#abolish the prison industrial complex

[merciawintersageposting]

hey y’all

Robert Roberson is about to be executed on October 17 in Texas. Yet another innocent person will face the death penalty, despite prejudicial testimony and an unproven theory.

please take the time to call or email using this form from Innocence Project. it takes like 2 minutes.

read more about his case and why the courts in Texas need to change here:

[politijohn]

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[lilithism1848]

[brettdoesdiscourse]

A big argument with the pro death penalty crowd is, "well what about the people who actually are guilty?" And the answer is always, "well what about the people who are actually innocent?"

I would rather spare the lives of a 100 guilty people rather than execute 1 innocent person.

And functionally, the death penalty doesn't really do anything.

There's no evidence to suggest that states that have the death penalty see a decrease in crime, so it isn't a deterrent. The only thing it functionally does is attempt to make people feel better.

A life sentence will functionally accomplish the same thing a death penalty does, it will keep that person away from the public.

With life sentences, an innocent person has the opportunity to be found innocent and released. You can't bring an innocent person back to life if you find out after their execution that they're actually innocent.

*Stop tagging this post as pro life. I'm pro abortion, this post is pro abortion. If you like and/or reblog this post, you're pro abortion too*

[icedsodapop]

Hey, maybe instead of performing for the US troops, celebrities/entertainers (cough adam driver cough) should bring the arts to prisons instead 🤷🏻‍♀️ At least majority of the prisoners in the US didn't commit war crimes on Black and Brown pple from developing countries.

[liberaljane]

Quick color study 🎃

Digital illustration using black, purple and orange depicting a fem witch flying on a broomstick. She has a purple hat, black dress and striped socked with Pom Pom shoes. Text reads, ‘hex the prison industrial complex’

[hms-no-fun]

Why do you, as a marxist, talk like a liberal

[thewretchedsketcher]

It's true, we shouldn't tolerate violence. Allowing people to suffer and die for the sake of profits is unacceptable and should never be tolerated.

[kny111]

Do World Powers Engage in Subtle Systemic Slavery or Overt Systemic Slavery? It doesn’t Matter. Slavery is Slavery & It Will Never Be Needed Especially Not As A System.

The United States along with other world powers and those that serve them have created this ‘using us, yet against us’ system. We need to change this. The fire James Baldwin spoke of, the very merited rage those enslaved have against this system, is well overdue.

Those who serve a government that knowingly allow for enslavement still and lie to people about it being abolished when their own amendment backs daily institutional and systemic enslavement when it allows “slavery is abolished except in punishment or crime“. This does nothing to remove slavery as a systemic feature from this governing system and you are implicit.

                                                                                                by - K, Blog Admin

What happens when we as a community repurpose the instruments of science and evidence gathering and focus on the 13th amendment? This piece of document literally allows for enslavement. What has been created in its wake? Here’s the thing, when colonial imperial powers in Europe said okay when issues occur we’re gonna call them ‘crime’  they meant it as a word to account for social norms being breached and a sort of “holler if you hear me“ approach to solving those issues was laid out institutionally which included neighborhood watch people that could process this. They later became police. Between that time and the present 2023, legislature and policy reshaped crime and policing, as well as the defending of issues through military, crime became systemically synonymous with prisons/cages/slavery to solve those issues. From the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its bolstering of these pro enslavement laws to this past historical investment in this strange notion of punishing others so physically, violently to the benefit of a system, a legalized market of slavery was formed and continues to persist with similar legislative and political play on words as they did with the 13th amendment’s clause: The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

When you specifically write into law and action that amendments create and actualize the means to the system we use, what are you enacting when you pronounce through this same mechanism that “no slavery shall exist within the united states or any place subject to its jurisdiction - EXCEPT as punishment for crime“? We need to, as a people really inspect this slowly and carefully because science has yet to produce any evidence that says punishment at that level and method is required to solve these issues so where is this evidence that says that type of punishment is even needed for the people to “fall in line”?

Secondly, isn’t it evident that processing issues as merely ‘crime’ is factually bringing us more structural issues than not because not every issue can be generalized to crime and often times the word crime itself just doesn’t do nearly enough to account for the disabled community and many other far reaching issues.

