Letters for Liberation Newsletter
Reflections on the praxis and theory of abolition, plus opportunities to get involved in solidarity with incarcerated people.
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September Newsletter (opens the original)
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Letter From a Collective EditorGreetings, all! My name is Joe and I have been a penpal and organizer with Letters for Liberation since 2021. Welcome to September’s edition of our newsletter!This past August, I spent some time in Philadelphia for the first time to attend a friend’s wedding and had a few days to spare. Between cheesesteaks, I decided to visit the Eastern State Penitentiary.This now-closed prison serves as a museum dedicated to the pioneering institute that helped establish the “se
August newsletter (opens the original)
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Letter From a Collective EditorGreetings y’all, and welcome to this community newsletter centering abolition and collective liberation. To ground us, I’ll bring in Fannie Lou Hamer who affirmed, “None of us is free until all of us are free.” We are well into Black August, an important time to recognize, affirm, and uplift our inside comrades in their struggle with the material conditions forced upon them by the prison industrial complex.I correspond with two inside comrades — Prophet in M
July Newsletter (opens the original)
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Letter From a Collective EditorDear Ones, I stayed up too late last night, my brain racing with all the tacks I could take in this letter to connect the urgency of prison abolition with our daily lives. Climate, disability, literacy, slavery, food scarcity, surveillance, gender, racism, healthcare. But you already know these connections for yourself! So I want to talk about longevity.I began writing my friend Desi about 6 years ago in the early pandemic days. I sent a letter every single week fo
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