NYC Anarchist Black Cross has released its updated Illustrated Prisoner Listing. Download link here.
Prison Policy Initiative released a new graphic pie chart.
Denver ABC Directs us to this project for trans Prisoners calling for an International Day of Solidarity for Trans Prisoners on January 22nd
Relating to women in prisons Huffington Post published this piece regarding the incarceration rates and conditions (source the Prison Policy Initiative)
Anecdotally, reporting on violent crime in the state has seemed to be increasing. With a “police-involved shooting” where Officer Ryan Jones of the Bangor Police department shot and killed a 23 year-old man, during Jones pursuit of the man.
In a recent government attempt to curtail prisoner communications on grounds of “their” security was roundly criticised at a public hearing in late October. MPBN
More to come in following weeks..
Maine Anarchist Black Cross is a molecular scale organization right now, and current membership is reaching out toward along the strands of heart, called solidarity, to others working to prefigure the world without an incarcerated mind and as one group describes going ‘upstream’ to the causes of poverty and their removal.
With the aim of building capacity in broad-range organizing with strong principles, steeped in the fight against economic and social exclusion, is one group called Food AND Medicine in the Greater Bangor Area.
Food AND Medicine’s mission is to organize, educate, and empower workers and our communities in the fight for economic and social justice.
http://www.foodandmedicine.org/?key=69432598
This organizers impression is that this seems a strongly democratic group and responsive to unfolding events, possibilities and needs.
Another affiliated and separate group is an interfaith Faith Linking in Action, a group describing going upstream or as some folks prefer going to the root. (That’s radical, folks!)
Addressing causes and unifying oppressed and struggling people is a goal that is get-behind able, any readers of any inclination look into participation in these groups or start similiar groups.
The call out is to connect on what moves you the most, these will be the strongest bonds, and this helps the seed have it’s carrying fruit to proliferate outward.
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