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Free Louna! News on the case of Louna, an anarchist trans woman imprisoned in the context of the fight against the A69

Free Louna! News on the case of Louna, an anarchist trans woman imprisoned in the context of the fight against the A69

03/2/2025 by soutienlouna via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FVm

For over 3 months now, Louna, an anarchist trans woman fighting against the A69, has been held in pretrial detention in the Tarbes men’s remand center, in solitary confinement.

Despite this confinement that is starting to last and the conditions of solitary confinement, she remains in good spirits, and we are still angry at knowing that she is locked up.

Louna is accused of setting fire to a construction machine intended for the construction of the A69, a highway project that is both useless and deadly, between Castres and Toulouse, French State.

Requests for release, including under judicial supervision or electronic bracelet, have been refused to date.

Here we return to the reasons for her incarceration, with the elements that we collected following the other GAVs and during a public hearing, or with what we interpret from them, but also on the means to support her.

The next important deadline for Louna’s release arrives in mid-February: the judge of liberties and detention will have to decide whether or not to renew her pretrial detention. Let’s widely disseminate the slogan “Free Louna”, demand her release and let the jails, repression, and state transphobia die!
Elements of the investigation

On the night of May 4 to 5, 2024, a construction machine was set on fire not far from the A69.

According to investigators, CCTV footage on site shows two people setting fire to an excavator, then one of them being the victim of a backfire.

However, that same night, a person was admitted to the emergency room in one of the hospitals closest to the scene of the fire, with injuries that could be compatible with the accident filmed.

This is Louna, who was actually hospitalized that night.

According to the hospital’s video surveillance images, three people appeared to be accompanying her. Investigators spotted the car in which Louna allegedly arrived with these three people, they noted its license plate and therefore the identity of its owner.

In addition, Louna indicated a relative’s phone number on an emergency form, a number that the cops seem to have assigned to one of the escorts.

Cops also came to seize her clothes during her hospitalization, and found DNA on a pair of shorts as well as on a covid mask contained in a pocket. This DNA was attributed to one of the people suspected of having accompanied Louna to the hospital.

During their visit, the cops also took photos of the escorts, of better quality than the CCTV images because they were taken with a smartphone.

This was probably to try to do facial recognition, for example by comparing them with the TAJ¹ photos or the photos of A69 activists from their incessant profiling.

After two days in hospital, Louna decided to leave on her own.

Based on this evidence, four people were arrested in mid-October: Louna, two people suspected of being among the escorts, and the owner of the car.

The police custody lasted up to 94 hours, and the interrogations continued.

The investigators also took advantage of this police custody to recover Louna’s DNA from a cup she had used, in addition to having probably already picked it up on her clothes at the hospital.

They state that this same DNA was found on a covid mask left at the scene of the fire.

Following this, Louna was indicted as part of this investigation and the three other people were released.

The charges are the destruction of an excavator by an explosive substance and participation in a criminal conspiracy with a view to destruction by dangerous means.

In mid-November, investigators carried out a new search and arrest at the home of an activist, still looking for at least one of the hospital escorts.

They searched his apartment for a watering can, because the hospital’s video surveillance allegedly shows a person getting out of the car with a watering can (hide your watering cans haha).

Apparently, the cops targeted this person using facial recognition, because she was known to the police for her activism in the green circles of her city. She too was released without further action to date.

Among the other techniques that the cops said they used or that are assumed to have been used, they allegedly tapped one or more of the suspects for calls and text messages in clear text and tracked the movements of one or more people by tracking their cell phones.

El capo de la Organización Terrorista OTAN se reunió con el “socialista” Sánchez para Traicionar el Pueblo

Para lo que no falta el dinero es para gasto militar. Esta es la “democracia plena” de la que tanto se vanagloria el presidente del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez.

Home Estado Español Política Política – Insurgente. Tu diario de contrainformación↗insurgente.org/category/estado-espanol/politica/

El gasto militar real del Estado español supera el 5% del PIB en 2024. Pero decir 5% es un engaño. El presupuesto social del Estado es solo una fracción pequeña del PIB total. Calcularlo!

