On the 8th of September, Bristol Anarchist Black Cross in collaboration with the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee are having a fundraising dinner and infonight in solidarity with striking workers who are fighting against the slavery of the United States prison industrial complex.
Come to Kebele Community Centre, 14 Roberstson Road, BS5 6JY, at 6.30 pm on Thursday the 8th of September for food and to find out more about their struggle. There will be a discussion with the importance of prisoner solidarity and the need for prisoners’ unions with Bristol ABC and members of the Incarcerated Workers’ Organising Committee, who are involved in assisting with the prison strike from the outside in the US.
In the words of prisoners involved in the strike:
Slavery is alive and well in the prison system, but by the end of this year, it won’t be anymore. This is a call to end slavery in America. This call goes directly to the slaves themselves. We are not making demands or requests of our captors, we are calling ourselves to action. To every prisoner in every state and federal institution across this land, we call on you to stop being a slave, to let the crops rot in the plantation fields, to go on strike and cease reproducing the institutions of your confinement.
This is a call for a nation-wide prisoner work stoppage to end prison slavery, starting on September 9th, 2016. They cannot run these facilities without us.
For the rest of the callout and for more information about the strike, visit iwoc.noblogs.org and itsgoingdown.org