Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day the news started reaching the 'newly' freed people of texas. The fight is not done yet though. Today we remember their plight and celebrate the joys of the independence they were granted around 900 days after Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. Our country took a step in the right direction, though just as not all people were freed on June 19th 1865, we will never forget because the 13th amendment, the same one that freed millions, was used to legalize slavery as a punishment for a crime. This has been used to this day to perpetuate white supremacy by over-policing and disenfranchising black and brown communities to maintain state oppression in the face of radical change, only a handful of States have in recent years rejected this deeply problematic policy and we demand a ratification to the amendment to remove the language about perpetuating slavery as a punishment for a crime. We cry for liberation, we call for an end to the private prison industrial complex and for the freedom of those still ensnared by it. Power to the people! None of us are free until we are all free!