Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons

FORT WORTH!!!!! Shutting down the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony 🇵🇸🎉 If you're from Fort Worth you'll know how unprecedented this s**t is. Go follow .tarrant

Police abuse against protestors must be challenged, especially in the rural counties of North Florida where we protest the prisons that harm our communities.

Police think they can act with impunity in these remote, often racist, areas. We have to show them that they can't.

Props to Florida Prisoner Solidarity for following through on the fight against the state's corrupt prison system and the police who prop it up.

S/o to .tarrant disrupting business as usual at Elbit Systems US Headquarters this week!!! Follow and organizing the campaign to Elbit is the largest Israeli weapons supplier.

Proposing to build a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky is not just a local issue!! BOP Policy is to try to house incarcerated people within 500 miles from their homes. If you live in the red, your friends, family and neighbors will be impacted by this prison if it’s built! Please repost! Spread the word and support amendment to stop fast tracking this unneeded prison! Contact Congress Here —> bit.ly/stop219

BLOCK COP CITY --- NOV 13 --- 3113 GRESHAM RD SE --- 8AM GATHER --- 8:30AM MARCH --- BE ON TIME

Just a reminder check out the stream tonight at 6:30 cst/7:30 est. We are raising funds for the homie GZ legal defense fund. Denmark Vesey ie: Bigg Villanus got a solid lineup of content creators chopping it up about police terror, abolition, colonization, how to build a better world and more.

Tune in!

Yoooo!! Check out the live stream on Monday to raise funds for the home GZ's legal defense fund. We will be chopping it up about Police Terror, Colonialism, Abolition, and how to build a better world!! If you are able plus donate, share, and tune in to the stream.

YOOOO to all our Bay Area peeps it's time to turn out 🔥🔥🔥

"The City of San Pablo plans to build a $43 million police training center and shooting range for cops around the Bay Area. The people of San Pablo and the Bay Area oppose this expansion of police power because of cops long history of harassing, abusing, incarcerating, and killing Black and Brown people.

Show up and march with us against the construction. We need healthy communities not police! Together we can stop Cop Campus!"

Our comrade Mama Julz .rich is heading to Georgia to bring sacred items to an indigenous organizers arrested this summer and being held in ICE detention. Kick a few bucks her way to help pay for gas and food getting down the road! 🔥🔥🔥

Please take a minute to repost this to your story and ask your community to take a stand against the proposed federal prison in Letcher County! It takes one minute. Sign Here —> bit.ly/stop219

URGENT!!!! Florida is leaving prisoners in Mandatory Evacuation Zones AGAIN. Help us call them demanding EVACUATION NOW!!! Details at tinyurl.com/IdaliaPrisonEvac (link in bio)

Shoutout to and for helping us monitor the situation! Check back for updates.

Slavery never ended! Shoutout to Millions for Prisoners New Mexico for having the FTP Crew come out to The People's Juneteenth to talk abolition and revolution with the community. Together we brought our comrades inside the walls into the space with us! The organizing and political work coming out of ABQ is 🔥🔥🔥and we'll definitely be back!

It’s Juneteenth, celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. But the racism that allowed slavery continues to plague the country in other forms, as evidenced by policing, poverty and pollution all harming Black communities at much higher rates.

These three social ills are hitting all at once in Atlanta’s plan to spend millions in public money harming the South River and Weelaunee Forest by building Cop City in a predominantly Black neighborhood that doesn’t want it.

During the George Floyd uprisings of 2020 — a watershed moment in America’s reckoning with its systematic racism — we pledged to act in the face of white supremacy. Fighting injustice and oppression has been at the core of the Center's work for more than three decades.

As the Center’s Jean Su wrote, “We have no choice but transformation. And this country hungers for — and deserves — a deeply radical one.”



📷 DVIDS and SRWA

Aye one of the hommies is in desperate need of funds !! He is in Tarrant County Jail and needs money before being transfered. We are trying to raise 350 dollars before he's transfered and we're half way there!! If you have the means please help us reach our goal or also share on your socials.

This case of extremely toxic jail conditions that killed LaShawn Thompson occurred in the Atlanta area, in one of the same jails where Weelaunee forest defenders and solidarity activists are being held. It further illustrates the need for connections between environmental justice and prison abolition movements.

Demand Justice for LaShawn Thomspon Tell Fulton County Sheriff Labat to take immediate steps to reduce Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail population and mandate immediate changes to address inhumane conditions and widespread neglect.

