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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity

@oaklandabosol.bsky.social
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Prisoner solidarity crew out of so-called Oakland. Bring it all down so all may rise up.

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our latest newsletter... BLACK AUGUST edition 🖤 Study, Train. Fast. Fight! Soledad hungerstrike!, Jail mail report from censored Santa Rita, Street vendors organize, Grand jury resistance training, Open meeting and tapping in. mailchi.mp/3ab0bdee015a...
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity - BLACK AUGUST edition 🖤 Study, Train. Fast. Fight!
Soledad hungerstrike!, Jail mail report from censored Santa Rita, Street vendors organize, Grand jury resistance training, Open meeting and tapping in.
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Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In 2020 mfers took it to the state while dealing with biblical level shit. It was a huge period of radicalization away from do-nothing nonprofits and liberals. And sure, folk texted weird shit too.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sheriff's office in a rural county in Oregon announce they are cutting ties with Flock surveillance cameras after vandalism and massive public pushback. Organizing and resistance works.
Facebook post from Josephine County Sheriff's Office saying they are cutting ties with Flock cameras.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 19/07/2026
Give the comrades over at Oakland Abolition & Solidarity some love and check out their newsletter
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Teh latest dispatch! Coast to Coast Resistance - July Updates Oakland Abolition and Solidarity Open meeting NC Jail Uprising Walid Daqqa Is Still Here Singing Cell to Cell In Defense of Dignity mailchi.mp/d143d4ef9b99...
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Coast to Coast Resistance - July Updates / Oakland Abolition and Solidarity
Open meeting, NC Jail Uprising, Walid Daqqa Is Still Here, Singing Cell to Cell, In Defense of Dignity
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/07/2026
Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Murdered by ICE goons.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“here is a real story from Carlin, one of our crew, about the farce of parole hearings from when he was still halfway into a 33 year bid. It tells a piece of the big picture that doesn't get said out loud much. Fuck the parole board.”
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
June letter - Facing reality Oakland AboSol updates: - Open meeting at the park - ICE strike wave keeps rolling - Stitchup in the UK - Sneak peek at inside submissions for new T-shirt - "Why even go to my parole board hearing?" mailchi.mp/b4324d9ac9c6...
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June letter - Facing reality
Oakland AboSol updates: Open meeting at the park; ICE strike wave keeps rolling; Stitchup in the UK; "Why even go to my parole board hearing?"; Tapping in
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
10/10 Skull basics 🧵
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.
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Indybay @indybay.org · 05/06/2026
Excellent history, and present day look, at several CA prisons, including #PelicanBay by @meganwachspress.bsky.social " #Alcatraz is fetishized, but so is #SanQuentin, which has become almost a shorthand for resolving contradictions in how progressives imagine their relation to state violence."
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Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I’m so happy to see active solidarity between people inside and people outside. And I hope the condition is not “innocents”. We used to have a prisoner-lead prison movement. Kidnapped people behind the walls used to inform every aspect of political discourse. I hope we get back to that.
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Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
anytime I go to a place with a lot Black Panther veterans I find out wild histories i’ve never heard before. and i get deeply sad, because they’re all slowly crossing over before the world really understands what they sacrificed for us.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 26/05/2026
Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what former Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic:” by @williamcson.bsky.social
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Another Way Out: We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’
Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what former Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the ...
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Message from strikers at Delaney Hall in solidarity with those protesting on the outside: "Please, DON'T GIVE UP!" Read full letter here: www.instagram.com/p/DYz9b_XkQa...
Letter from strikers inside of Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ. Says in part: "We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON'T GIVE UP!
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Important insight and analysis as always from @oaklandabosol.bsky.social, as campaigns and struggles against surveillance capitalism and ICE detention heats up in #California.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SB Sun reporting OVER 60 now on hunger strike across two Cali ICE detention facilities "...to demand adequate medical and mental healthcare, nutritious food, bond reform, accountability for deaths in ICE custody, and to shut down the Adelanto ICE facilities" www.sbsun.com/2026/05/20/a...
