Abolitionists
"Prisons don’t disappear problems, they disappear people"
Angela Davis <3
Getting and keeping people out of prisons, healing trauma, and investing in local resources such as housing and employment
Decarceration
Under this "convict leasing" system, incarcerated individuals are allegedly forced to work for (_______ hint: fast food restaurant) which pays incarcerated workers wages lower than those required by law
McDonald's
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Bob Marley - Stand up for your rights
“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Harriet Tubman <3
Shared commitment to defend the safety of a community or neighborhood by eliminating practices such as calling the police and going to the police for solutions to our problems.
No Cop Zones
Incarcerated workers often lack access to basic workers' protections, like federal safety standards and workers' compensation at this soda company
Coca Cola
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Tupac - Keep Ya Head Up
“You can jail a revolutionary but you can't jail the revolution”
Fred Hampton
Sisters Unchained passed a bill to push judges to avoid sentencing parents convicted of a crime in prison. This bill offers parents the opportunity to serve their sentence in the community
Beef, soybeans, corn and wheat are just some of the products that have found their way into consumer markets from prison farms and barns. Name at least one food company for which this applies
Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Costco
I'm tired of Marvin asking me, "What's Going On?
March to the streets 'cause I'm willing and I'm able
Categorize me, I defy every label
Janelle Monae - Q.U.E.E.N.
“Abolition is about abolishing the conditions under which prison became the solution to problems, rather than abolishing the buildings we call prisons.”
Ruth Wilson Gilmore <3
Crime is defined as harm. Support networks are formed to assist the recovery and transformation of both the person harmed and person who inflicted the harm
Transformative justice
For the vast majority, that work is barely paid (if at all), with the average prison salary maxing out at ____ cents per hour.
52
Wouldn't you know
We been hurt, been down before,
When our pride was low
Lookin' at the world like, "Where do we go?"
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
Assata Shakur <3
Demands for compensation related to slavery, incarceration and abuse of human rights
Reparations
________ state is one of a few remaining states where prisoners are generally paid nothing
Georgia
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