Big Black: Stand at Attica

The true story of the Attica Prison Uprising from the inside

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A selection of pictures from this weekend and today’s commemoration of the Attica Uprising’s 50th anniversary. @atticaisallofus https://t.co/msq1aBe8py

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@KrsJams @BellMojo @StandAtAttica Thx that was a lot of fun to get paid to watch all SCORSESE films.

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@standatattica and art by @ame.comics displayed at @concradle’s Pop Shop show in July. #AtticaIsAllOfUs #PrisonAbolition @ Cradle of Aviation Museum https://t.co/uabiBMeIdx

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New on the blog! Willie Mack looks at the racial contours of the Department of Correction and the Tombs prison uprisings in 1970. “Traitors In Our Midst”: Race, Corrections, and the 1970 Tombs Uprising https://t.co/y6ysiQmaQU

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49 years ago today, NY state troopers and prison guards retook Attica State Prison and murdered 39 people. Attica is all of us. https://t.co/mVS1p1FGEq

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Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was born today in 1948. He was murdered at the age of 21 by Chicago Police.

Illustration by @Ameziane_one https://t.co/25AB5dcMSX

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Rest In Power Chadwick Boseman https://t.co/47ZFtfizZG

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@AndalusianDoge, we wanted to tell you about the accompanying soundtrack and album art to @StandAtAttica available for free download on @Bandcamp until September 13th.

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@georgegustines, we wanted to tell you about the accompanying soundtrack and album art to @StandAtAttica available for free download on @Bandcamp until September 13th. https://t.co/pc6v1AEcpD

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The transfer from slavery to Jim Crow imprisonment for Blacks in America is often referred to as “going from plantation to plantation”. #PrisonAbolition https://t.co/8XD2IIb9qB

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Starting today, the Stand at Attica crew will begin celebrating great figures and events of the civil rights movement with the birthday of Alex Haley.

Haley’s first writing job was composing love letters for to… https://t.co/o18FhfFtfX

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The faces of Stand at Attica by @Ameziane_one. #prisonabolition https://t.co/HOVqgmzpdd

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Frank Smith was made to run the gauntlet by guards seeking retaliation. He was then thrown in solitary confinement for three weeks, without medical attention after both of his wrists were broken. #PrisonAbolition https://t.co/6vB90iXjuy

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#teargas rained down on the yard as state troopers and guards indiscriminately opened fire at Attica Prison on September 13th, 1971. 29 inmates and 10 prison employees died from police gunfire. #prisonabolition https://t.co/ihBfas1d0L

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In the top panel, we see Frank Smith declaring “Governor Rockefeller has unfinished business in New York State.”
In the bottom panel we see the Attica Brother’s legal team, including jaredreinmuth’s stepfather… https://t.co/GcA85ZDhuT

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We stand with #BlackLivesMatter! We stand for #PrisonAbolition! And we #StandAtAttica! https://t.co/HzILxSFtSX

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Happy Birthday mrchuckd_pe! Six Decades! We will continue to #FightThePower and recognize that #BlackLivesMatter! https://t.co/yR2Vz5G7oD

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Now is not a time to stand down but a time to #RiseUp! #prisonabolition https://t.co/spHEBc3KSh

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Why is it necessary to kidnap people into unmarked vans under suspicion of property damage if it’s not necessary to arrest cops who’ve committed murder?

This is pure political repression by the state; police have license both to murder us & use force against us when we protest.

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I did some watercolors today. It's the first time I draw this lady. She is such an icon.
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