Freedom Rider-September 9th Prison Strike
The problem:
“You can’t appeal to the moral [part] of a system that doesn’t have morals.”
The mass incarceration system is inherently merciless and immoral and it must be exposed. There should never again be a call to lock more people away or to further criminalize any violent or non-violent offenses in this country. Racist hysteria about dead beat dads, drug kingpins and super predators has been used to ruin thousands of lives and make money for governments and big business. The call to action must be heeded and the people fighting against the worst cruelty in the country must be supported.
The New Jim Crow
The corporate media ignore the prison protests which have occurred with increasing frequency in recent years. Work stoppages began in Georgia in 2010, and continued in Alabama in 2014 and in Texas and Ohio this year. Not only are prisoners used to fatten the bottom line for corporations by making uniforms for McDonald’s employees or car parts for Honda, they and their families must pay exorbitant rates to make phone calls. They are charged for substandard medical care. Incarcerated women are limited in the amount of feminine hygiene products they can use and are shackled while giving birth.
How you can help:
“…we need support from people on the outside. A prison is an easy-lockdown environment, a place of control and confinement where repression is built into every stone wall and chain link, every gesture and routine. When we stand up to these authorities, they come down on us, and the only protection we have is solidarity from the outside.”
For a brief history of American prison strikes and additional links:
https://www.popularresistance.org/freedom-rider-september-9th-prison-str...

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From BAR's Margaret Kimberly and Howard Zinn
“You can’t appeal to the moral [part] of a system that doesn’t have morals.”
Prison Strike -- September 9
“Incarcerated women are limited in the amount of feminine hygiene products they can use and are shackled while giving birth.”
From the Light House.