#Kilby Prison

[pilgrim1975]

The non-capital execution of James Coburn. No, not that one.

Executing Americans for crimes other than murder was once standard practice. Robbery, armed robbery, house-breaking, burglary and rape could all earn a death sentence in a number of States. Under Federal law, bank robbery was once a capital crime even without a shot being fired. The death penalty for rape, particularly in the South, was undoubtedly used along racial lines with far more…

[midnight-mourning]

'Theme' Songs for the Cast of Confused Spirit

Hello! I've already shared our main three's playlists, so might as well share these too lol (all it took was one person saying share and I JUMPED on the opportunity, thank you for enabling me Lucky <3)

All the main cast has a song that I think 'fits' them in some way, with the glamrocks having two-three each. And by fits I mean I heard these songs and was then put in a death grip by my subconscious which told me 'this is their song' and I said 'okey dokey!' Anywho, enjoy!

Parts & Infastructure Team:

Savannah: Humble - Ren

Pete: 1922 - Box the Oxford

Liv: Kilby Girl - The Backseat Lovers

Jesse: Cough Syrup - The Young Giant

Tyler: Slow Ride - Foghat (I can take no credit for this one, beloved ao3 commenter TiredThoughts shared this and they're so right for it)

The Glamrocks (and Monty):

Freddy: Mr Loverman - Ricky Montgomery; Line Without a Hook - Ricky Montgomery

Bonnie: Anna Sun - WALK THE MOON; Faster Car - Loving Caliber; Helpless - The Regrettes

Chica: Serotonin - Girl In Red; Good Together - Shy Martin

Roxy: The Love Club - Lorde; Popularity - Julian Moon

Monty: Hard feelings/loveless - Lorde; West Coast - The Neighborhood

Misc.

Abby: Cup of Coffee - Julian Moon

Bri: Whiskey Fever - Dorothy

Derrick: Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash (he is a cowboy, this should be expected)

Lizzy: Playing Like You Used To - Amor Amor

Michael: Still Not Dead - DREAMERS, American Teeth, Wes Period; I've Been Dead All Day - Bayside (a little on the nose I know lmao BUT they fit in perfectly in certain places of the story like I wish I could explain to you-)

David: Fat Lip - Sum 24

I'll update with Vannessa/Vanny's when she appears in the story, kind of spoilery if I share now :) (but i stg they fit SO WELL THEY ARE SO VANESSA CODED LIKE GAHH)

[sweet811]

The Blah.

Mom: “Stella, honey, what do you want to eat? We’re getting room service tonight?”

Stella: “I want to go into the city! The people at the front desk said they have the best churros!”

Dad: “Sorry Stell-bell, we’re here to relax and have fun at the resort. Look! They have dino chicken nuuuuuuuuuuuuuggets!”

Stella: “But daaaad, we have dino chicken nuggets at home. We don’t have churros at home dad.”

Mom: Sternly “Stella, it’s been a long, tiring day. Please just make up your mind. If you don’t by the time your dad and I call the front desk we’re choosing for you. 

Stella sighs 

"Kilby, do you want anything?

 …. Kilby? 

Kilby for god's sake get off your iPad!”

That sequence- mom yelling, taking Kilby’s iPad away, Kilby crying. And crying. And crying. Seriously, he won’t shut up until dad talks mom into giving it back to him- happens at least thirteen times a day, twenty-six if we’re being overzealous. 

This probably makes him seem pretty young right? You probably think he’s in his terrible twos, or his ferocious fours, maybe even a threenager. 

Think again. That’s him: 14 years, 7 months, 4 days old. Far from the age where his behavior would be remotely acceptable.  

When my parents told me we were going to Tulum, I was so excited! I dreamed sweet dreams of the paradise we’d experience, I wrote about the waterfalls and beaches and funky birds we’d see, all the delicacies I’d get to indulge in. Alas, my family’s definition of a good time on vacation differs greatly from mine.  

We’ve been cooped up in our suite, only leaving to ‘tan’ (code word for burning to a crisp) and to do 3pm zumba in the kiddie pool. 

My friend Bella told me about some of the vacations she's gone on with her family. They've gone on otherworldly expeditions in rainforests, danced with locals in Greece, been kissed by elephants in Thailand, swam with sharks off the shores of Hawaii- their vacations, their lives, have been fuelled by a sense of adventure. 

I want to experience a somewhere that satiates my need for sensational happenings- a somewhere that inspires my wit and creativity. 

A somewhere that challenges the lens I see the world through. 

A somewhere that makes me lose sight of my troubles.

A somewhere that makes me feel alive.

