Craig Gilmore
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3 eyes lost to US policing
It turns out
@OGJohnTee
and
@notbalin
are WAY TALLER than me. Also they’re both fucking awesome.
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Wondering how much housing AirBnB removes from the local housing market?
64% rise in rental properties across
#Dublin
in midst of
#Covid_19
crisis according to property website
@daftmedia
as landlords start withdrawing their rentals from short-term listing sites like
#Airbnb
and are offering them into the market instead.
#HousingCrisis
#CoronaCrisis
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For all of those fighting to keep prisons open to 'save jobs.' (rally at state capitol, Sacramento, April 2007)
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Power to the People.
Free All Political Prisoners
RIP: Faith Ringgold
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Biden reopens (another) detention camp. and a particularly toxic one, even by the already low standards of US detention/imprisonment.
The Biden admin is reopening the detention camp for migrant kids in Homestead, Florida. This camp was shut down in 2019. My collaborative research with
@afscfl
@WeCount_Fl
@Earthjustice
shows that the site is contaminated with military waste (1/5)
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A great example of reformist co-optation: Harvard placates 2020 George Floyd protestors by creating a new journal. Two years later that journal publishes an essay calling for the hiring of 500,000 more Derek Chauvins.
#KeepYourEyesOnThePrize
In an ironic twist to this shocking story, the academic journal that published the dangerous, unethical article calling for 500,000 more cops was presented to the students as one of Harvard Law School's responses to the murder of George Floyd.
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Seeing this floored me. It is hard to explain how impossible this essay by this writer being published in the NYT op-ed page would have been even a year ago. No one has done more to shift our culture & politics towards this moment than
@prisonculture
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Plans about to be revealed for yet another new jail for women & 'gender-expansive people' in NYC. As with all improved cages, these will be 'different', 'humane', 'feminist', 'gender-responsive.' Contrary to advance propaganda, there is nothing new about such 'reformed' cages. 1/
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What ‘more humane’ prisons do: grief counseling for the guards who failed to respond to repeated requests for help from a pregnant 18 year old. Nothing for that 18 year old whose newborn died in her cell.
#FreeThemAll
Prison guards, but not mother, get counselling after baby dies in cell
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Orange County, CA ordered to reduce jail population by 50%: thread. Congratulations and thanks to all who have been working on this.
BREAKING: the Orange County Superior Court just ordered a 50% reduction in the jail population for officials’ failures to address COVID-19 and the threat it poses to vulnerable and disabled detainees. Hundreds of lives finally recognized.
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Seize the fucking apartments.
Did y’all hear?
NYC landlords aren’t renting out their rent stabilized apartments.
They’re against rent stabilization + claim regulated rent stifles their profits—so they’re “protesting” by letting apts sit empty than rent them out.
13,000 of them. In a housing crisis.
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Making zines is now criminal conspiracy & racketeering in Atlanta (and where else tomorrow?)
From the
#StopCopCity
RICO indictment — "Anarchy Background of Defend the Atlanta Forest":
A conspiracy to "promote anarchist ideals" of "mutual aid, collectivism and social solidarity," including through "the dissemination of written documents, known colloquially as 'zines.'"
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RIP :: to a remarkably generous man. In addition to the work he's left us, he introduced thousands of people to each other, to new organizations, to new & old ideas. He connected us in ways none of us could have imagined.
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This NYTimes story about a planned prison closure is the latest public relations success of prison guards, the real estate business, & the Chamber of Commerce to convince us that we should keep people in cages to maintain jobs & real estate values & commerce. 1/
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Happy Bastille Day. Have a great time tearing down prisons & freeing the incarcerated.
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California decriminalizes crossing the street
Finally, you can no longer be fined in California for "jaywalking", a derogatory term based on a slur that the auto industry made up in the 1920s-30s to shame pedestrians for using the public streets. 100 years late is better than never.
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"It is not possible to support people who have abortions and be pro-police. It never was. We cannot claim to support the oppressed while giving untold sums of money and power to their oppressors 'in our defense'.”
@RBraceySherman
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What do you call a political system in which the cops get warrants to search the homes & offices of their critics? More great reporting from
@AleneTchek
"A barefoot
@SheilaKuehl
was escorted away from the house and her phone was taken from her."