El presidente del gobierno español, fiel lacayo del imperialismo yanqui, subrayó que España ha incrementado su inversión en defensa un 70% en la última década y aboga por movilizar fondos adicionales a través de proyectos conjuntos en la industria militar europea

El capo de la organización terrorista OTAN se reunió con el “socialista” Sánchez en La Moncloa

Nos referimos a su secretario general, Mark Rutte, el mismo que pedía a los gobiernos de los países miembros que aumentaran sus presupuestos, ya desorbitados, de defensa.

Sin sonrojarse ni un ápice, dijo hace no tantos días: “De media, los países europeos gastan fácilmente hasta una cuarta parte de la renta inicial en pensiones, sanidad y sistemas de seguridad social, y solo necesitamos una pequeña fracción de ese dinero para reforzar mucho más la defensa”.

España va a la Guerra (Tortuga) + ‘La escalada armamentista del Gobierno de España’-informe pdf – The Free

Este deshumanizado individuo pasó ayer por La Moncloa para mantener una conversación con el presidente del gobierno español, el “socialista” Pedro Sánchez. Hablaron de cuestiones clave como la inversión militar, el apoyo a Ucrania y la cooperación con la Unión Europea, mientras desde Moncloa se enfatizó que el Estado español es un “aliado serio y responsable”.

Los presupuestos militares son casi 20 veces mayores que lo que costaría hacer la universidad gratuita..izquierdadiario.es.

Rutte insistió en “la necesidad urgente” de aumentar considerablemente el gasto militar, planteando incluso la posibilidad de elevarlo al 4% si no se optimizan las inversiones.

Exterminio, esclavización y sepultamiento en las minas de la población aborigen, el saqueo de las Indias Orientales, la conversión del continente africano en cazadero de seres humanos para ser esclavizados

Notas sobre la historia del Colonialismo

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«El descubrimiento de los yacimientos de oro y plata de América, el exterminio, la esclavización y el sepultamiento en las minas de la población aborigen, el comienzo de la conquista y el saqueo de las Indias Orientales, la conversión del continente africano en cazadero de seres humanos para ser esclavizados: tales son los hechos que señalan los albores de la era de producción capitalista. Estos procesos representan factores fundamentales en el movimiento de la acumulación originaria».

«Bajo el sistema colonial, prosperaban como planta de estufa el comercio y la navegación. Las “Sociedades Monopolias” (Lutero) eran poderosas palancas de concentración de capitales. Las colonias brindaban a las nuevas manufacturas, que brotaban de todas partes, mercado para sus productos y una acumulación de capital intensificada gracias al régimen de monopolio. El botín conquistado fuera de Europa mediante el saqueo descarado, la esclavización y la matanza, refluía a la metrópoli para convertirse aquí en capital”.

«… Irlanda era el proveedor de mano de obra barata para el imperio inglés, una mano de obra que además permitía dividir a la clase obrera de Inglaterra sobre criterios raciales y, por tanto, bajar los salarios de los trabajadores, era también un mercado de productos lecheros y de patatas para Inglaterra. Sin hablar de que durante siglos fue la proveedora de madera para la construcción de los barcos de la Royal Navy y del carbón vegetal inglés, base de la primera fase de su industrialización… hasta el punto de que los bosques irlandeses han desaparecido por completo. Irlanda fue pues el terreno de prácticas del colonialismo inglés exportado después a ultramar”.

Fuente: presos.org.es

África. Esclavizada, colonizada, esquilmada y resistente.

Agenda

La Colonización

-I de II-

El rápido desarrollo industrial en Europa y su creciente expansión económica, acentuó la necesidad de disponer de más materias primas. El abundante descubrimiento de estas en los territorios africanos, al tiempo de disponer de la mano de obra necesaria sin necesidad de transportarla, una suerte de esclavitud in situ, inició la carrera por la colonización del interior del continente y finalmente del reparto de la casi totalidad de África entre las potencias europeas del momento. Por ello, y no por razones humanitarias, a principios del s. XIX surgieron las primeras leyes contra el tráfico de esclavos, pese a lo cual la esclavitud perduró de múltiples formas hasta finales de ese siglo a uno y otro lado del Atlántico.

Por espacio de más de trescientos años la presencia europea en África había quedado limitada a las zonas costeras. Los intentos de penetrar hacia el interior eran impedidos por las dificultades en las vías de acceso, los estragos de la malaria entre los invasores y la resistencia de las poblaciones locales. Adueñarse del control de las rutas del comercio interior fue posible solo en el último cuarto del siglo XIX, merced a la posesión de barcos de vapor capaces de navegar por los ríos y a la superioridad de las armas, así como del empleo de la recién descubierta quinina para combatir la malaria o el paludismo.