I thought Tulum would be that somewhere. I'm sure it could be that somewhere, but I'm barred from experiencing the somewhere that Tulum embodies by the luxury prison that is our resort. 

Mom: "Stella honey, dinner's here! Got you some Dino chicken nuggets and yam fries! I know you like regular French fries but yam fires will keep you nice and skinny."

God, spare me. 

The only thing I'm looking forward to is going to sleep: there I'll dream sweet dreams of the somewhere I wish I could be.

[longliveblackness]

In July 1951, Jeremiah, who was a 16-year-old high school student at the time, and Mabel Ann Crowder, a white woman, were discovered having sex in her home. Ms.Crowder claimed she had been raped by Jeremiah and he was immediately arrested and taken to Kilby Prison for "questioning."

Police strapped the frightened boy into the electric chair and told him that he would be electrocuted unless he admitted to having committed all of the rapes white women had reported that summer.

Under this terrifying pressure, he falsely confessed to the charges in fear. Though he soon recanted and insisted he was innocent. Jeremiah was convicted and sentenced to death after a two-day trial during which the all-white jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes.

The local Black community believed-and in some cases, knew-that Jeremiah Reeves and Mabel Crowder had been involved in an ongoing, consensual affair. Concerned about the injustice of the young man's conviction, the Montgomery NAACP became involved and helped attract the attention of national lawyer Thurgood Marshall. These advocates were able to win reversal of Jeremiah's conviction on December 6, 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the trial judge had been wrong to prevent the jury from hearing evidence of the torture police used to get his confession.

At a second trial in June 1955, Jeremiah was again convicted and sentenced to death. This time, all appeals were denied. Jeremiah had spent much of his time in prison writing poetry, and he willed his final poem to his mother. He remained on death row until 1958, when he reached what was considered the minimum age for execution.

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En julio del año 1951, Jeremiah, quien era un estudiante de secundaria con tan solo dieciséis años de edad y Mabel Ann Crowder fueron descubiertos teniendo relaciones sexuales. La señorita Crowder declaró que Jeremiah le había violado, lo arrestaron y lo llevaron a la Prisión Kilby para ser “interrogado”.

La policía ató al chico asustado a la silla eléctrica y le dijeron que sería electrocutado si no admitía que cometió todas las violaciones que las mujeres blancas habían reportado ese verano.

Bajo esta presión aterradora, por miedo confesó falsamente a los cargos. Aunque pronto se retractó e insistió en que era inocente. Jeremiah fue declarado culpable y sentenciado a muerte después de un juicio de dos días durante el cual el jurado, formado exclusivamente por personas blancas, deliberó durante menos de 30 minutos.

La comunidad negra local creía, y en algunos casos sabía, que Jeremiah Reeves y Mabel Crowder habían estado involucrados en una relación consensual. Preocupada por la injusticia de la condena del joven, la NAACP de Montgomery se involucró y ayudó a atraer la atención del abogado nacional Thurgood Marshall. Estos defensores lograron que se revocara la condena de Jeremiah el 6 de diciembre de 1954, cuando la Corte Suprema de los EE. UU. dictaminó que el juez de primera instancia se había equivocado al evitar que el jurado escuchara las pruebas de tortura que la policía usó para obtener su confesión.

En un segundo juicio en junio de 1955, Jeremiah fue nuevamente declarado culpable y condenado a muerte. Esta vez, todas las apelaciones fueron denegadas. Jeremiah había pasado gran parte de su tiempo en prisión escribiendo poesía y legó su último poema a su madre. Permaneció en el corredor de la muerte hasta 1958, cuando alcanzó lo que se consideraba la edad mínima para una ejecución.

[anarchopuppy]

Phone Zap to support the Donaldson 4

⚡⚡⚡All Day February 13th⚡⚡⚡ ⚡⚡⚡In solidarity with everyone fighting for prison abolition inside and out ⚡⚡⚡

