I’m not generally a quote dunker so I’ll just say I regret to inform you that safety net removal for those who are deemed “undeserving” and family separation are and have always been a bipartisan project
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The Work and Us is an inside/outside participatory research project, that supports imprisoned people in conducting social movement research. Visit us as theworkandus.com
So much of scarcity's apparent credibility depends on decades-long efforts by elites to naturalize their rules about money: • Who gets to create + lend it • Who gets to borrow it • What rules govern public funds Ending scarcity entails understanding monetary design as a site of political struggle.
David Kaib@davidkaib.bsky.social · 4w agoThe productive capacities of society are truly unbelievable. Scarcity is entirely about power.
My essay on three things for abolitionists to consider about crime data is included in the new book EVERYDAY SH!T: NOTES ON ABOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION, edited by the Abolition Journal Working Group. www.commonnotions.org/buy/everyday...
Everyday Sh!t: Notes on Abolition and Reconstruction — Common Notions Press
The inaugural issue of the movement-focused and future-forward Abolition Journal quarterly after it was relaunched by the Philadelphia-based Abolition School.
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Juneteenth teaches us that everything is won through struggle. Today and every day, we commit to the Black struggle. Onward ‘til total freedom.
"The movement we need would reject the right of anyone to profit from illness, debt, borders, disaster, surveillance, or war... The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again." Please read and share.
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2mo agoI wrote about the smash-and-grab politics of fascist gangsterism and what it would mean to take back what’s been stolen. “The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again.”
Prisons across the U.S. are stripping away physical mail in what they claim to be an effort to combat drug smuggling. Here's the truth: Mail scanning does not stop drug use behind bars — but it does hurt incarcerated people & their loved ones.
Mail scanning isn't the solution to drug use in prisons -- here's why
We explain how to push back on harmful and ineffective mail scanning practices in U.S. prisons.
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We are launching a kickoff fundraiser in support of our year-long Incarcerated Research Fellowship. We are raising $90k to provide monthly stipends to our fellows, and we need your support!
"The report found that free communications saved incarcerated people and their loved ones $622.5 million. Savings ranged from $172 to $1,801 per incarcerated person per year." truthout.org/articles/fre...
Free Phone Calls Saved Incarcerated People and Their Loved Ones $622.5 Million
Six prison systems have implemented free phone calls. A new report examines the impact of free communications.
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I'm noticing a strange 'wait and see' vibe over the past couple of months and I think that the upcoming midterms are in part responsible. We need people to be engaged in local community and political work more than ever. This is not a time to have feet of clay.
"I need you to really understand what it means to be a survivor of sexual violence in a facility where the only accessible media is built by and for the people who most benefit from your silence." @truthout.org @kwanetaharris.bsky.social prismreports.org/2026/04/30/t...
The controlled information ecosystem of American incarceration
In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have exper...
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@inthesetimes.com "We organize with people pushed to the margins of the labor market by the carceral system, denied stability, protection, and too often even recognition that they are workers at all." inthesetimes.com/article/may-...
Mayday, Mayday, May Day
Friday's emergency signal from the working class
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"Campaigns that use language like housing not handcuffs or care not cages should be cautious. It’s important to be able to separate demands for something not to exist from demands for what we actually want to build." inquest.org/building-res... @inquest.bsky.social
Building Resistance - Mon M. interviewed by Joanie Steffen - Inquest
A key author of the Community Justice Exchange toolkit for organizing against carceral infrastructure discusses the need, now more than ever, to center abolitionist goals.
inquest.org
In recognition of #EarthDay, we wanted to lift up pieces by incarcerated people on how the carceral system fuels environmental degradation that impacts people on both sides of the wall.
"if you take a more functional, materialist perspective on what role these institutions play in any unequal society, they’re all essentially doing the same thing. So, I think it’s a mistake to talk about ICE as if it’s separate from all of these other institutions of repression."
alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 4mo agoI did this interview with Brian Bean and the fantastic Tempest magazine about ICE, police, and the moment we are in: tempestmag.org/2026/04/ice-...
The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.
If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.
🚨NEW DATA: As the number of people in ICE custody has grown, deaths have followed. But ICE facilities are black boxes, and they don't want you to know what's happening inside. The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project has stepped in to fill the gap 👇 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...
Our cofounder @alwaysstevie.bsky.social laid the ideological framework for this project years ago. We are grateful he is home with us to help it grow. www.aaihs.org/the-makings-...
We are accepting applications for our Incarcerated Research Fellowship. We'll train currently incarcerated people on participatory research methods and build their capacity to analyze the problems that impact them most. Learn more 👇 www.theworkandus.com/fellowship
"And if the crises of our present are inseparable from those of our past, then the efforts to resist ICE’s abuses must be part of a larger political project—one that requires us to move toward abolition, not reform."
Robyn Maynard@policingblack.bsky.social · 5mo agoBlack abolitionists saw their project as a rejection of the idea of Black transportability, insisting that freedom of movement is a human inheritance that belongs to all. Ending anti-Black policing necessitates the abolition of border regimes www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...
Despite being closest to the problem, imprisoned people are not seen as experts on what happens inside prisons. The Work and Us seeks to change that. Learn more about our work.
Check out this new video by one of our co-founders and organizers breaking down our incarcerated research fellowship! www.instagram.com/p/DV9QKrQjvY3/ Follow us, check us out! theworkandus.squarespace.com/support-our-... DM us to send an application to someone or go to: tinyurl.com/twusfellowship
The Work And Us on Instagram: "One of our co-founders and organizers, Stevie Wilson, breaks down the incarcerated research fellowship and why imprisoned and formerly imprisoned people must be leaders ...
1 likes, 0 comments - thework_and_us on March 16, 2026: "One of our co-founders and organizers, Stevie Wilson, breaks down the incarcerated research fellowship and why imprisoned and formerly imprison...
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We are honoring our movement elders for Women's History Month, starting with incredible organizers, researchers, and mentors we have lost.
My latest for @theappeal.org Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...
Incarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better Conditions
After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.
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So excited to launch this veery important project. Please share and follow @the-work-and-us.bsky.social
the-work-and-us.bsky.social@the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship. If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!
We're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship. If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!
We're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship. If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!
We are so excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉 This is a stipend opportunity open to anyone currently incarcerated. To learn more and download the application: tinyurl.com/twusfellowship DM us if we can help mail an application to anybody you know who might be interested!