Note: This essay contains references to multiple forms of state, racial, and gender-based violence. 1 Her comrades called her Red. She may have been born in Chicago or New Orleans as Saundra Cosey, Sandra Lee, Sandra Lane, or possibly Sandra Jones. Gaidi Faraj tells us she was named Saundra Hobson. In her teens, owing to…
Editor’s note: this call comes from MAPS *** Update from MAPS! *** We don’t have to escalate now because phone calls from family yesterday got him out tonight! This shows how powerful shining a public spotlight on MDOC abuse can be. Harold Gonzales (aka “HH,” our long-time comrade) has done everything in his power to…
Editor’s note: These short texts were submitted anonymously by an incarcerated Michigander. As I sit and watch the deterioration of the prison industrial complex here in Michigan, I’m struck by how far it has fallen. While it has never been ideal, in the past it had pseudo ethics, morals, and values; since the advent of…
From the organizers: We invite you to join folks in downtown Ann Arbor at Liberty Plaza on November 9, 2024 at 7 p.m. for a vigil honoring the memory of Aura Rosser. On November 9, 2014, Aura Rain Rosser was killed in her home by Ann Arbor Police Department officer David Ried. Ried was exonerated by the Washtenaw County…
Translated by Roba Alsalibi Since its establishment in 1948, the Israeli settler-colonial state, like other settler-colonial contexts, has employed incarceration as a tool of subjugation against the Palestinian indigenous population. In fact, many of the prisons now used by the Israeli settler state to suppress Palestinian resistance were first established under British colonial rule for…
[Editor’s note: this piece was submitted by Some Folks in Washtenaw County] After 30 days and multiple sweep alarms that did not materialize, UMPD finally evicted the Ann Arbor encampment at U-M between 5–6 a.m. on May 21, 2024. Unlike the credible sweep threat last week (for which dozens of community members mobilized to the…
Put an End to Sexual Abuse in Prisons Justice for Khalique Brewer! Call Monday and Tuesday, August 7–8, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. There is a war on children in the United States. No, it’s not just the waves of anti-trans legislation that seek to deny gender-affirming healthcare and criminalize transition, nor is it confined to the…
Editor’s note: This piece was written by some abolitionists and published in zine form by Haters. Around here we’ve got our very own movement-killers, a.k.a. “Movement Leaders.” Mapping the Terrain Within the general context of The Movement™, abolition—whether through “Defund OPD,” policy campaigns, transformative justice, and policing alternatives—has become inescapable within Oakland’s left-progressive-liberal continuum. “We…
Editors’ note: We’re boosting this new zine by disaffected communists. “We” Are Not the Union The union bureaucrats are patting themselves on the back. As the UC strike is followed by a strike of part-time faculty at the New School and strike authorization vote of 99% from graduate workers at Temple University, the leadership of…
Editor’s note: for Black August 2022 we share both a facsimile PDF as well as a transcription of Safiya Bukhari‘s 1981 pamphlet Lest We Forget, which she wrote and published while incarcerated at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women. Introduction Constantly people of color are confronted with the reality that death is our ever-present companion.…
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