Flying Over Walls

We are a Queer/Trans Prisoner Solidarity and Prison Abolitionist Project in the SF Bay Area

[Flying Over Walls @FlyingOverWalls]

@FOX40Zach @FOX40 Beautiful show of solidarity

[Ella Baker Center @ellabakercenter]

"Even though there are progressive programs in San Quentin, it is situated in a larger environment of what a prison is, which makes it far less impactful than if it was held in the community," - @Jamesking0314, Co-Director of Programs

Check out more ⤵️https://t.co/ypLX74hXUL

[Ella Baker Center @ellabakercenter]

"The answer to creating safer communities is not found in building better prisons. Prisons are fundamentally harmful to our society, and to any notions of justice or safety.” —EBC Co Director of Programs @jamesking0314

More by @SamTLevin via @guardian↴
https://t.co/8gYJlNXf7u

[james king @jamesking0314]

You can’t get well in a cell.

The idea that a state can rehabilitate the very ppl they are holding captive is Orwellian and has never worked throughout history.

If you really want to make CA prisons better, start by dismantling the CCPOA

[A.B.O. Comix Collective @AboComix]

Bayard Rustin: “If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence.” End the violence against trans, nonbinary & intersex people in prison. #ClemencyNow https://t.co/um5rK2OOXN

[TGI Justice Project @tgijp]

Governor @GavinNewsom - transgender, gender-variant & intersex people are under brutal attack across the US, including behind CA prison walls. We need real action, not symbolism! #ClemencyNow #ProtectTransPeople

[Critical Resistance @C_Resistance]

Today! Support & participate in a #twitterstorm kicking off a campaign to call on Governor Newsom to grant clemency to TGI folks in prison with @FlyingOverWalls

#FreeThemAll

Action Toolkit: https://t.co/9Pm0Gug6sA

[Flying Over Walls @FlyingOverWalls]

@CAgovernor Newsom - In honor of Bayard Rustin, prioritize clemency for Black TGI people who are disproportionately targeted for criminalization. #BlackTransLivesMatter #ClemencyNow

[CCWP @c_c_w_p]

"If @GavinNewsom wants to have an actual impact on the current discrimination LGBTQ+ people face, he should take a look at the discriminatory laws [in prison] that are disparately impacting LGBTQ+ folks right now." -Jennifer Orthwein #ClemencyNow https://t.co/THVczYXQZe

[Black and Pink National @BLACKandPINKorg]

Prisons don’t make us safer. Cops don’t stop crimes. Let’s keep pushing the needle towards abolishing the prison industrial complex.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Texas inmates say ‘decade after decade’ of solitary confinement is torture https://t.co/z3XcjmAxne

[Flying Over Walls @FlyingOverWalls]

We just sent this letter to the sub5 budget committees supporting prison closure ahead of their February meetings: https://t.co/THB349pMK7.

Join the fight by sending the letter and sharing! #CloseCAPrisons @CURBprisons

[Anti Police-Terror Project @APTPaction]

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https://t.co/Clt4yRaSXO

[The Real News @TheRealNews]

TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway joins a blockbuster panel of scholars and activists to discuss the origins, functions, and methods for combating the monstrous reach of our carceral system.

W/ @dylanrodriguez, @JenMarley1680, @deanspade and more
https://t.co/6Evv8PoiiF

[Black and Pink National @BLACKandPINKorg]

“When you say, “What would we do without prisons?” what you are really saying is: “What would we do without civil death, exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?” -Mariame Kaba,
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

[Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @OaklandAboSol]

And here are the numbers. Bookmark them.

County level politicos have operated at will on some effed up agenda for way too long. Time for us to get used messing with them.

[Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @OaklandAboSol]

OK PEOPLES
Time to throwdown for the hungerstrikers!
Family have already been calling the county supervisors and want some help.

Put aside some time this Friday to takeover their phonelines!

Please BOOST!

All details here and in THREAD
https://t.co/nhdl89v8GD

[Books to Prisoners (Seattle) @B2PSeattle]

Here's a book rejection that we just received from a prison in Tennessee: "Malcolm X not allowed."

This is part of an insidious pattern of targeted bans by prisons against Black authors and against literature critiquing the prison system and power structures in this country.

[CURB @CURBprisons]

📢ACTION📢 Sign & share the petition today, https://t.co/m5z87IUNPv!  Join @CURBprisons and @ColorOfChange as we call on @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom and @CAcorrections to address harmful incarceration and close at least 8 more state prisons by 2025. #CloseCAPrisons #CareNotCages

[Black and Pink National @BLACKandPINKorg]

We already have 14,111 inside members receiving holiday cards! 💌

Can you help us meet our goal of getting each of our 19,000 inside members a holiday card this season? 💞

Head to https://t.co/xOBYmLHbQ0 to sign up!