Five men arrested in Lawrence, Massachusetts, when they reported for routine immigration hearings... A young woman in Mississippi arrested after she spoke at a press conference to denounce the unjust arrests of her parents... an ICE raid in Portland, Oregon, that swept away a youth at his home after he showed agents his work permit... 26 men in Ft. Worth, Texas, busted by ICE when they reported for community service. Continue reading here... (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2Fa%2F492%2Ftrump-pence-regimes-fascist-terror-against-immigrants-en.html&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=5)


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Trump Green Lights Escalating Police Violence and Targets Protest Against Police Murder and Terror (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2Fa%2F491%2Fcarl-dix-on-sessions-en.html&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=6)

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May 21, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

On May 15, Donald Trump spoke at the annual gathering of police to commemorate those killed in the line of duty (Annual National Peace Officers’ memorial service) in Washington, DC. Trump gave a chilling, fascist green light to an escalation of police terror and murder to a whole new level.

For decades, under both Republicans and Democrats, police have dogged, insulted, harassed, beaten, even tortured or murdered millions of people—mainly Black, Brown and Native people. This has been one of this system’s most outrageous crimes.

While Barack Obama overall and overwhelmingly supported America’s murdering pigs, he also sometimes talked of “mistakes” or “problems” with some police practices that needed attention and reform. Trump, however, made no mention of any wrongdoing—let alone the enormous crimes—by police. Instead, he portrayed these armed enforcers of an oppressive, enslaving system as “brave, but gentle souls.”

According to Trump, pigs who wantonly murdered Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Terence Crutcher, and hundreds more in 2016 alone are “heroes” who became cops “because they cared so deeply for the innocent and helpless and forgotten.” He condemned “attacks on our police” as “a stain on the very fabric of our society.”

Going further, Trump claimed that police were under increasing violent assault, which he blamed on the protests and denunciations of their wanton murders. “We are living through an era in which our police have been subject to unfair defamation and vilification ... and even worse, hostility and violence.... We must also end the reckless words of incitement that give rise to danger and give rise to violence.”

This is Trump’s “alternative fact” reality at its most racist and murderous. To begin with, it’s a lie that violence against police is escalating—the number of police killed in the line of duty in 2016 was lower than the average of the previous 10 years. The number of cops killed by gunfire—63—pales in comparison with the number of people killed by police the same year: 1,092. Of those, 169 were unarmed, many others were non-threatening, and those killed were disproportionately Black, Brown, or Native American. So who’s waging war on whom?

Trump in effect threatened to criminalize those who condemn, or even criticize, the police or who refuse to collaborate with them. Later in the speech to the police gathering, he demanded: “The attacks on our police must end, and they must end right now”—implying he meant both direct physical attacks and any form of protest, resistance, or criticism.

Trump made clear he was determined to strengthen the police while attacking their opponents, promising he’d always stand with them, give them more “resources,” and enact new measures and laws to “prosecute violent crimes against law enforcement.” And he targeted Baltimore and Chicago in particular, in the name of stopping the killing among the oppressed, threatening, “My administration is determined—totally determined—to restore law and order and justice for all Americans, and we’re going to do it quickly.”

Such glorification of the police, and the demonization of any who oppose them, is a core ideological and political part of the Trump/Pence fascist program. It’s a part of radically reshaping laws and social norms to give even more free rein to the system’s armed enforcers while condemning, repressing, and even outlawing protest against them.

This is extremely dangerous, and the beginning steps in a much larger, potentially genocidal, fascist program. This must be stopped!

According to “The Counted” (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Fseries%2Fcounted-us-police-killings&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=8) feature at theguardian.com


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June 14, Wednesday, 7pm

Author event with James Forman, Jr.

LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Revolution Books NYC
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Avenue @ 132nd Street, New York City, NY 10037.

Email: [email protected]
(212) 691-3345

It's 1995-- James Forman Jr. is a public defender in Washington DC. He is trying to keep a 15-year-old out of a juvenile detention center with a grim reputation. He is failing...

