We will dismantle the structures of domination and control only when we reject the false separation between the individuals we've arbitrarily chosen to protect and those we exploit for profit and habit.

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

I promise you that doing something about it, however small, will make you feel better than posting about it.

“I’ll never forget that moment. It’s one of many rejections I’ve experienced living as a convict in a New Jersey prison. While incarcerated, it has often felt like I shouldn’t allow myself to be vulnerable with others, but I still do.”

"As the days turned into years, I began to get less. Fewer visits, less mail — everything good dwindled. I now typically get mail from home once or twice a month. All too common these days is an overwhelming sense of having been forgotten."

Food justice demands addressing food apartheid, health inequities for Black and Brown communities, and environmental racism harming future generations. The injustices are complicated, but one thing is clear: There is no food justice without racial justice.

Read more: foodispower.org/human-labor-...

An increasing amount of the political commentary I’d like to make is composed of things I can’t say

New KYR for immigration justice advocates: Assessing Risks in Supporting Immigrants at Points of Intervention, Understanding the “Harboring” Non-U.S. Citizens Federal Crime, 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)

As someone who often send mail to incarcerated people, this was pretty incredible to read.

Police contact of any kind is not innocuous: most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/12/19/policing_survey_2022/

Good reminders

“The day after the NewsNation ‘interview’ with E Block aired, the prison’s deputy superintendent threatened everyone in the unit, particularly the guys on the street-facing side, with time in the hole if they yelled from their cell or blinked their lights for the media again.”

January newsletter is out!
- Invite to upcoming open meeting
- Chuckawalla closing. But is it really?
- Political prisoner news: RIP Baba Bilal, 11 Gitmo prisoners released, Peppy & Krystal sentenced, Casey Goonan plea deal
- Remembering Bev Dove
- How to tap in!

mailchi.mp/e754666d54e5...

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🇯🇵

Margaret talks with Samantha McVey about the decades-long project in Northern Japan full of worker-cooperatives and new ways of living.

@margaret.bsky.social @mcveysam.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

going away and don’t want to leave these babies 😭