A word from my associate Devi, regarding Black trans activist, Ashley Diamond.

Ashley's been struggling to find consistent help, and she could use some material support to survive being unhoused in this hellscape.

CA: $protagonist1017
Ven: Ashley-Diamond-34

#DirectAid #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund #Abolition #PrisonAbolition #Anarchy #Anarchism #CommunityCare #Community @mutualaid

Two weeks from today Firestorm will have the honor of hosting an incredible online panel for the release of historian Garrett Felber's new book with AK Press. "A Continuous Struggle" chronicles the life of Martin Sostre, an under appreciated legend in the history of anti-prison and Black freedom movements.

Garrett will be joined by writer William C. Anderson ("The Nation On No Map") and revolutionary elder Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin ("Anarchism and the Black Revolution"). Together they'll discuss Sostre's incredible life and legacy as a jailhouse lawyer, revolutionary bookseller, yogi, mentor and teacher, anti-rape organizer, housing justice activist, and original political thinker.

Don't miss this event! You can sign up and find a copy of "A Continuous Struggle" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3372-the-revolutionary-life-of-martin-sostre.html. Can't make the event live? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording when we post it!

#BlackFreedomMovement #BlackAnarchism #PoliticalPrisoners #BlackPower #FeministBookstore #PrisonAbolition #MartinSostre #LorenzoKomboaErvin #FirestormCoop (- L)

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.

Register for this free event and find copies of "Ratting the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3337-rattling-the-cages-looking-back-at-the-george-jackson-brigade.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #QueerHistory #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #GeorgeJacksonBrigade #FirestormCoop (- L)

We're just two days away from the next event in the Rattling the Cages series! Join former political prisoner Eric King who will be speaking with family members of political prisoners about how the repression and violence of incarceration impacts more than just those imprisoned. Sharon Shoatz (daughter of former political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz), susie day (partner of former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn), and Rochelle Bricker (Erik's partner) speak to the familial harm of prison repression and the unswerving love and solidarity that keeps hope alive.

Register for this free event and find copies of "Ratting the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3312-rattling-the-cages-abolition-is-a-family-affair.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

The updated "What is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People?" publication from Interrupting Criminalization has been published!

I contributed data collection and analysis work, with much guidance and patience from Andrea and Rachael. Data from multiple sources along different points in the incarceration pipeline, make very clear the intense level of racial bias. Seeing this, along with the recent trend in increased incarceration and criminalization was sobering.

When you hear about the administration forbidding certain words and classifications in data sets and reports, know that it is an attempt to hide this.

The data analysis work was done with #emacs #gnuplot #clojure #duckdb and #orgmode in support of #prisonabolition #decriminalization and #socialjustice

https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/whats-driving-2025-update

https://www.bentbarsproject.org/

https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources/lgbtqi-focused-organizations-and-resources

https://letsgetfree.info/

https://transempowerment.org/tep-projects/inmate-advocacy-project/

https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/prisons/

https://transequality.org/resources/standing-trans-prisoners-resources-improve-conditions-incarcerated-trans-people

listening this a.m. to the Ajam Media episode with Golnar Nikpour about her work published as The Incarcerated Modern
https://ajammc.com/2024/05/01/ajam-podcast-41-the-incarcerated-modern-in-iran/

#FreeCaseyNow: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement

"Casey Goonan is the only US political prisoner from the 2024 pro-Palestine student encampments. They are an abolitionist and anarchist who has dedicated themselves to multiple forms of prisoner support work and directly engaging with incarcerated comrades.

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In June of 2024, they were arrested by a task force comprised of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in connection with an alleged direct action which took place in solidarity with the UC Berkeley encampments which had been brutalized by police and zionists earlier in the year

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While Casey has received a great amount of support from decentralized community in New York, Chicago, California, and elsewhere, the pro-Palestine movement needs to be publicly and actively supporting them."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/01/freecaseynow-on-casey-goonan-and-the-abandonment-of-political-prisoners-in-the-pro-palestine-movement/

Excerpt of a letter from Michael. #MichaelKimble #PalestinianLiberation #prisonabolition

The U.S. still has indentured servitude and slavery, it's just located in the immigration and prison systems of this country

In 2024 our co-op collaborated on nine incredible events with Eric King and Josh Davidson, co-editors of "Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners!" Next Saturday, Eric and Josh will be joined by Rattling the Cages co-creator Sara Falconer to share how they started this oral history project, the importance of inside-outside collaboration, and how replicating these oral histories is something you can do, too. Sarah and Josh will additionally talk about a quarter century of creating the Certain Days calendar, building relationships with political prisoners, and why our support matters!

