Abolition
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Huron Valley Women’s Prison Bulletin
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON US ALL! FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, IT IS THE ONLY THING WORTH FIGHTING FOR! A group in the Michigan General Defense Committee has taken on a project to write to around 10 women currently held captive in Women’s Huron Valley Prison in Ypsilanti,…
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The Fight for Life in the “Valley of Death”
Orisanmi Burton has said, “Prisoners are positioned behind enemy lines and have a unique political capacity. War studied from both sides shows us that incarcerated people are the tip of the counterinsurgency spear that is pointed towards us who are outside of the wall. And the prison is a strategy…
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Solidarity Protests Continue
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Different forms of prisoner resistance and repression continue as long as the prison system stands. The biggest recent instance of prisoner unrest/repression in Michigan was at Kinross CF in the Upper Peninsula, Sept 9-10, 2016. The uprising was part of the nationwide Prison…
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Attica as a Gender War
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The fantasy of the hypermasculine, sexually potent Black man is a cornerstone of Amerikkkan whiteness, laid by the long history of lynching in this backward country. After being hanged, the victim’s genitals swell — an erection, often called “angel lust.” The eroticized corpse…
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Setting the Stage for Revolt: The Context of the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Orisanmi Burton refers to prison as war. And prisons were only one facet of the ongoing war during this period. The Long Attica Revolt took place against a backdrop of international anti-colonial struggle across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. In the…
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Exploring the Long Attica Revolt
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series For the final week of our 28 Days of Black Liberation program we will be looking at the Long Attica Revolt and the role of prisoners in the Black Liberation Struggle using Orisanmi Burton’s book Tip of the Spear. During spring of 2024…
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GDC’s Abolition Work: 2024 in Review
This article aims to highlight some key moments, movements, battles, and organizing the GDC Abolitionist WG has been engaged and involved in, often alongside and in coalition with others.
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Abolitionism
Position paper by the GDC Abolitionist Working Group. In the United States the Black Liberation struggle has been central to nearly every potentially mass insurrectional / moment of revolutionary potential in its history.
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Abolitionist solutions to mental health crises
On June 18, 2024, Wayne police showed up at the home of John Zook Jr. and shot him six times after he called 911 in the midst of a mental health crisis. Zook’s murder throws into sharp relief what many Americans already know to be true: that our system’s response…
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Pull Over Prevention: What and Why?
Pull Over Prevention is a free bulb replacement and safety check to avoid police harassment. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ABOLISH THE POLICE! HOUSING FOR ALL! END U.S. IMPERIALISM! END THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA! FREE PALESTINE! Lansing: First Sunday of every month 12-4 p.m. at The Village, 3525 S Martin Luther…