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Building a movement to oppose the expansion of prisons, detention centers, & secure schools. #BuildCommunitiesNotCages

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This is MASSIVE Blocking this mega-prison delays the New Prison Programme & stops the creation of more racist cages. Amazing community effort, we aren't crying, you're crying. Support @SwapAirfield opposing prison expansion in Essex! We got this! lep.co.uk/news/politics/coun…

'Absolutely elated": Plan for 'super prison' on Chorley and Leyland border is rejected

Residents of a Chorley village have been given reason to rejoice just days before Christmas after controversial plans for a so-called “super prison” were rejected by councillors.

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Plz support freedom for Taz!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Free Our Friends@AntiCarceral18 Mar 2023
So excited that Taz is coming home! Please support this fundraiser financially (if you can) and by sharing it. Until all are free <3 gofundme.com/f/welcome-home-…

Donate to Welcome Home Taz! (Taz Release Fund), organized by Gary S

Taz is getting out of prison! We are fundraising to support her getting settled in her new… Gary S needs your support for Welcome Home Taz! (Taz Release Fund)

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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup18 Mar 2023
🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨 The Home Office are trying to deport our friend Andrei on Tuesday morning. He has been on hunger strike for 7 days to protest the inhumane treatment he has been subjected to, and the threat deportation poses to his life. ⬇️ How you can help: ⬇️
CALL TO ACTION: STOP ANDREI'S DEPORTATION The Home Office wants to deport our friend, who is on day 7 of their hunger strike, from Gatwick South Airport on 21/03/2023 at 9:25am (BT652). Andrei has said "my life is at great risk if they deport me". PLEASE SUPPORT BY: Tweeting @air_baltic Calling Air Baltic +371 67006006 (phone script attached below) Tweeting Air Baltic CEO Martin Gauss @Gaussm. The airline and pilot have the right to refuse to fly him. Don't be complicit!

ALT CALL TO ACTION: STOP ANDREI'S DEPORTATION The Home Office wants to deport our friend, who is on day 7 of their hunger strike, from Gatwick South Airport on 21/03/2023 at 9:25am (BT652). Andrei has said "my life is at great risk if they deport me". PLEASE SUPPORT BY: Tweeting @air_baltic Calling Air Baltic +371 67006006 (phone script attached below) Tweeting Air Baltic CEO Martin Gauss @Gaussm. The airline and pilot have the right to refuse to fly him. Don't be complicit!

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Free Our Friends@AntiCarceral25 Feb 2023
HMP Whitemoor are stopping mail, because they are sadistic and they know how much it is lifting Dwayne & Flo. Please, keep those letters coming! Fuck HMP today & everyday
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Do this!!!
Free Our Friends@AntiCarceral3 Feb 2023
Take 10 seconds out your day to act in solidarity with Dwayne who is being held in solitary confinement in HMP Whitemoor. No food, no phone calls, none of his property, no visits. No justice, No peace!!! Please share!!! actionnetwork.org/letters/56…
Slide has a black background with yellow text. Text reads: Action Alert: HMP Whitemoor Stop Targetting Dwayne Fulgence

ALT Slide has a black background with yellow text. Text reads: Action Alert: HMP Whitemoor Stop Targetting Dwayne Fulgence

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and they want to build more prisons to put more people in solitary confinement 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Free Our Friends@AntiCarceral16 Dec 2022
Kev is subjected to extreme sensory deprivation in solitary confinement. Please share this post & if you can send him over some photos. Thankyou💙
Slide has a dark purple background with a brick wall texture. Text in bold white and blue fonts reads: Send selfies. Kevan Thakrar has been in segregation for over 20 months, deprived completely from seeing other people's faces, save the officers who hold him captive. To combat this sensory deprivation, send him photos of you in the outside world. Kevan Thakrar A4907AE, HMP Belmarsh, Western Way, London, SE280EB or use www.freeprints.co.uk

ALT Slide has a dark purple background with a brick wall texture. Text in bold white and blue fonts reads: Send selfies. Kevan Thakrar has been in segregation for over 20 months, deprived completely from seeing other people's faces, save the officers who hold him captive. To combat this sensory deprivation, send him photos of you in the outside world. Kevan Thakrar A4907AE, HMP Belmarsh, Western Way, London, SE280EB or use www.freeprints.co.uk

