Today in Labor History May 23, 1832: The authorities executed Jamaican national hero Samuel Sharpe for his role in the 1831 Slave Rebellion which helped end slavery on the island. It started as a peaceful protest, but evolved into Jamaica’s largest slave rebellion, mobilizing 60,000 enslaved people and spreading throughout the entire country. It lasted 10 days. They killed 14 whites, but troops slaughtered over 200 rebels and then executed over 300 more.
First Nations leaders accuse Queensland LNP of ‘intent to destroy’ Indigenous communities as youth crime laws pass
Criticisms ignored as David Crisafulli defies UN human rights warnings over ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #Youth #YouthCrime #QLD #QLDPol #Australia #AusPol
@tazgetroete Interessante Studie. Die Polizei is rotten to the core.
Nur die Lösungsansätze sehen wir etwas anders #PolizeiAbschaffen #AbolishThePolice #Abolition
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Abolition #SafeHousing The second story highlights a new pilot program to help youth avoid become unhoused. How? They gave the kids cash money to help cover rent, food and bills, allowing them to use the $ as they saw fit. The NY program is showing great promise after 30 days . Other states show stabilization still in effect after 90 days. We have the tools to keep our communities safe. It really isn't that complicated. 2/2
https://gothamist.com/news/program-gave-youth-3k-to-avoid-nyc-homeless-shelters-so-far-its-working
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Abolition #SafeHousing
Safe and secure housing is a critical component of helping communities stay safe without the police. Two recent articles highlight the importance of housing. A nonprofit in NY built housing for families with children. It is light filled, attractive and secure compared to it's neighbor, an institutional looking city-run shelter. The nonprofit said their place was built to help reduce trauma. 1/2
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wants-to-make-it-easier-for-nonprofits-to-own-homeless-shelters-heres-why
These plantation museums exist all over the south, often run for profit by the descendants of the white people who built these mansions and who accrued massive fortunes through the unpaid labor of enslaved people. Over 80% of these museums avoid or trivialize issues of slavery, oppression, and racism as legitimate parts of their historical narratives.
https://www.nps.gov/crps/crmjournal/summer2004/reviewbook13.html
You can buy my book, Wellness While incarcerated, from Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wellness-while-incarcerated-anonymous/1146356790?ean=9798988816133
Many penal institutions do not accept Amazon orders for books, but do accept Barnes & Nobles.
Vijay Prashad: Punishing Haiti’s Liberation
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/13/vijay-prashad-punishing-haitis-liberation/
Ever since waging the first successful anti-imperialist revolution in 1804, the Caribbean nation that overthrew slavery has been hit with crippling debt, coups and foreign meddling. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On a stormy August night in 1791,…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #France #Haiti #History #HumanRights #IncomeInequality #Spain #U.s. #Abolition #AntiImperialism #CécileFatiman #Citibank #DuttyBoukman #DuvalierRegime #Frankétienne #FrenchRevolution #GeorgeWashington #HaitianRevolution #JeanBertrandAristide #JeanJacquesDessalines #MaximilienRobespierre #NapoleonBonaparte #PresidentJeanVilbrunGuillaumeSam #Slavery #ThomasJefferson #ToussaintLOuverture #VijayPrashad #ViscountOfRochambeau
Today in Labor History May 13, 1846: The U.S. declared war on Mexico. Over 1,733 U.S. soldiers and more than 5,000 Mexican soldiers died in the Mexican-American War. However, the Mexican death toll was probably closer to 25,000, if you include deaths from disease and accidents related to the war. As a result of the war, the U.S. conquered Texas, Alta California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo promised U.S. citizenship to the Mexican and Indigenous Peoples living in these conquered territories. Yet, the U.S. denied citizenship to the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest until the 1930s.
