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To all my AZ friends/family: Thanks so much for your and likes and hope and encouraging words these past 4 1/2 years. You helped me survive some of the loneliest days and hardest nights I've endured yet by keeping our connections alive across 2000 miles.
My 55th birthday is June 13, 2019, and I plan to celebrate it in PHX (details to be announced). I'm leaving Michigan (god willing) by May 25 - and should land in an undisclosed location in the Deep Southwest soon after.
Here's my PAYPAL link for anyone who wants to shoot me $10 bucks or throw a big impromptu anarchist talent show and pass a hat or something to help me make it home. Once I land I'll be back to work on my art again, and will send a homemade gift to everyone I can...
And don't forget to pick up PJ Starr's 2016 documentary film about the life ad death of Marcia Joanne Powell:
SHARING IS CARING,
so please share with all our friends!!
THANK YOU and MUCH to all, near and far.

THIS BLOG is NOW RETIRED
Rather, these are just my observations in arguably the most racist, fascist, militaristic state in the nation at a critical time in history for a number of intersecting liberation movements. From Indigenous resistance to genocidal practices, to the fight over laws like SB1070 and the ban on Ethnic Studies, Arizona is at the center of many battles for human rights, and thus the struggle for prison abolition as well - for none are free until all are. I retired the blog in APRIL 2013.
Visit me now at Arizona Prison Watch or Survivors of Prison Violence-AZ

Prison suicides reveal the very real, human cost of our prisons.
ReplyDeletePrison suicides are not just an American problem but worldwide. Within the last decade, some 854 men, women, and children took their own lives in prisons in England and Wales. In 2007 alone, female prison suicide rates increased by 167%; rates among children and young people went even higher – rocketing by 250%. These figures reveal a grave and serious problem within our prison systems. We at the Howard League for Penal Reform believe greater use of community sentences and justice reinvestment initiatives are just two ways in which we can to put an end to this terrible and tragic toll.
To find out more visit http://www.howardleague.org/suicideprevention/