Tucson Anarchist Black Cross

05/14/2019

Come out this Thursday for Letter Writing!

09/27/2018

In South Carolina, with floodwaters rising after the onslaught of Hurricane Florence, two women being transported to a mental health facility in the care of the Horry County Sheriff’s Office were stolen from us when officers bypassed warning barricades and drove directly into floodwaters. The officers saved themselves, climbing to the van roof to await rescue, leaving Windy Newton and Nicolette Green to drown beneath their feet inside the van.

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08/19/2018

On the MOVE.

The MOVE Organization is currently in financial stress. Many new developments have created an extreme financial burden on the organization. With the recent release of Debbie Africa and the other members of the MOVE 9 coming up for parole, the legal fees are mounting, with no relief in sight.

The toll of being in prison 40 years has caused the health of the MOVE 9 to decline. The MOVE 9 range from the ages of 58 -74 years old. They are starting to develop serious health problems. We have already suffered the loss of Merle and Phil Africa to these strenuous conditions.
The losses that the MOVE 9 have suffered have been horrendous. Janine, Janet Delbert, and Phil have suffered the death of their young children during the May 13, 1985 bombing. The grief that Phil suffered shortened his life.

We are working extremely hard to bring our family home. We have made every effort to raise the funds necessary to support them.
Our fundraising efforts have included, conferences, 5k runs, concerts, radio and TV programs, speaking engagements, and endless hours of marches and rallies- still we have fallen short. We need more support
After 40 years of imprisonment, Debbie came home with only the clothes on her back. The love from her family and the community have been very helpful and we are very thankful, but she is still in need.

Please help us crowd source for a solid future for the other MOVE 9 members. We have chosen $50,000 as our starting goal, but please don’t hesitate to help us exceed our limit. No Donation is to small.

To send donations for the legal fund follow this link:
www.aboltionistlawcenter.org

To send donations for MOVE 9 members, send to:
The seeds of Wisdom Foundation
P. O. Box 58
Clifton Heights PA 19018

On the MOVE. The MOVE Organization is currently in financial stress. Many new developments have created an extreme financial burden on the organization. With the recent release of Debbie Africa and the other members of the MOVE 9 coming up for parole, the legal fees are mounting, with no relief...

08/12/2018

"A compilation EP in celebration of the International Day of Solidarity with Eric King, a vegan anarchist prisoner in the United States. All of the proceeds go to Eric and his family.
supportericking.org"

6 track album

06/29/2018

The stories from Arizona prisons are horrifying. A 43-year-old died from a staph infection. A 36-year-old died from delays in diagnosis and emergency care for an aortic dissection. Three men died from complications from metastatic cancer, which spread throughout their bodies due to delays in care. T...

05/31/2018

Campaigners have hailed the law as "groundbreaking."

05/27/2018

An eye-opening report from The New York Times has exposed the existence of multiple “floating Guantanamos” operated by the U.S. Coast Guard throughout the Pacific Ocean. Coast guard cutters on missions to interdict suspected drug smugglers in international waters have become de facto prisons for...

03/17/2018

A little late on the news, but never too late to celebrate! Black Panther Party/Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell has been paroled!

Herman Bell was one of three men convicted in the 1971 ambush killings of two police officers in Harlem. Now, at age 70, he will soon be released from prison.

03/09/2018

When stating that we would prefer a world without prisons, borders, and governments people often ask "what about murders, etc". The majority of people are in prison for #1-- drugs (solution: decriminalize drugs), #2 -- Property crimes (solution: end economic inequality/end private property), the police/prison industrial complex are barriers to health and freedom, not the safeguards of them. The police in the US kill a thousand or more people every year, their mission is control.

Statistically, U.S. law enforcement agencies are the worst crime solvers in the Western world. According to official data, there are arrests for about one-eighth of burglaries, about one-third of rapes, and about two-thirds of murders. But official methods of reporting can distort and exaggerate mur...

03/08/2018

Ernest "Marty" Atencio died in a Maricopa County jail in 2011.

03/03/2018

Inmates at a southern Arizona prison threw rocks, set fire to mattresses and attacked COs Thursday

02/23/2018

Jamil Al-Amin is a black liberation prisoner held at the federal BOP Facility, USP Tucson. There's a petition at the bottom of the link.

How you can help Imam Jamil: Yahya Abdussabur, a leading supporter of Iman Jamil Al-Amin, in distributing this letter by email, writes: The letter is part of the continuing effort to gain freedom f…

02/04/2018

Help our friend, formerly incarcerated comrade, Stephen transition to a life outside!

Hello, My name is Stephen Swartz. I recently returned to the community after serving a sentence in the Arizona prisons, where I helped other incarcerated people get the medical and mental health care they needed. I was a named plaintiff in a case against the prison system, because I believe in th...

10/19/2017

Delaware has indicted eighteen inmates in a deadly riot and hostage-taking at the state's maximum-security prison, most of them on murder charges.

10/19/2017

"It was three years ago this week that the Arizona Department of Corrections signed the settlement agreement in this case over prison health care so inadequate that it leads to needless suffering and even death," Fathi said. "The fact that the Department of Corrections is still grossly out of compliance with the settlement is proof that the department is profoundly broken, leaving the thousands of prisoners under its control with scant access to medical care."

The threat comes three years after officials agreed to improve the disastrous lack of healthcare.

10/18/2017

In recent weeks, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has put out requests to identify privately-run jail sites in Chicago, Detroit, St. Paul, Salt Lake City and southern Texas, according to notices published on a federal contracting website. It did not publicly announce its plans to house 4,000 more detainees at the facilities
The prospect of new prisons has driven up the value of both companies since Trump's election, partly because 65% of detainees held by the Department of Homeland Security are in privately run facilities. Since Election Day, GEO Group's stock price has increased 63% and CoreCivic's has risen 81%.

The Trump administration is taking the next step in its push to arrest more undocumented immigrants by expanding jails to house them.

10/17/2017

For now the focus is on tattoos from arrestees and prisoners, but technological advances potentially allow authorities to include photos taken from surveillance videos. The technology is being touted as a way to not only identify criminals, but also victims of crime or natural disasters. Yet tattoo identification has already been used for more questionable purposes.

New technology is giving law enforcement agencies the ability to identify people by taking a photo of their tattoos; it can also group people with others who have the same type of body art.

10/14/2017

Steve Prattor, the Sheriff of Caddo Parish in Louisiana, is not a fan of his state’s new criminal justice reforms that will free many prisoners convicted of nonviolent offenses earlier than they had been scheduled to be released.