New Abolitionist Movement on the march
by Nube Brown
Aug. 19 at 11:00 a.m., courageous and loving folks in San Jose, Calif., joined with sister marches and rallies throughout the country in support of prisoners’ human rights and amending the 13th. Their courage is found in the rejection of an institution so prevalent and insidious that any criticism can bring a mountain of ridicule and judgment.
In San Jose, Troy Williams of the SF Bay View and Daniel Aguilar of Silicon Valley DeBug led hundreds of prison and slavery abolitionists on a 1.3 mile march to James P. McEntee Plaza outside Santa Clara County Jail, educating people along the way that slavery is still legal in the U.S. so long as the slavery clause remains in the 13th Amendment. – Photo: Karpani Devi
Marchers in San Jose, gathered at the Raymond Bernal Jr. Memorial Park, listened before they set off to a powerful recorded speech by Joka Heshima Jinsai (Denham), a leading incarcerated intellectual and founder of Amendthe13th.org. Playing the recording on a bullhorn is Matthew Sahagian of Rise Up for Justice, Nube Brown’s organizing partner. – Photo: Karpani Devi
It is an institution shielded by a centuries old narrative that tells people, “They are not like us,” and consequently, “they” are undeserving of our humanity. It is the institution of legal slavery in the “land of the free.” And their love is revealed by their enthusiasm for a new society which reunites us in our common experience and affirms those rights which we call human to all members of our society regardless of the color of their skin, socio-economic status or past indiscretions.
The march launched at 11:45 a.m. with a speech from Amend the 13th’s founder, Joka Heshima Jinsai, recorded and blasted over a bullhorn to a crowd of hundreds. Troy Williams of the SF Bay View followed with a call to remember why we march, setting the tone for a purposeful and peaceful demonstration to the public.
Attorney Joyce “Joy” Lewis carries her Black Lives Matter banner alongside the SF Bay View banner, unfurled for the first time in nearly a decade. – Photo: Jahahara Alkebulan-Maat
As we progressed through the lively Japantown neighborhood, chants rang out: “Brick by brick, wall by wall, we will make your prisons fall” and “Human rights apply to all, even those behind the wall.” Onlookers enjoying a patio lunch stood and applauded, while those passing in cars or on foot honked and cheered as marchers proceeded with signs calling to end mass incarceration and recognize solitary confinement as torture.
Looping across from the county jail, marchers converged on James P. McEntee Plaza to be welcomed by Watani Stiner. Despite decades of imprisonment and dehumanization, his joyous introduction spread optimism as it reverberated throughout the crowd: “Welcome all of you beautiful and magnificent souls! Today is a good day to resist! Today is a beautiful day to rise up and say no more! Today is a wonderful day to say not in my name!” With that, the platform was set for voices to be heard and stories to be shared.
At their destination, marchers assemble for the rally in the shadow of the county jail. – Photo: Raymond Aguilar, Fathers and Families of San Joaquin
Riding a wave of solidarity, speakers shared painful truths about the U.S. prison system. Raymond Aguilar noted, “They incarcerated my body, they incarcerated part of my soul, but they did not incarcerate my mind,” as he spoke to his experience and on the issue of juvenile life without the possibility of parole. On behalf of Mianta McKnight, Julia Arroyo of the Young Women’s Freedom Center called out the realities of a system that lacks the necessary resources for girls and women of color returning home from prison.
But among the cheers and outbursts of encouragement, there were moments of sheer heartbreak and anger. We witnessed the pain and loss of a mother, Laurie Valdez, who shared the murder of Antonio Guzman Lopez, father to her young son, by SJSU police. Alongside her, the frustration of Ato Walker, whose life was interrupted by a racist police and unjust bail system simply because he was not listened to.
One by one, speakers rose to share their lived experiences. One by one the crowd was moved, not just to open their eyes, but also their hearts.