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Free Our Friends@AntiCarceral10 Dec 2022
📢Action Alert 📢 HMP Foston Hall are targeting and harassing Ms. Bibi. She is being targeted as Muslim, penalised because she was praying. She has been transferred to a wing that is freezing cold & without room to pray Please take action now & share! actionnetwork.org/letters/ac…
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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
700 new people arrived at Manston yesterday according to Kent Police because of the petrol bombing in Dover, and the BBC reports that numbers have reached 4,000. The max capacity of the site is 1,600. This is a humanitarian catastrophe.
Banners reading close down manston camp@and no borders no nations stop deportations

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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
The camp is already overcrowded - and we saw hundreds more people arriving on coaches and buses, exhausted and spent. We saw 13 coaches full of people arrive in just 3 hours. Only one coach with a handful of people, including security personnel, left during that time.
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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
The camp is highly securitised and isolated - surrounded by fences, police and security personnel. Mitie - known for managing violent detention centres - runs the camp, while other companies such as MCT - known for brutalising children in youth jails - provide security.
placard reading Mitie profiteering - close down manston camp

ALT placard reading Mitie profiteering - close down manston camp

Kent police van

ALT Kent police van

Police dogs on patrol sign

ALT Police dogs on patrol sign

Official secrets sign

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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
Through one of the gated entrances to the camp, we saw a father walking around with his faughter inside a cage, unable to leave. And we saw piles of blue bags containing the belongings confiscated from the detained people upon arrival.
A man holding his child’s hand inside a fence cage at Manston camp. Security can be seen in the background.

ALT A man holding his child’s hand inside a fence cage at Manston camp. Security can be seen in the background.

Sexurity at Manston camp and pikes of blue bags containing belongings

ALT Sexurity at Manston camp and pikes of blue bags containing belongings

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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
They said conditions were “not nice” and that some of them were getting sick. They said there are no doctors. No lawyers. We asked them how long they’d been there: 3 days, 20 days, 30 days, 40 days.
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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
Using a megaphone, we managed to speak to people across the fence. We asked them where they were from: Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan.
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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
We arrived outside the camp and saw people - men, women, children - behind the barbed wire fences. Security guards ordered them to go inside. The children ran away from them and crawled through a fence to be heard.
A protester waving to the people and children behind the barbed wire fence at Manston

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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup31 Oct 2022
We visited the Manston detention camp in Kent yesterday. This is what we saw and heard: 🧵
Children ar Manston camp behind barbed wire fences, with security and more detained people in tbe background

ALT Children ar Manston camp behind barbed wire fences, with security and more detained people in tbe background

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Michael Morgan@mikecmorgan30 Oct 2022
The Met Police said there was a chase, they said there was a pursuit. There was no pursuit, there was no chase, there were no lights, there were no sirens. The gaslighting by the Met comes from a long history of them twisting the truth. independent.co.uk/news/uk/lo…

There was no chase before Chris Kaba was shot dead by police, family say

Mr Kaba was blocked by a marked police vehicle while driving an Audi in Streatham, south London, an inquest opening has heard.

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Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS)@sdetsup30 Oct 2022
Dozens of young children are being held at Manston detention camp in Kent. Mothers, fathers, children and babies from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. We went today and heard them chanting for their freedom. This is persecution. FREE THEM AND CLOSE IT DOWN.
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Gargi Bhattacharyya@Gargi_at_home25 Oct 2022
Anyone who knows me, please try to clear your Saturday 29th October to attend the UFFC procession in solidarity, mourning and rage with families who have lost loved ones to state violence from police + prisons. 12 noon, traf sq. Parallel in Edinburgh? Don't let them walk alone.
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Remember & Resist@remember_resist24 Oct 2022
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Glasgow tonight, it was a very moving vigil. It is a powerful act to come together and publicly mourn the Essex 39 and condemn the conditions which led to their deaths. #RememberTheEssex39, and keep resisting violent borders.
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Free Our Friends@AntiCarceral24 Oct 2022
Last night, tear gas was used on the prisoners in segregation in HMP Belmarsh. This is a chemical weapon in an enclosed space with barely any ventilation. Everyone on the landing was harmed & no healthcare provided. actionnetwork.org/letters/hm… Please take part & share
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Remember & Resist@remember_resist23 Oct 2022
Today marks 3 years since the deaths of the #Essex39. Friends in glasgow, please join us for a vigil outside the home office at 5pm, then at Buchanan street steps at 6pm. #RememberTheEssex39
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