MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 13, 1848: The German revolutions of 1848-1849 began in Vienna. While the middle classes were fighting for a unified German state and increased civil liberties, the working class had more revolutionary aspirations. Participants in the revolution included communist and anarchist revolutionaries like Marx, Engels and Bakunin, as well as the composer Wagner. The aristocracy exploited the split between the classes, facilitating their eventual violent defeat, with great loss of life and mass imprisonment. Many fled to the U.S. and became known as “forty-eighters.” They moved to places like Cincinnati’s Ober der Rhine neighborhood, or Saint Louis. After risking their lives fighting against serfdom in Europe, many were so horrified by the persistence of slavery in their new country that they dedicated themselves to the cause of abolition and free thinking, joining organizations like the Freimӓnverein (Society of Freemen) and the Wide Awakes (a radical militia that defended free blacks and fought Confederates in the streets). Some of them also became publishers, like Henry Boernstein, who had previously published “Vorwärts!” in Paris with Karl Marx, Engels, Heinrich Heine and others.</p><p>You can read more on The Wide Awakes and the Antebellum Roots of Wokeness here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/27/the-wide-awakes-and-the-antebellum-roots-of-wokeness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">27/the-wide-awakes-and-the-antebellum-roots-of-wokeness/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marx</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bakunin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bakunin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/saintlouis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saintlouis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cincinnati" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cincinnati</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vienna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vienna</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilliberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilliberties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a></p>
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aby is tired of your bullshit<p>..and it will get worse with the new Bail laws in Victoria. </p><p>..and it'll get worse if Dutton gets in as pm. </p><p>_____<br>Rate of Indigenous people in jail has risen by 20% since 2019, </p><p>Closing the Gap data shows<br>New data reveals child protection, incarceration and suicide rates getting worse</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Aboriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aboriginal</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Decolonise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonise</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SovereigntyNeverCeded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SovereigntyNeverCeded</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Treaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Treaty</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FuckRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckRacism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FuckWhiteness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckWhiteness</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FuckColonisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckColonisation</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AbolishPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishPolice</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AbolishPrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishPrisons</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityNotCops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNotCops</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NoJusticeNoPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoJusticeNoPeace</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/13/closing-the-gap-report-data-indigenous-people-in-jail-australia-data-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/mar/13/closing-the-gap-report-data-indigenous-people-in-jail-australia-data-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</span></a></p>
Firestorm Books<p>Next Saturday, March 22nd, Firestorm will be hosting Rattling the Cages co-creator Eric King in conversation with two veterans of the George Jackson Brigade—Janine Bertram and Mark Cook. Together they'll reflect on their experiences as political prisoners and the legacy of one of the most prolific US revolutionary groups in the 1970s, which synthesized movements for women's liberation, queer liberation, and Black power.</p><p>Register for this free event and find copies of "Ratting the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners" at <a href="https://firestorm.coop/events/3337-rattling-the-cages-looking-back-at-the-george-jackson-brigade.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">firestorm.coop/events/3337-rat</span><span class="invisible">tling-the-cages-looking-back-at-the-george-jackson-brigade.html</span></a>. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrisonAbolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonAbolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassIncarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassIncarceration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrisonIndustrialComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonIndustrialComplex</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/QueerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FeministBookstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FeministBookstore</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPrisoners</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeJacksonBrigade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeJacksonBrigade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirestormCoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirestormCoop</span></a> (- L)</p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/amistad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amistad</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cinque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cinque</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mutiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutiny</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/johnquincyadams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnquincyadams</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a></p>