Bay View publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff holds the banner made for the Bay View by ANSWER for the mass marches to stop the Iraq war in 2003. Each of those marches, at a couple of which Dr. Ratcliff was a speaker, filled San Francisco streets with 250,000 people; they were far larger than more recent political demonstrations and set a standard we can work toward. – Photo: Jahahara Alkebulan-Maat
As history replays itself on the national stage through white supremacist and neo-nazi violence, we are called not merely to avoid the mistakes of our past, but to wholly re-imagine our future. “There is no room for slavery in humanity. There can be no exception for any group,” declared Mariposa McCall addressing the crowd.
Speaker after speaker poured out their hearts. Dorsey Nunn’s speech, coming, he said, on two hours’ sleep, was unforgettable. Dorsey, who is himself formerly incarcerated, is the executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children and founder of All of Us or None of Ban the Box fame. The huge banner behind him, “End Long Term Solitary Confinement,” was created for the mass California hunger strikes and since 2011 has appeared at countless rallies across the state. – Photo: Bradley Allen, Indybay
Today, we must dare to create a new system – a system without slavery, without prisons. In the shared words of Cole Dorsey, organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee of the IWW, “(W)hile we support this effort at reform as it was called for by prisoners, we also see it as only a strategy in the ongoing war against prisons … At the end of the day, we are prison abolitionists. We are revolutionaries.”
After all the day’s speakers lined up for a formal picture, Troy took a super selfie of, from left, Troy Williams of the Bay View, Laurie Valdez of Justice for Josiah, Nube Brown of California Prison Focus, Dorsey Nunn of All of Us or None, Julia Arroyo of the Young Women’s Freedom Center, Raymond Aguilar of Fathers and Families of San Joaquin, Cole Dorsey of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Watani Stiner, keynote speaker, and little Josiah, whose dad was murdered by police. – Photo: Karpani Devi
As the rally closed, and many participants sought to see every speaker through till the end, we concluded with a pledge: “We have set the stage for the real work to come. In unity we will become stronger, more committed and more resolved. We stand firm in our belief that all community members, caged and uncaged, deserve their human rights. We stand committed to the New Abolitionist Movement to end slavery in America once and for all.”
California Prison Focus (Oakland) and Rise Up for Justice (San Jose) would like to give additional thanks to all speakers and participants who made this march and rally possible. Special thanks to Dorsey Nunn with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and All of Us or None and his work to push forward AB 1008 and national efforts to ban the box, José Valle and SV De-Bug, Bato Talamantez, and all those fighting to see Prop 47 fully realized.
Let’s keep this movement growing, it’s up to us! Below is a Call to Action to stay involved…
Join or donate to an organization – suggestions:
- California Prison Focus
- Rise Up for Justice
- Justice Now
- Fathers and Families of San Joaquin
- Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition
- SF Bay View
- Justice for Josiah
- IWW/IWOC, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- All of Us or None
- Young Women’s Freedom Center
- NEJA
- Anakbayan
- National Lawyers Guild
- SV De-Bug
- Santa Clara Peace and Freedom Party
- San Jose Peace and Justice Center
- Santa Clara County Green Party
- SIREN (Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network)
- California Families Against Solitary Confinement
- South Bay Democratic Socialists of America
- South Bay Progressive Alliance
- Women’s March Bay Area
- #JUSTICEFORJOSIAH
- #PROTECTYOURPEOPLE
- #BLACKLIVESMATTER
Bills and props – call your legislator!
- AB 1008 Fair Chance Act “Ban the Box”
- Prop 47 – downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, reallocation of savings
- Prop 57, The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act 2016
Find your reps:
- ca.gov
- legislature.ca.gov
In solidarity!
Nube Brown of California Prison Focus and Matthew Sahagian of Rise Up for Justice are the organizers of the San Jose march. Nube can be reached at [email protected].
This heartwarming picture of a loving hug shared by San Jose march organizer Nube Brown and keynote speaker Watani Stiner and a friendly handshake between Raymond Aguilar and another man captures the spirit of solidarity and determination to abolish prison slavery felt around the country on Aug. 19. – Photo: Karpani Devi
Riverside solidarity march calls for an end to legal slavery
by Marissa Garcia
The Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March in Riverside was a call to action against legal socialized slavery. Numerous organizations came together to bury the inaccurate term “mass incarceration” and call it what it is, slavery.
