Private prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic manage many of these detention center / immigrant prisons, with taxpayers funding the detention at a cost exceeding $13 million per day.
🎥 • @grodriguezlemus
“Half of the yard at the former Wayne Correctional Center in North Carolina is surrounded by a red-brick, two-story building with some windows boarded up, the other half by barbed-wire gates.
The yard is where Kerwin Pittman often sits to take meetings. He calls it the vineyard. When he toured the space to decide whether to buy it, the vineyard gave him a sense of calm. It evoked memories of being incarcerated for over 11 years.
As far as he and his team can tell, Pittman is the first formerly incarcerated person in U.S. history to buy a prison.
As the executive director of the nonprofit Recidivism Reduction Educational Programs Services (RREPS), his goal is to turn it into a “Recidivism Reduction Campus.” Pittman wants it to be a place where people recently released from prison can live and get job training, digital literacy training and trauma-informed care.
It’s a dream he’s had since he was in prison.”
To learn more follow @kerwin_pittman
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📹Travis Long
Via • @newsobserver
Right now, the state of Alabama extracts more than $450M per year in unpaid labor from incarcerated men and women. This urgent, Oscar-nominated documentary, ‘The Alabama Solution’, exposes the modern-day slavery happening every day in the state prison system. Watch to see how these incarcerated men are fighting for their human rights. Go to @thealabamasolution to take action.
Via • @nowthisimpact
Thank you @breannastewart30 and everyone using their voice to call for an end to the violence.
We stand with Minneapolis and families across the country demanding dignity, safety, and justice.
Everyone can do something in this critical moment in history. Calling your senators is one way to make a concrete difference.
Do it today.
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Repost @bensheehan@kagawacolas
FULL SCRIPT for calling your senators in one image.
Call 202-224-3121.
Ask to be connected to each of your two senators (two calls total). Read this or a version of it (feel free to riff).
They’re voting THIS WEEK. I’ve shown what this looks like in a reel on my page (if you need more guidance).
Thanks in advance — and if you want more actionable info without rage bait, follow this account 🙏 #usa #news #politics
My heart is completely shattered by the passing of John Forté, a musical genius, father, and beloved friend.
John’s brilliance, vulnerability, and spirit forever changed me and everyone who had the opportunity to meet him. I met John more than 15 years ago, and had the privilege to perform with him right after his release from prison at the Roxy Theatre and at Sylmar Juvenile Hall, at the time the largest youth prison in the western hemisphere.
From that day forward, John was a guiding force on the #SchoolsNotPrisons Tour, sharing his talent, his wisdom, and his compassion with every room he entered. His life and his artistry carried truth, love, and possibility.
John, thank you for your heart, your friendship, and your willingness to utilize your life in service to others. My thoughts and prayers go out to your family and loved ones. You will be truly missed and I will forever love you.
#johnforté #schoolsnotprisons #love
Rest in Power, Assata Shakur 🕊
Assata Shakur, a revolutionary, writer, and lifelong freedom fighter with the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at 78 in Havana, Cuba, where she had been living in political exile since 1984.
Branded an enemy of the state and the first woman placed on the FBI’s most wanted list, Assata’s impact persisted through her vision of a freer world, which continues to inspire today’s struggles for justice, abolition, and freedom worldwide.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.” — Assata Shakur
Assata’s life reminds us that freedom is a struggle, and the struggle lives on through us. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
📸 credit: @thedreamdefenders@muchachafanzine@allofusornone@abnormalize.being@itswalela@democracynow@blmgrassroots@yabablay
#AssataShakur #RestInPower #BlackLiberation #BlackPower
Join us for an evening of storytelling, healing, and political education with the Beloved Community Coalition at Tia Chucha’s. We’ll begin with a brief Ethnic Studies workshop exploring community, love, and liberation, followed by a book talk with Mike de la Rocha on his inspiring new release, Sacred Lessons: Teaching My Father How to Love. Together, we’ll create a space for dialogue, reflection, and collective action.
#818 #Sylmar #sanfernandovalley
Our very own host of the #SchoolsNotPrisons podcast, @ifrancorubio , shares important ways youth in school can protect themselves amid the rise of state-sanctioned mass deportations.🚨
With deportations ramping up under the Trump administration, here are some key tactics to keep in mind. Tap the link in bio @teenvogue for more info. ℹ️
Want to take action? Stay up-to-date with @detentionwatch to support national and local efforts for immigrant justice and prison abolition in your community. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
#FreeThemAll #ImmigrantJustice #SchoolsNotPrisons
Today, February 21, we commemorate 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated. Amidst the celebration of 100 years since his birth, the fire of struggle he lit still burns.
Malcolm X left us with important lessons: that liberation will not be handed to us, but that it must be taken with organization, discipline, courage, and unity.
100 years after his birth, the forces of white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism remain, but our people’s movements are strengthened by the lessons Malcolm and countless other revolutionaries left us. His legacy is not just in the past; it lives in every act of resistance, demand for dignity, in all of the fighting movements to unite the oppressed across the world.
Today, as we honor Malcolm X, we do not mourn—we commit to fight against racism and exploitation. We commit to building the struggle while strengthening solidarity and internationalism. We commit to the unyielding fight for liberation—not as history, but as an urgent, present task!
📣Register for the course Our Freedom Can’t Wait: the Struggle for Black Liberation Past & Present at peoplesforum.org/freedom @peoplesforumnyc
