Today in Labor History December 25, 1831: The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, began on this date. Samuel Sharpe, a black Baptist deacon, led the revolt of 60,000 enslaved people. The 11-day uprising began as a General Strike, but quickly turned violent. 14 whites and 207 enslaved black people died in the siege. However, another 340 rebels were executed afterward. The rebels had been inspired by the abolitionist movement in London and had intended to call for a peaceful uprising. The rebellion was depicted in Andrea Levy's 2010 novel, “The Long Song,” and in Herbert de Lisser’s The 1929 novel “The White Witch of Rosehall.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #revolt #uprising #jamaica #samuelsharpe #rebellion #books #novels #writer #author #fiction #BlackMastodon @bookstadon

The card I'll be sending to Willie this year.

#holiday #card #abolition

The card I'll be sending to Willie this year.

#holiday #card #abolition

North Lake Correctional Center Noise Demo Reportback

"On Saturday, September 6, 2025, about 200 Michiganders gathered outside of the North Lake Correctional Center for a noise demo. Formerly a youth prison, since June 2025, North Lake has become an ICE detention center operated by GEO Group, holding over 600 people captive from various ICE raids across the Midwest."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/16/north-lake-correctional-center-noise-demo-reportback/

#Anarchism #Abolition #FuckICE #Michigan

North Lake Correctional Center Noise Demo Reportback

"On Saturday, September 6, 2025, about 200 Michiganders gathered outside of the North Lake Correctional Center for a noise demo. Formerly a youth prison, since June 2025, North Lake has become an ICE detention center operated by GEO Group, holding over 600 people captive from various ICE raids across the Midwest."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/16/north-lake-correctional-center-noise-demo-reportback/

#Anarchism #Abolition #FuckICE #Michigan

Our September prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 9/7 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce) in Seattle.

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

#seattle #letterwriting#abolition

Our September prisoner letter writing night will be held on Sunday 9/7 3-5pm at Pipsqueak Gallery (16th and Spruce) in Seattle.

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

#seattle #letterwriting#abolition

"In the first half of the year, at least 19 out of 49 dedicated detention facilities exceeded their rated bed capacity and many more holding facilities and local jails exceeded their agreed-upon immigrant detainee capacity.

"'There are so many things we’ve seen before — poor food quality, abuse by guards, not having clean clothes or underwear, not getting hygiene products. But the scale at which it’s happening feels greater, because it’s happening everywhere and people are sleeping on floors.'"

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-29/as-ice-detainees-top-60000-some-detention-centers-stack-mattresses-on-the-floor

#ICE #immigration#USpol#abolition

"In the first half of the year, at least 19 out of 49 dedicated detention facilities exceeded their rated bed capacity and many more holding facilities and local jails exceeded their agreed-upon immigrant detainee capacity.

"'There are so many things we’ve seen before — poor food quality, abuse by guards, not having clean clothes or underwear, not getting hygiene products. But the scale at which it’s happening feels greater, because it’s happening everywhere and people are sleeping on floors.'"

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-29/as-ice-detainees-top-60000-some-detention-centers-stack-mattresses-on-the-floor

#ICE #immigration#USpol#abolition

"We don’t only fight for the freedom of our compañeras but also for the abolition of prisons, and the search for a system of justice where punishment and punitivism are not the central axle"

https://comunidadplanetariajunax.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-no-estamos-todes

#Mexico#Chiapas#abolition

"We don’t only fight for the freedom of our compañeras but also for the abolition of prisons, and the search for a system of justice where punishment and punitivism are not the central axle"

https://comunidadplanetariajunax.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-no-estamos-todes

#Mexico#Chiapas#abolition

Midwest Prison Censorship Update 2025: Exposing the IDOC Mail Scanning Scam

"Prison censorship is a front in the fascist american project. For the millions buried by the largest prison system on the planet, we know that access to communication and reading materials remain one of the only ways people behind bars can maintain humanity. Prison is censorship, a system of walls and borders that criminalizes people and ideas: a system we are determined to break by building bridges of solidarity – through sharing books and publishing zines."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/21/midwest-prison-censorship-update-2025-exposing-the-idoc-mail-scanning-scam/

#IDOC #Abolition#PrisonAbolition#Illinois

Midwest Prison Censorship Update 2025: Exposing the IDOC Mail Scanning Scam

"Prison censorship is a front in the fascist american project. For the millions buried by the largest prison system on the planet, we know that access to communication and reading materials remain one of the only ways people behind bars can maintain humanity. Prison is censorship, a system of walls and borders that criminalizes people and ideas: a system we are determined to break by building bridges of solidarity – through sharing books and publishing zines."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/21/midwest-prison-censorship-update-2025-exposing-the-idoc-mail-scanning-scam/

#IDOC #Abolition#PrisonAbolition#Illinois

New translation up on @igd_news:

"This is a Network of feminist and transfeminist organizations that inhabit Abya Yala with diversity and the challenge of articulating our multiple perspectives. Here we converge as collectives, organizations, and projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela, where we come weaving with needle and thread the questions that keep our trajectories and journeys in motion, with practices that arise from the discomfort with punitive Patriarchal Justice and the network of violences it brings together: the appropriation and exploitation of bodies, territories, and knowledges in order to generate privileges and the accumulation of wealth."

https://itsgoingdown.org/manifesto-feminist-anti-carceral-network-latin-america

#abolition#LatinAmerica#AbyaYala#Mexico #prisons #feminism #solidarity

New translation up on @igd_news:

"This is a Network of feminist and transfeminist organizations that inhabit Abya Yala with diversity and the challenge of articulating our multiple perspectives. Here we converge as collectives, organizations, and projects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela, where we come weaving with needle and thread the questions that keep our trajectories and journeys in motion, with practices that arise from the discomfort with punitive Patriarchal Justice and the network of violences it brings together: the appropriation and exploitation of bodies, territories, and knowledges in order to generate privileges and the accumulation of wealth."

https://itsgoingdown.org/manifesto-feminist-anti-carceral-network-latin-america

#abolition#LatinAmerica#AbyaYala#Mexico #prisons #feminism #solidarity