At the Riverside rally, held outside the Robert Presley Detention Center, Erica Wilson and a very young friend hold provocative signs.
Millions of Black, Brown and poor White bodies remain stacked in inhumane conditions where their constitutional rights are diminished and upheld by the 13th Amendment. California has housed and blatantly disregarded humans’ Eighth Amendment prohibitions against cruel and inhumane conditions, through its Security Housing Units (SHU, California’s name for solitary confinement).
This travesty gave birth to the Amend the 13th movement, which is in complete solidarity with the now named Millions for Prisoners Human Rights Coalition. Each year California kidnaps thousands upon thousands of undocumented humans, enslaving them and leaving unaccompanied minors to navigate through life and obtain their basic human needs by themselves. Their parents in immigration centers are forced to work for pennies.
Young Malcolm and Myles Bradford catch the spirit of resistance at the anti-slavery rally in Riverside.
Families of the enslaved navigate through California’s prison system many times going broke to attempt to maintain relationships after their loved one is moved as far as 13 hours away. This is in a state which has been rocked by prosecutorial misconduct, evidence planting and a cash bail system that forces the poor to plea bargain.
The California Millions for Prisoners Human Rights Coalition is dedicated to abolishing slavery, bringing together all intersectional issues, such as police abuse, prosecutorial misconduct, court system cronyism, the war on the poor, prison conditions, legislation, parole boards, prison vendors, private prisons, immigration, the war on drugs, and cognitive and mental health needs.
All roads lead to the 13th and how you make a slave. The foundation has been laid, and we will not stop until the system is dismantled.
Organizations that showed up:
- All of Us or None Riverside
- Santa Barbara Prison Solidarity Network
- Starting Over Inc.
- Punks for Progress
- Wifey Yard
- SURJ SB: Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Santa Barbara Student Activist Network
- LEAP
- UCR
Lead Organizers: Anna Murillo, Cecilia Moraga and Marissa Garcia
Marissa Garcia can be reached at [email protected].
Source: http://sfbayview.com/2017/09/new-abolitionist-movement-on-the-march/
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123’s of true Christianity v popular & damnable heresies
#1 “ONE” not triune: ……PART 4 & 5 HOW MANY GODS ARE THERE FOR THE ONE GOD TO TALK TO?? Who was Jesus praying to??!?…. The real question should be … How does having multiple different persons keep this one God/being/entity from praying to himself?! (The trinitarian “schizophrenic” “god-head”) The Trinitarians want to have their cake and eat it too as the saying goes. On the one hand they need to say they only worship one indivisible God being/ entity but on the other hand they feel the need for some reason to keep Jesus or God from praying and talking to himself by dividing him up into different persons!?! It never occurs to them that that since there is only one indivisible God to pray too and Jesus is that indivisible God come in the flesh that he would need to talk to himself as to show us how to live, suffer, pray and die for our/ flesh) benefit not his!?!….. So while Trinitarians are quick to complain that God was not talking to himself at Christ baptism or in Gen “let us” they ignore the logical demands of their own theology! If Jesus is the ONE GOD in flesh and the Father is the SAME ONE GOD in heaven then Trinitarianism demands THE ONE GOD is talking to HIMSELF the same “being”! Claiming that God is multiple different persons as the reason for why God is not talking to himself (because God is three different “selfs”) only demonstrates that what they really worship is in fact not a ONE GOD who talks to himself but three different god “selfs”/ and they all talk to each other! When they speak about who God was talking and praying to, they are quick to say “the other person, NOT HIMSELF!” But if you ask them how many gods do they pray to then they will say “ONLY ONE”!?! They expect you to believe that those three different persons are THE ONE GOD-BEING” which is like calling three different cars “THE ONE VEHICLE” (they are text book examples of prov 26:12)
Mark 12:28…Which is the first commandment of all? 29. …Hear, O Israel; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 30. And ………..this is the first commandment….. 31. And the second is….. IF YOU CAN’T GET THIS “FIRST OF ALL COMMANDMENTS” RIGHT, ALL THE REST OF YOUR “FAITH” AND PREACHING ON LOVE & SIN IS MOOT
PART 6: THE ANTI CHRIST….WHERE? WHERE?….EVERYWHERE!!! …..IT”S YOU O TRINITARIAN!