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I've had enough of reading basically the same story year after year exposing the 'truth' about private prisons in the US. That the stories are sooo repetitive is annoying. That they repeat misleading or unfounded claims deceives & weakens the movement against prisons. 1/9
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Remind me why "Defund" is a bad idea??
If you’re wondering why it *looks* like the police are at war with us:
The United States police spending ranks third among worldwide military expenditures.
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I listened to an hour of Columbia Justice Lab, Women's Community Justice Association & the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab pitch their new feminist jail. I didn't hear a single idea that hadn't been widely circulated among carceral feminists a decade ago. 1/
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Prison is sexual & gendered violence
Virginia prison threatens to permanently ban women from visiting loved ones if they don’t consent to strip searches
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You protest Cop City, you go to jail. & no one is going to bail you out....
"The bill adds 30 additional charges that are ineligible for unsecured judicial releases...charges commonly associated with protesting, like unlawful assembly & obstruction of a law enforcement officer"
SB 63 — which would criminalize bail funds in Georgia — passed the Senate today. The bill would make bailing more than 3 people out of jail per YEAR a crime for bail funds and nonprofits. It also increases the number of non-bail-eligible offenses.
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“Modern prisons are imperfectible, since they are perfect. There is nothing left but to destroy them.”
— Victor Serge, Men in Prison, 1931
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In Dec 2006, there were 11,805 people locked in CA prisons for women.
Last week there were 3,493. Happy holidays.
#AbolitionistOrganizing
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Are we going to limit our political horizons to simply a return to normal or to just a restoration of abortion rights? Let's work towards goals that are more ambitious. Surely now is the time to make the sorts of deep structural changes we need.
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Seeing a lot about Biden "reinstating" Obama’s “ban” on private prison contracting in FBoP. Not only did Obama NOT ban the renewal of contracts with the privates, FBoP renewed at least two such contracts in the months following their high profile & empty announcement 1/
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Your regular reminder: the exploitation of the labor of incarcerated people isn't about generating profit; it is about saving money for the state agencies that lock them up.
This is another reminder that the biggest users of prison labor aren't [insert private company name here], but local/state agencies that exploit prison labor to save money.
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Angela Davis "The rescinding of this invitation was thus not primarily an attack against me but rather against the spirit of the indivisibility of justice."
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Let me see if I've got this right: Walgreens is the largest illegal drug seller in San Francisco. And a year ago, ALL the media were up in arms about Walgreens' plan to close more stores allegedly because of shoplifting, part of the campaign against C Boudin. 1/2
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The anti-private prison movement in the US, whatever its advocates say they're doing, is ultimately protecting public sector prison jobs, and therefore working to maintain mass incarceration. The problem with prisons isn't privatization or profits. The problem is prisons. 9/9
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Carceral Feminism Playbook, Step 1 ::
Line up mainstream feminists* to support your "gender-responsive" jail.
*Most of whom will have had no experience or expertise on the prison system, much less on decarceral or abolitionist alternatives.
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If only we had 500,000 more cops...
Columbia County, Florida
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What do abolitionists do? 👇👇
About 30,000 fewer people are behind bars in California state prisons than just three years ago.
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Who could have predicted this?
Increase in police in NYC subway fails to put dent in crime, but leads to more arrests for low-level violations, particularly of people of color.
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Great thread about anonymity, photos at demos, & how the cops (and others) can use publicly accessible information to track you down.
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Here's Ruth Wilson Gilmore's piece on
#mothers
organizing as mothers against racist policing.
#MothersReclaimingOurChildren
#PortlandMoms
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Governor
@NYGovCuomo
Release all elders & other vulnerable people.
#Covid19
#ClemencyNow
#FreeOurElders
#LetThemGo
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Ford Foundation's decision "to redirect our support [away from diversity in higher ed] toward traditionally underfunded areas of work in social & racial justice" is, I fear, a promise of more grasstops groups pushing for 'humane' Scandanavian-style prisons.
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The idea that profit explains the growth of US incarceration (false) or its brutality (false) or its racism (false) not only pushes activism into useless deadends. It implicitly legitimates publicly operated cages which hold 92% of those in prison and 99% of those in jail. 7/9
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Mothers Reclaiming Our Children, LA, early 90s
Here's Ruth Wilson Gilmore's piece on
#mothers
organizing as mothers against racist policing.