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Donaldson Correctional (205)436-3681 ask for wardens Phyllis Morgan and Kenneth Peters I'm calling because i'm concerned for the safety for Derrol Shaw and Wilbur Smith, who were assaulted by guards in this facility. I do not believe that they are safe at this facility until drastic actions are taken. Also, the COs involved in the assault of the Donaldson 4 need to be fired and charged. ⚡⚡⚡ Kilby Correctional (334)215-6600 ask for wardens Rolanda Calloway and Gwendolyn Babers I'm calling because i'm concerned for the safety of Ephan Moore and Robert Earl Council, who were assaulted by guards at Donaldson Corr. I'm also concerned that inmates at Kilby don't have access to hot water, hand sanitizer, face masks, and the ability to social distance. This can be the difference between life and death for some, and to deny inmates this is pre-mediated murder. ⚡⚡⚡ Commissioner Jeff Dunn (334)353-3883 I'm calling to demand that the COs involved in the assault of the Donaldson 4 are fired and charged. An investigation into conditions at Donaldson Corr should be your top priority. ⚡⚡⚡ Governor Kay Ivey (334)242-7100 Im calling to ask that the COs involved with the assault of the Donaldson 4 are fired and charged. An investigation into conditions at Donaldson Corr should be top priority for the state. Also, the contracts for the two new prisons should be nullified. Alabama cant afford to build more prisons when conditions for inmates are already horrific. The people of Alabama want the prisons closed and ADOC held accountable. ⚡⚡⚡

[96thdayofrage]

Alabama’s IMMORAL Denial of Prisoner Rights

EJI lawyers represented Rutledge in a 2014 petition to relieve his life without parole sentence. Rutledge was convicted and received a life without parole sentence for murder in 1993 at age 17. The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled such sentences for minors were unconstitutional, and Rutledge's petition was approved. He would have been eligible for parole in three years.

Rutledge's death is not the first heat-related fatality inside Alabama prison walls.

In 2010, the mother of Farron Barksdale was awarded a $750,000 lawsuit judgment against the then-Kilby prison warden and prison mental health services after Barksdale died from hyperthermia days after he was transferred to prison. The lawsuit alleged Barksdale was given an "unusually large dose" of mental health medication that made it difficult for his body to regulate temperature, a lethal combination in an uncooled prison cell in August 2007. Prison staff failed to properly monitor Barksdale, the lawsuit alleged.

Rutledge's autopsy indicates a fellow prisoner was the last person to see him alive, and the first person to find him unresponsive on Dec. 7.

A prisoner "runner," an inmate typically allowed freer movement within prison dorms, saw Rutledge alive in his cell around 6 p.m. Dec. 7, an ADOC Intelligence and Investigations investigator told the medical examiner's office.

The same prisoner saw Rutledge unresponsive around 8 p.m. and alerted medical staff. Rutledge was transferred to the prison infirmary, where he was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m., according to the autopsy.

Prisoners are unable to adjust the temperature in their cells, and the I&I officer told the medical examiner that prisoners in Rutledge's mental health ward eat and bathe in their cells.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Alabama and the state Department of Corrections, alleging the state continues to violate the constitutional rights of the men in their custody.

The lawsuit is an escalation of a years-long federal probe into Alabama's men's prisons that first resulted in a scathing 2019 report outlining unsafe and unsanitary living conditions, in addition to rampant drug abuse and violence among its prison populations. In July, the DOJ released additional findings, revealing a systemic culture of excessive force and violence used by prison staff against prisoners. The report outlined a culture of impunity and shoddy accountability within the Alabama Department of Corrections, which federal investigators said failed to fully cooperate with its investigation into violent incidents.

Morrison said Alabama's "failure to respond" urgently to its prison crisis is "immoral."

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

From January 1 until the end of the month, ADOC prisoners are going on strike from their prison jobs, work which they say “amounts to slavery.” They’re also boycotting companies that make a killing off of “exploitation” and “price gouging” through telecommunications service monopolies in prisons, as Freedom Alabama Movement (FAM), an organization led by incarcerated activists, announced.

As of New Year’s Day, at least 11 Alabama prisoners in segregation at Kilby Correctional Facility were also on a hunger strike to express their solidarity.

Dubbed a “30-Day Economic Blackout” by FAM, the boycott is making a range of demands. The top three include decarceration for public health amid the COVID-19 pandemic; ending corrections staff’s “culture of corruption and brutality”; and addressing drug use inside the facility as “a health and public safety issue.”

[venomprison]

We are pleased to announce our return to the USA and Canada this Autumn with the hellish union of Ohio’s Homewrecker & select dates with Joy, Call of The Void & Great American Ghost. We will be visiting some new places and soon to be regular haunts - bring yourself to a date and show us how it’s done.

NO REST. NO SLEEP. THE GRIND IS REAL.