Looking around the courtroom, Forman realized that everyone associated with the case was African-American: the judge, the prosecutor, the bailiff. The arresting officer was black, as was the city's police chief, its mayor and the majority of the city council that had written the stringent gun and drug laws his client had violated.

"What was going on?" Forman asks. "How did a majority-black jurisdiction end up incarcerating so many of its own?"

This is the question that James Forman, Jr. addresses in his important new book, Locking Up Our Own.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

James Forman Jr. is professor of law at Yale Law School. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, numerous law reviews, and other publications. A former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, he spent six years as a public defender in Washington, D.C., where he co-founded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School.


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Stonewall 4 Trial Adjourned to June 20 (http://www.stoppoliceterror.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Frevcom.us%2Fa%2F487%2Fsessions-tells-dreamers-subject-to-being-deported-en.html&e=4160b7d4c80bd7ff2829463c3b9e0a03&utm_source=riseupoctober&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nat_june_2&n=9)

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Next appearance June 20, 2017 9:00 am to Part A courtroom 4th Floor

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Could It Happen Here?
Is It Happening Here?
What Is the Danger That the Trump/Pence Government Poses?

From the Emergency National Teach-In on April 27
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* George Prochnik, author, New Yorker contributor
* Rita Dentino, Exec. Dir., Casa Freehold of National Day Laborers Organizing Network
* Kierán Suckling, a founder and Executive Director of Center for Biological Diversity
* Andy Zee, Refuse Fascism co-initiator, Revolution Books NYC spokesperson
* Moderator: Sunsara Taylor, Refuse Fascism co-initiator

Humanity faces an extreme emergency with Trump’s rise to power. This nationally live-streamed Teach-In aims to deeply explore, from different perspectives, the essential nature of the Trump/Pence Government, the relevance of the history of fascism, the threat it poses to humanity and the planet itself, and the dangers of normalization.

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Dear Chris,

Got your shield handy? We’ll need it to fight these nonstop attacks on women’s health.


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Defending Our Health on All Fronts
The Trump administration and its allies in Congress seem to think that making America “great” means making life harder for everyone who isn’t an affluent, able-bodied, cisgender man. From their ongoing attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, to their sneak attack on protections against sex discrimination in health care, to their budget proposal that would slash Medicaid to the bone, to their leaked draft rule that would allow employers to block their employees’ access to birth control coverage, their attacks on our health, bodily autonomy, and economic stability have been relentless.

We at the Center have been at the forefront of policy advocacy and legal efforts to end sex and gender discrimination in health care for many years. That's why we’re doing everything we can today, from arming activists and lawmakers with vital information, to preparing to do battle in court, to educating the public, to fight these renewed assaults on our health and economic well-being.

• Join us in telling the Trump administration to stop attacking birth control coverage (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205386/1728891?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=&emci=35a6ffc4-324a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&emdi=bb83e517-334a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=7739164028&mp=&wp=&ep=&oc=&p=Mr&s=).

• Watch NWLC’s Janel George talk to NewsOne’s Roland Martin about how Trump’s latest attacks on birth control fit into his administration’s overall assault on women’s health (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205387/1728892?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) .

• Join members of the disability rights community and allies for a #SaveMedicaid (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205388/1728893?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) Day of Action this Tuesday, June 6.

#RaiseTheWage
Recently, members of both houses of Congress introduced the Raise the Wage Act (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205389/1728894?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) , which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024 and ensure the minimum wage keeps pace with wages overall thereafter. The bill would also ensure tipped workers are entitled to the same minimum wage as other working people; as a result, restaurant servers and other employees whose pay is partially determined by customer tips would finally have more predictable income (and potentially be less vulnerable to customer harassment on the job). If passed, the bill would be especially important for women’s economic security, as two-thirds of people working in minimum wage jobs are women.