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Adelanto ICE detainees launch hunger strike to demand improved conditions
Detainees say the ICE facility is rife with abuse and neglect that is harming their health.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 21/05/2026
Perhaps the most ubiquitous trait of most struggles for justice is the will of a minority to consistently engage and seek to change a majority, in spite of / because of the odds. That so many *keep choosing* to engage is a daily, even hourly, miracle that still fills me with wonder and appreciation.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Today, it's been 4 years since you passed, Cole. Said your name out loud in the garden today just to hear it again. oaklandabosol.org/2022/06/20/c...
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Cole Dorsey, In Memoriam
Let us all share our own versions of Cole. Comment below. We will publish and share everything posted here. Share what he meant to you. Tell your stories. Send a pic. Tell him how you miss him. Gri…
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 20/05/2026
The biggest beneficiary of prison labor isn't a private company. It's the prisons themselves:
Graph showing that the vast majority of incarcerated workers have work assignments that help keep prisons running
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sabotage, Block Parties, Fighting ICE Prisons - May! Oakland Abolition and Solidarity - May newsletter: Flock fights all over the Bay, Sabotage, Fighting ICE prisons, Block parties - OAKLANDDDDDD Open meeting this week, tap in! mailchi.mp/865587479c10...
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Sabotage, Block Parties, Fighting ICE Prisons - May!
Oakland Abolition and Solidarity - May newsletter: Flock fights all over the Bay, Sabotage, Fighting ICE prisons, Block parties - OAKLANDDDDDD Open meeting this week, tap in!
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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hundreds of men are still on hunger strike at North Lake ICE prison in MI. A lawyer in touch with them said: “they haven’t lost perspective that there’s value in doing something even if it’s just to keep the hope alive.” truthout.org/articles/hun...
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Hundreds of Incarcerated Migrants Go on Hunger Strike in Remote Michigan Prison
Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The purpose of a system is what it does" Mail digitization and scanning has been in motion for nigh on a decade. It isn't a 'mistaken approach' to blocking dope It is a successful surveillance system and a means of deepening isolation, integral facets of the US carceral war on subject populations
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Hunger Strike and Work Stoppage at the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan"
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Hunger Strike and Work Stoppage at the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan - Perilous
Location: North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, MichiganDate: Hunger strike began April 20, 2026 Baldwin, MI–An estimated 200 immigrant detainees at North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin,...
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Prison mail scanning is an intentional technology of isolation & surveillance, period It isn't a "misguided" or "ineffective" dope policy "[IDOC] admitted there was no evidence mail scanning would resolve the introduction of drug contraband into its facilities" www.prisonpolicy.org/trainings/ma...
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Mail scanning isn't the solution to drug use in prisons -- here's why
We explain how to push back on harmful and ineffective mail scanning practices in U.S. prisons.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
black text on white background:
"The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in is
Termed violent by no one.
The storm that bends the birch trees
Is held to be violent
But how about the storm
That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
—Bertold Brecht, "On Violence" "
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Africa as mere tableau for some wealthy westerner's fantasy that of course involves killing and plunder as entertainment. As fulfillment. Team Elephant gives eloquent rebuttal and stomps him to death. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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Central Valley millionaire, a big-game hunter, trampled to death by African elephants
Ernie Dosio, a prominent Lodi agricultural leader and avid big-game hunter, was killed after being trampled by elephants during a hunting trip in Africa, according to news reports.
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CL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Posting this for absolutely no reason whatsoever. deflock.org/map
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DeFlock
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Who are they and are they having a nice day?
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ALD9119 @ald9119.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .
Alt: A man screaming “more!!!”
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"Who is paint bombing Oakland’s Flock cameras?" "Some of OPD’s license plate readers have been vandalized with paint. The vandalism coincides with a nationwide pushback against surveillance" #directactiongetsthegoods oaklandside.org/2026/04/24/w...
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Who is paint bombing Oakland’s Flock cameras?
