Commemorate Black August | Support Prisoner Led Organizing

Critical Resistance joins the many fighting against the prison industrial complex in commemorating this month as Black August. In a month dedicated to prisoners’ reflection, education, struggle, and solidarity, we take the time to reflect on and be inspired by the deep legacy of Black resistance in August as we continue to work against jail […]

IWOC Support + Advice – Four Key Holes

from Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee The IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee is coming along powerfully and is getting closer and closer to a movement moment where we explode onto the national scene through the work of our powerful inside organizers and outside supporters. Yet we have some significant holes in IWOC’s infrastructure and hope some […]

FAM Leader Targeted and Tortured. CALL IN SUPPORT

Attention!!! James “Dhati Khalid” Pleasant, Free Alabama Movement Organizer, was arbitrarily transferred from St Clair population to Donaldson Correctional Facility and placed in a “Hotbay’ stripped Segregation Unit.* After repeatedly protesting the taking of all his belongings, he was sprayed with a chemical agent then placed in a shower stall the remainder of the night. […]

#EyesOnTexas Support Call Against Retaliation

From IWOC https://www.facebook.com/events/553013341537855/ Details: Eric Bergstrom and several other inmates at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville, TX are facing severe retaliation after demanding their basic human rights be met. Estelle is especially notorious for their excessive use of physical violence against inmates. Currently, the Prison Justice League has an open case against them. Read the […]

The Struggle Inside & Out: Supporting Prisoner Strikes

From Prison Pipeline on KBOO radio. Hosted by: acarpinelli Produced by: KBOO Produced for (Program name): Prison Pipeline Air date: Mon, 05/23/2016 – 6:30pm to 7:00pm Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk.  A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national […]

Upcoming Dates for Prisoner Support.

Below is a list of dates when people on either side of the prison fences may want to mobilize support and demonstrate power building up to the Anniversary of Attica. Some of these are specific actions called by prisoners or organizers that could be replicated or supported through solidarity actions. Others are holidays that resonate […]

How to Support Prisoner Resistance

What support means now: See up to date detailed suggestions and ideas at It’s Going Down and their one month out update. 1. Spread the word into prisons.  – Send word about the strike and the upsurge in prisoner resistance activities in to as many prisoners as you can. Find various things to mail in […]

Urgent: Call to support tortured hunger-striking prisoners in Louisiana

From SF Bayview April 15, 2016 by a prisoner at David Wade Correctional Center, Homer, Louisiana Written April 11, 2016, received April 15, 2016 – This is to notify you that several prisoners have begun a hunger strike openly while others are on a silent hunger strike, which may endanger their safety. The three active […]

Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons

From EarthFirstJournal.org Get it as a 1/2 sheet pdf Donate to support. FOR OVER A DECADE, June 11th has been a day of action in solidarity with environmentalists and anarchists imprisoned for their actions in defense of the Earth. The day has its origins in an international outcry over the extreme and unprecedented sentencing of […]

Support Striking Texas Prisoners #EyesOnTexas

Today Prisoners in Texas Went on Strike Against Slavery Conditions.   In early March we received word that prisoners in Texas were planning a work stoppage to occur April 4th. You can read this announcement and their demands here. Here is a flyer put out by Texas prisoners and circulating through multiple facilities. Here is […]