La penetración europea, tanto comercial como armada, utilizó la instigación y creación de conflictos de todo tipo, imponiendo variados sistemas de dominación y subordinación. Como forma de dominio emplearon una mezcla de ocupación militar, imposición de sistemas de tributación coercitivos, confiscación de tierras y obligación de proporcionar fuerza de trabajo para construir infraestructuras y en la producción agrícola para la exportación.

Cada potencia colonial impuso estructuras administrativas de su elección, según la naturaleza de las sociedades que se querían someter, realizando divisiones territoriales sin respetar etnias y tribus, a las que arbitrariamente se les asignaron nombres y subordinaciones jerárquicas ordenadas según la voluntad y el interés colonial. Hasta los conocimientos que les proporcionaba la antropología sobre las sociedades africanas fueron empleados para manipular sus creencias animistas, mitos y supersticiones. Esta división administrativa y política impuesta por los colonialistas europeos creó un África hasta entonces inexistente, moldeada para ser sometida a su total dominación.

La voracidad sin freno entre las potencias colonizadoras que competían entre si acabaron imponiendo en sus territorios impuestos aduaneros a sus rivales. A fin de tratar de poner cierto orden en esa rapiña … /…

Continúa el domingo 9 de febrero.http://www.presos.org.es

RELACIONADOS

África y su esclavización. 14 millones de personas fueron esclavizadas durante los siglos XVIII y XIX.

Abolición de la esclavitud, Gran Bretaña en 1807 y, en 1834, en todas sus colonias. Francia en 1848 y Estados Unidos en 1865. Uno de los últimos fue España, en 1886; y en Cuba, aún colonia suya, fue en 1890.

Cómo era África antes de ser Colonizada. Y África como coto de caza de Esclavos.

Viñetas de actualidad sobre Palestina, Yemen, «Israel»,

Cuando se fabricó una imagen del negro africano basada en prejuicios raciales: sin moralidad y nulas aptitudes intelectuales, para esclavizarlo.

Dangerous climate radical, Lloyds of London, threatens the world economy

Look – the world authorities have got everything in hand. There should be no need to worry about that global heating nonsense.

by Antinuclear.net 3rd Feb 25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FV4

We learned at Climate Summits Cop 28 and Cop 29 that our shares in oil, gas, coal are going to continue OK. And now, the world’s leader, the USA is going to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, so we can forget all that silly reductions emissions nonsense. And no more of our money to be grabbed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Gee, America has just been saved from a “national energy emergency,” by President Trump’s foresight, with an executive order with its promise to “drill, baby, drill.” Saved in several other ways, such as removing incentives for electric cars.

Trump’s insane Tariff War Backfires as Mexico, Canada and China respond in kind

Canada and Mexico have already lashed out against Trump’s accusations and tariffs. Hours after the announcement, Canada slapped 25% tariffs on US goods

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Trump announced new tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada on Saturday, citing concerns over the three countries’ failures in stemming the flow of migrants and illegal drugs, such as fentanyl, into the US

**Hours after the announcement, Canada slapped 25% tariffs on US goods, which will be “far-reaching and include everyday items,” according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.**

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum instructed the Economy Ministry on Saturday to implement “Plan B,” which involves tariff and non-tariff retaliatory measures against Washington.

While details have not been disclosed, sources claim that Mexico aims to impose measures on US industries such as agriculture.

China to sue US over Trump’s new tariffs

The US president has placed restrictions on Chinese goods in what he said was retaliation for failing to stem the flow of migrants and drugs into America

China will file a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and take other retaliatory measures against US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on its goods, the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, Beijing sees Washington’s unilateral tariff increase as “seriously violating” WTO rules.

In order to hike the tariffs, Trump declared a national economic emergency, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which authorizes the president to unilaterally manage imports.

The tariffs, set to enter into effect on February 4, will amount to a 25% tax on all imports from Mexico and most goods from Canada, and a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. According to a fact sheet published by the White House, the tariffs will be in place with no exemptions “until the crisis is alleviated.”

China’s Commerce Ministry said Beijing is “strongly dissatisfied” with Washington’s action and “firmly opposes” it.

