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. @prisonculture: "Prison in fact normalizes and reproduces violence."
. @prisonculture, on why she is a PIC abolitionist: I want to dismantle a system predicted on premature death and organized abandonment and build one focused on life and safety."
. @prisonculture: "Abolition is an alternative in the making." 
. @prisonculture brilliantly linking the history of the Montgomery bus boycott to a politics of mutual aid, which we're seeing today w/ community response to the pandemic + other state-created political crises. Mutual aid is "cooperation for the sake of the common good."
. @prisonculture lifts up @deanspade new book Mutual Aid, which argues mutual aid isn't just neighbors helping neighbors, it's a political critique - it exposes the failure of the current system and offers an alternative.
. @prisonculture: asks us to join her in making 9 solidarity commitments to/with incarcerated people for 2021 - find + share the full list at http://bit.ly/9Solidarity
. @prisonculture talks about MLK's fear of jail, esp solitary confinement. Notes that King was jailed 29 times. "If King were alive today, at 91 - I have no doubt that what he would be addressing is the violence and destruction of the prison industrial complex."
. @prisonculture frames MLK as a revolutionary, with a sharp critique of white supremacy, imperialism, and capitalism, against sanitized presentations that frame him only as a dreamer. This is why he was murdered, and we cannot erase that history.
. @prisonculture notes that MLK talked about the horrors of police brutality" in the famous I Have A Dream Speech, and that he frequently linked white supremacy to the institutions of policing + prisons in the US
. @prisonculture "There are people at your campus taking up King's struggle against policing." THAT'S RIGHT -- SHOUT OUT TO @copsoutofNU
. @prisonculture notes that campus police have become enforcers of gentrification, harassers of marginalized groups of students. "They do not address things like rape and sexual violence, no matter how many times people raise this." 
. @prisonculture "Cops maintain and reproduce an unequal society. That's what they do. They were not established for public safety. That's a fact...Police are violence workers. What marginalized people experience is not "bad policing" - it's POLICING." 
@prisonculture on the events last week, which has many misguidedly calling for more or "better" police: "Yes, look at what happened at the insurrection at the Capitol. Police assisted and facilitated the insurrection in various ways."
. @prisonculture: "campuses can be sites of experimenting, & creating new forms of sociality and safety. universities should take harm seriously -- but if unis are to take harm seriously, it means that they have to divest from policing b/c policing is so harmful" cc @NorthwesternU
. @prisonculture basically says if you're not riding with @copsoutofNU, what are you doing? join the struggle, they are on the right side of history. 
. @prisonculture said abolish capitalism, so 
. @prisonculture "King taught us...that putting your body and yourself on the line is critically important in the world that we want to make...I hope those listening today are motivated to move beyond your comfort zone and build another world. We don't have to live like this."
