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lisa 🖤
@thelidrastore.bsky.social
vegan for animals, prison abolitionist, Jew for Palestine 🌱🇵🇸🏴🍉
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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.
October 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"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."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I promise you that doing something about it, however small, will make you feel better than posting about it.
February 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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“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.”
It’s So Hard to Maintain Relationships in Prison
When you’re incarcerated, family members become strangers. Sometimes, friends and loved ones even forget what you look like.
prisonjournalismproject.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"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."
‘The Trend of Less’ in Prison
They also receive fewer phone calls and visits.
prisonjournalismproject.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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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-...
February 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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An increasing amount of the political commentary I’d like to make is composed of things I can’t say
February 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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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)
January 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
As someone who often send mail to incarcerated people, this was pretty incredible to read.
January 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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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/
January 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Good reminders
January 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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“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 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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...
January 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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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...
January 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
going away and don’t want to leave these babies 😭
December 15, 2024 at 3:55 PM