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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Monday, May 7, 2018
But consider this: when government deliberately deprives people of educational and economic opportunities in anticipation of crime, making arrests, charging fines, pursuing criminal convictions in court, enforcing free labor on prison farms, this is called involuntary servitude and slavery!
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When government knows that failure to provide educational and economic opportunities to people creates social problems such as poverty, domestic violence and crime and fails to give the people the resources they need be successful, this is government misconduct and violates the will of the people!
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
Just like they have Cops, CSI, 48 and others to tell us their perverted, racist, bigoted, right- wing views and fake news about crime and justice, we need to write out our own script, produce our own films and documentaries to show the people and the world Our Story as well as to provide an alternative view of justice and how to solve and/or prevent crime. If jails and prisons are not the solution to the problems that the vast majority of white people have, neither is it for us!
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Alongside of the Drug War and among the strategies used to persecute Black Americans and poor people is the War Against Poverty. The War Against Poverty is another sinister strategy planned, designed, and implemented by the U.S. government that supposed to clean away poverty, integrate the people, and assure equality of rights but in practice ended up taking away funding from president Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society anti-poverty program and redirected it to law-enforcement, jail and prison construction. Ronald Reagan, both of the Bushes and Clinton administrations together built a Prison Empire that today holds more blacks than the plantation system in the old antebellum South. It is reasonable to conclude that America's perverted Drug War and War Against Poverty in practice constitutes re-enslavement and the forced labor of blacks on prison farms in this country. Indeed, this amounts to another form of slavery!
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The War On Drugs is American History! People need to be told the whole truth about how U.S. borders became saturated with dope, and that it was the CIA, Ronald Reagan and then vice-president George Bush that flooded American streets with dangerous, mind-altering narcotics with the intent to corrupt the morals of the people, especially Black Americans. Equally important too is for the American people to learn that after the government planned and influenced their corruption and addiction to drugs, drug distribution, and drug-related crimes of violence, it was the same damn government that then turned around and started a get-tough-on-crime movement, giving the states more resources to build jails and prisons, giving local governments more funding to expand its law-enforcement operations to go after its target: African Americans and the poor!
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In television programs like Cops, CSI, 48, the gangland channel and others, they show us stories about gang-related violence, drug-related violence, and how dangerous crime and criminals are on our streets. They would have us believe that the "victims" of poverty and inequality are the criminals who are our enemies and must be gotten rid of. However, what they don't tell us and will never admit to is the role that government plays in creating crime and criminals on our streets through its perverted policy on the War On Drugs, the War Against Poverty, the Iran and Nicaragua Contras drugs-for-weapons- program to undermine, vilify, and destroy Black Leadership and social chance movements.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
Monday, April 16, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Greetings FAM! My name is Ronald and I am an organizer working with Decarcerate Louisiana. I see that we all share the same understanding that the legislative intent of the 13th Amendment was to prolong slavery, not abolish it. The government would be fixed so that it would not only own the new institution, but even more so that it could systematically marginalize, criminalize, and imprison their primary subjects. Hence the shift from the plantation system to the prison system! More importantly, it is our highest duty to protect and serve the interest of our people. Our calling is to abolish all practices and conditions of servitude that threaten the humanity and dignity of our person(s). I propose that we seek to create a task force of authors, educators, film producers, organizers, activists, and others concerned about this historic problem to work on a consensus and statement documenting the legislative intent of the 13th Amendment! It would be great if we all can give this proposal serious attention and consideration in the interest of justice and fairness to the people. We want our Task Force to find the facts for the people and in favor of humanity! So while our movement for prisoners human rights continue to grow from inside to outside the prison system, we will have agencies moving in the political process with our demands for justice. How about bringing a Task Force into our movement to help us draw up the proper report and supporting documents for redress of our grievances? Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter! In solidarity, Ronald.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 26, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
In antebellum slavery, the trick was to tell lies and convince multitudes of citizens that the people held in captivity as slaves were less than human beings. Likewise, slavery today is predicated on the same reasoning and persuading the citizens to see people as criminals and not as human beings. The battle to win the hearts and minds of the people continues still to this day with the goal of the oppressor being to demonize people while the goal of the oppressed being to humanize and liberate themselves!
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Fundamentally, antebellum slavery was abolished because society was compelled to see the so-called slaves as human beings and the institution of slavery as inhuman. Likewise, the states department of corrections can and will be abolished when multitudes of people come to see prisoners as human beings and the American Criminal Justice System as a diabolical scheme and an elaborate excuse to justify slavery today!
