Aaron “Israel” Isby’s Message of Thanks to Supporters and Reflection on the Recent Trial
Although there is no decision, the trial exposed monthly reviews of those in segregation are meaningless.
Although there is no decision, the trial exposed monthly reviews of those in segregation are meaningless.
IDOC inmates and supporters are familiar with the notorious “mail ban” instituted last year limiting all incoming correspondence to white lined paper in a white…
We need organizations and a mass movement that addresses the interconnectedness of gender, race/nation, and capitalist-imperialism. These do not exist in isolation from one another, therefore we cannot organize in ways that suggest they do. Our revolutionary organizations need to address how women, non-binary, and LGBTQ comrades are harmed by capitalist gender relations, how people of oppressed nationalities are harmed by euro-settlerism and euro-imperialism, and why capitalism creates and depends on such violence. Only then can we move forward, away from the movementist tendencies, characterized by issue-based mass movement organizing that lacks a totalizing vision of the problem or how to solve it, of organizations and movements, such as #MeToo, focusing on gender-based violence and/or prison abolition, and away from the harmful erasure of gender oppression by anti-capitalist organizers across the board.
You may have noticed in the news recently reports from a few states where the DOC is ending book donations to prisoners. Most recently, the…
Please join our friends at the Desmond Tutu Peace Lab for Ian Manuel: How the Peace of Poetry Helped Me Survive in Solitary Wednesday,…
Update 9/19/18: Since we have learned that charges have been filed and there is an open investigation, we are asking people to hold off on making…
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by Mars When analyzing the history of class struggles, people tend to focus on the exploitation of productive labor as the primary source of oppression….