Learn more about this event and sign up for free at https://firestorm.coop/events/3304-rattling-the-cages-how-we-did-it-and-how-you-can-too.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

Tomorrow evening, we're hosting an important conversation in the Rattling the Cages series, with a focus on politicized prisoners! Series creators Eric King and Josh Davidson talk with Hector “Bori” Rodriguez and Farhan Ahmed, both of whom spent decades imprisoned in New York where they became politicized as they fought for their freedom.

Learn more about this event and sign up for free at https://firestorm.coop/events/3292-rattling-the-cages-becoming-politicized-in-prison.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #PoliticizedPrisoners #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

Next Saturday, we're excited to host an intergeneration panel with former political prisoners who served time at women's facilities. In this eighth event with the creators of "Rattling the Cages," we'll hear from Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, and Nicole Kissane about the repression, the resistance, and the resilience of women fighting back in US prisons.

Learn more about this event and sign up for free at https://firestorm.coop/events/3284-rattling-the-cages-revolutionary-women-behind-bars.html. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #FeministBookstore #WomensPrison #PoliticalPrisoners #FirestormCoop (- L)

#Intro #Introduction

We are the #Anarchist #Hacker village at #HOPEXV! July 12th-14th, at St. John's University in Queens, NYC.

An anarchist, #Queer #Feminist, self-organized and do-it-together space. Where #Hacking is a tool for total #Liberation. Come to meet others, discuss ideas, and conspire against all forms of oppression. Or just for a chill social space. We'll have free #Zines, stickers, and more!

Follow this account for updates on what we're up to during the conference, boosts appreciated! Help us spread the word!

Heyooo this is my #intro post pls boost

i'm a multiply #disabled #Autistic white #trans #lesbian living in the so-called uk (specifically on the island of #Britain), I'm Bargee, I live nomadically on a #narrowboat which I mostly successfully maintain myself. Interested in #RightToRepair and #repair more generally. A factor of the way autism manifests for me is hyperlexia (verbose speech, obsessive about choosing the exact right word, obsessed with learning new words and ways of speaking), this means my writing comes out really formal; read it as a class thing if you want but I'm working class, no now or future inherited wealth, no access to managerial or corporate power, lived paycheck to paycheck my whole adult life.

Politically speaking i'm into #greenanarchy, I love the #iww, i'm here for #familyAbolition and #policeabolition, #transformativejustice and #prisonabolition. I want an end to all colonial rule, capital, states, nations, borders and capital. In terms of the island I am on I am here for the end to the English occupation of the six northern counties in Ireland, the end of English rule/occupation/power in Scotland and Wales, and the end to all English overseas domination in all forms perpetrated under the flag of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I'm pessimistic about technology and I think it and legislation can't solve social problems.

I mostly post about disability justice, #CovidIsNotOver, queerness, transness, #ukpol, anarchism and anticapitalism.

I'm a linux user, obviously, and a #foss advocate.

I'll make a separate pinned post with a cw for sexy. Flirts welcome if you're a dyke, don't think covid is over and still mask up (or disability precludes you masking), and if you're like mid twenties or older (i'm in my thirties). CIS AND TRANS MEN NO FLIRTING, THIS IS IN CAPS BECAUSE YOUR PEOPLE SEEM INCAPABLE OF READING COMPREHENSION.

To People of Colour: I collect my cousins, particularly white trans/disabled girls and autistics. If someone is doing a racism from an instance mine is federated with and you want collection please let me know. If I see this myself I do my best to not need asking. Being gracious and grateful when receiving criticism and asks for accountability or change in my behaviour is important to me and I do not expect your tone to be a certain way for me to hear it, and I am grateful for any time you take a chance on me and do me the generosity of feedback. I understand that feedback does not have to be complete and that a gift of feedback does not obligate the giver to provide further explanation/education/contact. I understand what diunital thinking is and do my best to employ it. I can usually keep my temper and own feelings in check when collecting and recuse myself when they get in the way of constructive action. I have no qualms with conflict, upsetting people and being "mean" where necessary, however. This paragraph is here for your informed consent and does not obligate you to like or trust me or interact with me.

A note on language: I use nondisabled, disablis(t/m) to honour the disability activists I have known and organised with in Britain, over the more common americanisms abled, ablis(t/m) but I don't care what anyone else uses. I use C(oercively)AFAB and CAMAB over AFAB/AMAB and if you're TME I think you should do the same. I don't really mind what language other trans women and TMA people use but I would encourage you to look into the terf historical useage of FAB (female at birth) and the transmasc transmisogynist useage of AFABulous, as well as to think about how CAMAB both decenters our ASAB and centers the violent upholding of cisgenderism, and think about whether this might be a useful lingustic distinction for you. But I'm not the boss of you, do what feels important/right to you.