“WHO” it was (what person) that came “IN THE FLESH”, IS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “ANT-CHRIST”! Even Islam claims Jesus was the Jewish messiah/Christ who was to come in the flesh) they all deny “WHO” it was (what person) that came (to be the Christ) in the flesh!?!…….To deny the father is to deny the son because they are one and the same person that came in the flesh!
JOHN 14: 8-20 ….Note Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: …: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, … the everlasting Father ….The son, father/Holy Spirit are all the same person, NOT like two different persons working together even as “one flesh” ….The “oneness” between Christ and the father is not comparable to a man & his wife, for only a fool would say “When you have seen me you have seen my wife, how sayest thou then, Shew us your wife?” Notice they asked to see THE FATHER and the response was Jn 14:9 ..“HAVE I BEEN SO LONG time with you, and yet hast THOU NOT KNOW ME, Philip…..Now image some fool trying to claim that statement if you asked to see his wife!?!!? You want to see the FATHER but have I been with you but you don’t know me!?!?!
Jn 14 continued….…………..17. Even THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; (Jn 14:6 I AM the way, THE TRUTH,) whom the world cannot receive, .. for HE DEWLLETH WITH YOU, (present tense/standing next to them in the flesh) and SHALL BE IN YOU… (future tense “In them”) 18. I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL COME TO YOU (future tense “In them”) Jesus himself here makes the point that the same person who was the HOLY SPIRIT that would come was standing next to them but lets them know “I will come to you again to be Inside of you”
The whole point to Gal 3:20.a mediator is NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, (HEIS) but GOD IS ONE. (HEIS) again, point blank, identifies the number of persons of God! The “but” points out the contrast between multiple persons in a mediation party v the “one” of God. God is not like a mediation party with multiple different persons. …..”the express image of his person” ( the person of God; singular not plural).Any attempt to lay claim otherwise is willful ignorance and delusional nonsense
TRINITARIANS CONFESS JESUS /THEY ARE NOT POLYTHEIST BUT ARE MONOTHEIST LIKE A LIAR & THIEF WHO “CONFESS” THEY DO NOT LIE OR STEAL The simple fact is that just because you confess or deny that you are in an adulterous relationship and denounce all forms of adultery has nothing to do with whether or not it is in fact adulterous! .. …A rose by any other name is still just a rose AND calling it a water lily does not change the definition of what a water Lilly or a rose is either!…No, Trinitarians confess & preach literally …”ANOTHER JESUS” 2 Cor 11:4
- Like a thief in your house caught stealing your things insisting he was not there stealing “I CONFESS I am NOT stealing”. You just do not “properly understand” what he is doing/saying. Further, since you never had a “proper understanding” of what he is doing/saying you have no business accusing him since you do not even know what you are talking about in the first place. It is with and in your own ignorance that you base your “false accusations” & “ad homonym attacks” against him…… Ridiculous of course it is ……2Thess 2:11; Titus 1:16; 2Tim 3:5;
…… should have given you a hint, harking back to Satan in The garden…God said you will die…Satan comes along and states no you will be more WISE……today .God said He is one; but Satan’s children come along and say no three is more WISE and humble in the face of God’s grandeur only “a mystery” that can be understood “in faith”. God uses head and right arm to explain the distinctions between father and son.. However, the Trinitarian heretics say to the effect: “NO, that is just a figure of speech, or that is not what God really means. What God is really saying is that God is three different persons”. Fools, hypocrites and blind guides, God said he was One and by your traditions and vain imaginations have taken the words of God and made them of no effect, refashioning God into your image!
