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Student protest for endowment justice ✊ We raised the alarm across campus yesterday with partners @divestharvard @harvardpdc to expose Harvard’s harmful investments. #StopHarvardLandGrabs
join us this weekend for dialogue and action around Harvard’s $50 billion dollar endowment and our fight for divestment from fossil fuels and the prison industrial complex 🔥 forum sign up below!
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Today is our day of action. We are demonstrating for divestment, but also to uplift individuals like those in these letters. Those who bear the brunt of mass incarceration, but are often forgotten. We hope to see you outside of Johnston Gate at 1:00 PM today.
The day of action is TOMORROW! The demonstration starts at 1:00 outside of Johnston Gate and we will start letter writing at 2:00. We hope to see you all there for however long you can make it!
Harvard students—our radical organizing fair is tomorrow! Come over to Harvard Yard to meet and learn how to plug into student groups organizing for a better Harvard!
From today through 9.12 we will be fundraising for @JLSOfficial and @BlackAndPinkMA . Donations can be sent to our venmo @HarvardPDC and will be split evenly. We will post the final fundarised amount and screenshots of our donations by 9.14.
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If they need legal assistance, they should reach out to @reprolegalfund.
Since 2000, we’ve had a safe, simple way to do our abortions at home with pills, but anti-abortion politicians make them hard to get, imposing outdated regulations and criminalizing people who use them. Get educated about the power of abortion pills.
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Use the registration link in our bio to join us for a week of abolitionist programming in support of @JailLawSpeak’s national Shut Em Down Protests and in pursuit of Harvard’s divestment from the prison industrial complex!
If anyone has loved ones incarcerated in areas impacted by #HurricaneIda please get in touch, we have some resources for folks inside and several reporters have been reaching out to us wanting to offer #media coverage on the impacts of the storm on incarcerated people.
🔥NEW Press Announcement from @JailLawSpeak 🔥
'National Shut 'Em Down Prisoners' Strike and Boycott' for for 2022 (August 21st - September 9th).
They ask outside supporters to prepare, get involved, and promote it throughout the next year
ALT NATIONAL SHUT’EM DOWN PRISONERS’ STRIKE AND BOYCOTT
Abolition Right Now!
[NATIONAL, August-September] It is with a collective heavy heart, but a raging spirit of Abolition that Jailhouse Lawyers Speak announces the call for National Abolition Demonstrations inside the prisons and Jails of America! Jailhouse Lawyers Speak members around the nation are making a direct appeal for people locked up to disrupt the normal prison operations of america.These demonstrations will be known as National Shutem Down Demonstrations. Scheduled to take place August 21 - September 9th 2022. This announcement comes early to give our friends, families, comrades and supporters on the outside enough time to get the word inside to every jail, prison, and ICE facility by any means.
People have asked why we fight to end legalized enslavement and to abolish prisons in America?
We fight to end legalized enslavement because it's wrong, promotes prisons, demands profits off the convicted, and it violates hum
ALT SHUT’EM DOWN DEMONSTRATION METHODS
People in prisons, jails, or ICE can select one or multiple ways to participate in the Shut 'Em Down demonstrations
1. Work Strikes: Prisoners will not report to assigned jobs. Each place of detention will determine how long its strike will last. Some of these strikes may translate into a local list of demands designed to improve conditions and reduce harm within the prison.
2. Sit-ins : In certain prisons, men and women will engage in sit – in protests.
3. Boycotts: All spending should be halted throughout demonstration dates. We ask those outside the walls not to make financial judgments for those inside. Men and women on the inside will inform you if they are participating in this boycott.
4. Hunger Strikes: Men and women shall refuse to eat. This is usually the only options some may have in order to participate
5. Sabotaging prison work equipment to ensure it will not function
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak placed an inside demonstration call in
ALT Closures should be followed by laws being enacted to reduce the use of cells. And force resources that would have been allocated to those jails and prisons into the poorer communities to aid in ending poverty crimes
3. Immediately closing down all private prisons
4. Freeing All Political Prisoners in the US prisons
WHAT CAN YOU DO ON THE OUTSIDE TO HELP
Share this press release everywhere, especially to media outlets
Create promotional materials to send inside, share on social media, and to pass out at events
Organize Abolitionist events to promote ShutEm Down 2022
Promote the Shut’em Down Abolition demands
Organize event to educate and demand the closure of prisons, jails, and ICE
*Consider applying for the following Committee/seats:
- Abolition Convention Planning Committee.
This Committee will be responsible for organizing the Convention.
Contact: JailhouseLawyersSpeak@protonmail.com
- JLS International Law Project.
Volunteer lawyers and law students only.
Contact pr
ALT At least one volunteer lobbyist will be needed for every state.
Contact: JailhouseLawyersSpeak@protonmail.com
People inside that would like to share their ideas on places that should be closed down or notice that their place of confinement will be participating can write to:
KC IWOC
PO Box 414304
Kansas City, MO 64141
All media inquiries contact: media@incarceratedworkers.org
Kan't Stop, Won't Stop! ShutEm Down!
[Jailhouse Lawyers Speak]
#ShutEmDown2022 #PrisonStrike #Abolition
The call for National Shutem Down demonstrations has only one interpretation -- ABOLITION!
NOTHING ELSE! CLOSE DOWN PRISONS, JAILS, AND ICE!
Stand up to free ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
ALT The call for National Shutem Down demonstrations has only one interpretation -- ABOLITION!
NOTHING ELSE! CLOSE DOWN PRISONS, JAILS, AND ICE!
Stand up to free ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
When people tell us nothing will ever change. We remind them that the world is constantly changing.
This is why we can do better as humans! Stop with the excuses
We're 3 days away from the first set of Shut 'Em Down demonstrations, called by @JailLawSpeak, and we're 368 days from the next national prison strike. Take some time to listen to our interview with JLS or any of their other recent conversations if you have time today
Will you donate today & help my fundraising team get to $3K for @WeareDissenters? I’m on the Advisory Committee & want to ensure that our students & organizers have the funds they need to build power and stir sh*t up on their campuses. actionnetwork.org/fundraisin…