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3. THE DEFUNDING OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT (2017 Budget: $246,644,617) AND THE REDIRECTION OF THOSE RESOURCES TO THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES (INCLUDING RESOURCES FOR JOBS PROGRAMS, AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HOLISTIC HEALTH AND QUALITY SCHOOLS) ?4.

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Over the next few weeks we will be posting select chapters from the first issue of Propter Nos. Below is an excerpt from our inaugural publication. Rachel Herzing lives and works in Oakland, CA, where she fights the violence of policing and imprisonment.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview with Rachel Herzing ………..READ MORE

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our comrade Nathalie Moreau. Brilliant and dedicated activist, Nathalie passed away on September 5 surrounded by her family, victim of an ovarian cancer that was diagnosed a little less than four years ago.

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Over the next few weeks we will be posting select chapters from the first issue of Propter Nos. Below is an excerpt from our inaugural publication. Dylan is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Policing and the Violence of White Being: An Interview with Dylan Rodríguez ………..READ MORE

One month till the National Prisoner Strike! In one month, prisoners across the country will answer the call to “let the crops rot in the plantation fields, to go on strike and cease reproducing the institutions of [their] confinement.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at One Month Until National Prisoner Strike: Updates, News and Plugging in ………..READ MORE

The following are a couple of basic anti-repression tools that you can share with any prisoner contacts on the inside, in anticipation of, during, and in the aftermath of the September national prison strike.

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An Act of Genocide, Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women was written by Karen Stote, an assistant professor of women and gender studies at Wilfred Laurier University in Ontario.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Sterilization of indigenous women an act of genocide, new book says ………..READ MORE

Étendu sur le sol d’une douche du pénitencier de Dorchester, au Nouveau-Brunswick, Matthew Hines a prononcé ces mots qui ont peut-être été ses derniers : « S’il vous plaît, je vous en supplie, je vous en supplie.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at Détenu mort à Dorchester : des gardiens ont fait usage d’une « force inappropriée » selon un rapport ………..READ MORE

BIGGAR, Sask. — Racial tensions are flaring in Saskatchewan after the fatal shooting of a First Nations man who relatives say was just looking for help with a flat tire.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at First Nations man fatally shot on Sask. farm was looking for help with flat tire: cousin ………..READ MORE

One day before the start of this year’s edition of the World Social Forum (WSF 2016), to be held in Montreal from 9 – 14 August 2016, civil society representatives from several African nations have announced their intention to boycott the proceedings, due to the overwhelming number of visa denial

Read the rest of this post on the original site at World Social Forum in Montreal: “Another World Is Once Again Being Constructed Without Africa” ………..READ MORE

Attica Correctional Facility became famous for a bloody rebellion in September 1971. The inmates took over the prison located in northwestern New York and took 42 staff members hostage. The state police, under the command of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, broke into the prison, acting ruthlessly.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘I Am a Revolutionary and an Optimist’: Former Black Panther ………..READ MORE

Every time people organize for liberation, autonomy, and a better world, the state and the bosses try to crush our movements. They don’t particularly care how they do it, but they don’t want to work hard. It’s easier for them, if we do it for them.

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In the early 2000s, the small but militant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) launched union drives at Starbucks and Jimmy John’s.  At the time, many in the mainstream labor movement scratched their heads.

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“Of all the panels Rivera made for The Museum of Modern Art, Indian Warrior reaches back farthest into Mexican history, to the Spanish Conquest of the early 16th century. An Aztec warrior wearing the costume of a jaguar stabs an armored conquistador in the throat with a stone knife.

h/t original Warrior Publications site at Graphic: Conquistador lives don’t matter ………..READ MORE

After the disturbing deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of law enforcement officers this week, racial bias and police brutality have once again become heated subjects in the US.

Read the rest of this post on the original site at More black people were killed by US police in 2015 than were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow ………..READ MORE