Dates: 9/13 - Ottawa, ON – Mavericks *^ 9/14 - Quebec City, QC - La Source de la Martinière *^ 9/15 - Waterford, NY – Chrome *^ 9/16 - Somerville, MA - Once Ballroom *^ 9/18 - Brooklyn, NY - Saint Vitus Bar *^ 9/19 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Smiling Moose *^ 9/20 - Indianapolis, IN - The Citadel * 9/21 - Detroit, MI – Sanctuary * 9/22 - Chicago, IL - Cobra Lounge * 9/24 - Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room * 9/25 - Denver, CO - Larmier Lounge * 9/26 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court ^^ 9/27 - Boise, ID - The Shredder ^^ 9/28 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon (Funhouse) ^^ 9/29 - Portland, OR - Paris Theatre ^^ 10/01 - Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk ^^ 10/02 - Los Angeles, CA - Five Star Bar ^^ 10/03 - Las Vegas, NV - American Legion Post 8 ^^ 10/04 - Mesa, AZ - Club Red ^^ 10/06 - Dallas, TX - Club DaDa ^^ 10/07 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall ^^ 10/08 - Austin, TX - Come And Take It Live ^^ 10/09 - New Orleans, LA – Santos ^^ 10/10 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade ^^ 10/11 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^^ 10/12 - Washington, DC - The Pinch ^^ 10/13 - Amityville, NY – Revolution ^^

Venom Prison & Homewrecker (All Dates) Call Of The Void (9/13-9/25) * Joy (9/13-9/20) ^ Great American Ghost (9/26-10/13) ^^

Prosthetic Records Continental Concerts USA Blackstar AmplificationJackson Guitars - Official! D'Addario UK Orange Amplifiers Tone MGMTGood Fight Music Translation Loss Records Avocado Booking

[hyaenagallery]

The Scottsboro Boys part 3 The case was first heard in Scottsboro, Alabama, in three rushed trials, in which the defendants received poor legal representation. All but 12-year-old Roy Wright were convicted of rape and sentenced to death, the common sentence in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women, even though there was medical evidence to suggest that they had not committed the crime. With help from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the NAACP, the case was appealed. The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed seven of the eight convictions, and granted 13-year-old Eugene Williams a new trial because he was a minor. Chief Justice John C. Anderson dissented, ruling that the defendants had been denied an impartial jury, fair trial, fair sentencing, and effective counsel. While waiting for their trials, eight of the nine defendants were held in Kilby Prison. The cases were twice appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which led to landmark decisions on the conduct of trials. In Powell v. Alabama (1932), it ordered new trials. The case was first returned to the lower court and the judge allowed a change of venue, moving the retrials to Decatur, Alabama. Judge Hortonwas appointed. During the retrials, one of the alleged victims admitted to fabricating the rape story and asserted that none of the Scottsboro Boys touched either of the white women. The jury still found the defendants guilty, but the judge set aside the verdict and granted a new trial. #destroytheday

[myweddingsandevents]

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[pilgrim1975]

February 9, 1934 - Ten men, four states, nine electrocutions and a hanging.

It’s a sad and well-documented fact that America’s death penalty has often been applied as much over race and poverty as guilt or innocence. All too often those without the capital, be it social or financial, get the punishment. Seldom has that been more obvious than on February 9, 1934. The mid-1930’s were halcyon days for America’s executioners. In most states that had capital punishment (which…

[deathcar]

Ben Gibbard: Live From Home まとめ

Ben Gibbard: Live From Home

https://www.youtube.com/user/DCFCtv/ https://twitter.com/dcfc https://www.instagram.com/deathcabforcutie/ https://www.instagram.com/gibbstack/

3/17/20

01. We Will Become Silhouettes 02. A Lack of Color 03. Title Track 04. Northern Lights 05. Crooked Teeth 06. Cath... 07. Grapevine Fires 08. Fake Plastic Trees [Radiohead] 09. California Zephyr 10. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

t-shirt: R.E.M.

benefit: Teen Feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9xuVkbQuU

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3/18/20

01. No Room in Frame 02. Teardrop Windows 03. Title and Registration 04. Technicolor Girls 05. Codes and Keys 06. Passenger Seat 07. When We Drive 08. Me and Magdalena 09. Ceremony [New Order] 10. Such Great Heights

t-shirt: Porchlight Coffee & Records

benefit: Aurora Commons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0EpwT9fg1I

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3/19/20

01. St. Peter's Cathedral 02. Photobooth 03. 405 04. Little Wanderer 05. Brothers on a Hotel Bed 06. Soul Meets Body 07. Talking Bird 08. 60 & Punk 09. Grace Cathedral Hill [The Decemberists] 10. Broken Yolk in Western Sky 11. The Sound of Settling

t-shirt: Lala Lala

benefit: University District Food Bank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhgssMW8L0U

