Month: Apr 2020

Direct Action to #FreeThemAll: From Stateville Prison to the Front Yard of its Warden

shared with thanks via ..Its Going Down

Report and video on recent action in solidarity with prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL.

There has been a major shift in tactics and strategy for the grassroots campaign to #FreeThemAll in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers, quite noticeably right now throughout the Midwest. Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL is quickly unfolding into a nightmare scenario of lethal punishment and police violence. As of last week, officially 123 imprisoned people and 65 guards/staff tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at Stateville. Infections are assumed to be multiplying exponentially.

As #COVID19 infections of inmates and staff explode at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, #Illinois, abolitionists took action last Friday outside the home of prison warden David Gomez to remember those who have died and to demand #FreeThemAll. https://t.co/MY4v7WOVIS pic.twitter.com/p6I93Sve9W

— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) April 20, 2020

On Friday, April 17th, a group of concerned loved ones and advocates for prisoners in the Midwest took the fight against conditions at Stateville into their own hands and to the fascist’s front door where they used life-size replicas of body bags to block the driveway of prison warden David Gomez.

These body bags represent the ongoing accumulation of causalities from the COVID-19 pandemic at Stateville, as the infection continues to spread rapidly throughout its carceral facilities.

Six of the eight largest COVID-19 outbreaks are inside of jails and prisons.

One prison in Ohio has 1,828 confirmed cases alone. This is what the early stages of genocide looks like.#LIBERATEPRISONERS pic.twitter.com/9JqYjiI0M7

— MIDWEST #RENTSTRIKE (@MW_Unrest) April 20, 2020

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The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises is Wrecking Poor Countries

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But all the refuges are closed due to the pandemic, including the one we’re sitting outside of, where I volunteer. He has run out of insulin for his diabetes and says he can’t walk any more.

I’m squatting on a round piece of concrete, and a 72-year-old man is sitting in the gutter, his walking stick beside him. He tells me that after being deported from the United States, he has been hiking the streets of Mexico City trying to find somewhere to stay.

I’m aware that he may not survive much longer. He’s the fifth person that day that I have to turn away and I can’t stand it.

Continue reading “US Bullies can just Print Money while Rest of us Face Ruin”

Originally posted on winter oak: Number 56 In this issue: We don’t want your fascist future! Fighting the coronazi clampdown 5G: resistance starts here This is our planet, not theirs When the walls of Babylon close in Gerrard Winstanley: an orgrad inspiration….

The Acorn – 56 — shared with thanks – via Wessex Solidarity

In this issue:
We don’t want your fascist future!
Fighting the coronazi clampdown
5G: resistance starts here
This is our planet, not theirs
When the walls of Babylon close in
Gerrard Winstanley: an orgrad inspiration
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We don’t want your fascist future!

We don’t want the “smart” fascist future you have been trying to sell us for so long and which you are now trying to force upon us with lies, fear and all your infrastructures of control.

We don’t want to be little submissive cogs in your machineries of greed and exploitation.

We don’t want to be told how to live and what to think.

We don’t want to be locked up indoors at your majesties’ pleasure, only allowed out of our cells to labour for your profit.

We don’t want to be distanced, isolated and alienated.

We don’t want to be the individually-wrapped slices of human flesh on which you gorge.

We didn’t want your first industrial revolution – when you threw us off our land and caged us in your dark satanic mills – and we certainly don’t want your fourth.

We don’t want to be cut off from the living world and confined to your sterile fake reality.

We don’t want to be policed and preached at by your drones and robots.

We don’t have to ask your permission to enjoy the world in which we belong – we will do so whenever, however and with whomever we choose.

We are not prepared to be patronised, humiliated or microchipped.

We refuse to plug ourselves meekly into the matrix of your total control.

We want you to bear in mind that you do not own us, that you cannot buy us and you will never control us.

We want you to know that we are free and will remain so unto the grave.

We want you to realise that when our time comes, we will make you pay for what you are doing to us.

And we want to remind you that there are very many more of us than of you.

See also:

Coronavirus thoughtcrime

The politics of fear

2.  Fighting the coronazi clampdown

A global resistance is beginning to form up against the coronazi clampdown.

Reports the Enough is Enough website: “The first wave of this counter-movement are the worldwide prison revolts, which now have spread to almost all continents”.

Continue reading “The Acorn 56 – Read Here: Stop Fascism/Lockdown/ 5G. This is our planet, not theirs!”