China to sue US over Trump’s new tariffs

“It is not only unhelpful in solving [Washington’s] own problems, but also undermines the normal economic and trade cooperation between China and the US,” the ministry stated, adding that Beijing “will take corresponding countermeasures to firmly safeguard its own rights and interests,” without disclosing details.

It added that the US should “objectively and rationally view and deal with its own problems” such as illegal drug imports, instead of “threatening other countries with tariffs.”

The ministry said Beijing will file a formal complaint over the new tariffs with the WTO, which has legal power to permit a country suffering from another country’s tariffs to respond with its own. As both the US and China are WTO members, they are required to abide by its decisions when in dispute.

China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry called the tariffs “not constructive,” warning that this could reignite a trade war.

“China’s position is firm and consistent. Trade and tariff wars have no winners… This move cannot solve the US’s problems at home and more importantly, does not benefit either side, still less the world,” the ministry said in a statement late Saturday.

It also warned that the new tariffs will “harm the counternarcotics cooperation between the two sides in the future.”

Is the END of Rojava coming? – you can help save a unique human experiment in real time!- Help expose Turkey’s new fascist invasion!

Recent rumors suggest that the U.S. may be preparing to withdraw its more than 2,000 troops deployed in Rojava, SDF-AANES, in north and eastern Syria

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Banner shows 11 of the civilian ‘human shield’ protestors murdered in cold blood by Turkey at Tishreen Dam

Such a move could weaken the SDF to the point of collapse and we hope the reports are mere rumors.

The revolutionary AANES constitution reflects the democratic principles, communal work, human rights, ethnic and religious tolerance, Woman-Life-Freedom, gender equality, and the decentralization of power already being implemented with great enthusiasm in their liberated area..

The revolution, unique in the middle east if not the world, follows the teachings of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned forever on a Turkish island. It began in Turkey in where there are over 20 million repressed Kurds, when Ocalan organised the PKK defenders to make a 2nd successful truce with Turkey, until the Erdogan regime forced the collapse of the agreement in 2015 and drowned the civil revolution in blood, even bombing Kurdish cities in Turkey like Nusaybin to rubble to stamp out Kurdish horizontal democratic practices . see photo.

City of Nusaybin in Turkey after Erdogan’s ‘Peace Police’ operation. Zehra Dogan was jailed for painting a picture based on this photo.

The revolution survived however in NE Syria. The Assad regime had to abandon the area due to almost losing the civil war.

The Turkish armed jihadi ISIS Caliphate had been sweeping north Syria, but the Kurdish defenders defeated them in the epic Siege of Kobanî (Sept 2014 to Feb 2915) despite the destruction of the city, with the International Coalition (mainly the USA) finally intervening with some air support.

After the Kobani victory the Kurdish defenders (YPG men and YPJ women) went on to organize the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces, now over 100k strong) as a host of other militia groupings joined them, Arabs of all sorts, Yazides, Womens militias, Christians, Syriacs, Turkmen, Armenians, etc

The rest is history, the SDF defeated ISIS in Manbij and set up a vibrant unique multi cultural multi religious city following the communal liberation agenda and continued east.

(However in January 2025, taking advantage of the fall of the Assad regime, Manbij was finally conquered by Erdogan’s horde of Turkish backed jihadi mercenaries in an orgy of looting and rape, even executing the injured SDF defenders in their hospital beds.(videos)

Serekaniye in Rojava, Syria was seized and ethnically cleansed by Turkey in part of its 3rd invasion labeled ‘Operation Peace Spring’, thousands of residents are still surviving in internal refugee camps

The SDF went on to defeat the ISIS Caliphate, finally taking over their capital of Raqqa (2017) with air support (which is now rebuilt and a thriving, free, minority Kurdish multi-ethnic city) and driving them out of all NE Syria, including the Arab area in Deir Ezzor, where most of the limited oil reserves are located.

Feb 2025 – Is the END of Rojava Looming? – you can help save a unique human experiment in real time –

Trump is rumored to be planning to withdraw the 2000 US troops and cancel its support for the SDF/AANES in suppressing and guarding ISIS.

The region’s ethnic and religious diversity is its defining feature, which the AANES authorities often highlight as part of their political platform promoting coexistence and tolerance among the different groups.

AANES/SDF would objectively be better with almost any other guarantor than the genocidal predator capitalist USA, which reduced Syria to starvation levels since 2019 under Trump’s orders under the draconian Caesar Act Sanctions (now paused) as revenge for its proxies not winning the civil war.

