From the Stop Mass Incarceration Network...

NO MORE to Mass Incarceration
Taking the Fight to Sites of Outrages and Outbreaks

May 19, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

As we build up to the October Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, we will be taking the fight to stop the slow genocide of mass incarceration to key sites of outrages committed by the criminal "injustice" system and of outbreaks of struggle against these outrages. As part of doing this we are fleshing out a proposal to go to places like:

What You Can Do to Make a Powerful Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation—October 2014

1) Endorse the Call for the Month of Resistance and circulate it broadly! Go to https://sites.google.com/site/monthofresistance

2) Go to the website www.stopmassincarceration.net to learn more and to get involved!

3) Get connected to people planning to act in October. If no one in your area is doing anything in October, get together with people you know, make your own plans and send them in to the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.

4) Begin acting right now. Plan protests and rallies at sites of the outrages of mass incarceration or sites of outbreaks of resistance to mass incarceration.

5) Form a chapter of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network (SMIN) at your school, in your neighborhood or in your city.

6) Make tax-deductible contribution to the Month of Resistance online at www.stopmassincarceration.org/donate.

7) Watch the video of the Cornel West and Carl Dix dialogue from May 20, 2013 on Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide: Act to Stop It Now! and read "Carl Dix and Cornel West on the October Month of Resistance and the Need to Act Against Mass Incarceration."

Alabama's Tutwiler Prison for Women. The U.S. Department of Justice found prisoners at Tutwiler Prison endured all manner of humiliation, including male officers forcing women into sexual acts, openly watching women shower and use the bathroom, and more. Yet the DOJ has done nothing more than launch further investigation.

Menard prisoners on hunger strike. Prisoners in the High Security Unit at Menard Correctional Facility in Chester, Illinois, went on hunger strike on January 15, 2014, to protest their placement and conditions of confinement. They have faced ongoing retaliation.

Albuquerque, NM. An epidemic of police murders of unarmed civilians has enraged the entire community into a storm of resistance drawing national attention.

Immigrant detention centers. A massive program of criminally prosecuting undocumented immigrants has been hidden from public view. Thousands languish in federal, and privately run, "detention centers."

Join us for a summer of taking the fight to stop mass incarceration to the sites...

 

Stop Mass Incarceration Network
c/o P.O. Box 941 Knickerbocker Station
New York, NY 10002-0900

Email: stopmassincarceration@gmail.com
Web: www.stopmassincarceration.net
Twitter: @StopMassIncNet
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The "Stop Mass Incarceration: We're Better Than That!" Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Tax-deductible contributions accepted, and checks should be made payable to the "Alliance for Global Justice", with "Stop Mass Incarceration Network" in the memo line, and sent to the address above. Contributions also accepted online at www.stopmassincarceration.org/donate.html.

 

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