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3/20/20

01. Steadier Footing 02. You Remind Me of Home 03. Why You'd Want to Live Here 04. When the Sun Goes Down 05. These Roads Don't Move 06. Coney Island 07. Keep Yourself Warm [Frightened Rabbit] 08. Life in Quarantine 09. Something's Rattling (Cowpoke) 10. Brand New Colony

t-shirt: The Beths

benefit: New Horizons Ministries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7A8tQNp8g

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3/21/20

01. Lady Adelaide 02. Recycled Air 03. Your New Twin Sized Bed 04. Willamine 05. A Movie Script Ending 06. Your Hurricane 07. Your Heart is an Empty Room 08. Carolina 09. I Will Follow You into the Dark

t-shirt: Werner Herzog/Danzig

benefit: Bloodworks Northwest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWmIJV4GMg

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3/22/20 [covers only]

01. Isolation [John Lennon] 02. Silver Lining [Rilo Kiley] 03. Thirteen [Big Star] 04. Waltz #2 (XO) [Elliott Smith] 05. Motion Sickness [Phoebe Bridgers] 06. If Not for You [Bob Dylan] 07. New Slang [The Shins] 08. Hysteria [Def Leppard] 09. The Bones are Their Money [I Think You Should Leave] 10. Do You Realize?? [The Flaming Lips]

spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/2UsxbhW

t-shirt: The Jesus and Mary Chain / Darklands

benefit: Country Doctor Community Health Centers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eEcVCyKMb8

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3/23/20 [1997-2001]

01. Champagne from a Paper Cup 02. Debate Exposes Doubt 03. Scientist Studies 04. Wait [The Secret Stars] 05. Company Calls Epilogue 06. Cleveland 07. (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan 08. Blacking Out the Friction 09. Line of Best Fit 10. I Was a Kaleidoscope 11. No Joy in Mudville 12. The Face That Launched 1000 Shits [The Revolutionary Hydra]

t-shirt: RIP Seattle Viaduct Tombstone

benefit: White Center Food Bank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHTXnGLb4I0

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3/24/20 [2002-2005]

01. Transatlanticism 02. Someday You Will Be Loved 03. Farmer Chords 04. This Place is a Prison 05. Couches in Alleys 06. Sleeping in 07. Summer Skin 08. What Sarah Said 09. Title and Registration 10. Marching Bands of Manhattan 11. I Will Follow You into the Dark

t-shirt: Kilby Court

benefit: Feeding the University of Washington Hospital Staff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25OCP0qBD_A

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3/25/20 [2007-2011]

01. You Can Do Better Than Me 02. Unobstructed Views 03. Little Bribes 04. A Diamond and a Tether 05. Where Our Destination Lies 06. Cath... 07. One Fast Move or I'm Gone 08. Grapevine Fires 09. Bixby Canyon Bridge 10. Stay Young, Go Dancing

t-shirt: JODOROWSKY / Judas Priest

benefit: COVID-19 Response Fund - Seattle Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhqwnL8Zck

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3/26/20 [2012-present]

01. Ingénue 02. Autumn Love 03. Hold No Guns 04. Lily 05. It's Never Too Late (End Credits) 06. Binary Sea 07. December [Teenage Fanclub] 08. Man in Blue 09. Northern Lights 10. Black Sun

t-shirt: The Old Seattle Tee

benefit: Your Supplies Save Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXCGJs8nOY

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3/27/20 [top-10 songs countdown]

01. Title and Registration 02. A Lack of Color 03. Tiny Vessels 04. We Looked Like Giants 05. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight 06. I Will Possess Your Heart 07. Soul Meets Body 08. I Will Follow You into the Dark 09. Transatlanticism 10. Such Great Heights

t-shirt: YOKO ONO

benefit: Americans for Immigrant Justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TiCThAAcNM

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3/28/20 [dealer's choice]

01. Me and Magdalena 02. Underwater! 03. El Dorado 04. Duncan, Where Have You Gone? 05. Stable Song 06. Summer Years 07. Life in Quarantine 08. St. Swithin's Day [Billy Bragg] 09. I'm Building a Fire

t-shirt: Seattle Kingdome

benefit: Washington Low Income Housing Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk-xqMKLyRo

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3/29/20 [covers only]

01. Half a World Away [R.E.M.] 02. Just Like Heaven [The Cure] 03. Everyday is Like Sunday [Morrissey] 04. Out of Touch [Daryl Hall & John Oates] 05. Strange Powers [The Magnetic Fields] 06. Harvest Moon [Neil Young] 07. Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends [Kris Kristofferson] 08. The Only Living Boy in New York [Simon & Garfunkel] 09. Hold on [Spiritualized]

spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/2wLPDu7

t-shirt: Treepeople / Something Vicious For Tomorrow

benefit: Aurora Commons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgVzSMqjWA