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
The saga continues,more Angola's fucked up state food! Malik Da God Co-founder/Asst.Pres. Of Decarceratelouisiana
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Monday, February 5, 2018
It's a damn shame that with all the so-called black leaders and organizations supposedly there to have our back, when the subject of crime and violence and prisons comes up, or even how to solve social problems, none of em' says what needs to be said! Its like they all deliberately become stupid as part of a plan to stay in one's place and not embarrass the government! This is why we have 2.3 million Americans behind bars! It's weakness, indecision, and cowardice!
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If you don't want to do it, there are some among our people that have the knowledge and courage to not only explain to the government and the world about what's causing the high rates of crimes of violence among African Americans, but the confidence as well to demand community reinvestment while showing the white boy the folly of prisons as being the solution to problems that stem from political and economic failures!
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When the white-conrtolled media tried to tell us about prison as being the solution to crime in the 1960s and 70s, MLK and Malcolm X and the Black Panthers stood up and explained to the world that this was irresponsible; that the crime and violence would be solved when the government support the people's rights to sustainable communities!
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Sunday, February 4, 2018
Friday, February 2, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The Truth About Crime
Science today has made breakthroughs in its knowledge and understanding of human behavior. On the subject of crime, we have course material in the sciences of psychology, psychopathology, sociology, criminology, environmentalism, and soci-political studies. In every single one of these sciences there is a general consensus that most of our street crime today that occurs in poverty-blighted urban and rural areas stems from unsustainable development practices created by policies that marginalize people.
It is common knowledge today in the scientific community that both drug-related nonviolent crime and violent crime is a systemic problem and an epidemic that has become a problem for humanity. However, for systemic reasons, American public officials have downplayed the role of community as a solution to our social problems and has touted get-tough-on-crime policies that put our citizens in cages like these instead of community care facilities you see below that would seek to listen, diagnose, treat, and return people to society as useful, law-abiding citizens. For that matter, and if you had the choice of prison or community reinvestment to solve our social problems, which would you choose?
It is common knowledge today in the scientific community that both drug-related nonviolent crime and violent crime is a systemic problem and an epidemic that has become a problem for humanity. However, for systemic reasons, American public officials have downplayed the role of community as a solution to our social problems and has touted get-tough-on-crime policies that put our citizens in cages like these instead of community care facilities you see below that would seek to listen, diagnose, treat, and return people to society as useful, law-abiding citizens. For that matter, and if you had the choice of prison or community reinvestment to solve our social problems, which would you choose?
A Norwegian prison cell
A prison cell at Angola
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
A Call to “We, the People” to Unite Against All Forms of Oppression
We are asking students, workers, tenants rights groups, disabled people, women, LGBTQ people, prisoners, and everyone else to make time today to break through all the barriers, opening up closed doors of opportunity, and to raise critical questions. We need to examine U.S. wars abroad and, how our government prioritizes military spending over human needs and investments in the welfare of its citizenry. We are dealing with immense problems, the vastly unequal distribution of power and wealth in this country, institutional racism, police brutality, economic injustice, unsustainable development practices, the systematic criminalization and ongoing slavery of descendants of African slaves and other marginalized people, and how We, the People fare under this rule of law in our society!
So if you are a woman, a man, or gender non-conforming person, a student or a working class person, a prisoner or whatever, let's talk about the political, economic, and cultural issues we are facing today and look for ways to make common cause, support one another and be in the struggle together!
This coming year, the United States will spend an estimated 48% of our federal tax dollars on military spending, to pay for current militarization as well as past debt from military spending. In the meantime, our schools are failing, we have arguably the worst healthcare system among the wealthiest countries in the world, our communities are struggling to meet basic survival needs, and we incarcerated more people than all of the world’s other Prison populations combined. This is an outrage! We deserve to have our tax dollars support our communities, rather than spent on the militarization of our streets as well as warfare overseas. Join the conversation, add your comments below!
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
SUPPORT ACTION TO ABOLISH LEGAL SLAVERY,
PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS,
AND STOP THE HISTORIC OPPRESSION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OTHER MARGINALIZED PEOPLE!
Although it portended to abolish slavery in the United States, the writers of the 13th Amendment created an exception clause to allow slavery as punishment for committing a crime. This nationalized slavery so that all the states in the Union could now own slaves, and so that slaves could now be owned by state governments instead of individuals as was the case before.
Since the passage of the 13th Amendment, U.S. policy makers in the areas of banking, trade, commerce, government, land-use planning, the environment, media, housing, health care, public health and safety, law-enforcement and, more recently, telecommunications, have supported the creation and enforcement of laws that have the effect of systematically marginalizing Black people, beginning with the newly released slaves and continuing to this day!
