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HURRICANE IAN DEVASTATES FLORIDA PRISONS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HURRICANE IAN DEVASTATES FLORIDA PRISONS September 28th 5 PM EST Media Contact: D’Angelo- 813-777-0742 fighttoxicprisons@gmail.com As Hurricane Ian continues striking Florida following landfall as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday afternoon, over 176,000 people behind prison bars lie directly in the storm’s path. While some units have evacuated, others have gone on lockdown…
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An Inside Review of Earth First! 40 Years of Direct Action
by Jacob Barrett [Note: Help FTP get this special edition of the EF! Journal in to prisons across the country. Donate here and note that it is for funds to cover cost of EF!Js to prisoners.] The Earth First! Journal’s 40th Anniversary edition is not just documentation of forty years of no compromise environmental direct action, it…
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Hurricaen IDA- support for incarcerated people impacted by the storm
[Last Updated September 10th at 1pm EST ] Over a week since Hurricane Ida devastated Southern Louisiana, we are extremely concerned about the lack of information about the safety and wellbeing of people incarcerated in the wake of the storm. It is unclear what happened to people in prisons and jails that were hit by…
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Phone Zap for Kentuckians Behind Bars on 3/11/21
Incarcerated Kentuckians’ Loved Ones Demand Immediate Clemency In The Face Of Covid-19 Conditions Loved ones of incarcerated people in multiple Facebook groups including Inmate Support KY and Prison Wives of Green River Correctional Complex (GRCC) have sought comfort and answers from one another throughout the pandemic. Navigating the Correctional System is intentionally difficult, both for…
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RIP Rebecca Hensley
The world of abolition and liberation work recently lost a giant, a mentor of mentors, and a dear friend, Rebecca Hensley. Thank you to Calvin ‘Casino’ Coleman for this beautiful remembrance of the woman who reminds us that we are “powerful participants” in these trying times. We’ll continue to follow in her footsteps and fight…
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Mississippi Goddam…
Mississippi prisoners are in rebellion against brutal, toxic conditions. Join the struggle. [Image shows garbage and roaches inside a pipe chase with a missing door at Parchman prison. Source: Mississippi State Department of Health] From Mother Jones: Mississippi prisons are in crisis. On Tuesday, a congressman called for a federal investigation after at least five…
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Activists Across the World Deliver South Carolina Prisoner’s Demands to United Nations
Activists Across the World Deliver South Carolina Prisoner’s Demands to United Nations [Organizers in Washington D.C. with D.C. Abolition Coalition and the D.C. Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee deliver the demands of South Carolina Prisoners to the local United Nations Office.]
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Abolition Means Decolonization: Support Incarcerated Native Activists on Indigenous People’s Day
On Turtle Island every day should be Indigenous People’s day. Each day we need to honor the land and remember that the colonial logic of extraction is the same logic that perpetuates the prison industrial slave complex. As companies and the government extract the vital resources our communities need for life they also extract Indigenous,…
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Tropical Storm Imelda Hits USP Beaumont
Tropical Storm Imelda Hits USP Beaumont! (The Truth and nothing Else!) By Keith ‘Malik’ Washington Fight Toxic Prisons—-Correspondent Sept. 23, 2019 As a Nationally known Prison Abolitionist and humyn rights activist, I am very passionate and dedicated to the causes and the people my comrades and I support. However, as a journalist I am duty-bound…
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Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky
For Immediate Release June 13, 2019 Contact: Marianne Cufone, Green Justice, (813) 785-8386 Prisoners and Activists Stop New Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky [6/20/19: An updated version of this press release can be found here] Washington, DC — In response to a federal lawsuit filed by Green Justice attorneys, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it withdrew its…
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