#MothersReclaimingOurChildren
#PortlandMoms
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Police failure to protect people in Uvalde is going to result in more funding for the police. Unless you help
#DefundThePolice
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13 May : Paul Gilroy & Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss Stuart Hall : Selected Writings on Race & Difference
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Great 🧵on the ways the U of Chicago Crime Lab puts out 'studies' that support more imprisonment & more cops & can shift positions as the political (and funding?) winds change with no accountability for the damage they've enabled. Applies to all university-based 'Justice' Labs.
Q1: What is the remedy for a think tank doing something as profoundly destructive and politically salient as promoting a narrative that persists today (more felony convictions + more prison time = less violence)? Is there no responsibility to more explicitly correct the record? +
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Before the Congressman, the criminal. Mississippi Gov Ross Barnett's decision to use police & prisons to suppress Freedom Riders in May 1961 rather than depending on Klan violence lays one of the cornerstones of the PIC as a dominant institution of repression of Black people.
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People caged in CA prisons for women last week: 5,808
People caged in CA prisons for women Dec 26, 2007: 11,484
Happy Holidays
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That privatization 'warps' an otherwise (mostly) just system is the greatest lie of these exposés. Unfortunately the idea that if we removed profit from the criminal justice system, we'd have a more just system is central to most of the anti-private prison activism in the US. 6/9
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You know that
#Defund
is not just fewer cops with fewer rifles in Burlington Coat Factory. It also means cutting funding for the 'experts' who train cops, write policy, & justify 'use of force' -- the "cottage industry of exoneration". Great thread & article ::
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2/3 of children with a parent in prison in the US don't see that parent while she/he is imprisoned.
BJS data show that about half (47%) of people in state prisons are parents of minor children. Mail is the most common way they communicate with their kids. Don't take it away.
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Mariame Kaba, Rachel Caidor, Deana Lewis, and Beth Richie
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I'm willing to take the blame for not voting for Biden/Harris.
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C) Private prisons, they claim, "warp justice, because the company's responsibility is to its shareholders, not the public." What "justice" is being upheld in public prisons & jails and how is it being "warped" in private prisons? What "public" is served by public prisons? 5/9
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THREAD : How the LAPD (& other cops) used social media surveillance software to compile mega databases about who opposes unrestrained police violence, who supports BLM, etc ::
SCOOP: Emails show that the LAPD
worked w/ Dataminr -- a controversial social media surveillance company -- during the
#GeorgeFloyd
protests. The LAPD has previously denied using the system to track BLM protests.
@LATACO
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Check out "Fight Like Hell: A Tribute to Mike Davis"
@Eventbrite
Angela Davis, Geri Silva & RWG talk about Mike Davis. Nov. 4
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As we've seen in California, having well-paid, unionized prison guards hasn't solved ANY problems in state prisons. Increasing the # of guards, their pay & training has been a major hurdle for any criminal justice reform in the state.
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Worried about laying off police officers? You can
#DefundThePolice
by not replacing cops who retire or quit.
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What are those deceptive tales? A) That donations from private prison corporations drive penal policy. Do they donate? Yes. Do they donate as much as unions of public sector prison workers or police? NO. Or have as much power to shape legislation as sheriffs or DAs? NO. 2/9
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"while nothing is done to free Black women from prisons..."
In 2007 there were over 11,000 people in California prisons for women.
Last week there were 3,754.
What's the value in denying that organizing happened? Or that Black feminists, some in the academy, played vital roles?
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Who is writing the "Jails Are Not Feminist" response column for the NY Times?
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If only
Police group leader calls Biden-Harris "most radical anti-police ticket in history"
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Santa Clara County Jail project delayed for at least another 3 years::
Congratulations & thanks to all who have worked on this campaign.
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There are 7,739 fewer people locked in California's prisons for women today than there were 15 years ago.
Thank an abolitionist.
Happy Holidays.
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Connecticut::
HAPPENING NOW: protesters have SHUT DOWN Colt's arms manufacturing plant in West Hartford, CT for their role in supplying weapons to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
#ShutItDown4Palestine
✊️🇵🇸
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