Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Our 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...mailchi.mpOakland 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. 0116
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityBen Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026In 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. 1173
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Sheriff'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. 5375109
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityJohn Breen @breen.tech · 19/07/2026Give the comrades over at Oakland Abolition & Solidarity some love and check out their newsletter 072
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Teh 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...mailchi.mpCoast to Coast Resistance - July Updates / Oakland Abolition and SolidarityOpen meeting, NC Jail Uprising, Walid Daqqa Is Still Here, Singing Cell to Cell, In Defense of Dignity 0198
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityMother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/07/2026Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.motherjones.comMemphis 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. 4827651742
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityRita, 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.” 063
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 14/06/2026June 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...mailchi.mpJune letter - Facing realityOakland 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 051
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidaritySteve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 07/06/2026So 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. 441701038
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityIndybay @indybay.org · 05/06/2026Excellent 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." 153
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityBen Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I’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. 0171
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityBen Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 31/05/2026anytime 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. 17619
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityThe Real News Network @therealnews.com · 26/05/2026Instead 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.socialtherealnews.comAnother 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 ... 12712
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Message 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... 06627
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Important insight and analysis as always from @oaklandabosol.bsky.social, as campaigns and struggles against surveillance capitalism and ICE detention heats up in #California. 0156
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/05/2026SB 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...sbsun.comAdelanto ICE detainees launch hunger strike to demand improved conditionsDetainees say the ICE facility is rife with abuse and neglect that is harming their health. 02010
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityBright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 21/05/2026Perhaps 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. 114530
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Today, 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...oaklandabosol.orgCole Dorsey, In MemoriamLet 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… 0173
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 20/05/2026The biggest beneficiary of prison labor isn't a private company. It's the prisons themselves: 0146
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Sabotage, 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...mailchi.mpSabotage, 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! 1104
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & Solidarityoctober "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Hundreds 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...truthout.orgHundreds of Incarcerated Migrants Go on Hunger Strike in Remote Michigan PrisonMigrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation. 38865
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 0102
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & Solidarity🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026"Hunger Strike and Work Stoppage at the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan"perilouschronicle.comHunger Strike and Work Stoppage at the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan - PerilousLocation: 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,... 01613
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Prison 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...prisonpolicy.orgMail scanning isn't the solution to drug use in prisons -- here's whyWe explain how to push back on harmful and ineffective mail scanning practices in U.S. prisons. 070
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Africa 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...sfchronicle.comCentral Valley millionaire, a big-game hunter, trampled to death by African elephantsErnie 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. 141
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityCL (says protect trans kids and adults) @clc1905.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Posting this for absolutely no reason whatsoever. deflock.org/mapdeflock.orgDeFlockFind license plate readers (LPRs) near you. 073
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityStrangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Who are they and are they having a nice day? 223238
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityALD9119 @ald9119.bsky.social · 24/04/2026media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with his mouth open .Alt: A man screaming “more!!!” 0114
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...oaklandside.orgWho 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. 710037
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Eighth 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-...newsfromthestates.comICE quietly opens another detention center in a former California prisonIn summary California now has eight ICE detention centers. Two opened since President Trump took office in 2025, with both operating in former state prisons. 055
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 22/04/2026MICHIGAN: 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... 12111
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Mass 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...pennlive.com‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facilityA hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th. 16142
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)" 064
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 07/04/2026LET'S GO, OAKLANNNNDDDD ROTD: long form history of the sideshow with the locals telling it (and some cops 💩) www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sideshow-his...oaklandreviewofbooks.orgThe noise about sideshowsThe 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. 0115
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Another day in the U S of A 051
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & Solidarity🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 04/04/2026"RCMP say damage to police vehicles in First Nations protest includes 'urine-soaked interior surfaces'"cbc.caRCMP say damage to police vehicles in First Nations protest includes 'urine-soaked interior surfaces' | CBC NewsRCMP 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... 3408
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidaritySam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026California 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 misdemeanorstheguardian.comCalifornia arrests thousands on minor drug charges, but few get treatmentExclusive: Drug users face felonies and prison under Prop 36, with analysis showing racial disparities and little help 1213468
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 14/03/2026March: 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...mailchi.mpMarch: 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 0135
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...prisonlegalnews.org Most U.S. Prisoners Now Barred from Directly Receiving Physical Mail | Prison Legal News 01912
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/03/2026Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work 121250312
Reposted by Oakland Abolition & SolidarityRita, 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 barsarktimes.comAs Arkansas weighs a prison book ban, formerly incarcerated readers share how books reshaped their lives - Arkansas TimesArkansas 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... 13310
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 04/03/2026ARIZONA - 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...theappeal.orgIncarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better ConditionsAfter 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. 15230
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Ah, "democracy" oaklandside.org/2026/03/03/o...oaklandside.orgOakland police chief search: you can weigh inThe Police Commission is hosting several community forums from March through early April. 000