With the abandonment of Reconstruction, many Blacks soon began to be persecuted by angry white mobs. Blacks that had acquired some land title soon lost the property rights to that land to white business men.
The persecution continue with Black Codes that criminalized and imprisoned blacks and denied them voting and civil rights. This effectively segregated and excluded them from equal participation in the rule of law as well as in the making and creation of wealth for their own prosperity.
Although civil and voting rights were passed in the 1960s, Blacks still suffered persecution and marginalization and complained of discrimination in their rights to equal employment opportunities, equal pay, living wages, affordable homes, affordable housing, land ownership and many other civil and human rights violations!
While Blacks and sympathetic white supporters were still clamoring for jobs and justice amid the violence and chaos that was erupting in the streets, LBJ's administration was tapped to investigate the crime and conditions in the inner cities. Tasked with this investigation were the Katzbach Commission and the Kerner Commission which both issued reports that found much of the mayhem occurring in the streets was due to inequality and poverty created by the political and economic system.
To solve the problem, LBJ created an anti-poverty program within his administration that became known as the Great Society! States were encouraged to adopt or implement social welfare programs supported by the federal government.
The prospects for a better future seemed to be great, but with so much resources and attention being given to the War in Vietnam, LBJ's administration dropped the ball on his domestic programs. Extreme right-wingers stole the national spotlight and with the election of Richard Nixon, changed the focus of poverty and crime from being understood as inequality in society to being seen as laziness and something genetically or culturally wrong with African Americans.
Despite there being persuasive evidence that the government was involved in the Iran and Nicaraguan Contras drugs-for-weapons-program that led to U.S. borders being flooded with dope, language like "welfare queens", "gangsters", " criminals", "thugs", and the need for "law-enforcement" was used by the Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations to grapple with the domestic problems; albeit shoddy government and shortcomings in the system had truly created the conditions for massive upheavals in society.
However, official Wars on Drugs and Poverty were declared by the United States government! As funds for social welfare programs were cut and redirected to law-enforcement, jail and prison construction, conditions on the streets grew worst and became extremely violent! Being systematically locked out of education and economic opportunities, masses of black people across the country were forced to go at it alone using drugs, committing robbery, theft, and other offenses to meet daily human needs and wants. These strategies that people use to cope and survive on a day to day basis are considered crimes that really in truth are products of social engineering and are manufactured by a biased political and economic system!
The point to be made is that 150 years after the United States supposedly abolished slavery, U.S. policy makers created a system that in turn created conditions of poverty, crime, and violence that caused millions of American citizens to be arrested and put back in slavery for conviction of offenses! And when powerful social change organizations stepped in and begin to move to clean up the problem, the FBI organized a counter-intelligence program that would undermine, vilify and weaken these leadership efforts put forward by the People!
So it begs the question: did the writers of the 13th Amendment really intend to abolish slavery in Amerikkka? No! What did they intend to do? Criminalize African Americans and other marginalized people and put them back in slavery!
Therefore, to call people criminals, gangsters, thugs, welfare queens, the 47% with their hands out and other foul names is actually a play of power-politics and a cover up of the abuse of power and historic oppression of African Americans and other people in this country! Now we are exposing this and bringing this out for public scrutiny.
To free our people from the bonds of white supremacy and finally liberate them from the ghettos, impoverished environments, and prison cages in this nation, we are asking students, workers, tenants rights groups, disabled rights groups, prisoners, the LGBTQ community and all fellow humans to join us in rallies, marches, demonstrations, and peaceful protest and to call, write, and lobby your local, state, and federal public officials to support and pass laws in favor of (1) Reconstruction: i.e., higher education, community reinvestment, and fundamental fairness as alternatives to incarceration; and (2) Reparations: i.e., land, opportunity, and space to heal, forgive, redeem and empower ourselves to build our ideal community!
In Solidarity,
Ishkaten, Angola Prison
Ishkaten, Angola Prison
A CALL TO SUPPORT ACTION FOR JUSTICE NOW
FOR ALL OF US,
NOT JUST SOME OF US!
In the year 1865, a great deception was sold to the American people: that the slavery of Africans and their descendants was abolished in the United States. However, the writers of the 13th Amendment allegedly abolishing slavery included a loophole known as the exception clause which states “except as a punishment for crime.” The exception clause was crafted for the express purpose of appeasing those who fought for the Confederacy, and more generally to ensure the elite white land-owning class would not lose access to the surplus free labor upon which American capitalism was and continues to be founded.