Some of OPD’s license plate readers have been vandalized with paint. The vandalism coincides with a nationwide pushback against surveillance.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Eighth ICE prison (re)opens in CA, all corporate run. "Advocates say the agency began transferring immigrant detainees to the McFarland facility last week" As of January, 73000 of our neighbors, family and friends are in ICE detention nationally. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ice-...
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ICE quietly opens another detention center in a former California prison
In summary California now has eight ICE detention centers. Two opened since President Trump took office in 2025, with both operating in former state prisons.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
MICHIGAN: Another mass hungerstrike in ICE detention pops off "...at least four of the main male pods are involved, with an estimate of 200 detainees by Tuesday morning" www.rawstory.com/protestors-g...
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Mass hungerstrike in PA ICE detention center "What started with 70 people participating in the strike on Thursday morning, escalated to roughly 100 people by Friday morning on Unit Four of the facility, the man said." www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...
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‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility
A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"... a new tactic that he called “posting and pushing.” In this maneuver, officers would pull up within range of an active sideshow (“far enough that the rocks and bottles wouldn’t hit ’em,” he said)"
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
LET'S GO, OAKLANNNNDDDD ROTD: long form history of the sideshow with the locals telling it (and some cops 💩) www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sideshow-his...
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The noise about sideshows
The screeching moral panic over the sideshow hides what it really is: an event, shaped by cops and capital flight, where Oakland youth fights for a place to play.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Another day in the U S of A
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"RCMP say damage to police vehicles in First Nations protest includes 'urine-soaked interior surfaces'"
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RCMP say damage to police vehicles in First Nations protest includes 'urine-soaked interior surfaces' | CBC News
RCMP say six of their vehicles that were left at the Potlotek First Nation Thursday after officers left the scene on foot suffered damage that includes broken windows, flat tires, "urine-soaked interi...
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
State of Things 2026
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
California residents are now being sent to prison for shoplifting. In the first year of Prop 36, shoplifters have been charged with felonies + imprisoned for stealing diapers, hygiene supplies, a $13 belt, groceries and soda. DAs filed 15,000+ felonies for thefts previously treated as misdemeanors
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California arrests thousands on minor drug charges, but few get treatment
Exclusive: Drug users face felonies and prison under Prop 36, with analysis showing racial disparities and little help
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
March: Inside, outside, all love to the fighters ❤️‍🔥 Oakland AbSol newsletter - Open meeting; A sham trial and the Prairieland verdict lands heavy; Mass hungerstrike in AZ; US prisoners face mail bans mailchi.mp/fd798773691e...
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March: Inside, outside, all love to the fighters ❤️‍🔥
Oakland AbSol newsletter - Open meeting; A sham trial and the Prairieland verdict lands heavy; Mass hungerstrike in AZ; US prisoners face mail bans
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"As recently as 2017, physical mail was the primary method of communication with friends and family members for those incarcerated in every prison system in the U.S" Now, 78% of the US prisoner population no longer can receive physical mail. www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2026/fe...
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Most U.S. Prisoners Now Barred from Directly Receiving Physical Mail | Prison Legal News
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/03/2026
Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“All of those books will be only those that have been signed off by the institution…and will not spark any ideas of specifically freedom, because that is how a lot of people gain the power and energy to fight on.” - Brotha Knowledge, 44, Little Rock, recently paroled after nearly 30yrs behind bars
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As Arkansas weighs a prison book ban, formerly incarcerated readers share how books reshaped their lives - Arkansas Times
Arkansas is considering the strictest book ban in the country, which would forbid all outside books, magazine and newspapers from being sent directly to people in prison. To understand what’s at stake...
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
ARIZONA - After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks. EVERYDAY, SOMEWHERE, PRISONERS ARE FIGHTING BACK theappeal.org/arizona-perr...
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Incarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better Conditions
After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.
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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ah, "democracy" oaklandside.org/2026/03/03/o...
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Oakland police chief search: you can weigh in
The Police Commission is hosting several community forums from March through early April.
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