Knitting in Public

Like write to prisoners.

Prisons try to disappear people, isolate them, crush them. Don’t let that happen.

Write to activists in prison, write to trans people in prison, write to isolated prisoners, write to prisoners who no one else thinks are worth writing to.

The Anarchist Black Cross is a prisoner support network that has chapters in a lot of countries and cities. In the UK there are:

London: https://network23.org/londonabc/

Brighton: https://www.brightonabc.org.uk/

Bristol: https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/

Other UK based groups include:

SOAS Detainee Support: https://soasdetaineesupport.wordpress.com (focused on supporting people in migrant detention)

The Bent Bars project: http://www.bentbarsproject.org/ (focused on LGBTIAQ+ prisoners)

The Empty Cages Collective: http://www.prisonabolition.org/

Prison Action London: http://www.prisonabolition.org/prison-action-london/

You can also find a prisoner to write to on your own via:

http://prisonersolidarity.net/data-explorer

Dorchester: [email protected]

Boise: [email protected] – Chapter page

Chicago- [email protected] – Chapter page

Milwaukee – [email protected]

New Orleans- [email protected] – Chapter page

NYC- [email protected] – Chapter page

Providence – [email protected]

Anarchist Black Cross Oceania https://www.facebook.com/abcoceania/

Anarchist Black Cross Melbourne https://abcmelb.wordpress.com/

Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne http://www.isjamelbourne.com/

Antifascist Action Brisbane has also hosted prisoner solidarity events (https://www.facebook.com/AntifascistBrisbane/)

And whenever there is no explicit prisoner-support organization, ask your local anarchists! Most anarchist groups do some prisoner support as well since supporting those who defy the state is basic anarchist praxis. This long list of Australia anarchist organizations probably includes groups that do some prisoner support: https://anarchy.org.au/directory/

Also contributed by people in the notes of this post so far:

Canada: Inmate Innk Calgary, http://www.inmateink.ca/

ABC Argentina:

https://cnario.noblogs.org/

ABC Austria: https://www.abc-wien.net/

ABC Belarus: https://abc-belarus.org/

Belgium:

Anarchist Black Cross Gent

Binnen De Muren (ned.)

Getting The Voice Out (ned./fra./eng.)

La Lime (ned./fra.)

Brazil:

ABC Brazil: https://cnario.noblogs.org/

ABC Porto Alegre: https://cnapoa.wordpress.com

Bulgaria Prisoners Association: https://bulgarianprisonersassociation.wordpress.com/

Canada:

Toronto: https://torontoabc.wordpress.com/

Czech Republic:

ABC: https://www.anarchistblackcross.cz/

Antifenix: https://antifenix.noblogs.org/english-info/

Finland: https://www.facebook.com/Amrhelsinki

Germany:

ABC Berlin: https://www.abc-berlin.net

ABC Dresden: https://abcdd.org/en/

Rote Hilfe: https://www.rote-hilfe.de/

Mexico: https://www.abajolosmuros.org/

The Netherlands:

ABC Amsterdam https://abcamsterdam.wordpress.com

ABC Nijmegen: https://abcnijmegen.wordpress.com/

Peru: https://cnaperu.blogspot.com.es/

Poland: https://ack-bialystok.blogspot.co.uk/

Russia:

ABC Russia: https://wiki.avtonom.org/ru/index.php/%D0%90%D0%A7%D0%9A_-_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0

ABC Moscow: https://www.facebook.com/abcmoscow

Spain:

ABC Spain: https://www.nodo50.org/cna/

ABC Mediterráneo-Sur: https://www.cna-m.blogspot.com

Sweden: https://www.facebook.com/anarchistblackcross.stockholm

Switzerland:

Black Pidgeons Collective: https://blackpigeons.noblogs.org/

How To Talk About Polyamory Until No One Wants To Fuck You 

Remove children from parental influence, hold them long enough for them to captor-bond for survival, surround them with a new ideology 24/7. The youngest ones become blank slates, and the older ones wear down and adapt just to belong.

The next step would be to with hold all contact from their parents indefinitely. You could then punish them for speaking or learning their native tongue, and teach them domestic and hard labor skills and “employ” them outside of the camps to [insert synonym for “it builds character” here]. Since they aren’t actually citizens, minimum wage and labor laws don’t apply to them.

BI / PAN PRIDE and VISIBILITY not ERASURE!!!