AYYY!!! Are you around Florida? Come learn about the layering intersections of climate chaos and abolitionist politics and organizing across the prison walls! In this workshop we’ll hear from inside voices who’ve ran successful campaigns to fight climate destroying industries and simply survive environmentally destructive conditions. We’ll be joined by friends the Florida Immigrant Coalition who will explore the impacts of climate change upon immigrant populations and immigration itself, including the state’s increasingly criminalized response to this. Our comrades at Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will also join us to explore the logistical challenges and philosophical foundations of building infrastructure to meet the needs of the people during these disasters form a place of solidarity and not charity.

Shoutout to our comrades at Florida Prisoner Solidarity for sponsoring the event and the amazing venue that is the Civic Media Center !

Event Details:
Sunday from 7:00-9:00 pm at the Civic Media Center, 433 South Main Street, Gainesville, Florida 32601.

Alt Text -

Image of two hands at bottom center of image breaking with chains around their wrists, the chains have snapped in half. A multi-colored hurricane is at the center of the image in the middle of the two hands. The hands and hurricane are on a blue earth-like background, with the top half of the image being green. The top of the image states: Fight Toxic Prisons: Climate Justice and Abolition. Sunday - April 23 - 7:00PM. Civic Media Center - 433 South Main Street, Gainesville, Florida. On the edges of the graphic it says Sponsored By: Florida Prisoner Solidarity, Featuring: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, Featuring: Florida Immigrant Coalition with each organizations logos.

Yooo! Help us support a comrade in Texas who's been in jail for months and months and is about to get transferred to state prison! 😡 Let's get some money on their books when he arrives!

Venmo: @ bowelislife
Cashapp: $abolitiontrans
Put ["for S"] when sending $

Alt text: blue background with dollar bills raining down. White square behind text. We’re expecting our comrade to be transferred from jail to prison on March 28. Help us pad his books before then so he has some funds when he arrives! Venmo: @ bowelislife [“for S”] Cashapp: $abolitiontrans [“for S”]

Our comrade Luke is currently one of the many forest defenders being held on bogus charges of DT after attending a music festival.

Please support Luke by sending them a letter today. It must be on a plain pre-stamped post card, purchased at the post office.

Dekalb County Jail
Luke Harper
4425 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032

Our comrade Luke is currently one of the many forest defenders being held on bogus charges of DT after attending a music festival.

Please support Luke by sending them a letter today. It must be on a plain pre-stamped post card, purchased at the post office.

Dekalb County Jail
Luke Harper
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032

From Weelaunee

More images from the tour through Weelaunee forest that took place after yesterday's rally and march.

Happening now in ATL, all week long. You coming?!

You coming?!
Happening in Atlanta all week.

This article on Defend the Atlanta Forest efforts and escalating repression and violence against ecological defense notes that since the massive outpouring of anti-pipeline resistance near Standing Rock in 2016/2017, "20 states have enacted laws that impose harsh penalties for impeding “critical infrastructure”, such as making trespass a felony offense, or have brought in vaguely defined domestic terrorism laws that have been used to target environmentalists and Indigenous communities."

Overall, 45 states have considered similar legislation restricting protests, and seven currently have laws pending.

Atlanta shooting part of alarming US crackdown on environmental defenders Twenty states have enacted laws restricting rights to peaceful protest, as environmentalists are increasingly criminalized

Last week a phosphate mining company announced it was backing out of its plan for mining in Bradford and Union Counties, which would have been next door to the Florida prison near Lake Butler, poisoning people, land and water.

Let's celebrate that victory next week by helping DeSoto County shut down Mosaic's mining plan at this workshop/hearing Tuesday, Jan 31, 9 a.m..

Please attend in person if you can. If not, you can attend virtually, ZOOM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89542662596

More details on 1/31 from DeSoto County:
https://desotobocc.com/calendar/event/2319

More on Bradford victory here:
https://www.wcjb.com/2023/01/20/phosphate-mining-company-backs-out-plan-mining-operation-bradford-county/

Make the calls and share this around. Thanks.

Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons is signing on to this letter of solidarity with forest defenders in Atlanta. (Linked below.) We send our condolences to the friends and family of Manuel Teran, aka Tortuguita, age 26, killed by police in Atlanta on Jan. 18, 2023 for protecting Weelaunee forest.

Please share this widely and encourage individuals and organizations to sign on.

https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/2023/01/19/solidarity/

defendtheatlantaforest.org We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.

Mutual Aid Request!
gofund.me/C9FE8919

Hey yall! We work with a badass Black abolitionist organizer in Vermont named Kahlia who’s helping build a campaign to stop new prison construction there. A couple weeks ago her parents apartment suffered a devastating fire, the SECOND one in their life. They are physically okay but lost everything. Any help boosting their Go Fund Me is much appreciated!

