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Being Out Here For The Prisoners in NC

March 29, 2020 by bogoodness

Related Show: The Final Straw Radio


Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at AshevilleFM from 3am EST on March 23th through 29th, 2020 and podcasting on libsyn.com.

Being Out Here For The Prisoners in NC

This week on the show, we’ll hear from two prison activists based in the Durham and Asheville, North Carolina about critical situations around incarceration in this state including but not limited to the Covid-19 outbreak. Jules is a member of Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross, a local abolitionist group that works around popular education around incarceration and anti-repression for movement work.  Katie is an anarchist legal and anti-prison activist.

NLG Guide To Your Rights During Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19 Prison zine by BRABC

NC Prison Phone Zaps

Statewide: https://brabc.blackblogs.org/2020/03/22/phone-zap-for-north-carolina-prisoners/

Durham County Jail: https://twitter.com/NCResists/status/1242938703871442947?s=20

Various Other Prison Phone Zaps By Region of so-called US

  • Pacific Northwest
    • WA
      • https://twitter.com/COVID_MutualAid/status/1242521808940777475
      • https://twitter.com/PugetSupport/status/1242492820868358144
    • Portland, OR
      • https://twitter.com/carenotcops/status/1242558135480365058
  • Central
    • Colorado
      • https://brabc.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2020/03/Colorado-Prison-Report-03_26_2020.pdf
  • Midwest
    • Chicago, IL
      • https://twitter.com/AssataDaughters/status/1242474665358110720
    • Wisconsin
      • https://twitter.com/notcolloquial/status/1242871504871854082
    • Michigan
      • https://twitter.com/MI_Abolition/status/1242471208270036992
      • https://huronvalleycovid19.wixsite.com/demands/action
      • https://fight-toxic-prisons.org/2020/03/12/macomb-ci-coronavirus-phone-zap/ (Macombe CI)
  • Northeast
    • New York
      • https://twitter.com/FreeThemAll2020/status/1242827148588613638 (NYC)
      • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l5n3CxSjPUuINOsPi51rks8g-Os-WUVmLOfa8s5AaHg/ (NYC)
      • https://twitter.com/FreeThemAll2020/status/1243576540056768516?s=20 (NYC)
      • https://twitter.com/SurlyNotAWalrus/status/1242492126950313984 (NYC)
    • New Jersey
      • https://twitter.com/NiMaitresses/status/1242716926964649984
    • PA
      • https://twitter.com/ariteer/status/1242849157167173634 (you gotta look at the link in the twitter for this one)
  • South
    • GA, NC, SC ICE call-in https://twitter.com/ashahshahani/status/1243215788191997960?s=20
    • Alabama
      • https://fight-toxic-prisons.org/2020/03/26/alabama-department-of-corrections-covid19-phone-zap/
      • protest/suicide threat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/ice-detainees-threaten-suicide-stage-protests-over-coronavirus-fears/2020/03/25/8232738e-0b1e-4fdb-8538-456e269a8eb7_video.html
    • Georgia
      • https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/headlines (headline about hunger strikes, not a call-in link)
    • Virginia
      • https://home.baltimoreiww.org/news/tell-governor-northam-and-the-virginia-department-of-health-that-release-is-the-only-way-forward
      • https://www.facebook.com/events/1910024005789095/
    • Louisiana
        • https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/03/26/icedetaineeshungerstrike/
    • Florida
      • https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-ice-detainees-on-hunger-strike-amid-coronavirus-11607507 (article about hunger strikes in ICE custody, not a call-in link)
      • https://twitter.com/iwoc_gnv/status/1242875691315671049
    • NC
      • https://brabc.blackblogs.org/2020/03/22/phone-zap-for-north-carolina-prisoners/
      • https://twitter.com/NCResists/status/1242938703871442947?s=20 (Durham County Jail)
  • so-called Canada
    • Quebec
      • https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/939v7v/laval-quebec-immigration-detainees-are-on-a-hunger-strike-over-coronavirus-fears (article only)

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