Rustbelt Abolition Radio

02/05/2022

Cosecha Michigan blocking the highway in Grand Rapids on May Day for dignity for all undocumented workers and marching alongside the family of Patrick Lyoya.

10/12/2021

Aguanten lxs compas de Yo no fui!

03/12/2021

Disappointed by recent attempts at electoral reform, organizers are building community-based safety networks that aim to make police obsolete.

26/11/2021

🔥Reunión y YoNoFui lanzamos un proyecto editorial conjunto.

En medio de tantos asesinatos en manos de las fuerzas de seguridad, de una crisis de tierra y vivienda sin precedentes, de la expansión de las cárceles y del pedido de castigo, de una insoportable estigmatización al pueblo mapuche y del avance de las nuevas derechas en la región. Reunión y YoNoFui nos aliamos para compartir redes afectivas, buscar nuevas formas de hablar de lo que nos preocupa y de lo que queremos, para tratar de unir luchas y territorios y armar arengas colectivas.

El domingo 5/12 presentamos cuatro libros: Los primeros dos títulos de la colección “Toma, Ocupación, Recuperación", escritos junto a la Toma Fuerza de Mujeres en la Villa 31 y junto a Tierra para Vivir Feminismos para Habitar en Guernica; y los primeros dos títulos de la colección "Textos Choreados": "¿Qué hacemos con las cárceles?" de Angela Davis y "Las Preguntas Completas de Angela Davis".

Quedan todes invitades a brindar, arengar, conspirar, leer y bailar.

02/10/2021

Earlier this year Bruce X Parker (whose sharp critiques of the Michigan Department of Corrections we have shared with you before) won a major Federal court settlement against his captors. As a “strategist and a tactician” Bruce X takes the struggle in the courts for what it is: a means to survive in the belly of the beast. He argues that what he calls the criminal punishment system (CPS) can never produce justice. Uncle Sam’s prisons and police can never make this society livable for most of us.

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Earlier this year Bruce X Parker (whose sharp critiques of the Michigan Department of Corrections we have shared with you before) won a major Federal court settlement against his captors. As a…

09/09/2021

Five years ago, on the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners held captive across Amerika lit the flames of the . One of the flashpoints of resistance was Michigan's Kinross prison. Here is their story:
https://rustbeltradio.org/2018/04/25/makingcontact/

On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to work or lock down in their barracks. Instead, they jo…

22/07/2021

Call for International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 2021 // 23 – 30 August There is a fundamental lie in the capitalist society. A promise that never comes true. The promise of freedom – you just have to work hard. Every time we stumble upon the crisis of capitalism we are reminde...

28/06/2021

Tashiena is a beloved member of our community and has spent the last 22 years incarcerated at Women's Huron Valley prison in Michigan. Come to our co-sponsored event this Wednesday, June 30th, to show your support and learn more about her struggle.

Join the team for our third Letter Writing Wednesday! We’ll be partnering with Tashiena’s Freedom Team, another participatory defense campaign working to get Tashiena Lanay Combs (TLC) home. We will hear from Michigan based organizers from Tashiena’s team, as well as Tashiena he...

24/06/2021

Vital anomalous alliances: "Miners overpowered the guards, freed the convicts, and burned the stockade to the ground."

Once slavery was abolished, capitalists rebuilt an industrialized South using a new form of racialized slavery: the convict lease system. It would take multi-racial insurrectionary action to ultima…

24/06/2021

Gotta stay vigilant and defend the Abolitionist edge of the uprising. Dems and Republicans, as always, are looking to restore order (classic good cop/bad cop dynamic). But beware: the allies of counter-insurgency can also take other forms.

President Joe Biden outlined changes he hopes to make to criminal justice and policing in the United States during a town hall Tuesday night, highlighting issues that his administration may tackle after COVID-19 relief.

23/06/2021

05/06/2021

Nourn moved from Cambodia to the US as a child, and ended up in an abusive relationship that led to a man’s murder. After years in prison, she is now a powerful voice for those who face incarceration and deportation

28/05/2021

Image description: Poster is yellow with light blue and dark blue texts and illustrations, following the colour scheme of the DJNO logo. Top left of the poster lists dates of events in the series: May 27th 2021 Cops out of Care, June 30th 2021 Abolish the Psych Ward, July 29th Abolish Long Term Care...

13/05/2021

Via Twitter:
On we're launching the Rustbelt Abolitionist Campus Coalition (RACC). Link up with us next Friday, May 21, at 6p ET (5p CT) to strengthen struggles across the rustbelt fighting for Abolition in campus and beyond. Register here: https://bit.ly/3tMzFHs

06/05/2021

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James Tignanelli, president of the Police Officers Association of Michigan, the state's largest police union, said officers across Michigan also are dealing with increased citizen hostility in many forms.

"They're not just shooting at us; they're resisting every type of arrest," Tignanelli said. "It's almost automatic now when we show up. Everywhere I go, officers are telling me unsolicited that this is becoming a huge problem."

According to the Officer Down Memorial page, which tracks police deaths, 19 officers have been killed by gunfire in 2021 as of Friday, up 12% from the same period last year.

29/04/2021

Let's be realistic.

26/04/2021

Abolition through attrition?

“People don’t want to be police anymore," one local police chief said. "It’s a good job, and good-paying job, but when you look at national news every day, people just don’t want to be officers."

21/04/2021

It all seems like an exception. A miracle. But miracles do not exist. We know that there is a necessary causal order to this world. And that the cause of this effect (Chauvin’s guilty charges) is the on-going rebellion. We celebrate our power - not the state’s conviction.

A guilty verdict is the state’s response to the power of the rebellion as it redirects our power through its own channels. The state responds the only way it knows how to: by trying and, in this case, by convicting one of its own agents. By discarding a “bad apple.”

Instead, this is what we call Abolition: our capacity to produce empowering effects that escape containment by the state. The capacity to build our power so that cops, judges, & prosecutors become obsolete. So we do not celebrate conviction. We find joy in sensing our own power.

Abolition is the truth of our moment. As we bear the tragic news of Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, and Ma’Khia Bryant — all murdered through “reasonable use of force”— we find a joyful reason only in the Abolitionist power to make our world anew.

21/04/2021

Ma'Khia Bryant felt she was in danger and called the Columbus police, according to her aunt. But when officers arrived at her home on Tuesday afternoon, the girl ended up dead.

20/04/2021

Whatever the verdict remember that the prosecution already stated "this is not an anti-police prosecution, it is a pro police prosecution" and the defense that Chauvin was a "reasonable officer" in use of force. Ain't no justice but the transformation of everything

17/04/2021

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Study, Organize, Abolish: A Cops Off Campus Research Workshop

12/04/2021

08/04/2021

31/03/2021

As Abolitionists often say: care not cops.

“I should have called 911 immediately,” Genevieve Hansen reflected on the stand Tuesday.

29/03/2021

No "justice" can come from their system. The only "justice" we desire is one that transforms it all.

27/03/2021

brilliant

26/03/2021

Hunting, Ex*****on, and Self-Defense from Piñera's "Black February" to the Combative March

22/03/2021

"Advice to new Abolitionists" by our Critical Resistance comrades:
criticalresistance.org/advice-to-new-abolitionists/