• Tell Congress it's time to Raise the Wage. (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205390/1728895?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=&emci=35a6ffc4-324a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&emdi=bb83e517-334a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=7739164028&mp=&wp=&ep=&oc=&p=Mr&s=)

• Learn more about how raising the minimum wage would not only give a third of working women a raise, it would also help close the gender wage gap (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205391/1728896?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) .

• Learn more about how the Raise the Wage Act would also boost women's health (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205392/1728897?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) .

Resistance Must-Do's

• This Wednesday, June 7, is the 52nd anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decision that established our right to make our own decisions about birth control by establishing a constitutional right to privacy. Sign up for this Thunderclap (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205393/1728898?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=&locale=en) to join the reproductive justice community in saying #ThanksGriswold!

• Congress is back in session. Keep telling your members of Congress to reject the Trump budget (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205394/1728899?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=&emci=35a6ffc4-324a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&emdi=bb83e517-334a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=7739164028&mp=&wp=&ep=&oc=&p=Mr&s=) and keep their #HandsOff the programs and services working families deserve.

• Let’s keep pushing Congress to support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205395/1728900?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=&emci=35a6ffc4-324a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&emdi=bb83e517-334a-e711-80c2-000d3a104b08&fn=Chris&mn=&ln=Kaihatsu&em=ckaihatsu%40gmail.com&add1=4130%20N%20Campbell%20Ave%20&ci=Chicago&st=IL&pc=60618&hp=7739164028&mp=&wp=&ep=&oc=&p=Mr&s=), too.

Resistance Must-Reads

• Remember that Massachusetts charter school that was punishing Black girls for wearing braids? They’ve backed off of their discriminatory dress code policy (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205396/1728901?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) —for now, at least.

• Looking for more ways to protest Trump’s attacks on birth control? Bustle has a few ideas (https://click.everyaction.com/h/205397/1728902?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL 3Zhbi9OV0xDL05XTEMvMS81OTM4NCIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXR pb25JZCI6IG51bGwsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZ CI6ICJiYjgzZTUxNy0zMzRhLWU3MTEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDR iMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxNZXNzYWdlSWQiOiAiMDFiNzQ5MTQtM jQ0YS1lNzExLTgwYzItMDAwZDNhMTA0YjA4IiwNCiAgIkVtYWl sTWVzc2FnZUNvbnRlbnRJZCI6ICIzNWE2ZmZjNC0zMjRhLWU3M TEtODBjMi0wMDBkM2ExMDRiMDgiLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXN zIjogImNrYWloYXRzdUBnbWFpbC5jb20iLA0KICAiRGlzdHJpY nV0aW9uVHJhY2thYmxlSXRlbUlkIjogMA0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=NqlPMbyefT3aHY7ogOL7dT4KDb_xVj0cLWlfH04KHVM=) .

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California Prisoners Bear the Brunt of Statewide Water Shortage


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In the wake of the state’s most severe drought in memory, California Governor Jerry Brown issued mandatory statewide water restrictions that require all public agencies to reduce their water consumption by 25 percent. Officials at the 34 prisons operated by the California Department of Corrections have responded by restricting inmates' showers, ability to flush their cells' toilets, and access to laundry services and clean clothes, according to interviews with inmates.

Showers are running only three days a week. Any prisoner caught in the showers for more than 5 minutes, washing clothes while showers are running, "bird bathing," or flushing the toilets in their assigned cell could face disciplinary action, including 30 days added to their prison sentence.

Prison officials have been instructed to shut off water fountains and outdoor showers, and to stop hosing down sidewalks. As a result, California prisoners are denied water-breaks throughout the day and are refused the hygienic practice of washing off sweat after a workout. Women's prisons in particular have struggled with sanitary upkeep since the implementation of CDCR’s water conservation program. Shower and toilet restrictions affect female prisoners on their menstrual cycles most directly.

