Teenager killed himself in prison after getting deportation letter
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/28/teenager-killed-himself-in-prison-after-getting-deportation-letter Ondrej Suha was found hanged in his cell after reading that he could be sent back to Slovakia, which he left at age of four Helen Pidd North…
Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
by Amiri Barksdale Source: Insurgent Notes http://insurgentnotes.com/2016/06/convict-and-immigrant-detainee-struggles-converge-in-strike-wave/ The ultimate expression of law is not order—it is prison. George Jackson, Blood In My Eye (1971) There was a time in…
Dismantle & Transform: On Abolition, Decolonization, & Insurgent Politics
Source: http://abolitionjournal.org/dismantle-and-transform/ A conversation between Harsha Walia and Andrew Dilts, recorded February 5, 2015. Edited for length and clarity, January 2016. Although the conversation is somewhat dated and political contexts are shifting, the overall issues remain…
Week of Action: Day Six – Yarl’s Wood
Saturday 7th November was the final day of action as part of the week of action against the prison industrial complex. At the start of the day, people disrupted the…
Calais: 200 people storm the channel tunnel
UPDATE 6 OCTOBER: Calais Migrant Solidarity reports that all people arrested in the action have now been released. From Calais Migrant Solidarity Last night (Friday 2nd October) after midnight over…