Books for Prisoners is a non-profit, student organization at UCSD (University of California, San Diego) affiliated with Groundwork Bookstore. Our organization receives letters from inmates all over the country requesting books and resources. We send donated books (textbooks, novels, magazines, dictionaries, etc.) directly to the inmates who write to us. In return they often send us artwork, stories and letters about their lives inside the prison system. Our goal is to help better educate inmates while they are incarcerated in the prison system while at the same time challenging the prison industrial complex.
Msissing: 2.3 Million Americans
Killingnis never right. No wars, no police brutality, no death penalty.
(via meganj28)
According to a report yesterday on WFTV, the FBI may charge George Zimmerman with a hate crime:
Zimmerman admitted to killing Martin in February during a confrontation. However, he claims the shooting was in self-defense. He’s facing a second-degree murder charge, which carries a maximum possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. But if Zimmerman is charged and found guilty of a federal hate crime involving murder, he could face the death penalty.
When the “Justice for Trayvon Martin” Facebook page reported this news, in two separate posts, the excitement was palpable. At the time I sat down to write this, last night, their initial post that linked to the news story was shared 270 times, drew 1,455 Likes, and was commented upon 306 times. The second post, with its shares, Likes, and comments, is screencaptured above.
The Tumblr community reacted as well, with one post linking to the story drawing nearly 1,500 Likes and Reblogs as of this writing.
The reaction from those who have commented is largely supportive of killing George Zimmerman and, more often than not, the language that’s employed is positively dripping with brutality.
(via meganj28)
give no fucks. take no orders. smash the prisons and the borders.
Pretty much
Had to reblog. You police our communities and murder our children. You fear our dark skin. You hate our skin. Black n’ Brown and anything that threatens your whiteness. Trayvon, is only one of the many victims. He was killed by a white wanna-be cop (there aint nothin Latino about this Zimmerman). He was not arrested on the scene of the murder, Hes out on bail, getting donations from the public, being protected by Florida law. And yet… People have the nerve to make a mockery out of Trayvon. This beautiful, innocent child deserved more… And this toxic society owes him more.You celebrated lynchings and mocked black bodies then.
You celebrate lynchings and mock black bodies now.
Whiteness.
(via socialistscum)
Palestinian Prisoners End Hunger Strike With Deal
Hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails ended a hunger strike on Monday that had lasted weeks, signing an agreement with the Israeli authorities that promises improved conditions, according to officials. The end of the strike averted fears of widespread unrest in the event of a prisoner’s death.
The Israeli authorities said that among other provisions, the agreement calls for prisoners now in solitary confinement to be returned to ordinary sections of prisons and for family visits to resume for prisoners from Gaza, which is under the control of Hamas, the more radical of the major Palestinian factions.
This entire ordeal has shown, once again, that nonviolent civil disobedience works for the Palestinians. Israel and the West tend to denounce the Palestinians as barbaric and violent in an effort to justify the occupation and the Israeli government’s treatment of the Palestinian people, however, the peaceful tactics the Palestinians have been utilizing unquestionably give them the moral high ground, which is a very powerful position to have during negotiations.
The hunger strike could not have ended at a more perfect time than right before Nakba either.
(via sancho108)
UCK THE PIGS & THE BORDER PATROL
SMASH THE PRISONS AND THE BORDER!
While the racist Immigration Laws introduced within the last decades (centuries), may seem as mostly an attempt to protect the “white American identity”, they are also an attempt to protect “American” economy… and we are not talking about securing jobs and/or public resources.
We are talking about the use of Immigration Laws to criminalize undocumented immigrants while at the same time building private prisons in order to make BANK out of these “illegales”. (FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW THEY DO THIS BY ATTENDING EVENT)
Join us for a night of music, presentations, informational booths, and discussion.
Join us to honor victims of police brutality, racial profiling, and the death penalty.
Those who’ve lost their lives at the Border.
Those who still continue to live in fear.
And lastly, for our brothers and sisters currently incarcerated in county jails, federal prisons, juvenile halls, detention centers, and psychiatric facilities.
