hi all,
our PO Box renewal date is coming up soon. We maintain a PO Box for prisoners to write to us, sending us analysis, poetry, and other updates from behind the walls. Some of the work that has been sent to our PO Box includes "The Struggle for Higher Education" by Jermond Perry (https://michiganabolition.org/2025/08/25/the-struggle-for-higher-education/ ) and “The Desecration of a Nation: A Review of Vine Deloria Jr.’s God Is Red” by Mangáakà Ade Ògúnkeye Uche Owogbala (https://michiganabolition.org/2024/08/26/the-desecration-of-a-nation-a-review-of-vine-deloria-jr-s-god-is-red-by-mangaaka-ade-ogunkeye-uche-owogbala/ ).
A PO Box is a necessary expense for all prisoner support groups, but USPS has been raising its rates over and over and over again. This time, we need $125 to keep the PO Box functioning. Can you help us raise $125 by March 15?
20/125! let's keep it up!
donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/supporting-maps
We are thrilled to publish this interview with JR in the latest issue of The Opening Statement, our free quarterly newsletter for prisoners.
JR is a library worker and abolitionist who has been a member of the No Detention Centers in Michigan (NDCM) coalition since 2019. Under the second Trump administration, we have seen the reopening of the private North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, MI as an ICE detention center.
On July 4, the coalition held a demonstration outside the prison, and 200 people came out to demand its closing and stand in solidarity with the immigrants held captive inside.
In the interview, which has been lightly edited, JR discusses the history of and conditions at North Lake, the importance of NDCM’s abolitionist framework, and why the migrant detention/deportation regime can be understood as an expression of fascism. We conducted this interview by email in July 2025.
https://michiganabolition.org/2025/08/17/interview-with-jr-of-no-detention-centers-in-michigan-maps/
Excerpted from The Opening Statement Issue 25, Summer 2025. JR is a library worker and abolitionist who has been a member of the No Detention Centers in Michigan (NDCM) coalition since 2019. Under …
This should be shared with everyone you know and especially those you don't --- yet.
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I guess that's the only reason RNC does anything, huh? 🤣🙄
Happy Juneteenth & Solidarity from Tacoma 
Well over half (estimates put it closer to 70% — SEVENTY PERCENT) of the people in Canadian jails are awaiting trial.
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That is:
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF ANYTHING.
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Our justice system is anything but.
It's a fucking farce.
It is an instrument of white supremacy.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
And don't wait until it's you or someone you care about to figure this shit out.
(2/2) Indeed, if we were to condemn every person who ever talked to themselves while walking somewhere they weren't supposed to with a weapon - that'd be one way to abolish all cops!
Police are the modern day legacy of the slave patrol, and in Minneapolis they've been protecting wealth and whiteness since 1867. As always, we honor and remember all who have fallen to police violence - whether or not they are an "ideal victim." #AbolitionNow -jh
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