#dondalekids

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

Information source: 'Go to Jail' - ABC 4 Corners - VIDEO:https://youtu.be/grXVww-lj6Y - TRANSCRIPT: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s115654.htm

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

Some excellent paste-ups of scenes from last Sunday's ‪#‎dondale‬, anti-prison protest in Melbourne.

via: Blackfulla Revolution

[karenconradpr]

Melbourne lighting the night for #DonDaleKids (at Parliament of Victoria)

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

The video footage on Four Corners of Aboriginal children being tortured in Don Dale correction centre have shocked the country. But this is the tip of the iceberg of the racist ‘child protection’ and prison systems that subject Aboriginal children to institutionalised child abuse across the continent on a daily basis. Malcolm Turnbull and Adam Giles have announced a Royal Commission into the centre - but their own racist Intervention and “tough on crime” policies systematically breach the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC). Countless inquiries have already been done. We already know the facts of this case. We demand justice immediately. The prison guards responsible must be sacked and charged. So too should the NT Government who have consistently demonised and criminalised Aboriginal children and bear ultimate responsibility for this abuse. Minister Scullion also must be sacked. Across Australia, Black children make up 50 per cent of the prison system. More children are being forcibly removed today than at any point in Australian history - taken from their families and put into foster care or prison cells.

We need to build on the outrage and take forward the ongoing struggles against the racist police, prison and ‘child protection’ systems.

[dropbeargrowls]

Abuse of kids in Australian detention has been going on for years, it has to stop.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/axA4FzYVMio

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

The recent images of torture at Don Dale prison has shocked many Australians, but it shouldn't. Such treatment of children and adults is commonplace at prisons across the country. Prisons are the ultimate site of cruelty and social control, but also sometimes places of inspiring acts of rebellion and resistance.

While much of the media and popular discourse around the #DonDaleKids has been of their victimhood, something here is being missed. Don Dale has seen multiple riots over the past couple years and numerous breakouts. In 2014, two youths reportedly broke out of the prison, stole a car, drove back to the prison and used the vehicle to ram through the fences, to break more youths out.

Torture and collective bashings of prisoners is a basically universal screw response to prison riots. The brutality of the screws at Don Dale is an attempt to crush their rebellious spirits. To break their resolve, to domesticate them, to make them controllable.

But torture is not just the exceptional treatment of unmanageable inmates, prison itself is torture. The act of confining and isolating human beings in cages is inhumane and degrading to the human spirit.

The colonial invasion of this land introduced the paradigm of police, prisons and private property to a territory where land was communal, communities settled disputes and meted out punishment without recourse to incarceration or a specialised armed force to control and surveillance everyone’s behaviour.

With the rise of modern capitalism, prisons have become the ideal place to store and manage surplus people, those without a stake in the market and for whom bosses have no use.

The royal commission declared by Turnbull is a farce and a distraction to dissolve the anger, to pretend “something has been done” then move on as if nothing ever happened.

If we wish to live in a world without scenes like the torture in Don Dale, we need to do more than just protesting and write petitions and letters to politicians. Abolishing prisons also means the abolition of capital and state.

When the fires of rebellion break out at any prison, it is our responsibility to spread the fires outside and beyond the walls, to government institutions, police stations, to the homes or cars of the screws carrying out the abuse. We need to keep the fires burning till they have engulfed this territory and laid waste to the structures of colonialism.

[triumph-of-adaptation]

Rally for Indigenous kids in custody #handsoffaboriginalkids #dondalekids (at Forrest Chase, Perth CBD)

[nishi-kawa]

How images like #DonDaleKids let us 'perform' our shock and outrage

How images like #DonDaleKids let us ‘perform’ our shock and outrage

His head hangs forward, enclosed in a white bag known in rough prison parlance as a “spit hood.” His young chest exposed, two black straps tie his shoulders to the chair. The harrowing image of then-17-year-old Dylan Voller, taken from the ABC’s investigation into the ‘torture’ of young people at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, Australia, is just one of many instances of abuse…

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