After the passage of the 13th Amendment, U.S. policymakers began to create and enforce laws that systematically marginalized, criminalized, and imprisoned newly released slaves and other marginalized people for trivial offenses.
Since many blacks and poor whites were effectively segregated and excluded from mainstream society and stereotyped as being misfits and not ready to handle the responsibilities of freedom, they became prime suspects for wrongdoing and even mistreatment and persecution by the police—just like in antebellum times when the slaves were patrolled by slave-catchers. We saw this play out over the next 150 years with the abandonment of Reconstruction, Black Codes, Peonage, The Wars on Drugs and Poverty, The FBI'S Counterintelligence programs to vilify and destroy Black Leadership and the 1960-70s social change movements, and a nation-wide mass construction of jails and prisons to hold what would fast grow from a small number of people to 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in the American Penal System—an enterprise that retained the profit-making scheme of the old institution and holds more slaves today than were held in antebellum slavery!
To call Black, Brown, and poor people criminals, thugs, gangsters, and other foul names is actually a play of power-politics and a cover up of the abuse of power and ongoing oppression of African Americans and other persons similarly situated. And we are exposing this and bringing this out for public scrutiny!
Higher education, community reinvestment, and fundamental fairness is our idea of Reconstruction, righting the wrongs of slavery and finally ending involuntary servitude now and forever!
To free our people from the bonds of white supremacy and liberate them from the ghettos, impoverished environments, and prison cages in this nation, we are asking students, workers, tenants rights groups, disabled rights groups, prisoners, LGBTQ people and all fellow humans to join us in a mass movement of rallies, marches, demonstrations, and protests and to call, write, and lobby your local, state, and federal public officials to write policy and laws in support of (1) Reconstruction: i.e., higher education, community reinvestment, and fundamental fairness as alternatives to incarceration; (2) Reparations: i.e., land, opportunity, and space to heal, forgive, redeem and empower ourselves to build our ideal community!
Thanking you all for your time, consideration, cooperation, understanding and support in this pressing matter!
In Solidarity,
Ishkaten
Ishkaten
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Classmates Not Cellmates!
Hi Friends & Family,
Hope this finds you well in the struggle. Thanks for checking out or blog. Make sure to subscribe as well as to visit it often to get the latest about our work & organizing.
Wanted to take this time to highlight our fundraiser, titled Classmates Not Cellmates!
We are raising money to get books & materials to set up study circles between folks who are incarcerated in Louisiana prisons as well as on the outside. These study circles will help build stronger relationships between inside and outside, and get us all "on the same page" for organizing going forward.
Education is a critical for many of us to fully understand what is happening in Louisiana (which has the highest rate of incarceration in the world) as well as around the rest of the country. There are 2.4 million people behind bars, that means we are locked up, and our many of our friends and families are locked up. This is based on a system of slavery, systemic racism, and unquestioned classism.
Decarcerate Louisiana seeks transformation. We want a world free of mass incarceration and the forms of state violence we see everyday from police to prisons to military occupation. We want the right to determine our own future and have support for our communities.
Help us set up these study circles by donating here!
Don't have money? You can help us spread the word by taking a photo of yourself holding a sign that says "Classmates Not Cellmates" and SHARE on social media with the hashtag #ClassmatesNotCellmates.
As always, thanks for your support. We couldn't do it without you! Onwards,
Decarcerate Louisiana Volunteers
Hope this finds you well in the struggle. Thanks for checking out or blog. Make sure to subscribe as well as to visit it often to get the latest about our work & organizing.
Wanted to take this time to highlight our fundraiser, titled Classmates Not Cellmates!
We are raising money to get books & materials to set up study circles between folks who are incarcerated in Louisiana prisons as well as on the outside. These study circles will help build stronger relationships between inside and outside, and get us all "on the same page" for organizing going forward.
Education is a critical for many of us to fully understand what is happening in Louisiana (which has the highest rate of incarceration in the world) as well as around the rest of the country. There are 2.4 million people behind bars, that means we are locked up, and our many of our friends and families are locked up. This is based on a system of slavery, systemic racism, and unquestioned classism.
Decarcerate Louisiana seeks transformation. We want a world free of mass incarceration and the forms of state violence we see everyday from police to prisons to military occupation. We want the right to determine our own future and have support for our communities.
Help us set up these study circles by donating here!
Don't have money? You can help us spread the word by taking a photo of yourself holding a sign that says "Classmates Not Cellmates" and SHARE on social media with the hashtag #ClassmatesNotCellmates.
As always, thanks for your support. We couldn't do it without you! Onwards,
Decarcerate Louisiana Volunteers
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