Category: Events

Date: Sunday, 1-16-2022
Time: 12 noon
Location: Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Ypsilanti

From PrisonRadio:

For several months, Prison Radio has been receiving and amplifying the voices of women calling in from Huron Valley in Michigan. They’ve been consistently reporting on the overcrowding, mold, sexual harassment, inadequate healthcare, and much more. Although Women’s Huron Valley has been problematic with its overcrowding and abuse long before COVID, the pandemic has exacerbated the problems and has made it much more urgent for us to take action. These conditions have led to a COVID surge at Huron Valley. According to the Detroit Free Press, the facility “constitutes 60% of all known cases [of COVID] among the incarcerated in the state.”

We need to take immediate action. There will be a protest rally on Sunday, January 16th at Women’s Huron Valley. Please rally and show up if you are in the Michigan area, and share this flyer with people you may know in the area.

If you aren’t able to make the protest, please consider sending an email or a physical letter or postcard to Heidi Washington, director of MDOC.

Link to prompt

Address:
Director Heidi Washington
Michigan Department of Corrections
Grandview Plaza
206 E Michigan Ave
P.O. Box 3003
Lansing, MI 43909

Email:
washingtonm6@michigan.gov

Virtual sessions for prisoner support & letter writing are back this week! Join us weekly on Slack until we are able to safely hold in-person events again. For access, email us, or send us a DM on Instagram or Facebook.

About Reverend Joy Powell:

Rev. Joy Powell is a vocal and consistent activist against police brutality, corruption, violence and oppression in her community. In 2006, she was targeted by Rochester Police Department, framed for crimes she did not commit, tried by an all-white jury and a biased judge in a case that had no evidence and no eyewitnesses, and sentenced to 16 years. In 2011, Joy was sentenced to another 25 years to life for a second wrongful conviction by a politically-motivated prosecution.

About Marius Mason:

Marius Mason is an anarchist and environmental/animal rights activist from the Detroit area. He is currently serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet, the harshest punishment of anyone convicted of environmental sabotage to date. No one was physically harmed in these actions, but at his sentencing, the judge applied a so-called “terrorism enhancement,” adding more time to an already extreme sentence requested by the prosecution.

Finally decided on a virtual platform to tackle letter-writing parties in these strange times!

We’re starting right away, this Thursday 4/23, to get together letters urging the release of Josh Williams (at his request and in alliance with other efforts).

Josh is a young activist arrested during the protests in Ferguson, MO and given a harsh sentence so the state could make an example of him. If you’d like to read a message from Josh, click here: https://itsgoingdown.org/from-josh-williams/

IF YOU’D LIKE TO GET ON BOARD FOR THESE SESSIONS, JUST DM US OR SHOOT US AN EMAIL BLACKCROSS313@GMAIL.COM! DOESN’T MATTER WHERE YOU’RE AT, WE’RE ALL TOGETHER EVEN AS WE’RE ISOLATED IN OUR RESPECTIVE HOMES!

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• Date: 11-30-2019
• Time: 4pm – 1am
• Location: Crow Manor
• Suggested donation: $10 (no one turned away)

Join us for a benefit show to raise funds and awareness in solidarity for those in struggle in Rojava.

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Aly X (goth industrial punk from Ohio)
Brain Itch (Windsor Canadian dbeat punx)
Shawn Addison (DJ set)
Thorn (political tap dancing & puppetry)
Swerve (acoustic amazingness)
Hobo Zero (acoustic pleasure)
Planet Clint (powerviolence)
Mad Graffiti Attack (metal trap)
Lrad A. Ram (more sounds)

Tarot Readings by Gemineye
Snacks from Food Not Class and Detroit Anarchist Black Cross

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About Solidarity with Rojava

People are being killed everyday in Rojava (the majority Kurdish region of Northeastern Syria).

This constant death and destruction is the result of Turkey unilaterally and illegally invading areas of North and Northeastern Syria. Turkey has unleashed tens of thousands of fundamentalist, Islamic extremist fighters pulled together from some of region’s most dangerous terrorist organizations in Syria – trained, armed, and paid for by Turkey with its plans for the ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish people from the areas of its operations who had been living peacefully for the first time in generations.

The Kurds have built a territory with direct democracy, feminism, and radical ecology as their foundation in one of the most war torn parts of the world. The people of Rojava are engaged in one of the most liberatory social projects of our time. Comrades in the West are encouraged to show solidarity for the revolution not only by raising awareness for Rojava but also by forming autonomous collectives to take action against authoritarianism and violent capitalism in our own backyards.