CDCR’s water conservation program began in 2006 with a pilot project to install flush-restricting valves on toilets at nearly one-third of all California adult institutions, resulting in a host of unsanitary conditions ranging from foul odor to overflowing toilets.

Water conservation methods have only grown more aggressive within the recent decade, and California prisoners have borne the brunt of health and safety hazards associated with aggressive yet inadequate conservation planning. If California is serious about water conservation and water-use reduction in its prisons, state officials should consider developing policies that promote the depopulation of overcrowded state facilities -- starting with releasing disabled people, the elderly, and non-violent offenders.

Reducing the numbers of people incarcerated unnecessarily could result in significant water savings and help to make the prison environment more adaptable and suitable for rehabilitation. Other methods of reducing water waste, without violating the human rights of the imprisoned, can include updating sinks, toilets, showers, and appliances with advanced water-saving fixtures.

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Background:
> Los Angeles Times: Blame the Drought: Inmates Sweat Out the Ban on Prison Yard Showers
> Vice: In the Face of Drought, California Prisons Are Restricting Inmates' Shower and Toilet Use
> Inside CDCR: California Prisons Reduce Water Consumption
> Inmate.com: California Prisoners Affected by Drought



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“I urge every member of the Golden State Warriors team to publicly reject Trump’s hate by refusing to set foot in his White House.”

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Dear Chris,

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Last night, the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals and ended their season with an amazing 16-1 playoff run.1 Now, the Warriors have a chance to make history off the court.

When racist bigot Donald Trump invites the 2017 NBA champions to the White House, not one Golden State Warrior should be there.

Tens of thousands of CREDO members have pushed corporations, business leaders and politicians to refuse to normalize or legitimize Trump’s racist, xenophobic and sexist administration. Professional athletes also have the power to use their celebrity and influence to resist Trump, and as consumers and fans, we have the power to make sure they do.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr and star point guard Stephen Curry have already spoken out against Trump’s hateful agenda. Help urge the entire Warriors squad to publicly reject Trump’s hate by refusing to set foot in his White House. Add your name now.

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The Warriors represent California, also known as the Golden State, which has been the epicenter of resistance to Trump’s hateful, xenophobic administration since day one. Their head coach Steve Kerr has publicly denounced Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban.2 He roasted White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for lying about the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd and for promoting “alternative facts.”3 Kerr also called Trump out for being cruel and undignified.

It’s about leadership, it’s about compassion and dignity and character and treating people the right way. That’s leadership. It’s terrifying we have someone in office who espouses none of that.4

The team’s power forward David West said that Trump’s election win was “disheartening” and “disappointing.”5 And Warriors All-Star Stephen Curry called Trump an “ass” earlier this year.6 Now the Warriors can put their words into action.

Tell the Golden State Warriors: Not one NBA champion at Trump’s White House. Click here to sign the petition. (https://act.credoaction.com/sign/warriors?t=6&akid=23590.247355.3U6phZ)

NBA players have made powerful statements against racism and injustice in the past few years. In 2014, players across the country wore “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirts during pre-game warmups in memory of Eric Garner, a Black man killed by police.7 That same year, many teams, including the Golden State Warriors, wore black socks and their warmup jerseys backwards in protest of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s anti-Black racism.8 Now is a time for athletes to step up even more.

A few months ago, 33 members of the 2017 Super Bowl championship team, the New England Patriots, refused to legitimize Trump’s presidency and boycotted the team’s visit to the White House.9 And not a single team member signed Trump’s honorary game helmet. That was a good first step. But Golden State can take it all the way by making sure that every coach and player on the team stands united against Trump’s bigotry and racism and stays away from the White House.

There is no doubt that Golden State’s Bay Area fan base will have their backs no matter what. Speak out now to show the Warriors that people across the country also have their backs, and are counting on them to send racist bigot Donald Trump a powerful message of resistance by rejecting his invitation to the White House. Click the link below to sign the petition.

