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Many Actions, Many Organizations

March 3rd, 2015

Finding points of unity with a broad amalgamation of groups

promotes critical thought on this matter of imprisonment, which is both difficult and urgent.

Challenging ourselves to find common ground where we may not expect it, feeds the solidarity

which can challenge the prison-state and it’s corollary systems.

Projects/ Campaigns/ Organizations:

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition. More than 30,000 California prisoners initiated an indefinite hunger strike. They are calling on the Governor and the CDCR to meet their 5 Core Demands. California holds nearly 12,000 people in extreme isolation at a cost of over $60 million per year. The cells have no windows, and no access to fresh air or sunlight. The United Nations condemns the use of solitary confinement for more than 15 days as torture, yet many people in California state prisons have been encaged in solitary for 10 to 40 years! In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions in the SHU. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) promised meaningful reform. In February 2013, prisoners announced that another hunger strike would begin July 8th because of CDCR’s failure to fulfill that promise. The hunger strike has been organized by prisoners in an inspiring show of unity across prison-manufactured racial and geographical lines. The changes the prisoners are demanding are standards in other Supermax prisons (eg, Federal Florence, Colorado, and Ohio), which supports the prisoners’ position that CDCR’s claim of such demands being a threat to safety and security are exaggerations. The hunger strikers** have developed these five, straight-forward, core demands

PARC is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC. We produce a directory that is free to prisoners upon request, and seek to work in solidarity with prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends and families. We also work with teachers and activists on many prison issues. This work includes building action networks and materials that expose the continuing neglect and outright torture of more than 2 million people imprisoned within the USA; as well as the 5+ million who are under some form of surveillance and control by the so-called justice system.

PARC is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC. We produce a directory that is free to prisoners upon request, and seek to work in solidarity with prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends and families. We also work with teachers and activists on many prison issues. This work includes building action networks and materials that expose the continuing neglect and outright torture of more than 2 million people imprisoned within the USA; as well as the 5+ million who are under some form of surveillance and control by the so-called justice system.

TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender people—inside and outside of prison—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. Members: Low income transgender women of color and our families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police.

TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender people—inside and outside of prison—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.
We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice.
Members:
Low income transgender women of color and our families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police.

Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty. This is the website of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation which runs the Warchest Program among others.

Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty. This is the website of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation which runs the Warchest Program among others

https://www.prisonactivist.org/sites/default/files/2014-parc-directory.pdf

Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness.

Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness.

Suggestions for Supporting Prisoners Prisoner support is integral to radical movements because resistance breeds repression. We know that any successful movement that is making real gains will be met with repression and people will face jail time as a result of their contribution to a better world. Not only do people within the movement have an imperative to support people facing incarceration as a result for their beliefs and/or actions, but people who accept support from the movement while they are incarcerated have an imperative to respect individuals within and the movement as a whole by not cooperating or testifying against co-defendants.

Suggestions for Supporting Prisoners
Prisoner support is integral to radical movements because resistance breeds repression. We know that any successful movement that is making real gains will be met with repression and people will face jail time as a result of their contribution to a better world. Not only do people within the movement have an imperative to support people facing incarceration as a result for their beliefs and/or actions, but people who accept support from the movement while they are incarcerated have an imperative to respect individuals within and the movement as a whole by not cooperating or testifying against co-defendants.

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