Tag: End Prison Slavery

Over the past few months I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with a small group of college students studying at Yale university during this Summer of 2022. Several Yale students responded to my request for support with developing a Digitized Archive of Incarcerated Reader Submissions that’ve mailed to SawariMedia over the past five years. I […]
Recently there has been a rise of worker strikes happening throughout the country. Throughout Western Washington construction workers have been on strike. Construction workers have been striking unsafe working conditions for decades. Teachers are striking in Tumwater and have been striking for years about their inadequate wages. Recently I saw a documentary that highlighted NFL […]
Living in a Liberal and progressive utopia… where same sex couples can safely walk the streets holding hands, where the crosswalks are painted with rainbows, where, “What are your gender pronouns?” is a introduction question, and where ‘black lives matter’ signs lean in the window of every other storefront Now I come to wonder how […]
[Rally at Lee Correctional Facility in Bishopsville, SC in support and solidarity with striking prisoners yesterday] This is a question that a lot of people do not have a solid answer to. I’m writing this article in response to a comment that I’ve seen in response to local media coverage about the national prison strike. […]
This may be too radial for some of you but so was the idea of a world without slaves. The existence of prisons in our country points to a lack of concern for those groups of our population that are trapped within them: brown, black and poor people. We’ve seen through many examples over this […]
What are prisons for? Are they to help inmates become better people then who they were when they entered by preparing them for a productive life in society? Or are prisons for warehousing people to lock away and forget? Think about your response to that question, is the ideal hope or does your response actually […]
When inmates choose to participate in the strike, particularly the hunger strike component its essential that we at the very least we choose alternatives to purchasing from companies who participate in the prison industrial complex by exploiting prisoners’ labor by paying them pennies on the dollar for the work that they do. When prisoners choose […]
[left: Gang sentenced to 682 years behind bars in Johannesburg, CA; right top: Hidden Valley Kings gang members sentenced between 25-30 years in Charlotte, SC; right bottom: gang’s leaders received between 10 and 24 years in prison in Charlotte, SC] Gang enhancement laws differ from state  to state, however they require that a person who’s […]
On the first day of the prison strike we’ve already seen hundreds demonstrating on both sides of the wall. Particularly where I reside in the Pacific Northwest, there have been reports of over 200 individuals incarcerated in Tacoma’s Detention Center participating in the Nationwide prison strike through work stoppages. In support of those on the […]
If we strike for no other reason, then we strike in response to prisoner retaliation especially. Because we will not be silent until all of our prisoners feel safe and, dare I say, comfortable. Maybe not luxuriously comfortable but I also do not live in luxuriously comfortable conditions. However, the men and women who are […]