Anonymous 🐈️🐾☕🍵🏴🇵🇸 :af:<p>Numerous Chicago police officers stationed outside a Tesla dealership, Telsa in response to potential protests or vandalism, reflecting heightened security measures amid tensions involving <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a>.</p><p>This deployment coincides with what the police are really about: protecting corporate interests <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakedown</span></a></p>
Lisa Kalayji<p>Prosecutors will charge 14-year-olds with murder for allegedly killing cops, but won't charge cops with murder for killing 14-year-olds. What does a world in which you feel safe look like? Does it have police and prosecutors in it?</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/nyregion/newark-police-officer-shooting.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/08/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/newark-police-officer-shooting.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceViolence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a></p>
Scott Campbell<p>"The Palestinian movement also makes it clear: a revolutionary movement that abandons its political prisoners abandons itself. Struggle brings repression, and for those who truly dare to fight for freedom, prison is perhaps as inevitable as death. It is suicidal to not see ourselves reflected in the faces of our political prisoners and organize accordingly."</p><p><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/if-we-abandon-our-political-prisoners-we-abandon-ourselves-palestine-shows-us-why/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mondoweiss.net/2025/03/if-we-a</span><span class="invisible">bandon-our-political-prisoners-we-abandon-ourselves-palestine-shows-us-why/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPrisoners</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a></p>
Women in Exile und Friends<p>Danke an alle, die heute mit uns in Eisenhüttenstadt am Lager waren! </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.global/tags/Frauentag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frauentag</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.global/tags/brandenburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brandenburg</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.global/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a></p>
Cha Cha<p>Who I Am and How I Toot: v. 2025b (updated March 2025, edited to remove in-line hashtags)</p><p>I use the fediverse to engage in conversations about justice on all levels. Children’s rights, antifascism, prison/policing abolition, healing trauma, +</p><p>Preschool teacher. I get joy from bicycling, music, nature, Star Trek (any), fantasy stories </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/preschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preschool</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bicycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bicycling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransformativeJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransformativeJustice</span></a></p>
Justice for Willie Simmons<p>How Target Funded a ‘Tough On Crime’ Prosecutor’s Office, Driving Black Youth Incarceration in Minneapolis </p><p>Part 11 in the series: 21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City</p><p><a href="https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/how-target-funded-a-tough-on-crime-prosecutors-office-driving-black-youth-incarceration-in-minneapolis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unicornriot.ninja/2024/how-tar</span><span class="invisible">get-funded-a-tough-on-crime-prosecutors-office-driving-black-youth-incarceration-in-minneapolis/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/abolition" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>abolition</span></a></span></p>
The Bird<p>Books I'm slowly reading. Three of them I'm almost finished, and the others are next in line. If anyone here are also reading these, I'd love to chat about the topics. I find it helps me understand and retain it better if there's folks I can chat with about it.</p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/BlackStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackStudies</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/DisabilityJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityJustice</span></a></p>
Justice for Willie Simmons<p>30 L.A. County probation officers indicted over ‘gladiator fights’ at juvenile halls</p><p>“The probation system and its underlying culture are broken,” Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia said in a statement Monday. “Accountability for those who have failed to protect our youth is long overdue — there is no justice in a system that abuses the very youth it is entrusted to care for.”</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-03/los-angeles-probation-officers-indicted-fight-videos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/california/story/2</span><span class="invisible">025-03-03/los-angeles-probation-officers-indicted-fight-videos</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/abolition" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>abolition</span></a></span></p>
Lisa Kalayji<p>"On Tuesday, Feb 25 in Giles County General District Court, 11 out of 12 defendants accepted non-cooperating plea deals for charges related to actions against the Mountain Valley Pipeline... The 11 defendants who accepted deals were all facing absurd felony charges, including felony abduction and felony “unauthorized use of a vehicle.”</p><p>One of the defendants who pushed for a better plea agreement said, “Today we proved that co-defendant solidarity works. We were able to see how different strategies against a stacked system play out. It is in the courts best interest for us to take a deal out of fear of trial, but today we showed that they are just as afraid of an uncertain outcome and we can use that to our advantage when we work together. The people who went to trial, or pushed it to the brink, got objectively better outcomes than those who took deals ahead of time.”</p><p>The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 303 mile long fracked gas pipeline tearing through West Virginia and Virginia, crossing delicate mountain ecosystems, karst terrain, and over 1000 streams and waterways. A series of direct actions and legal challenges helped delay completion of the pipeline for over 5 years, until congress and the Biden administration fast tracked the pipeline as a concession to Joe Manchin in the summer of 2023."</p><p><a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/packed-courtroom-as-12-defendants-face-court-for-mvp-resistance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itsgoingdown.org/packed-courtr</span><span class="invisible">oom-as-12-defendants-face-court-for-mvp-resistance/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fracking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Repression</span></a></p>
