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2PM: Teach-in at Chapman Square
3PM: March to Prison Profiteers
6PM: Reconvene at Champman for a Noise Demo @ the Justice Center (across the street from Chapman Square)
On Friday, September 9th, people across Portland and Northwest will converge in Downtown Portland in solidarity with the US wide prison work strike against prison slavery and white supremacy. Our goal is a mass showing of support with the growing prison rebellion in the US and to also march on the corporations in the Downtown area that make massive profits off of prisoner enslavement.
Slavery is legal in America. Written into the 13th Amendment, it is legal to work someone that is incarcerated for free or almost free. Since the civil war, tens of millions of people most arrested for non-violent offenses, have been used as slaves for the sake of generating massive profits for multi-national corporations and the US government. Today, prison labor is a multi-billion dollar industry which helps generate enormous wealth for key industries such as fossil fuels, fast food, telecommunications, technology, the US military, and everyday house hold products.
The strike, which starts officially on September 9th, the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, is historic. The strike is being led by groups such as the Free Alabama Movement, Free Texas Movement, Free Ohio Movement, Free Virginia Movement, Free Mississippi Movement, and many more. Prisoners have asked that supporters hold noise demonstrations outside jails and prisons, protest, disrupt, and demonstrate outside of corporations that profit from prison labor, and also support the strike that is happening across the US.
This is not just a prison strike for better wages or conditions, it is a strike against white supremacy itself.
Bring banners, signs, noise makers, friends, co-workers, neighbors, family members, and more! Gather at Chapmand Square ( SW 4th and Main), 2pm. From there we will march to prison profiteer in Portland and end back at Chapman Square for a Noize Demonstration at the “Justice Center” where we will send our sounds of love and solidarity to all those trapped in the white supremacist state’s cages.
#StrikeAgainstPrisonSlavery
#PrisonStrike
Event is co-sponsored by All African People’s Revolutionary Party, Black Lives Matter Portland, Black Rose Anarchist Federation, Portland Anarchist Black Cross, Enlace, Portland Prison Divestment Coalition, Oregon Jericho, The Jericho Movement,September 9th PDX, Incarcerated Worker Organizing Committee, Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, American Friends Service Committee
Contact September 9th Coalition PDX:
More info:
Strike Against Prison Slavery: https://itsgoingdown.org/strike-against-white-supremacy/
Let the Crops Rot in the Field: http://insurgenttheatre.org/theory/letthecropsrot.pdf
Incarcerated Workers Take the Lead: http://unityandstruggle.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IWOC_pamphlet_print-1.pdf
End Prison Slavery: https://supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org/post/2015/07/19/end-prison-slavery-zine/