A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our Republican example of its just influence in the world — enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites — causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty — criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-10-16), “In Reply to Senator Douglas,” Peoria, Illinois

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3661…

A few decades ago there was a serial killer in Kauai. It's why I opened my yoga studio on Maui. Police never caught the fucker. A friend of a friend of mine was murdered while camping on the beach. But then word spread throughout the community that it was handled. That it had been a local man and the Hawaiian community took care of it, which they had. I don't know what they did. But I know this, we do not need police. everyone felt safe, and we were. We keep us safe.

"California prison officials have known about the issue for months, but have failed to clear people’s records or reverse the consequences people have faced from the tests."

"Revealed: drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of people"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/california-prison-drug-tests

Henry Highland Garnett, NY Presbyterian minister, summarizes slavery to Congress. It is theft, pollution of the innocent, incest, murder, blasphemy, defiance of the laws of God. It descecrates the family in mulitple ways. It feeds prejudice.

Today, we have many people seeking to rehabilitate the reputation of slavery, who also champion “family values”.

How can you seek out wickedness in your life and speak out for those abused by it?

“Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959” #abolition
https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-county-sexual-abuse-juvenile-facilities-37d06fa55aacbe072051546ead07a65b

Since the LNP first introduced the draconian and outrageously dangerous Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation, Sisters Inside have spoken out against its inherent injustice

‘The Queensland Government cannot continue to ignore the fact that this punitive approach will only cause more harm. Evidence from around the world shows that treating children as adults in the criminal legal system increases recriminalisation and perpetuates cycles of violence and disadvantage. These policies are not about public safety—they are about political expediency, fearmongering, and the continued criminalisation of Aboriginal children,’ Debbie Kilroy

https://sistersinside.com.au/sisters-inside-condemns-the-expansion-of-adult-crime-adult-time-laws/

#AusPol #Australia #QLD #QLDPol #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Crime #Youth #YouthCrime #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace

[shared from the SistersInside Facebook page]

"Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Tuesday that she would seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering a UnitedHealthcare executive in Manhattan last year, part of a push to revive the widespread use of capital punishment in federal cases.

In a statement, one of Mr. Mangione’s defense lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said that seeking the death penalty in the case amounted to “premeditated, state-sponsored murder” intended to protect the “immoral” health care industry."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/luigi-mangione-death-penalty.html

Our April prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 4/6 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce).

No experience necessary.
All supplies provided.
Just bring yourself!

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“A Nov 2022 study by researchers at Brown, Boston & Harvard universities found that 13% – or 271 – of the deaths in Texas prisons w/o universal AC between 2001 & 2019 may be attributed to extreme heat” #Abolition
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/judge-texas-extreme-heat-prisons-unconstitutional

“Texas is not alone in facing lawsuits over dangerously hot prisons. Cases also have been filed in Louisiana & New Mexico. 1 filed in July in Georgia alleged a man died in July 2023 after he was left in an outdoor cell 4 hours w/o water, shade” #Abolition https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/judge-texas-extreme-heat-prisons-unconstitutional

“Texas has more than 130,000 people serving time in prisons, more than any state in the US. Only about a third of roughly 100 prison units are fully air conditioned and the rest have either partial or no electrical cooling” #Abolition
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/judge-texas-extreme-heat-prisons-unconstitutional

“A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could cost billions” #Abolition
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/judge-texas-extreme-heat-prisons-unconstitutional

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Today in Labor History March 23, 1871: Far left workers proclaimed communes in Lyon and Marseilles. The Paris Commune began March 18. Workers, including Cluseret and Mikhail Bakunin, had tried to create a commune in Lyon in 1870, as well. Prior to this, Cluseret fought the bourgeois moderates during the 1848 Paris uprising. And in 1860, he joined Garabaldi in his fight for Italian independence. In 1860, when William Sewell made a plea for European generals, he joined Union army with letters of support from Garibaldi, serving as a colonel, commanding troops in Shenandoah Valley. He eventually rose to the rank of general, but eventually quit when he was accused of insubordination for complaining about the abuse of civilians by Union troops. After that, he joined the Irish Republican cause, managing to escape a death sentence by the British. During the Paris Commune, Cluseret served as Minister of War. However, when he refused to arrest Monsignior Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, he was arrested for collusion with the enemy.

Cluseret once said, “the U.S. presents that strange anomaly of enslaved labor in a free nation. Politically free, the worker is socially the capitalists’ serf.”

Marx called him an opportunist and an overambitious babbler.

"If he beat up a kid, a bag of fast food would be delivered by a staff member the next morning."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-21/meals-gladiator-fights-juvenile-halls

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