1 Million Families for Parole, April 3 rd, 2021Īnother prisoner initiatives similar to JLS that have been mentioned and supported by the group that are worth checking out include the National Freedom Movement, which is calling for an April 3 rd “1 Million Families for Parole” rally across the country to extend the following demands: From JLS’s website: “Amend the 13 th: Abolish ‘Legal’ Slavery in Amerika Movement” is an all-inclusive, coalition-based national campaign and community-based organizing effort which is determined to remove the “legal” and social basis for the dehumanization of those subject to the judicial machinery of the United States – and finally abolish slavery in Amerika once and for all.

Federation and unaffiliated crews exist, too numerous to nameĬomrade Chux also mentions Amend The 13th.

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.

Some Outside Anti-Prison and Abolitionist Groups

They also mentioned the firing of Garrett Felber from UM, author of “ Those Who Know Don’t Say:The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement and the Carceral State,” for his pro-Black Liberation, abolitionist twitter comments criticizing university ties to racists and stymieing efforts to fund an inside / outside abolitionist study program called Study and Struggle.You can learn more about her at FreeJoyPowell.Org. Reverand Joy Powell, incarcerated Black feminist activist and political prisoner in the interview.You can also find out there about their fundraising, the JLS Mothers Day fundraising effort through Blackstone Career Institute to sponsor paralegal courses for people in Women’s Prisons, prisoners they’re supporting and more.Īlso, another podcast that was a great listen with JLS members speaking about the strike, other initiatives and realities of incarceration, check out this Millenials Are Killing Capitalism. You can learn more by following JLS on Twitter and Instagram or checking out their website, Jailhouse Lawyer Speak, lawyer is singular in this, dot wordpress dot com. Chux and I chat about the call for this year for folks on the outside to engage for Abolition on August 21 and September 9 th, we talk about Abolition, Black August and other topics. They have been engaged in organizing and calling for the 2016 & 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike activities.

JLS is an autonomous network of incarcerated activists from across the so-called US. This week on the show, I spoke with Comrade Chux, a member of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak.

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