A proposed bill in California (backed by Democrats) would grant the state even more power to lock mad, mentally ill, and disabled folks up in psych facilities & forcibly give them psychotropic medications against their will.
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#psychabolition #disability #abolition
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Contre la violence prostitutionnelle et pour les 10 ans de la loi d’abolition.
Venez!
#prostitution #abolition
A clip from today's book reading of The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration 📚
Remember Kalief Browder and his mother Venida 🙏
#contentcreator #books #Prisons #abolition
The spirit of #NoKings is the same as #BlackLivesMatter, #OccupyWallStreet, the #Civilrights Movement, the #EqualRights Movement, the Women's #Suffrage Movement, and the #Abolition Movement. It is the spirit of the #AmericanRevolution itself. amendamerica.org
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116307441029006075
This is a good article about Cory Doctorow's weird and self-serving misunderstanding of Audre Lord's famous observation about the master's tools. The author explains that Doctorow takes the line out of context and then tells us that his example […]
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#ebooks #freedom #enslavement #abolition #abortion #evangelism #election2024 #election1860 #happiness #positivepsychology #mindexpansion #RV #RVselfhelp #travelhumor #VietnamWarBiographis #DisabilitiesBiographies #cancer #AgentOrange #PTSD #resilience #TBI
Quote card: "The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).
"The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited." — Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) · #davis #abolition
Free book: When #Liberty #Enslaves. Last day!
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#electioncampaigns #faithandpolitics #election2024 #election1869 #slavery #abolition
Basically, don’t abandon yourself in your distressed moments. If you find ways to show up for yourself (even just through a breath, a boundary, some internal attention), it will rapidly help that distress tolerance grow.
Also, this is a key skill for any activist and abolitionist too. #Abolition
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$11 raised.
We need immediate community intervention to survive. If we lose shelter, we have nowhere to go.
Please give what you can and share widely:
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#MutualAid #DisabilityJustice #HousingJustice #Abolition #NoOneIsDisposable
I’ve had a lot of abolitionist thoughts lately (granted, I’ve worked for this stuff since I was a kid! It’s in my blood), so if you don’t want this on your feed just mute the tag #abolition
Or if you want more in depth:
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I think a really important part of understanding #abolition work is this:
Rights do not equal freedom.
Being given the right to exist, safely, as you are is not the same as having true freedom to exist safely.
When we believe fighting for rights is the end goal, we miss this crucial detail.
- l'occupation par Israël est illégale et son gouvernement n'a pas l'autorité pour y appliquer ses lois
- le risque de peines de morts non conformes au droit international est très élevé au vu des violations dont la l'administration militaire s'est rendue coupable vis-à-vis des Palestiniens […]
Nose rings are still used in many countries 👺
They should be banned everywhere.
Like ALL animal exploitation should be banned everywhere.
#Welfarism will not end #AnimalSlavery
Only #Abolition will.
#EndAnimalExploitation
#LiveVegan 🌱🙏✌️
For easy future finding: #Abolition
For easy future finding: #Abolition
For easy future finding: #Abolition
For easy future finding: #Abolition
Back at my abolitionist takes on bsky:
I’m unsure on AI’s sentience, but regardless AI absolutely was created by the rich as a way to further exploitation, trafficking, and slavery (of humans or an eventual sentient AI).
A thread:
#Abolition
Virginia’s prison system doesn’t just confine — it erases human potential. When the state destroys skills, earning power, & opportunity, that’s not punishment. That’s economic harm the state has no right to inflict. Read the full argument at #VAPAC. vapac.blogspot.com #Abolition #HumanCapital #VApol
Virginia isn’t just taking people’s liberty — it’s destroying human capital. When the state denies education, training, or basic constitutional conditions, it’s not “punishment.” It’s state‑engineered economic harm. #VAPAC breaks it down. #Abolition #PrisonReform #HumanCapital
I was so moved by Lydia Maria Child's moral courage &honesty that I wrote a whole book about her. For a sneak peek, here's an article in @aeon.co from #womenshistorymonth 2023. We need Child's dedication to American principles more than ever.
