Unbuild Walls

Join Silky Shah, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Amna A. Akbar for a conversation about the intersections between immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition, hosted with @detentionwatch

Tuesday, May 7th at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to join: tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

Just found out my codefendants & I (the #ATL61 ) have to go to court in 2 weeks for our RICO charges related to our alleged involvement in the #StopCopCity movement. I'm raising $ to go down to Atlanta w/ a support person for our hearing. Plz pitch in/RT!🙏🩷 Venmo: @Hannah-Kass

campuses across the country are populated by board members of police foundations, arms manufacturers, weapons engineers, and environmental exploiters.

Paris would be getting arrested for protesting while Rory take her spot at the Yale Daily News.

The image of Yale branded shuttle buses literally being used by the state to arrest Yale students won’t go away anytime soon

BREAKING:

Happening now!

Yale University students stand with Columbia University students for Palestine, demanding Yale denounce and divest from genocide.

latimes.com/california/sto…
After decades of rape scandals, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is closing FCI Dublin. Great story from Keri Blakinger that raises the usual troubling questions 1/

RWG returns to New Brunswick, New Jersey::

Feminist borders are an oxymoron.

Borders, walls, jails, cages, war and occupation all disproportionally and deliberately reproduce gender-based violence.

Borders are always an anti-feminist structuring.

📣📣 TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP A NEW FEDERAL PRISON FROM BEING BUILT!

This is for EVERYONE. It takes just a few minutes to send written public comment to oppose the most expensive proposed federal prison from being built in KY. Submit comments before 4/15.

bit.ly/NoNewPrisonEIS…

It’s less than a month before my book Unbuild Walls will be out! It’s now available for pre-order at a discount on the Haymarket Books site. Sharing in this thread some of the blurbs from generous early reviews... haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unb…

the incomparable Ruth Wilson Gilmore Ruth Wilson Gilmore Girls 'Unbuild Walls is a vital intervention! Silky Shah shows, with lively detail, how abolitionist political analysis is both preparation for and guidance through complex, difficult struggles.'

Human rights organizations including Southern Center for Human Rights have filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights calling for an investigation into the murder of Tortuguita theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

NYC: May 3/4::

Happy Publication Day, Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché, PhD! 🌱

HBD::

Free virtual panel with some amazing comrades!!! Important lessons on solidarity to ground our struggles on Land Day and beyond!

.Building Community Not Prisons coalition members speaking in opposition to plan for new federal prison in Letcher County at public hearing tonight #NoNewLetcherPrison

There is still time to join us tonight @ 5pm PDT and you don’t want to miss it!

Come for the panel, the poetry, the somatic healing—the visioning work & organizing strategies we need to make California women’s prisons obsolete.

👉🏾 bit.ly/ccwpmarch28