Love & Solidarity,
The FTP Crew

Detra and Family's house fire, organized by Adline B. Robertson Hello Everyone My name is Adline Robertson, and I am fundraising for dear frie… Adline B. Robertson needs your support for Detra and Family's house fire

Kentuckians deserve better than prisons. They have harmed too many people and too much of the earth while failing over and over again to bring about the economic development we’re always promised. The BOP would have that continue on a former strip mine that would poison the prisoners and further destabilize the land already impacted by floods and landslides. Help prevent federal prison construction in Appalachia by submitting a public comment by November 30. Link in bio. bit.ly/BuildHomesNotPrisons

Thanks to folks who were able to attend this hearing, live or via Zoom, about the BOP plan (pushed by Hal Rogers) to revive prison construction in Letcher County. Join us for the resistance 2.0.
https://www.wymt.com/2022/11/18/bop-meets-with-community-members-local-leaders-letcher-county-gathers-feedback-proposed-federal-correctional-facility/

BOP meets with community members and local leaders in Letcher County, gathers feedback for proposed federal correctional facility Local leaders and folks in the community came out to make their voices heard regarding the Federal Bureau of Prisons' proposal to build a federal correctional facility in Letcher County.

As you may recall, from 2015 - 2019 we were in touch often about the fight to stop the construction of a new federal prison in the Appalachian coalfields of East KY. We stopped it... but now its back on the table. Details in the article below.

What you can do: There is a Zoom link for the first BOP meeting on "FCI Letcher" TOMORROW, Nov 17, 6pm:
https://wspusa.zoom.us/j/89605575889?pwd=RkZzUGhiMDdrYyt3M1IyVFJNcFZxQT09

Please join it promptly at 6pm and include a note of opposition in your zoom name. (You do this by scrolling over your account in the meeting, click the 3 dots and select "rename.")

Even if you can't stay to make public comment, being logged in will display the broad opposition that is still mobilized against prison building and for environmental justice.

We fought long and hard, with a strong coalition built of local and nationwide opposition from inside and outside the prison walls, and won a major victory when the BOP withdrew it's plan. They did so in direct response to a lawsuit we filed, indicating that they both did not inform the people most affected about the plan and they did not prove they had a real need for the 500+ million dollar plan which would impact the health of prisoners and the surrounding environment, including endangered species.

Seems like Rep. Hal Rogers and his contractor buddies started planning to revive this thing the day after devastating floods hit Letcher County this year, attempting to take advantage of desperation that follows a disaster of that magnitude.

On Nov. 17 they will host the first public hearing for the new plan. They haven't announced a preferred site location yet, but it's likely they will try to pick up where they left off in Roxana, next door to both the endangered species habitat of Lilley Cornett Woods and a massive coal waste sludge pond on the other side.

The BOP will also be collecting written comments until Nov 30.

Thanks for joining this fight once again.

Hopefully a strong showing off the bat will be able to end it quickly.

https://ohiovalleyresource.org/2022/10/04/feds-revive-prison-proposal-for-letcher-county-ky/

Feds revive plan to build a prison in Letcher County, Ky. - Ohio Valley ReSource The Bureau of Prisons has filed a new notice that they're planning a federal prison to be built in Letcher County, Ky.

EMERGENCY 🚨 one of our KY comrades needs medical attention asap. Please call Louisville Metro Department of Corrections on her behalf.

DELLA BATTLE, BRAVE NEW DIRECTIONS TENANT LEADER, ENTRAPPED IN LMDC BY HER SLUMLORD, IS HAVING A HEALTH CRISIS

Her blood pressure is 140 over 100 (healthy range in 120 over 80.) she needs to be transferred to the hospital immediately. Her cousin jerrica is also incarcerated and is in renal failure.

1. Call 502.574.8477
2. Press 6 for medical or Press 9 for admin
3. Script - I am requesting medical attention for Wendella Battle and Jerrica Baker. They need to be transferred to a hospital immediately.

📞⚡️Urgent Phone Zap! Hurricane Ian is devastatingly affecting most of Florida, where some regions could see 10 feet of flooding! Help is needed to ensure that the evacuations of people incarcerated in those areas happen immediately!

BREAKING: Thanks to your efforts the Hillsborough County Orient Road Jail in Tampa has been successfully evacuated!
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Unfortunately it’s getting to the point where evacuation is impossible for some facilities, but there’s still time for others. All facilities should be stockpiling water and other supplies. Be sure to check our zap post for the latest updates at: tinyurl.com/IanPhoneZap