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#2 SECOND COMING Thou Fool! “I come quickly” so “Hold fast
till i come”… NOT …“in another 2000 yrs I might be coming soon any time now, so hold fast”!?! …those that deny the second coming of Christ in the war of AD70 are practicing a damnable heresy in denying the lord that bought them ( 2Peter 2:1-2 ;2Tim 4:8/ you cant love an appearing you deny& the context is the 2nd coming not the first)… Mat 7:23..”I NEVER KNEW YOU” …..Mat 10:33. But whosoever shall deny me before men……..sound familiar?…. If I said I am coming to your house in this generation when these things happen but no one knows the day or hour what fool would think I might be coming in 2000 years latter!?!? ..2 Tim 4: 4. And
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be TURNED UNTO FABLES.
Christ promised that only HIS PEOPLE would see him ….John 14:19. Yet a little while, and THE WORLD SEETH ME NO MORE;….. [2 Cor 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ AFTER THE FLESH, yet NOW HENCEFORTH KNOW WE HIM NO MORE….(here the Context of John 14 is his second coming)…..continued…..but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20. AT THAT DAY .. 21. He that hath my commandments, and KEEPETH THEM, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and WILL MANIFEST MYSELF TO HIM……(again taking note “as he is” or 1Jn 3:2)
22. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, HOW IS IT THAT THOU WILT MANIFEST THYSELF UNTO US AND NOT UNTO THE WORLD? 23. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.( Rev 3:20) 24. He that loveth me not.. (1Cor 16:22)…. KEEPETH NOT MY SAYINGS: ( REV 9:16-20)
REVELATION 1:7. Behold, HE COMETH WITH CLOUDS; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, …. There are two point to be made here (1) this is a partial quote from OT (Zech 12:2&10; also note Rev 16:15-17 & Zech 14:1-3 with Joel 2:28-3:1,2,12,16 et al) note the context it IDENTICAL to Mat ch 24/ Lk 21/ Mark 13 et al….you know, where Jesus described his second coming with the destruction of Jerusalem!?!?!!?…. (2) there parallel here with ………….Exodus 24:10. And THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL : and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also THEY SAW GOD, and did eat and drink………..But Christ said….. John 1:18. NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. A person can see with their understanding and or see with their eyes…. It can see “seen” for certain that everything that Christ described was seen by the folks of that day in His coming but do they perceive that was him? …So what Christ said is true every eye saw him but the world does not see him….. With the eye they and folks still today can see everything Christ described to have taken place, but they do not “keep” ( believe and understand) his words as such they do not see him nor shall they ever.
The saints who have physical died faithful in the flesh (every man in his own order) are changed in the blink of an eye & caught up to sit on that Great white throne ( this congregation of the saints is the body of Christ that folks will answer to at the judgment and these saints will judge all men who cannot see Christ along with the rest of the world……Folks think they are waiting to see Jesus but they will NEVER see Jesus himself they will only see the body of Christ condemn them the saints judge the world (Rev 3:21; 1 Cor 6:2 et al) the saints are the body of Christ…that is the only part of Christ they shall see….only the saints shall see God face to face…..most peoples idea of the second coming & day of the Lord and the judgment is completely wrong https://www.scribd.com/doc/308485609/Day-of-Lord-Not-24-Hours-I-Come-Quickly
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#3 There is a sharp contrast between THREE groups :
(1) “PREDESTINED DAMNED” who were NEVER written in the book of life ………..Rev 17: 8 WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, …as contrasted …EPH 1: 4. According as he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD
(2) “MANY CALLED”= ONLY and ALL SAINTS (those who come to Christ) are written in the book of life … Philippians 4:3… ……Rev 21:27; (Only saints are Called and elect; Rom 1:6-7 et al) This is THE CHRUCH and ONLY these can have their names blotted out of the book of life ….….Heb 12:23 to the general assembly and CHURCH of the firstborn … WHICH ………are WRITTEN in heaven,
(3) THE FEW CHOSEN: Those saints who were alive in group #2 who are now physically dead. They died “faithful” these are the FEW that were chosen faithful…….Rev 3:5. ……; and I
will not BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, (Ps 69:28) …. These are the FEW that are CHOSEN and now that they have died and are saved then “once saved THEY CAN NEVER BE LOST”
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