Whigs and Abolitionists opposed the war as a land grab by the slave owners. In 1880, the Republican Campaign Textbook described the war as “Feculent, reeking Corruption…One of the darkest scenes in our history—a war forced upon our and the Mexican people by … President Polk in pursuit of territorial aggrandizement of the slave oligarchy.” In many ways, the Mexican-American War created the conditions for the Civil War and wars against Indigenous Americans that followed. It also paved the way for the brutal exploitation of Chinese and Irish labor in the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
Another lesser-known legacy of this war was the defection of Irishmen from the U.S. Army. Many joined the Saint Patrick’s Battalion fighting for the Mexican side. These defectors were often recent refugees from the Potato Famine and had joined the U.S. army in order to earn enough to feed themselves. However, the wages were low and the Irish recruits were subjected to racism and religious intolerance. The Mexican government offered them higher wages and land grants, as well as a common religion. The San Patricios were responsible for some of the fiercest resistance the U.S. faced in the war. In addition to the Irish, the San Patricios also included other disgruntled Americans, emigres from Europe and escaped slaves.
Frederick Douglass, opposed the war, as did writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, who spent night in jail for his Civil Disobedience against the war. The accompanying video, “Stolen at Gunpoint,” by Tijuana No and Kid Frost, refers to the U.S. states taken from Mexico during the war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jlO5RqXFLM
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Police
If you follow me I would ask you to consider blocking @copblaster . They say they are about reporting misconduct. But I've scrolled through their feed several time and they are mainly posting the pictures of Black and Latino police officers. There's a few white ones sprinkled in, but mainly not. I am no fan of the police. You can read my #abolition posts, But these postings seem racially targeted. Your mileage may vary but at least think about it. Thanks.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Abolition #CommunitySafety #ViolenceReduction
Its been a while since an #Abolition story could break through the news. But here’s an example of how community can work together to prevent violence, as happened in this community in East Harlem.
https://gothamist.com/news/how-community-activists-police-and-residents-drove-down-shootings-in-east-harlem
The police were involved but as you can see, the real work is community led. 1/3
Fuck "the right to work", we want to abolish work.
Fuck the "rights of workers", we want to abolish the class society that divides humanity in workers and bourgeois.
Fuck praising the revolutionaries that came before us, until we win the battle they lost their lives fighting.
The poster with the quote by Ken Knabb was made with #Inkscape
Louisiana Sent Kids to Adult Jail That Violated Scores of Regulations, Reports Say
Investigators found the Jackson Parish Jail violated state rules 83 times between July and February—almost 12 times more than the second-worst lockup.
https://theappeal.org/jackson-parish-jail-violations-louisiana-children/
Our May prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 5/4 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce).
No experience necessary.
All supplies provided.
Just bring yourself!
There is *no alternative* to abolition. None. People given power over captives in a dungeon will brutally abuse that power 100% of time time, forever.
"Tacoma Police Department repeatedly failed to respond to reports of sexual abuse and assault experienced by people held at the Northwest Detention Center, according to a new report by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights.
Across the 157 reports of assault, sex crimes or rape at the facility between 2015 and 2025 reviewed by researchers, nearly 90% involved a detained person as a victim. Among those cases, Tacoma police directly contacted detainees who were victims only 36% of the time.
Reports of violent attacks, sexual assaults and beatings by facility guards have long been disregarded by Tacoma police, said Rufina Reyes, executive director of La Resistencia, a local immigrant rights group that advocates for the closure of the detention center and the end of deportations."
As Dauphin County seeks to reform their policies, the next step may involve eliminating an ongoing booking fee that continues to take money from those who are often innocent until proven guilty.
'What a light of hope this has been,' said Judi.
Replicas of Abolition Era posters have been going up in New Bedford after ICE agents have appeared in the city.
Proud of this City's history of welcoming and protecting refugees!
"The companies got Monopoly on calls at each jail through contracts they negotiated with sheriffs. By locking in high exclusive rates, they made hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the denial of human contact."
—Copaganda, by Alec Karakatsanis
American Rendition: Journey To A Louisiana Cell
(I just read that a federal judge has denied bail.)
The arrest and detention of Rümeysa Öztürk, a child development researcher who has not been charged with a crime, reveals what President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign looks like on the ground.
https://popularresistance.org/american-rendition-journey-to-a-louisiana-cell/