How can we save the Rojava Revolution?

The best thing we can do is to promote International support. The Kurdish Diaspora is strongly behind AANES/SDF, also the Kurds in Turkey, though heavily suppressed.

There are dozens of support groups especially in Europe as well as some ONGs and Human Rights Groups who could try to deliver some aid in the event of a US withdrawal and major Turkish invasion.

However there is extensive Rojava support media, also international and multilingual, and one of the chief ways you can help defend the revolution is by sharing these media reports, including many videos and trying everything to make mainstream media include them.

Rojava Information Center
#Riseup4Rojavahttp://www.riseup4rojava.org https://t.me/RiseUp4RojavaEng
ANHA ENGLISH https://t.me/enhawarnews
https://t.me/International_Rev
https://t.me/sdf_press
Medya News

Donate now to Hevya Zor for 75K destitute refugees EMERGENCY AID FOR ROJAVA! – heyvasor.com
Rojava resists! 200,000 Saved! International anarchist and leftist groups declare their support for SDF thefreeonline.com/2024
Situational update Rojava Information Center- 5th Dec 2024

It is possible to volunteer, especially if you have medical or military experience, and there still are international groups that can organize the trip. Many international comrades have been killed defending Rojava.

Unfortunately Rojava is blockaded on three sides, for the moment aid can enter via Iraq where there is some Yazidi and Kurdish support but this could be blocked if/when the US leaves Syria and/or keeps its promise to leave Iraq.

What are most needed perhaps are thousands of lightweight drones which could even stymie NATO’s 2nd largest army in guerrilla warfare. Turkey has always been wary of committing its own troops, mostly forced draftees and prone to a bad image and some embarrassing losses.

Other options look unviable or unlikely:

Trump abhors the local ideology of course. He betrayed the SDF back in 2019 and let Turkey invade and ethnically cleanse the border area. He also declared in a macho rave that the US was only there for the oil. Ever since then the entire Arab media always repeats that Rojava exists to help the USA steal their oil (though the quantity is insignificant and there is no modern refinery).

Turkiye

Meanwhile every single report in the Turkish (95% indirectly state controlled) media reminds us that all Kurds are ‘PKK terrorists’ and must be eliminated. Erdogan boasts at killing Kurds, genocide is an ultra-nationalist tradition and imperialist expansion inspires support despite the dire ecoinomy.).’- PKK are NOT terrorists! Erdogan rejected Ocalan’s Peace Plan, sabotaged their Truce. bombed their cities… –

New Syrian Govt

As for the new HTS “inclusive” regime in Damascus – it’s looking grim. Jolani, now named Syria’s ‘President’ has declared all militia groupings are being integrated under his control into the State army, except the SDF which is happy to be an autonomous part of the new “inclusive” State – but refuses to disband and face destruction and likely genocide.

There’s a fundamental contradiction between the brilliant Constitution of Rojava and the ideology of President Jolani, former leader of the Al Qaeda ‘head choppers’.

The AANES Constitution represents a region where various ethnic and religious communities coexist peacefully, where women and minorities are guaranteed equal rights, and where local governance is based on the principles of autonomy and self-determination.

Iran

Then there is Iran, could it help Rojava survive? Unfortunately ‘Woman-Life-Freedom’ is anathema to the present clerical regime. Indeed several women in Irani Kurdistan are right now facing the imminent Death Penalty for their Jineology views. –Iran: Two Kurdish Women at Risk of Execution

Russia

Could Russia intervene to stop the Turkish invasion destroying Rojava?. – It’s true that Russia has played the peacemaker, sometimes limiting Turkish atrocities against Syrian Kurds in the past, although they betrayed them by gifting the Afrin area to Turkey,by allowing their ongoing invasion, occupation and ethnic cleansing, in exchange for an oil pipeline. In any case Russia is now out of the picture, being the main backer of the defunct Assad regime.

Also there is Israel, now grabbing a slice of southern Syria… It’s doubtful whether the SDF would accept aid from the genocidal zionist settler regime even to save their own lives, and very unlikely that Israel would ever offer.

Israel

Finally there is International support. The Kurdish Diaspora is strongly behind AANES/SDF, also the Turkish Kurds, though heavily suppressed. There are dozens of support groups especially in Europe as well as some ONGs and Human Rights Groups who could try to deliver some aid in the event of a US withdrawal and major Turkish invasion.