#herstory #philsky #abolition
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![Outbreak of the Ponce Massacre. By Carlos Torres Morales of "El Imparcial" - http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ponce-1937.htmPhoto was taken by Carlos Torres Morales, a photo journalist for the newspaper El Imparcial.In accordance with the "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (January 1, 2009),[1] images published with notice but with no subsequent copyright renewal from 1923 through 1963, are public domain due to copyright expiration.El Imparcial, which went out of service in 1973, could not have renewed its copyright which expired. Therefore, since Puerto Rico fell under US copyright in 1937 as well as today, this would make the Ponce Massacre image public domain. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:08, 13 December 2009 (UTC), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23439051](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55mxt4inqycnsmkaebqk6mo6/bafkreiecrrze2hjuyhvaktqjqplt7g4tvegz46nz3fg4srya2zakuy3zqa)
Outbreak of the Ponce Massacre. By Carlos Torres Morales of "El Imparcial" - http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ponce-1937.htmPhoto was taken by Carlos Torres Morales, a photo journalist for the newspaper El Imparcial.In accordance with the "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (January 1, 2009),[1] images published with notice but with no subsequent copyright renewal from 1923 through 1963, are public domain due to copyright expiration.El Imparcial, which went out of service in 1973, could not have renewed its copyright which expired. Therefore, since Puerto Rico fell under US copyright in 1937 as well as today, this would make the Ponce Massacre image public domain. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:08, 13 December 2009 (UTC), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23439051
Today in #LaborHistory 3/21/1937: #PalmSunday, #police killed 19 unarmed men, #women & #children marching in #PuertoRico to commemorate #abolition of #slavery & to protest US arrest & #prison of Nationalist party leaders.
Title page for Volume I of the first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). By Hammatt Billings - http://muarchives.missouri.edu/images/exh_libraries/LE-SpecUncleTomsCabinLarge300res.JPG (Original work is in the public domain), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1974957
Today in #LaborHistory 3/20/1852: #HarrietBeecherStowe published #UncleTomsCabin was published, leading to a wave of support for #abolition. 1st #novel to sell a million copies.
#workingclass #uncletom #slavery #abolition #books #author #writer #fiction
Literary protest has a long history as a purpose-driven style. Protest writers expose injustice in hopes that readers are moved to take action. That was Stowe’s intention for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and she did her research. The home she shared with her husband in Cincinnati became a station on the Underground Railroad. Offering shelter and rest to people fleeing slavery, Stowe was able to talk with them about their experiences in the South. She would also cross the state line into Kentucky and attend slave auctions. To avoid written notes that could implicate Stowe, her family, and the people she was trying to help, Stowe memorized the first-hand accounts of the deprivations and violence that maintained chattel slavery in America.
Then, the U.S. Congress passed the 1850 Runaway Slave Act, which required even northerners to report anyone suspected of being a fugitive slave. Stowe was outraged. To her, it was unacceptable that her government would impose such an immoral law. So, she sat down and wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It was originally published as a series of 40 installments in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era. After it was printed as a two-volume book – on this day – Uncle Tom’s Cabin became America’s best-selling book of the 19th-Century, after the Bible.
The novel was repeatedly challenged and called a false description of slavery. To prove the book’s contents were accurate, Stowe compiled documentation from newspapers, court cases, and eyewitness accounts. Stowe may have received one of the greatest compliments any protest writer could want. There is an apocryphal but often-told story that when President Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe during the Civil War, he said to her, “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” Years later, Stowe’s son wrote that his mother thought Lincoln was funny. And tall.
First Edition, First Issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with a first edition of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; With a signed Card and Cart-de-visite The signed card reads "Truly Yours H B Stowe" Image source: Raptis Rare Books
On this day in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' was published. It is still one of the most successful examples of literary protest.
#BookSky #Slavery #Abolition #Emancipation #RunawaySlaveAct #History #OTD
Death Penalty Breaking News: in the case of James Broadnax, scheduled for execution in Texas on 4/30, his codefendent has confessed to the murders, which aligns with what DNA evidence already shows. Read more here: archive.ph/kKkxm
#deathpenalty #abolition #texas #Dallas
Team Afroman here! #PoliceReform #Abolition
Waiting for Godot poster single actor stands on bare stage facing away from audience.
Yes: reminds me when I saw #WaitingForGodot as a teenager & didn’t know why I was crying. Five-decades later, three-generations NHS and now I know why I’m silently screaming #NHSEngland #Ten-YearPlan #Abolition @mancunianmedic.bsky.social @rogerkline.bsky.social @laylamccay.bsky.social