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4/2/20

01. Lightness 02. Everything's a Ceiling 03. The Ghosts of Beverly Drive 04. A Hard One to Know 05. When We Drive 06. Passenger Seat 07. Pictures in an Exhibition 08. Barbara H. [Fountains of Wayne] 09. Song for Kelly Huckaby

t-shirt: Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode)

benefit: MusiCares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6oJjUvB9TA

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4/3/20 [Tiny Desk (Home) Concert]

01. Life in Quarantine 02. Me & Magdalena 03. She's Got a Problem [Fountains of Wayne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGyYeG4eRc

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4/9/20 ["We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes" 20th anniversary]

01. Title Track 02. The Employment Pages 03. For What Reason 04. Lowell, MA 05. 405 06. Little Fury Bugs 07. Company Calls 08. Company Calls Epilogue 09. No Joy in Mudville 10. Scientist Studies

t-shirt: plain black

benefit: SMASH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmFQa_iByw

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4/16/20

01. Your Heart is an Empty Room 02. Autumn Love 03. Styrofoam Plates 04. Willamine 05. Man in Blue 06. Grapevine Fires 07. Photobooth 08. A Movie Script Ending 09. Don't Cry No Tears [Neil Young]

t-shirt: Spiritualized / Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

benefit: Teen Feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3BiBB0W1Eo

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4/23/20 [all piano set]

01. Unobstructed Views 02. Passenger Seat 03. The Ice is Getting Thinner 04. Tulsa Telephone Book [Tom T. Hall] 05. Binary Sea 06. What Sarah Said 07. Proxima B 08. All Apologies [Nirvana] 09. Blacking Out the Friction 10. Soul Meets Body

benefit: Seattle Artist Relief Fund Amid COVID-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T58oySghwLk

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4/30/20

01. Monday Morning 02. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight 03. Your Hurricane 04. Jealousy Rides With Me 05. Life in Quarantine 06. You've Haunted Me All My Life 07. Someday You Will Be Loved 08. The Things You Said [Depeche Mode] 09. I Will Follow You into the Dark

benefit: Seattle's Hunger Intervention Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ15BaDEo0Q

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5/7/20 [all-Beatles cover set]

01. I'm So Tired 02. For No One 03. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You 04. Here, There and Everywhere 05. I'm Only Sleeping 06. You Won't See Me 07. I Will 08. I'm Looking Through You 09. In My Life

benefit: Amara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLEvRY1kcA

[thewebofslime]