Books 4 Prisoners- Become a volunteer! Donate your books!
https://www.facebook.com/books4prisoners
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ALL AGES!!
❤ Performers:
Rudo Movimiento (Riverside Ska)
La Chaparralta (San Diego Ska)
Old Man Wizard (San Diego Rock)
Pusher (San Diego Cholo Spy Punk)
More TBA
❤ Organizations Tabling:
Books 4 Prisoners
Southern Border Communities Coalition
Union del Barrio: Chicano Mexicano Prison Project
More TBA
❤ ENTRY:
5 dollars OR/and 2 books (paperback)
❤ 7:00PM-12:30AM
event page:https://www.facebook.com/events/323765787696861/?ref=ts
Ron Paul at UCSD. San Diego Community come and help us protest.
facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/292622367489388/permalink/295558200529138/?notif_t=like
16 Reasons to Protest Ron Paul (to be published in Thursday’s UCSD Guardian)
A coalition of students and workers are protesting Ron Paul at 6 on Friday at Warren Mall. Why?
1. He’s racist. Among the many things Paul has written (and later lied about) in over 50 documents: “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of black males in [D.C.] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal” and “Our country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists — and they can be identified by the color of their skin.”
2. He’s sexist. He’s for the “right” to discriminate against women. On sexual harassment at work: “Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts?” The government can’t “tell an airline it must hire unattractive women if it does not want to.”
3. He’s anti-gay. He’s for banning gay marriage and reinstating DADT. On the AIDS Crisis: “The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim—frequently, a victim of his own lifestyle—but this same individual victimizes innocent citizens by forcing them to pay for his care.”
4. He’s xenophobic. Another Libertarian contradiction: he’s for a government fence along the US-Mexico border and ending birthright citizenship and all social services to undocumented immigrants, who “discourage American citizens from taking low-wage jobs”. Yay slave wages!
5. He’s ableist. He’s for repealing the Americans With Disabilities Act, which makes it illegal to discriminate against someone because of a disability.
6. He’s anti-worker. He’s for ending unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the right to a safe workplace) and replacing US tax structure with one even more slanted toward the wealthy (if that’s possible).
7. He wants to repeal the Civil Rights Act, the 1964 law that made segregation illegal and outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. If a hotel wants to ban African-Americans, he believes they should be allowed to.
8. He’s for dissolving the public education system. So why are UCSD students inviting him here?
9. He’s for banning the right to choose abortion. Another Libertarian contradiction: he’s for the government intervening in a woman’s uterus.
10. He’s for ending Medicare and Medicaid (and Social Security) and thinks the poor and elderly should rely on charity or be allowed to die.
11. He’s against federal safety standards. No federal testing to make sure the products or pharmaceuticals you’re sold won’t kill you, no federal mandates for seat belts or air traffic controllers.
12. He thinks global warming is a hoax. He wants to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental regulation, including all restrictions on drilling for oil, even in National Parks.
13. He doesn’t “accept” evolution.
14. He’s for ending all foreign aid and not sending funds to the developing world to help combat AIDS, famines, natural disasters or anything else.
15. He’d pull out of the United Nations, which he called a conspiracy.
16. He’s against interstate highways; wow.
To support organizations fighting these ideas, facebook UCSD Socialists, SAAC, SSC or PEC.
For more information on the above, see:
A bigot through and through
http://socialistworker.org/2012/01/10/bigot-through-and-through
No friend of the Left: Ron Paul, libertarianism, and the freedom to starve to death
http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/rep-ronpaul.shtml
For those of you who don’t believe Ron Paul is a racist and a homophobe here are 50+ scanned pages from HIS newsletter.
http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-50-ron-paul.html
Links to actual bills he has introduced in congress/statements he has made on the congressional record:
http://paxamericana.tumblr.com/post/13507194341
No Borders, No Prisons! Stop racial profiling, Stop the criminalization of people of color. Stop criminalizing undocumented people in order to profit through private prisons! No a SB1070!
