Black August

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It's that time of the year, so lets program :blessed:.But foreal less embrace the black august movement regardless of whether your incarcerated or not to reflect and build unity and strengthen ourselves mentally and physically. This August I will catch up on some more reading and push myself in the gym. On the coli i'm gonna step back from the diaspora and regional wars. The shyt is unhealthy.

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  1. Talk with and establish inside contacts.
Though Jailhouse Lawyer Speaks and other incarcerated rebels have spread the word through their networks, there are countless facilities in about 33 states that have not yet heard of the planned actions. Getting word in to folks on the inside will require some creativity to bypass mailroom censors. Ask your local IWOC branch or other groups doing prisoner support, they will have tips and ideas.

Provide your inside contact with this legal observer affidavit and legal contact. We’ve included a legal observer affidavit, provided by the National Lawyers Guild PLAN team that all inside contacts could use. PLAN is asking everyone in a correctional facility who is witness to state repression, use of force, or violation of rights in response to collective protect action to fill out this form and return it to the address indicated on the form. They will keep people’s names and contact information confidential and will be compiling the reports to establish patterns of violations and for use in any legal action taken against a facility or prison system.

Inside contacts should establish legal mail with the attorney listed on the legal observer affidavit before August 21st. At the bottom of page 2, there is an attorney listed with NLG PLAN. Inside contacts can establish correspondence with him through legal mail which is protected from most mailroom scrutiny, empowering , inside contacts to safely write out about their experiences.

2. Follow JLS on Twitter and other alternative media projects.

Jailhouse Lawyer Speaks and affiliated outside support groups have a presence on twitter. You don’t need an account to stay informed. Be sure to keep following these accounts, as they are particularly active in reporting: @jaillawspeak, @iwoc_oakland, @MI_Abolition, @IWW_IWOC, @SlaveryPrison, @IGD_News, @FightXPrisons,

In addition, make sure to follow the alternative media outlets It’s Going Down, Shadowproof, Rustbelt Abolition Radio, the Final Straw, and more.

We also want to call your attention to Support Prisoner Resistance’s updates on various prison uprisings and revolts at supportprisonerresistance.net. This site will soon launch a timeline of contemporary prisoner-led actions from 2010 to the present, which is the first initiative of its kind and will demonstrate the scope and breadth of prison resistance among the world’s largest prison population.

3. Support Juneteenth call to action.

Incarcerated rebels in Texas and Florida affiliated with #OperationPush and the End Prison Slavery in Texas movement are calling for actions on Tuesday, June 19th 2018, also known as Juneteenth, to commemorate the abolition of slavery. Juneteenth marks the end of chattel slavery, but because white supremacy and racial terror have shifted to enactment through policing and prisons, we still struggle against antiblack racism and racialized capitalism. Our imprisoned comrades are fighting for: an end to slave labor, a stop to the profiteering off of prisoners, a decrease in the prison population, and environmental justice in the prison industrial complex. They are asking that communities plan outreach activities and build community support against imprisonment and torture, while simultaneously putting pressure on the prison system.

4. Create and nurture strong support networks.

Tell everyone to watch for prisoner actions leading up to and during August 21st to September 9th. Publish prisoner letters on local conditions. Write up an analysis on prisoner support initiatives and your state or region’s prison regime. Offer teach-ins about resistance to prison terror and incarceration as a tool of social control.

This is the moment to establish more connections and to build strong networks with which to resist the repression that will surely come August 21st to September 9th. We’ll need to organize phone trees to coordinate call ins on behalf of targeted prisoners. We’ll need to plan local events leading up to and during the 19 days of prisoner resistance. We need to be prepared to organize specific solidarity rallies and actions with national-level activities to gain attention and excitement. We’ll need to prepare and better understand what the mailroom policies are in our state or region’s prison system. Some locations won’t participate and we need to understand why and in what ways the prisons are restricting prisoners’ access to these events or otherwise preemptively locking people down.

Let’s make these prison walls quake and tumble,

Until they all fall down,

Signed in solidarity and fully endorsed by, The Fire Inside Collective
 
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