We, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), are a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. We struggle to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on the outside. On September 9, 2016 we were part of a coalition of inside and outside groups that launched the largest prison strike in US history. Resistance to prison slavery continues with work stoppages, hunger strikes and other acts of resistance to business as usual.
But it will take a mass movement - inside and out - to abolish prison slavery. We have hundreds of members in over 15 prisons and our membership continues to grow. We invite all those who agree with our statement of purpose to join us and to start a local group in their prison, city, or trailer park. IWW membership is free to those incarcerated, and is based on income for those on the outside. We ask supporters to sponsor a prisoner’s membership for just $5 a month.
IWOC Statement of Purpose:
1. To further the revolutionary goals of incarcerated people and the IWW through mutual organizing of a worldwide union for emancipation from the prison system.
2. To build class solidarity amongst members of the working class by connecting the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and juvenile detention centers to workers struggles locally and worldwide.
3. To strategically and tactically support prisoners locally and worldwide, incorporating an analysis of white supremacy, patriarchy, prison culture, and capitalism.
4. To actively struggle to end the criminalization, exploitation, and enslavement of working class people, which disproportionately targets people of color, immigrants, people with low income, LGBTQ people, young people, dissidents, and those with mental illness.
5. To amplify the voices of working class people in prison, especially those engaging in collective action or who put their own lives at risk to improve the conditions of all.
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And all you teens can get involved right here!
https://incarceratedworkers.org/get-involved
- Ted Yoho, House Rep, R-FL, 3rd district. He is not running for re-election in 2020.
- Thomas Massie, House Rep, R-KY, 4th district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, if he wins the candidacy in the republican primary on June 23.
- Justin Amash, House Rep, Libertarian-MI 3rd district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, and ran an unsuccessful campaign for president this year as well.
- Louie Gohmert, House Rep, R-TX, 1st district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, and has already been declared the Republican nominee.
So to our friends in (click the link to see a map and find what district you are in!):
VOTE THOSE BASTARDS OUT, and fill their seats with the most progressive candidate available!
falling in love with the specific kind of story which is: the city is a character and it HATES you but also cherishes you and you cannot escape it
i made this post about a couple of stories - I Am In Eskew, Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (and most of his other Discworld books), Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, and Dishonored (2012). I Am In Eskew is probably the most overt of these, since the city of Eskew is more or less actively in love with and trying to consume the narrator. Dishonored is also literally my favourite video game of all time, mostly because of how well-developed the setting is and the craft that went it to it, so I can’t recommend it highly enough.
for living (and possibly malicious) places in general, not just cities, check my hauntings tag! House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, the podcast Mabel, Tallahassee (2002) by the Mountain Goats, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Choephori, this video essay by Jacob Geller, Gravehouse by @kayleerowena, Anatomy by KittyHorrorshow, Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill (although it has a lot of Issues lmao), and potential long-term nuclear waste warning methods (I’ve linked to the wikipedia article but the whole WIPP report is super interesting) are all great things that deal with this theme of places which are in some way alive (and both hostile and possessive to the people exploring them).
if anyone else has more recs along this line i’d love to hear them too!!
take them outside with a little cup and piece of paper and gently relocate them to a rhododendron bush
shower gel label: immerse your self in this new “Me Time” luxury fruity tooty. abandon all sense of identity and dissolve Your memories into this soothing chemical broth One billion melons are in this tube… use them wisely
Look, don’t underplay the TikTok/K-Pop communities: dashcon did it to themselves but Trump got this done to him.
Actually, nope! The whole “the stands were empty because KPop fans got all the tickets” narrative would be funny, but it assumes a few things that aren’t true. First, it assumes that there were a limited number of tickets. Second, it assumes that there was anyone who wanted to go who was prevented from doing so because tickets were unavailable. In reality, nobody who asked for a ticket was denied one because there was an unlimited number of tickets, and nobody who showed up at the door was denied entry for not having one.
The fact is that the people who might’ve filled those seats just flat-out did not show up. Sure, they might’ve seen that KPop fans reserved tickets and figured “ahh, I don’t care enough to fight for a ticket,” but there’s also a LOT of people who just didn’t feel comfortable at a large gathering while there’s a pandemic on. Maybe some of them didn’t feel like signing a waiver absolving the campaign of responsibility if they get Covid 19 at the rally and got turned away at the door. Maybe their fear of getting sick finally outweighs their faith in Donald Trump, or maybe they’ve lost faith in him entirely.
Yes, the jokes about KPop fans ruining his rally are funny, but they obscure the true (and much funnier) explanation: Donald Trump is losing so much popularity with his base that he can’t find enough racists to fill a stadium in support of him. In Tulsa Oklahoma.