SEARCH A SPIRIT THAT IS NOT AFRAID SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2019 PRINT EDITION SEND A NEWS TIP DONATE COMMUNITY CAMPUS SPORTS LIFESTYLE OPINION VIDEO PHOTO ABOUT US CLASSIFIEDS ADVERTISE 7/5/2018, 8:48PM Two more men arrested in connection with October Auburn human trafficking, rape investigation The two men — Rodney McCurdy, 42, from Auburn, and Courtney Thomas, 38, from Auburn — were taken into custody Tuesday By STAFF REPORT CONTRIBUTED BY AUBURN POLICE DIVISION The Auburn Police Division and U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force arrested Courtney D. Thomas (left), age 38, and Rodney F. McCurdy (right), age 42, both from Auburn, on charges of felony first-degree rape. SHARE SHARE TWEET MAIL PRINT The Auburn Police and U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force have arrested two men, charging them with felony first-degree rape. Their arrests are part of an ongoing investigation into the October 2017 rape and human trafficking of a 13-year-old girl in Auburn. The two men — Rodney McCurdy, 42, from Auburn, and Courtney Thomas, 38, from Auburn — were taken into custody Tuesday. Police have said the victim was picked up in a vehicle with several "unknown males" shortly after fleeing from the Lee County Youth Development Center. She was taken to a residence where she was held against her will and sexually assaulted. McCurdy and Thomas developed as suspects during the ongoing investigation. Police later obtained warrants for their arrests and have charged them each with rape in the first degree, police report. They are currently being held in the Lee County Jail on a $100,000 bond. Tuesday's arrests are the newest in a string of arrests related to this case. In January, Auburn Police arrested Corey B. Heard, 36, in connection to the rape and kidnapping. Earlier that month, police arrested Brian D. Askew, 37, charging him with kidnapping and rape. Heard was charged with first-degree rape after police had already arrested him on an unrelated charge of breaking and entering into a car. Sign up for our newsletter Get The Plainsman straight to your inbox. APD said at the time that Heard was developed as a suspect during the course of its investigation and was allegedly involved in the sexual assault of the victim with Askew. The arrest warrant on Askew for human trafficking was executed later while he was in custody in the Lee County jail on the kidnapping and rape charges. Heard, unable to make bond, is being held at Limestone Correctional Facility, an Alabama state prison, on prior convictions, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections prisoner directory. He had been held at Kilby Correctional Facility in Montgomery until he was briefly returned to Lee County for authorities to take DNA samples, according to court documents. Askew remains in custody at the Lee County Jail, according to the Sheriff's Office online prisoner directory. Charges against both Heard and Askew are still pending. It's unclear if more arrests are anticipated. Do you like this story? The Plainsman doesn't accept money from tuition or student fees, and we don't charge a subscription fee. But you can donate to support The Plainsman. Support The Plainsman Staff Report Related Stories 'It's kind of surreal': Laura Davenport prepares for the year as Miss Auburn By ABBY CUNNINGHAM | CAMPUS WRITER Portion of South College Street to be closed from March 11-16 By STAFF REPORT 'We don't see the light of day': Nursing students, professionals reflect on pressures, anxieties and fulfillment with job By SAMANTHA STRUNK | CAMPUS WRITER The Auburn Plainsman welcomes thoughtful discussion on all of our stories, but please keep comments civil and on-topic. EDITOR'S PICKS LAST UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO 'It's kind of surreal': Laura Davenport prepares for the year as Miss Auburn By ABBY CUNNINGHAM | CAMPUS WRITER 3/9/2019, 8:23AM Auburn's senior quartet prepares for final game at home 3/8/2019, 8:47AM Results, times, measurements from Auburn's 11 participants at Pro Day 3/7/2019, 7:03PM Poarch Band of Creek Indians ups donation for tornado victims' funerals to $184,000 Virtual Print Edition On The Plains Podcast To Homepage ABOUT CONTACT ARCHIVES ADVERTISE LETTERS All Rights Reserved © Copyright 2019 The Auburn Plainsman Powered by Solutions by The State News.

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—Britt Rusert

While organizers in the United States have been planning this Saturday’s March for Science to advocate for the STEM fields and scientific funding under Trump, in Mexico, the Zapatistas have been interrogating how science might be used as a tool for political struggle and resistance. While the March for Science is organized on behalf of science, the Zapatistas’ interest is part of a long history in which activists have demanded that science itself be put in the service of the people and their interests. That history includes the 1970s anti-war and anti-corporate organization, Science for the People (SftP), the sickle-cell research and medical activism of the Black Panther Party, and as Steven Epstein has chronicled, the forms of lay expertise that HIV/AIDS activists cultivated and deployed to reshape clinical trials and the politics of knowledge around the disease in the 1980s and 1990s.

A recent acquisition by the Library Company of Philadelphia offers a glimpse at an even earlier history of what I want to call abolitionist science. In the 1830s, William Lloyd Garrison gifted a copy of Jane Kilby Welsh’s two-volume Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology (Boston, 1832-33) to Philadelphia activist and educator Grace Bustill Douglass and her daughter, Sarah Mapps Douglass. Grace and Sarah Douglass were co-founders of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and Sarah attended the Female Medical College in Philadelphia. She was a reputed science teacher at Philadelphia’s Institute for Colored Youth, and she taught generations of black girls and women about anatomy, physiology, and reproduction in her parlor.

Garrison may have gifted Lectures on Mineralogy and Geology so that it could be used as a textbook, but the study of deep time and space in geology also signaled models of (social) change that challenged the slave-holding status quo in the antebellum United States. The abolitionists knew this, and this book—alongside the fact that abolitionists were exchanging scientific texts—is but one example of a robust scientific engagement in anti-slavery/anti-racist struggles in the nineteenth century. And like the movement’s transition from gradualist to immediatist models of emancipation, it was African Americans who led the way (many white abolitionists expressed fears about the heretical implications of new scientific theories, especially in evolution, but African Americans largely embraced a wide range of fields, from astronomy to even phrenology). Black activists decried scientific knowledge built from experiments conducted on black subjects and exposed the flagrant biases of racist science, but they also affirmed Black—and occasionally American indigenous—science and expertise. In today’s terms, we might say that they sought to decolonize science. They further revealed that racial knowledge stood at the heart of the modern scientific episteme, not just in those fields dedicated to the study of human difference.