Turkey’s jihadi mercenaries are now better trained, well armed and supported, nevertheless they are an unstable conglomeration of many authoritarian militias whose base loyalty is to Turkish promises of looting and women.

SDF local support is at it highest ever with daily demonstrations and displays of local organisations, especially youth, declaring they will fight to the death.

This is also evidenced by the continuing convoys traveling to the Tishreen Dam frontline , despite daily Turkish massacres, to act a human shields.

At the Tishreen Dam crossing of the Euphrates tens of thousands of multi ethnic civilians have traveled in convoys from all over the AANES area, taking turns at an ongoing day and night demonstration in freezing conditions, with the hope of shaming Turkey before international opinion into halting the invasion.

Mutual Aid General Fund – Jan 2025 Recipient: Decarcerate Sacramento

Since forming 6 years ago, Decarcerate Sacramento has supported the Sacramento community in a myriad of ways and this month they are mobilizing yet again to organize against a problematic $2 billion dollar jail expansion plan

by Radical-Guide on 2nd Feb 25 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FTY

With supporters of Mutual Aid General Fund of Sacramento coming together and sharing financial solidarity for local, grassroots mutual aid, we are grateful and proud to offer this month’s support to Decarcerate Sacramento.
Mutual Aid General Fund – Jan 2025 Recipient: Decarcerate Sacramento

Decarcerate Sac’s direct community support has come in many forms including:

Created a groundbreaking jail hotline to be better able to support and organize alongside those inside the county jails including medical advocacy, free books, information sharing, legal research, and more.
Hosted powerful community events including a vigil outside the downtown jail, honoring those who’ve died inside and centering their families and formerly incarcerated advocates.
Sent over 3,000 letters to reach every person incarcerated in Sacramento County with words of encouragement and solidarity along with information on voting rights for people in jail, educational info on election topics, and their ongoing jail fight.
Co-created a zine, “Inside Voices Breaking Out”, with individuals in Sacramento County jails and hosted a zine launch party and art show with live performances by previously incarcerated folks.
clothing donations
Hosted community education events including film screening of Care First California’s short film “Probation Pretrial is Mass Incarceration”
Letter writing to incarcerated protestors for movements like Stop Cop City and Black Lives Matter
Provides the community with education on our City and County budgets

In addition to direct support to community members, Decarcerate Sac also regularly organizes in support of our community at the city and county level regarding budgeting concerns and other key decisions made by Sacramento City Council and Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. Since 2019 they have:

Stopped the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center (RCCC) jail expansion in 2019 and again in 2020.
Halted the Main Jail expansion in 2021 and won an official pause in 2023 working with a collective of architects and organizations to generate a report on crucial errors in the proposed expansion plans.
Pressured the county to create its first ever jail population reduction plan.
Forced the Community Corrections Partnership to create its required community advisory board after 7 shameful years of vacancy..
In partnership with the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and the Community Care First Sacramento coalition, released the Sacramento County People Power for Public Health report in August of 2022. The report interviewed individuals who are unhoused, incarcerated, and/or on probation to create a set of policy and budget recommendations for Sacramento County.

This month, Decarcerate Sac is gathering the community to engage yet again with the County Board of Supervisors in their February 26th meeting as they review recommendations for the next stage of the $2 BILLION jail expansion project.

In the fall of 2023, Decarcerate Sac along with 17 other organizations, including architects, provided the Board of Supervisors with a report detailing the artificial arguments for the expansion and the many errors in the proposed plans.

“It is our hope that, supplied with this new information, you will recognize that it is not necessary to build a new jail facility to meet the requirements of the Mays Consent Decree. If your goal is to meet the Mays Consent Decree in the most fiscally responsible way, there are other, more efficient and effective ways to do so. We are more than happy to provide additional context and answer any questions you may have.”

If you are a Sacramento County resident, I encourage you to review the report and attend the meeting (or send a comment to the County Board of Supervisors by Feb 25th) to share with them your concerns.

You can find more about the Board of Supervisor’s meetings, agenda items, and how to submit public comment on their website.

We are eager to contribute our support to Decarcerate Sacramento — especially as the jail expansion fight ramps up again — in all of the ways that strengthen community resistance, amplify grassroots organizing, and challenge systems of harm.