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Thank you for all you do,

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References:

CBS Sports, " NBA Finals Game 5 score, highlights: Warriors beat Cavs to win 2017 NBA title," June 12, 2017.
Kelly McCarthy, “Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr Calls Travel Ban ‘Horrible Idea,'” ABC News, Jan. 30, 2017.
Des Bieler, “Steve Kerr trolls Sean Spicer with ‘alternative facts’ quip about NBA career,” The Washington Post, Jan. 22, 2017.
Anthony Slater, “Why Warriors coach Steve Kerr speaks out on social issues,” The Mercury News, Feb. 17, 2017.
Chris Haynes, “Warriors’ David West ‘disappointed’ at Donald Trump’s election,” ESPN, Nov. 9, 2016.
Jack Williams, “Stephen Curry Takes Issue With Under Armour Leader on Trump,” The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2017.
Scott Cacciola, “At Net’s Game, a Plan for a Simple Statement Is Carried Out to a T,” The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2014.
Ben Golliver, “Warriors planned Game 5 walkout if Clippers’ Donald Sterling wasn’t banned,” Sports Illustrated, April 30, 2014.
NowThis, “Over 30 New England Patriots refused to show up at the White House,” April 19, 2017.


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Friends –

A year ago, I became a father and my life hasn’t been the same since. I can’t imagine spending any day, let alone holidays, without my daughter Luna – I even brought her on tour with me!

On this Father’s Day though, I’m reminded of the millions of children whose fathers are behind bars, and for whom even regular communication is often not a reality.

This hits close to home for me. When I was growing up in Ohio, I had a picture-perfect family: A loving mother and father, a supportive church and school community, siblings and foster siblings. We even had a singing group called the “Stephens 5.” But when I was ten, my maternal grandmother passed away, and my mother fell into a deep depression that shattered our family as she disappeared into a cycle of addiction that kept her estranged from us for the better part of a decade. She spent some of that time in jail.

It was a decade where we barely saw each other. Missed holidays, missed birthdays, missed choir performances, missed school talent shows.

For some kids, a decade is just the beginning of years apart from their parents.

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#FreeBlackDads


Bring a Black father home on Father's Day!

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Dear Chris,

With the support of Color Of Change members like you, we bailed out over 120 women for Mother’s Day. Now, we’re doing it again for Father’s Day because "we who believe in Freedom cannot rest until it comes.” Will you help us? (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/8049?t=5&akid=7603.872082.SJrdpz)

There are more Black men in prison than there were enslaved in 1850 and over the last three decades, the percentage of Black women incarcerated has increased by 700%.1 These statistics paint a picture of Black life in America. Behind these numbers are the faces of children growing up without their parents; elders not being able to retire because they are raising their grandchildren; and college students swimming in education debt because their family’s finances were demolished from bailing a loved one out of jail.

Money bail drives the modern day slavery of mass incarceration. Forcing people to buy their freedom or remain caged behind bars, before they’re even convicted of a crime, is unconstitutional and inhumane. Luckily, the bail reform movement is gaining traction across the country. But it’s not coming fast enough. So, just like for Mother’s Day, where we bailed out over 120+ Black women across the country, we are taking Black matters into Black hands and bailing out the Black fathers.2

Will you pitch in $3 to help us as we continue to amplify the freeing of Black people from bondage in modern day slavery? (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/8048?t=6&akid=7603.872082.SJrdpz)

Under Trump’s reign, we are witnessing the rise of racist rhetoric, ideology, and laws that target and demonize Black people. The desires of inclusion and progression have been overshadowed with ‘Law and Order’ solutions that are known to only result in an uptick of overpolicing and incarceration of Black communities. Protecting our people means dismantling the criminal justice system that destroys our humanity, breaks up our families and profits off of forcing people to buy their freedom through money bail.