Crystal Huff (they/them)<p>Today I learned (via continuing my audiobook read of *American Nations* by Colin Woodard) about some early history of Pennsylvania, which was colonized by pacifist Quakers who became anti-slavery abolitionists as time went on, and had progressive-for-the-time treatment of indigenous folks. There's more nuance than that, of course, but it was all previously entirely unknown to me.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quakers#William_Penn_and_settlement_in_colonial_Pennsylvania" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_</span><span class="invisible">of_the_Quakers#William_Penn_and_settlement_in_colonial_Pennsylvania</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/UShistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UShistory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a></p>
Caro S.<p>These comics from the Real Cost of Prisons Project were a real eye-opener for me about the deep perversion of the American "judicial" system</p><p><a href="https://therealcostofprisonsproject.wordpress.com/rccp-comics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">therealcostofprisonsproject.wo</span><span class="invisible">rdpress.com/rccp-comics/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prisons</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WarOnDrugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnDrugs</span></a></p>
Socialt Center Solidaria<p>Coming up in March: Anarchist book circle @ Solidaria and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson. More info at <a href="https://organisera.org/events/c0dad937-6ee0-47c6-8cc4-16c5734ca50f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">organisera.org/events/c0dad937</span><span class="invisible">-6ee0-47c6-8cc4-16c5734ca50f</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stockholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stockholm</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BookCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookCircle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAnarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAnarchism</span></a></p>
Ben Lockwood, PhD<p>I recently read Abolition Geography by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and had to write down a few thoughts. </p><p><a href="https://write.as/benlockwood/reflections-on-abolition-geography" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">write.as/benlockwood/reflectio</span><span class="invisible">ns-on-abolition-geography</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/intersectionality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intersectionality</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Scott Campbell<p>"In effect, the goal of prison is to break us, to make us believe that we deserve it, to make us believe that our lives don’t belong to us...Being on the inside is a chance to demonstrate to them that we cannot be defeated. It is a chance to resist and to mock their chains, their stupid rules, and their double standards."</p><p><a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/interview-with-tempestad-anarchist-and-ex-prisoner-in-mexico-city/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itsgoingdown.org/interview-wit</span><span class="invisible">h-tempestad-anarchist-and-ex-prisoner-in-mexico-city/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CDMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDMX</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today, for Black History Month, we remember Hiram Rhodes Revels who, on this date, February 25, 1870, was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. He was a Republican from Mississippi. His cousins were killed participating in John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War, he helped recruit and organize two black Union regiments. When he first arrived at the Senate, southern Democrats refused to let him sit, arguing that the Dred Scott decision, in 1857, ruled that he wasn’t a citizen and had no right to serve, despite the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, which gave him birthright citizenship</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reconstruction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/johnbrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnbrown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harpersferry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harpersferry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HiramRhodesRevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HiramRhodesRevels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uprising</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/birthrightcitizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birthrightcitizenship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
smeedha 🌱<p><a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> through the Eras of <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Emancipation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emancipation</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Segregation</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Dream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dream</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a> | Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues | Spark Magazine <a href="https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/music-through-the-eras-of-abolition-emancipation-segregation-the-dream-and-blm-dbda6d6f3be6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/national-center-for</span><span class="invisible">-institutional-diversity/music-through-the-eras-of-abolition-emancipation-segregation-the-dream-and-blm-dbda6d6f3be6</span></a></p>
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