Tag: florida
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#EvacuateFLPrisons URGENT: Hurricane Ian Phone Zap
[Last Updated 9/28/2022 12:52pm EST] PUSH OUT TO ANY ORGANIZATIONS YOU KNOW THAT MIGHT HELP, AND REPORTERS! Updates will be posted on this blog once evacuations occur or we get word of any other facilities in imminent danger! As Hurricane Ian, projected to become a Category 5 hurricane, threatens Florida over 176,000 people behind prison…
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Police Shooting Survivor, Diamonds Ford, Out On Bail
09/28/2020 at 8:00 a.m. police went to the residence of Diamonds’ Ford in Jacksonville, Florida to execute a no-knock warrant related to someone who did not live there. Diamonds was asleep in bed when she awoke to the sound of glass shattering in her home. Afraid and believing that someone was breaking in, she grabbed…
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Activist Chains Self to Barrels in Front of Governor’s Mansion Demanding Release of Prisoners at Risk of COVID-19
Friday, April 17th 2020 [Last Edited April 20th 2020] On the morning of April 17th, a protest took place at Governor Ron DeSantis’ mansion in Tallahassee, FL demanding the Governor take immediate action to protect prisoners from COVID-19. Protesters demanded that Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch take…
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BREAKING: Activists Lock Down GEO Group HQ in Boca Raton, Florida!
BREAKING: Activists Lock Down GEO Group HQ in Boca Raton, Florida! HELP SUPPORT THE BAIL FUND: https://www.everribbon.com/ribbon/view/74891?fbclid=IwAR3H8fFYRkQTnuoO52qCnp-i7qi1zcxF63t4-sdLA7mHGn_0kTQSLiF1yb8 BOCA RATON, FL – Florida based for-profit prison company, GEO Group is again the center of controversy as human rights activists lock down outside their Boca Raton headquarters early Tuesday morning. Activists from a myriad of organizational backgrounds…
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BREAKING: Whistleblower in FDOC Proves Martin CI is Blocking Constitutional Rights of Prisoners
Entering Day 2 of the Phone Zap for Martin CI (Keep Calling!) a whistleblower within FDOC has disproved the bullshit response we received from Martin Correctional yesterday claiming they are not discriminating against certain prisoners and denying them access to the legal computer. Mr. John Holtz, the Assistant Warden of “Programs” at Martin CI, was kind enough…
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Phone Zap for Martin CI – Legal Access Being Denied!
UPDATES: November, 21st- On Day 2 of the Martin CI Phone Zap we’ve received a bullshit response from the Assistant Warden claiming they aren’t broadly blocking people’s access to legal research computers, And we have a Whistleblower proving he’s lying. Read the full report here: https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/2019/11/21/breaking-whistleblower-in-fdoc-proves-martin-ci-is-blocking-constitutional-rights-of-prisoners/ Martin Correctional Institution in Florida is abusing their authority and…
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Petition: FEMA, Ensure Prisoners Safety During Hurricanes
Petition: FEMA, Ensure Prisoners Safety During Hurricanes If you or your organization would like to sign on to the below letter please fill out this form. Help us amplify on social media too, share this post link: tinyurl.com/FEMAHurricanePetition Attention Federal Emergency Management Agency, @FEMA Peter Gaynor, FEMA Action Administrator, @FEMA_Pete Gracia B. Szczech, FEMA Region…
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Prison Abolitionists from Across the Country Block FDOT Vehicles to Draw Connections Between Money Bail and Slavery
Press release from June 17th, 2019 [updated 06/20/19] [Photos available upon request] Gainesville, FL — A demonstration began at 7:30 a.m. at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) offices, located at 5007 NE 39th Ave, disrupting the activity of Department of Corrections (FDOC) which has a $19 million contract to lease out prisoners as unpaid slaves to…
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FTP 2019 Updates and Convergence Schedule
Greetings! It’s less than one month ’till FTP brings the ruckus for prison abolition and environmental justice to the streets of Gainesville, Florida. Find all the basic info about the locale, registering, donating, food, childcare, etc, here. (Note: registration page is now also available in Spanish and language interpretation will be available.) Remember that June…
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People of Color Poisoned By Pollution and Prisons
by Panagioti Tsolkas / FightToxicPrisons.org According to a report by the National Academy of Sciences published in March, people of color breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making. This news may not come as a surprise to many following the environmental justice movement, perhaps the shock is that the…
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