What could an abolitionist science look like today? Just as prison abolitionists demand a world without prisons while valuing the forms of thought, writing, and activism produced by prisoners themselves, an abolitionist science might attend to how science, medicine and technology contribute to structures of inequality and systemic violence while using the tools of science to inspire new forms of political imagination and transformation. For example, how might already organized groups on the ground rethink their relationship to science in an age when scientific expertise is under threat? In an era before professionalization, science was legitimately claimed by a number of different groups and actors, including those excluded from formal education. Recent attacks on scientific expertise and authority may actually present an opportunity for activists to reinvigorate forms of collective study, auto-didacticism, vernacular expertise, and community research agendas in order to forward their own struggles. Like recent calls for an “abolition ecology,” an abolitionist science could be similarly attuned to the circuits among racial capitalism, scientific and technological innovation, and the destruction of (racialized) geographies for profit and privatization. An abolitionist science could further demand the dismantling of the scientific-technological-military complex that exacts war on populations across the globe while placing domestic populations, especially poor people of color, under intense forms of militarized police surveillance.

Science is not inherently “good” or “real”; its claims to and on reality are constructed like all forms of knowledge. It is often the handmaiden of violence and dispossession. Moving beyond generic defenses of science in an age of populist skepticism and backlash, this political moment actually requires an evaluation of different types of science and an excavation of their specific relationships to forms of power and exploitation. An abolitionist science could be used to do that important work.

Britt Rusert is Assistant Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. She is the author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (NYU Press, 2017).

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A total of 36 1/2 pounds of meth and more than $130,000 was seized in a criminal investigation that ended in six arrests Thursday after an early morning drug raid on two Alabama prisons.

The arrests included two inmates and a corrections officer charged with being part of one of the most substantial meth trafficking rings in the state.

The investigation, beginning in Feb. 2012 involved the joint efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Alabama Department of Corrections along with the Middle and North District U.S. Attorney Offices.

Phillip Burgin, 23, a Kilby Prison corrections officer; Stephanie Auban, 41, of Cullman; William Thomas Crane II, 36, of Crossville; and Alberto Trejo have been arrested on charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

Miguel Calles-Gutierrez, 42, of Birmingham and his son Gumaro Calles, 24, were arrested on charges of distribution of methamphetamine.

All are now being held under federal custody.

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“Their overall tone is a no-holds-barred assault of vicious grinding death metal with an explosive approach built from razor-sharp riffs.” Link: https://www.altpress.com/features/upcoming-metal-bands/

Upcoming Shows: 

8/10 - Brutal Assault (CZ)

8/11 - Stö, Leipzig (DE)

8/12 - Den Atelier, Luxembourg (LU)* 

8/13 - Zentralmensa, Göttingen (DE)+◦∆

8/14 - AJZ, Chemnitz (DE)+◦∆

8/15 - Vaudeville, Lindau (DE)+◦

8/16 - Rock Altitude Festival (CH)

8/17 - UPSURGE Festival London (UK)

* with Parkway Drive & Bury Tomorrow

+◦∆ with Thy Art Is Murder, After The Burial, SeeYouSpaceCowboy 

+◦ with Thy Art Is Murder, After The Burial

9/13 - Ottawa, ON – Mavericks *^

9/14 - Quebec City, QC - La Source de la Martinière *^

9/15 - Waterford, NY – Chrome *^

9/16 - Somerville, MA - Once Ballroom *^

9/18 - Brooklyn, NY - Saint Vitus Bar *^

9/19 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Smiling Moose *^

9/20 - Indianapolis, IN - The Citadel *

9/21 - Detroit, MI – Sanctuary *

9/22 - Chicago, IL - Cobra Lounge *

9/24 - Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room *

9/25 - Denver, CO - Larmier Lounge *

9/26 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court ^^

9/27 - Boise, ID - The Shredder ^^

9/28 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon (Funhouse) ^^

9/29 - Portland, OR - Paris Theatre ^^

10/01 - Orangevale, CA - The Boardwalk ^^

10/02 - Los Angeles, CA - Five Star Bar ^^

10/03 - Las Vegas, NV - American Legion Post 8 ^^

10/04 - Mesa, AZ - Club Red ^^

10/06 - Dallas, TX - Club DaDa ^^

10/07 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall ^^

10/08 - Austin, TX - Come And Take It Live ^^

10/09 - New Orleans, LA – Santos ^^

10/10 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade ^^

10/11 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^^

10/12 - Washington, DC - The Pinch ^^

10/13 - Amityville, NY – Revolution ^^

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Call of The Void (9/13-9/25) *

Joy (9/13-9/20) ^

Great American Ghost (9/26-10/13) ^^

11/02 - Damnation Festival(UK) Photo: Anthoni Grande

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