Just last month, over 2,600 members of Color Of Change and 11,000 others gifted a total of over $700,000 and gave 120 Mamas an opportunity to spend Mother’s Day with their families and communities, where they belong. Color Of Change was there every step of the way using a portion of the money donated to amplify the action and garner media attention from mainstream mediums such as MSNBC and The Nation to Black media outlets including The Root and NewsOne.

Father's Day is only two days away so we must act quickly. This year, we made Mother’s Day gifts count, now let's do it for the dads. Bring a father home for Father’s Day. (https://act.colorofchange.org/go/8049?t=7&akid=7603.872082.SJrdpz)

Sincerely,

Scott

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"National Mamas Bail Out Day" National Bail Out, May 2017
"Communities Bail Out Fathers To Raise Awareness of Unjust Bail System" Rewire, June 16, 2017


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Honoring Struggles - Four Years Since the CA Hunger Strikes


Fighting State Repression and Isolation
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Rose Braz's work for abolition was foundational in California and across the movement. Please save the date and join us in celebrating and honoring all Rose has given us at her memorial on July 30th in San Francisco. Visit the event page, Remembering Rose Braz (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=2b2ee4f2e2&e=f269152a76), for more information.

Tomorrow, July 8, marks the four-year anniversary of prisoners in Pelican Bay’s solitary confinement units initiating what became the largest hunger strike in California’s history. Over 30,000 prisoners refused meals to protest against the use of solitary, rallying behind the strike's imprisoned leadership, known as the Short Corridor Collective, to achieve five core demands. The 2013 strike built on years of prisoner organizing, coming after an initial hunger strike in 2011, and followed the 2012 release of the Agreement to End Hostilities (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=30e04f71c4&e=f269152a76), a powerful document drafted by the Short Corridor Collective that called for an end to racial conflict among prisoners. The strike resulted in a victorious and historic legal settlement (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b9baa67ba1&e=f269152a76) that sharply limited California’s ability to hold prisoners in isolation, and advanced the continuing struggle against the reach of the prison industrial complex (PIC).

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Working alongside many tireless prisoners' family members, loved ones, and advocates in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, Critical Resistance served as the strike's media house, and worked to attract global attention to the prisoners and their demands As we continue deepening our fight against the PIC, we understand that isolation is fundamentally a tool of state repression, particularly when used against imprisoned organizers who the prison regime labels “the worst of the worst.” We strive to fight such repressive moves – whether it be through supporting a recent hunger strike (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=179a34ccb1&e=f269152a76) by solitary prisoners at Folsom in CA, amplifying prisoners’ voices (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b84e981112&e=f269152a76) against further isolation and cuts to family visits in NY’s maximum security prisons, or uplifting imprisoned organizers' analysis (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=bd657d3678&e=f269152a76) of resistance in the current moment.

Such efforts to fight and dismantle the PIC are deeply interwoven and our collective resistance cannot be repressed by the state's attempts to isolate these struggles or those who wage them. For that reason, it is important that we build with imprisoned people enduring isolation, connect our struggles both inside and outside prison walls, and uplift our work as deeply embedded in a long legacy of movements fighting for liberation. We take this time to honor the sacrifices of people across CA prisons whose actions in 2013, along with the organizing that came before and after, energized the fight against the PIC across the country and world.

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Who Pays to Incarcerate America?


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“[Change] comes at a cost, a societal cost and a financial cost [...] you’ve got to decide what your priorities are and your values are — and your budget reflects what your values are.”
- John Legend, FREEAMERICA Founder
Our country’s practice of mass incarceration is an expensive habit, with a yearly cost estimated to be more than $70 billion - equal to the GDP of 133 nations combined. Who is paying that bill?

We are. From the taxpayers whose dollars are being directed to corrections instead of communities, to individuals who are too poor to post bail (http://letsfreeamerica.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8d77905838f4fc4e09fc0523&id=eddff3f8b8&e=1f58aa20ef) for petty offenses that keep them locked up, often losing their jobs and homes in the process (http://letsfreeamerica.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8d77905838f4fc4e09fc0523&id=c15071a1db&e=1f58aa20ef).

