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Che Liberation Water

To paraphrase Coleridge: Water, water, everywhere!

The ScienceJustice Collective has gathered this water from a natural spring in Freedomland. The ingredients are 100% Organic Justice. Low carb, fat-free, gluten-free, and oppression-free. One refreshing gulp will refresh your desire for liberation from capitalism.

Like Che, the ScienceJustice Collective disagrees with the principles of capitalism, including its free market modes of production, the hierarchical social organizations it promotes, and the exploitative economic relations it creates with workers.

To Quote Noam Chomsky:

The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.

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Prison Industrial Complex Websites

http://beyondthepic.tumblr.com/

http://criticalresistance.org/

http://enlaceintl.org/what-we-do/feature-campaign/

http://www.allofusornone.org/

http://curbprisonspending.org/

http://www.tjlp.org/

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Essential Prison Industrial Complex Reading List

Recommended Books:

Alexander, Michelle (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Ayers, William (1998). A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court

Davis, Angela (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete?

Davis, Angela (2005). Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson (2007). Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Herivel, Tara & Wright, Paul (2002). Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor

James, Joy, ed (2005). The New Abolitionists: (Neo) slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings

Law, Victoria (2009). Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Pager, Devah (2009) Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in An Era of Mass Incarceration

Parenti, Christian (2008, new edition). Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

Perkinson, Robert (2010). Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire

Sudbury, Julia (2005). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex

Wacquant, Loic (2009). Prisons of Poverty

Western, Bruce (2006) Punishment and Inequality in America

Other Books:

Aherns, Lois (2008). The Real Cost of Prisons Comix

Humes, Edward (1997). No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

Kerman, Piper (2010). Orange is the New Black: My Year in A Women’s Prison

Ash, Juliet. Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality

Gottschalk, Marie. The Prison & the Gallows: the Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

Articles:

Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis

Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition by Angela Davis

The New Jim Crow “Introduction” by Michelle Alexander

The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism, and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex by Rose Brewer and Nancy Heitzeg

The New ‘Peculiar Institution’: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto by Loic Wacquant

Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Youth Control Complex

Victor Rios published a brilliant analysis of the criminalization of black and brown youth, in a book titled Policing Black Brown Boys.

In this interview for Dalton Conley's book, You May Ask Yourself, Victor Rios discusses his research on gangs and the policing of Black and Latino boys.

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Criminal Injustice System

Also from Policing Black Brown Boys, by Victor Rios.

Quote:

When the forty boys in the main group were asked to write down the names of close friends and family members who were currently incarcerated, all of them knew at least six people.

One of them, Spider, knew thirty-two. He wrote down their name and age and rated, from 1 to 5, how close he felt to them. When the boys were asked to respond to the question, “From 1 to 5, 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, how likely do you think you are to get incarcerated in the next few months?” all of them responded with at least a 4, meaning that they all felt that their chances of being incarcerated were high or extremely high.

The young men in this study discussed prison as a familiar place. Since many of the adults they looked up to were convicts, as opposed to college graduates, and police and school personnel often treated them like prisoners, the youths became familiar with the culture and rules of prison life and even attached a sense of glamour and admiration to it, before ever serving a day in an adult jail or prison.

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Every state, every rural district, every hamlet in America has a prison, a place where the Constitution doesn’t exist and where slavery is all but legalized. And where there are prisons, there is torture: brutal beatings, grave humiliations, perverse censorship — and even murders.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Zapatista Exhibit at RedCat

The Zapatista movement and the EZLN provides political inspiration for the ScienceJustice Collective. Their list of demands or goals are in the photograph above.

Quote from Subcomandante Macros: 

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above."

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Zapatista Exhibit at RedCat

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.

They are a political inspiration for the ScienceJustice Collective and our Food Truck.