TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists)
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Are Prisons Obsolete? [Free PDF]
By Angela Davis
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awkword.bsky.social
“Fre’Drisha Dixon can still recall the laughter that once spilled across… the now-shuttered Clyde Woodworth Elementary School in Inglewood. Just as clearly, she can conjure up the loud banging of the bulldozers that plowed through the school’s classrooms last year.”

@lapublicpress.bsky.social
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awkword.bsky.social
NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social
From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years
America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
capitalbnews.org
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crimethinc.com
No Kings, No Masters

A Call for Anti-Authoritarian Blocs at the October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations

crimethinc.com/NoKings2025

This is a call for you—yes, you specifically—to organize an anti-authoritarian bloc in your community for the “No Kings” demonstrations on October 18.
No Kings, No Masters
A call for anti-authoritarian blocs at the October 18 "No Kings" demonstrations.
crimethinc.com
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pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social
For the third year, California killed a bill to help incarcerated domestic violence survivors. “There are a ton of states that are far more conservative than California that passed more extensive legislation through Republican run legislatures."
For Third Year, California Kills Bill to Help Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors - Bolts
Advocates in California have pushed for relief for people convicted of harming their abuser, hoping to build on states across the political spectrum that have adopted such reforms.
boltsmag.org
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ndrew.bsky.social
if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
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tendemands.bsky.social
The Ten Demands for Justice provide a roadmap toward abolition.

We passed them around at protests across the country

And local activists hand-delivered them to their city councils —

Pointless with a council comprised of white supremacists.
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Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.
tendemands.bsky.social
The Ten Demands for Justice provide a roadmap toward abolition.

We passed them around at protests across the country

And local activists hand-delivered them to their city councils —

Pointless with a council comprised of white supremacists.
philmandelbaum.bsky.social
Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.
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awkword.bsky.social
40% of cops *admit* to abusing their partners

And it’s legal for cops to rape you in custody in 7 out of 10 states.

This isn’t a coincidence.
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awkword.bsky.social
There are 250,000+ untested rape kits, nationwide. This isn’t a coincidence.
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tendemands.bsky.social
“If the purpose of the anti-ICE apps is to track and alert neighbors about ICE: in self-sustaining communities, there’s no point.”
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tendemands.bsky.social
“We show up at protests and just let ourselves get beat up for the optics, as opposed to actually doing tactics that might help us stop these machines” - Eric King

If you’re attending the No Kings, 50501, or anti-“ICE Protests”? Be prepared.
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jtischauser.bsky.social
my neighbors are being disappeared. people think they're next. some people aren't scrubbing b/c i dunno, integrity, or whatever the quality is that Tom lacks and makes him say unhinged things. also people have been scrubbing. also i can't post a CBP guy's name who committed crimes b/c I will get
radiofreetom.bsky.social
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social
the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.