But states are starting to realize that changing how taxpayer dollars are spent - and saved - is the key to unlocking potential. Take, for example, Louisiana, where John Legend traveled in May to speak in support of the package of reform bills (http://letsfreeamerica.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8d77905838f4fc4e09fc0523&id=d0c33c7ac0&e=1f58aa20ef) that will save Louisiana an estimated $262 million over the next decade. Or California, which is starting to see the savings promised from Prop 47 (http://letsfreeamerica.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a8d77905838f4fc4e09fc0523&id=6db87e42fc&e=1f58aa20ef). As these states make strides toward change and see major savings as a result, others still have work to do.

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The Human Cost
The cost of incarceration goes beyond the financial - its emotional and human tolls are staggering as well. For family members who have incarcerated loved ones, regular visits - no matter the cost or distance - are the only real contact they’ll have for years or decades at a time. To make matters worse, buried in the New York state budget is a proposal to cut weekday visits for more than 20,000 inmates.

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The Financial Cost
It costs $72 per day to incarcerate an individual in the state of Ohio, which totals more than $2 billion a year of taxpayer dollars. Following the lead of several other states that have embraced similar criminal justice reforms, including Texas, Georgia, Utah and Louisiana, Ohio is now pushing for alternatives to incarceration in order to cut costs.

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The Savings
Back in 2014, Californians passed Prop. 47, a ballot measure that promised to lower the state’s prison population by reducing certain crimes to misdemeanors instead of felonies, resulting in big savings for the state. Three years later, the state is finally reaping the rewards of its criminal justice reform efforts. The $100 million in savings will go directly to reinvesting in cities and counties to treat, house and retrain individuals at high risk to commit crimes and to wind up in jail or prison.

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In too many ways, our criminal justice system upholds the oppression of racialized communities, while fostering Islamophobia, anti-black racism, and violence towards Indigenous peoples.


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Black August and Amplifying Prisoner Struggles


Reflections and study across prison walls
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The month of August has long been marked by momentous acts of repression and resistance in Black history, acts that powerfully shifted the grounds of struggle. Such examples include the start of the Haitian Revolution resulting in the first victorious revolt against slavery, Nat Turner’s rebellion, the formation of the Underground Railroad, the murders of Jonathan and George Jackson, the Watts uprising, and more recently, the murder of Michael Brown in August 2014 that sparked a burgeoning movement against the violence of policing.

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The foundation for commemorating Black August was laid from behind California prison walls by prisoners who sought to honor the sacrifice of those who struggled before them. Following the death of George Jackson by guards in San Quentin, prisoners began taking the month of August as a time of reflection, discipline, fasting, and political study. || Art by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=e48af5ee7f&e=f269152a76)

In the spirit of shared political study and reflection, we would like to take August to share some of our recent collaborations across prison walls (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=64f7ac7bf3&e=f269152a76). This summer, Critical Resistance Oakland began an inside/outside reading group (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b185dddc2c&e=f269152a76) to engage imprisoned people and outside volunteers in joint political education. We continually strive to uplift prisoners’ voices and analysis in our work nationally, and most recently have begun soliciting responses from political prisoners on resisting state repression in our current moment (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=18c89a2850&e=f269152a76). Our New York City chapter has also brought the abolitionist writings of imprisoned people to the recent International Conference on Penal Abolition, allowing participants to engage prisoners in conversation around abolitionist theory, strategy, and practice (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=74d679f8db&e=f269152a76).

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For all of us fighting the repression and violence of the prison industrial complex on the outside, we join those on the inside in commemorating the legacy of George Jackson and Black August, and in thinking critically on how to sharpen our resistance across prison walls. Importantly, we learn from, honor, and build on the struggles of those before us. As Mumia Abu-Jamal stated of past freedom fighters: “Their sacrifice, their despair, their determination and their blood has painted the month Black for all time.”

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