This
is a challenge to every anarchist, abolitionist, rebel and determined
fighter against prison society and white supremacy in
Amerikkka: Between Monday,
July 16 and Saturday, July 21, we’re
calling on you to help unleash a concerted and spectacular array of
solidarity actions before the upcoming prison strikes!
Prepare now, bring mayhem everywhere!
As
you likely know, prisoners will strike from August 21st to September
9th. They anticipate guards and administrators to respond with
violent reprisals, media distortions, and extended lockdowns.
Defending the strikes from the outside is an essential component of
its success. Don’t wait; retaliation has already started and as
August 21st approaches we expect to see transfers, preemptive
lockdowns, and more.
Outside
support efforts, in collaboration with imprisoned rebels, have
already begun. Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, IWOC, and other organizations
are building phone trees, publishing call-outs, and mounting pressure
campaigns. Another thing outside supporters can do is promote and set
a stage for the strike. From July 16-21, we want to make an opening
act that warms up the public consciousness and media landscape. If
we’re successful, it will also be a loudspeaker for the prisoners’
call, blaring it past the censors, the mailroom pigs, and the dense
walls of isolation and silence that prevent prisoners from knowing
what’s cooking in other states or facilities until it’s already
served up cold.
The
challenge before us is to do things so spectacular, creative, and
unexpected that the mainstream media cannot neglect them.
Hashtag: #prisonstrike2018. Use any means necessary
to break that media blockade: take the streets, paint the town,
disrupt the status quo, hack a site, get things lit, or go ahead and
chuck your anarchist purity, resort to wooing celebrity endorsements,
buying clever ads, or schmoozing your way into the news.
Remember,
the radical and independent outlets most likely to cover our
activities exist mainly online. We need to leverage that coverage to
force the big old media (the kind that gets into prisons: TV, radio,
print editions of newspapers) to report this news due to
fear-of-missing-out.
The
goal: get the phrase “Nationwide Prison Strike: 8/21-9/9” printed
or spoken on the largest platform so prisoners can see it and no one
outside can ignore it.
So
get out there and surprise us! Overwhelm amerikkka’s hostile media
environment and get the word into prisons large and small across the
nation.
Gruppen, die den Streik unterstützen:
https://incarceratedworkers.org/partners/jailhouse-lawyers-speak
https://incarceratedworkers.org
https://fireinside.noblogs.org
https://thepeoplesconsortium.org
