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We are accepting applications for our Incarcerated Research Fellowship. We'll train currently incarcerated people on participatory research methods and build their capacity to analyze the problems that impact them most. Learn more 👇 theworkandus.com/fellowship

Our cofounder @AlwaysStevie laid the ideological framework for this project years ago. We are grateful he is home with us to help it grow. aaihs.org/the-makings-of…

Been really into Black communists movements and reading so I’m nerding out on this trilogy I’m doing. Currently on the last one Black Scare/Red Scare by @drcbs_. Just more newfound appreciation for the elders and ancestors that were in the movement

Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymark… @solitarywatch is co-sponsoring this conference in Chicago on May 29-30. Find out more and register at the link.

The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition requires its practitioners to remember. Memory work is a basic tenet of the tradition. We are charged with remembering the struggle. We are charged with remembering those who have fallen. We are charged with remembering those left behind. This afternoon, while walking down the street, I received a text from my dear friend Danielle relating the historic ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court: second-degree homicide (felonious murder) is unconstitutional. In a state with one of the highest DBI (death by incarceration rates), this ruling is a game-changer. Philadelphia itself has sentenced more people to die in prison than any other local jurisdiction in the world. When I read this news, I shamelessly began to cry. I cried because less than two months ago I walked out of SCI-Dallas. And I remember the many people still caged there. SCI-Dallas has one of the grayest populations in Pennsylvania, people who have been fighting for freedom for decades. Many of them there and in other PA prisons are my friends. For years, I witnessed them struggling against a death imposed sentence. They never gave up. They organized with each other and across the walls. Ten, twenty, thirty, and even forty-plus years of struggling and organizing. And today, they achieved a major victory. As an abolitionist, I don't believe liberation will be legislated or adjudicated. But struggle on these terrains is harm-reduction that can get us closer to freedom. I want to commend all of the imprisoned people and their families for the decades of struggle. I want to thank Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and The Center for Constitutional Rights for your work and unstinting support of those living under DBI sentences. Now, the courts have given the state legislature 120 days to craft a fix. We must be vigilant. We must not let the victory slip away. We must continue to fight. We must continue to remember the many others locked behind the walls and barbed wire. Because we aren't free until we are all free. Always , Stevie

I have a new essay in @BostonReview, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition bostonreview.net/articles/hunte…

Despite being closest to the problem, imprisoned people are not seen as experts on what happens inside prisons. The Work and Us seeks to change that. Learn more about our work.

maybe it is the time for a sober look at what a movement once was (maybe more militant for instance) & what it lost in part through the consolidation of power via nonviolent representatives operating more like a cult than anything else. not to establish the right ppl to deify / make icons but to identify the practices that were actually threatening to those in power & the process by which those in power managed to defang a movement & get generations of people (often along the lines of ethnicity) to celebrate the people that helped them do that

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Check out this new video by one of our co-founders and organizers breaking down our incarcerated research fellowship! instagram.com/p/DV9QKrQjvY3/ Follow us, check us out! theworkandus.squarespace.com/support-our-wo… DM us to send an application to someone or go to: tinyurl.com/twusfellowship

"In the fight for women’s rights, liberation and equality, women in prison must be included as well." #WomensHistoryMonth prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/03/28/pri…

Linda Thurston left her mark on so many organizations, including Critical Resistance, and was a cofounding member of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She helped build a lot of the infrastructure that strengthened our movement for PIC abolition.

Rose Braz was a seasoned organizer who fought for environmental justice, human liberation, and prison abolition. She cofounded Critical Resistance, the Coalition for Effective Public Safety, and Californians United for a Responsible Budget.

We are honoring our movement elders for Women's History Month, starting with incredible organizers, researchers, and mentors we have lost.

"As recently as 2017, physical mail was the primary method of communication with friends and family members for those incarcerated in every prison system in the U.S" Now, 78% of the US prisoner population no longer can receive physical mail. prisonlegalnews.org/news/2026/feb/…

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