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Call for Solidarity Actions with Anarchist Prisoners 23rd – 30th August 2020 — Derry Anarchist Black Cross

As part of the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners we thought that it would be good to issue a call out to anarchists across the country, groups or individually, wherever you are, be it in a town, city or village.

Whether you’re good at art or not, look at creating a D.I.Y banner to take part in a banner drop across Ireland. On Sunday 30th of August anarchists will do a banner drop in solidarity with anarchist prisoners in Ireland and internationally…

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We encourage you to talk to your friends and comrades to take part in towns where you live, with anarchists near you and get active in support and solidarity with anarchist prisoners.

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Below are some ideas of pervious banners created by anarchists across the country and beyond.

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The Origins of Prison Slavery

The USA has by far the highest Incarceration Rate in the whole world with 2,121,000 prisoners. World Prison Brief.^[1]

The Origins of Prison Slavery

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.

The link between prison labor and slavery is not merely rhetorical. At the end of the Civil War, the 13^thamendment abolished slavery “except as a punishment for a crime.”

The origins of prison slavery in the American South.

This opened the door for more than a century of forced labor that was in many ways identical to, and in some ways worse than, slavery. Follow this link to excerpt from , American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment.

Proof of US Racist Slave Regime..Wikipedia..

Ethnicity

2010. Inmates in adult facilities, by race and ethnicity. Jails, and state and federal prisons.^[72]
Race, ethnicity	% of US population	% of U.S. incarcerated population	National incarceration rate (per 100,000 of all ages)
White (non-Hispanic)	64	39	450 per 100,000
Hispanic	16	19	831 per 100,000
Black	13	40	2,306 per 100,000

The 2015 US prison population by race, ethnicity, and gender. Does not include jails.^[73]

The Civil War Didn’t End Slavery After All

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2018 Black males accounted for 34% of the total male prison population, white males 29%, and Hispanic males 24%.

White females comprised 47% of the prison population in comparison to Black females who accounted for 18% of the female population. The imprisonment rate for Black females (88 per 100,000 Black female residents) was 1.8 times as high as for white females (49 per 100,000 white female residents).

The imprisonment rate for Black males (2,272 per 100,000 Black male residents) was 5.8 times as high as for white males (392 per 100,000 white male residents).

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On Facebook Banning Anarchist And Antifascist Pages and The Digital Censorship To Come

CrimethInc.@crimethinc·1hThe real issue is not the suppression a few hundred Facebook pages. Facebook has always been complicit in state surveillance. The real issue is that this is a step in a larger strategy. They are shutting down our communications so the state can attack us. #NoAnarchistBan

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The Facebook account, linked to https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com which promotes a free anarchist novel and shares relevant stories, was DISABLED by Facebook in May 2020. No explanations.

Now finally they invited it back, but WITHOUT THE 3500 FRIENDS. You can still tell the truth on Facebook.. So long as nobody hears you.

Now they have banned It’s Going Down and CrimethInc. (@crimethinc) · Twitter which are two of the very few brilliant sources of solidarity, imagination and hope for humanity.

Unless they are reinstated, WITH their followers we at TheFreeOnline and surely thousands more, will leave Farcebook forever

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On Facebook Banning Anarchist And Antifascist Pages

by It’s Going Down and CrimethInc

On August 19, 2020 Facebook deleted a variety of far-Right militia and Qanon accounts along with anarchist and antifascist pages, including It’s Going Down and CrimethInc. The following is a joint statement in response.

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