These aren’t assumptions, these are educated deductions based on statistical data provided by the errors of the running system. Again, it has yet to produce reputable convincing evidence that establishes prisons, crime, and cops/ slave patrol systems they synergized with as effective means to solve the issues we as a society constantly face. And with this same lack of adhering to scientific facts are we supposed to feel comforted by these slave industry agents, legislators and policy makers that allow for that amendment to exist as is because they know it buys them that much time to not worry of their implicitness in enslavement of others? I implore everyone watch the documentary by Ava DuVernay 13th available for free on youtube from NetFlix due to its educational merit. This documentary is like a course 101 on understanding just how much of an issue enslavement systems are and how synonymous prisons and cops are to slave markets and patrols. It gets right to the problem of slavery, what scriptures did they use to embed it into our social mainframe? did it exist back then? Yes, Is it gone? No, it let’s us know it’s still active and strategies by white supremacists and slavers then benefit their lineages and communities now.

They have a lot of control over the systems that try to govern us. Reconfiguring, inspecting and enacting amendments at this level will be required for us to do something meaningful against this oppressive system and its unsustainable, inefficient amalgamation with slavery markets as a resource system.

Reparations for those harmed by these systems as well as systemic decolonization strategies will be commonly needed. We need documentaries like this and similar subject media to help the public understand the necessary steps to abolish prisons and repurposing the military that serve them away from the rich’s interest and focus on the people. Since all defending this slavery system are implicit. 13th by Ava DuVernay is available now on YouTube for free via NetFlix along with other educational documentaries

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[rainbowpopeworld]

from “Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex” available here for free. Source

[merciawintersageposting]

holy shit y’all. a judge just granted a TRO to halt Robert Roberson’s execution.

thank you for calling and emailing and spreading the word💚

[battleangel]

2 Shots In The Dark

I stand as a witness its time to fight back thats what Huey said, two shots in the dark and now Hueys dead.

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look?

Some say it's just a part of it

We've got to fulfill the book

Hes good and dead now.

After two gunshots were fired inside the room, the other officer said, "He's good and dead now."

It was later confirmed that Fred Hampton had never been fully conscious, had never left his bed, and “had been shot at close range, with two bullets to the head.”

Two bullets to the head and now Hamptons dead.

Breonna Taylor, eight shots, asleep in her bed.

Asleep, unconscious, unarmed.

Say her name!

Say their names.

Sandra Bland, rolling stop, red light, dead nigger, killed in custody.

Red light special.

Hands up, dont shoot!

Shot him anyway.

Its just a bag of Skittles officer, not a gun.

Taste the rainbow.

"Check with the landlord." Hes black, no way he owned his own home. I could just google it but I wont waste time on a dead black guy.

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I communicated with my ancestors, prophets & prophetesses today and received many downloads from them through time.

It is heavy to carry the weight that my ancestors have borne through colonization, segregation, genocides, apartheid, police brutality, mass incarceration, criminalizing and pathologizing normal behavior to create school to prison industrial complex and school to psychiatric industrial complex pipelines.

The blood of my ancestors called out to me, murdered in police custody, killed at stop signs, shot in their sleep, gunned down with their hands up.

The murdered prophets & prophetesses, priestesess, revolutionaries and love warriors cry out for freedom and justice.

It is heavy to bear their blood and pain and bear witness to the lynchings, beatings and burning crosses through the ages.

I stand as a witness to all they have been through and all they have suffered.

I spread my gold phoenix wings, as a dark phoenix I rise from the ashes, and I spread my golden glittering wings to avenge, for justice, for freedom.

I stand with the black revolutionaries and the vanguard throughout time:

❤️‍🔥Fred Hampton❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Huey P. Newton❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Assata Shakur❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Tupac❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Malcolm X❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Michael Jackson❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Marcus Garvey❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Aaliyah❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Langston Hughes❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Sojourner Truth❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Muhammad Ali❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Toni Morrison❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥bell hooks❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Palestinian brothers & sisters❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥Congolese brothers & sisters❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥My brothers & sisters in Tigray❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥My brothers & sisters unjustly locked up❤️‍🔥

How long will they kill our prophets?

❤️‍🔥My brothers & sisters murdered by the police❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥My brothers & sisters lynched❤️‍🔥

We've got to fulfill the book

❤️‍🔥My brother with a botched police case, autopsy and investigation❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥My brothers and sisters in mass unmarked graves❤️‍🔥

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

How long will they kill our prophets?

We've got to fulfill the book

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[brettdoesdiscourse]

Do you believe violent criminals can ever be rehabilitated enough to be released back into society? Don't answer for whether you think our current systems allow for this, please only answer for whether you personally believe anyone CAN be rehabilitated.

[stardew-bajablast]

TW: sexual abuse

95 people are involved in this lawsuit. 95 children were subjected to decades of systematic sexual violence and physical abuse at the hands of those who had been entrusted with their care

and those are just the ones who are suing. there are certainly more.

ABOLISH THE POLICE

ABOLISH PRISONS

[hellyeahheroes]

We Need to Rethink Justice by Andrewism