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Mississippi Goddamn!

Today in Labor History March 16, 1995: Mississippi finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning chattel slavery, 130 years after it was officially ratified by the U.S. in 1865. However, Mississippi never formally notified the U.S. archivist of its belated decision. In other words, the 1995 ratification was unofficial and did not legally count. It would not be until February 7, 2013, 148 years later, that it would make its ratification of the amendment legal.

Here is Nina Simone performing her famous song, Mississippi Goddam!

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Today in Labor History March 13, 1848: The German revolutions of 1848-1849 began in Vienna. While the middle classes were fighting for a unified German state and increased civil liberties, the working class had more revolutionary aspirations. Participants in the revolution included communist and anarchist revolutionaries like Marx, Engels and Bakunin, as well as the composer Wagner. The aristocracy exploited the split between the classes, facilitating their eventual violent defeat, with great loss of life and mass imprisonment. Many fled to the U.S. and became known as “forty-eighters.” They moved to places like Cincinnati’s Ober der Rhine neighborhood, or Saint Louis. After risking their lives fighting against serfdom in Europe, many were so horrified by the persistence of slavery in their new country that they dedicated themselves to the cause of abolition and free thinking, joining organizations like the Freimӓnverein (Society of Freemen) and the Wide Awakes (a radical militia that defended free blacks and fought Confederates in the streets). Some of them also became publishers, like Henry Boernstein, who had previously published “Vorwärts!” in Paris with Karl Marx, Engels, Heinrich Heine and others.

You can read more on The Wide Awakes and the Antebellum Roots of Wokeness here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

Next Saturday, March 22nd, Firestorm will be hosting Rattling the Cages co-creator Eric King in conversation with two veterans of the George Jackson Brigade—Janine Bertram and Mark Cook. Together they'll reflect on their experiences as political prisoners and the legacy of one of the most prolific US revolutionary groups in the 1970s, which synthesized movements for women's liberation, queer liberation, and Black power.

Register for this free event and find copies of "Ratting the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners" at firestorm.coop/events/3337-rat. Not sure you can make it? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording of the conversation to stream at your convenience.

#Abolition #PrisonAbolition #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComplex #QueerHistory #FeministBookstore #PoliticalPrisoners #GeorgeJacksonBrigade #FirestormCoop (- L)

Today in Labor History March 9, 1841: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that freed the remaining 35 survivors of the Amistad mutiny. In 1839, Portuguese slave traders had illegally transported 52 Mende people from west Africa to Cuba, on the Amistad, in violation of European treaties against the slave trade. Joseph Cinque led his fellow captive Africans in a mutiny, killing the cook and captain, and forcing the remaining crew to return them to Africa. The crew tricked them and sailed up the Atlantic coast, presuming they would be intercepted by the U.S. Navy, which captured the ship near Montauk, Long Island. President Martin Van Buren wanted to send the prisoners back to Spanish authorities in Cuba to stand trial for mutiny. However, the Court recognized the mutineers’ rights as free citizens. Abolitionists raised funds for the mutineers’ defense. Former President John Quincy Adams, who opposed slavery, represented them in court.

Prosecutors will charge 14-year-olds with murder for allegedly killing cops, but won't charge cops with murder for killing 14-year-olds. What does a world in which you feel safe look like? Does it have police and prosecutors in it?

nytimes.com/2025/03/08/nyregio

“We just have to do a better job. I have to do a better job,” Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark said of gun violence in the city.
The New York Times · 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested in Connection With Fatal Newark Police ShootingBy Maia Coleman

"The Palestinian movement also makes it clear: a revolutionary movement that abandons its political prisoners abandons itself. Struggle brings repression, and for those who truly dare to fight for freedom, prison is perhaps as inevitable as death. It is suicidal to not see ourselves reflected in the faces of our political prisoners and organize accordingly."

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@palestine #Palestine #Israel #PoliticalPrisoners #abolition

Jihad Abdulmumit (Photo courtesy of Philly ABC, 2023)
Mondoweiss · If we abandon our political prisoners we abandon ourselves—Palestine shows us whyPalestinians show the world what it means to develop a culture that fiercely defends and values their political prisoners. Our survival as Black people inside the U.S. relies on us seriously heeding this lesson.

Who I Am and How I Toot: v. 2025b (updated March 2025, edited to remove in-line hashtags)

I use the fediverse to engage in conversations about justice on all levels. Children’s rights, antifascism, prison/policing abolition, healing trauma, +

Preschool teacher. I get joy from bicycling, music, nature, Star Trek (any), fantasy stories

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South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’
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En Caroline du Sud, première mise à mort par peloton d'exécution depuis 15 ans.

Après 23 ans dans le couloir de la mort, Brad Sigmon, 67 ans, a été fusillé par des employés volontaires de sa prison.

Il avait eu à choisir entre la chaise électrique, l'injection létale ou le peloton.

Ses avocats ont eu beau faire valoir qu'il souffrait de troubles mentaux non pris en charge depuis son enfance martyre, la Cour Suprême n'a pas autorisé ses avocats à faire appel.

Barbarie au pays des #MAGA

The Guardian · South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’By Sam Levin

Books I'm slowly reading. Three of them I'm almost finished, and the others are next in line. If anyone here are also reading these, I'd love to chat about the topics. I find it helps me understand and retain it better if there's folks I can chat with about it.

30 L.A. County probation officers indicted over ‘gladiator fights’ at juvenile halls

“The probation system and its underlying culture are broken,” Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia said in a statement Monday. “Accountability for those who have failed to protect our youth is long overdue — there is no justice in a system that abuses the very youth it is entrusted to care for.”

latimes.com/california/story/2

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Video shows staff allowing assault by youths at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall
Los Angeles Times · 30 L.A. County officials indicted over juvenile hall 'gladiator fights'By James Queally

"Thirty officers from the Los Angeles County Probation Department have been indicted on criminal charges after an investigation into allegations they allowed — and in some cases encouraged — fights between teens inside the county’s juvenile halls.

"An indictment unsealed late Monday afternoon contains 71 counts of child abuse, conspiracy and battery against 30 probation officers for their alleged roles in a series of fights that took place between July and December 2023."

latimes.com/california/story/2

Video shows staff allowing assault by youths at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall
Los Angeles Times · 30 L.A. County officials indicted over juvenile hall 'gladiator fights'By James Queally