Distributed Proofreaders examines the Life of John Brown https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/04/01/life-of-john-brown/ #ebooks #slavery #abolition
Life of John Brown

Tragic Prelude, mural in the Kansas State Capitol building depicting John Brown, by John Steuart Curry As a new Distributed Proofreaders post-processor finalizing proofread and formatted texts into…

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Ary: “The people in here have still been who they want to be and are still out there. They are even being more outspoken to a certain point, because the jail tries to mess with them, but they still be them.”

Pooja Gehi: "Trans people in prison are experts on organizing under conditions of extreme censorship, surveillance, and repression."

Jacinda Lee Allenbaugh: “Reach out to us in solidarity. Because we need all the support we can get. Raise hell for us and with us in peaceful protests. Link up with trans organizations to support us.”

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Trans People Behind Bars Share How They Are Navigating the Dangers of Visibility

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

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Engaging story, important part of history/herstory: "Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832"
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Today I learned there is a movement in the health field called Abolition Medicine that works to eradicate structural differences in how people are treated in and access the health care system. There's a lot of tech crossover here! https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/abolitionist-reimaginings-health/2022-03 #abolition #medicine #tech
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health

In 2020, the authors of this article published “Abolition Medicine” as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands.

Refuse to work-->no parole
Join a union-->no parole
Go on strike-->no parole
Ask for wages-->no parole

Frosted Flakes
Ball Park hot dogs
Gold Medal flour
Coca-Cola
Dominos Pizza
Burger King
Kroger
Target
Whole Foods
Cosco
Walmart
McDonalds
Cargill
Tyson
Louis Dreyfus
Archer Daniels Midland

Much of this constitutionally protected slave labor occurs on former slave plantations, like Louisiana's Angola Prison.

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

#workingclass #classwar #prison #slavery #abolition #racism #BlackMastodon

Hidden prison labor web linked to foods from Target, Walmart

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. They are on the shelves of most supermarkets, including Kroger, Target and Whole Foods. They’re also exported. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color. Some are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work – or face punishment – and are sometimes paid pennies an hour or nothing at all. They also are excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job. And it can be almost impossible for them to sue.

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Daylight‑saving time has begun. At 2 a.m. Central European Time (CET) the clocks were advanced to 3 a.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST).This marks the 47th... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40027 | #news #abolition #amid #daylightsaving #debates
Germany Steps Into Its 47th Daylight‑Saving Season as EU Debates Abolition Amid Public Resistance - Osna.FM

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