What we've been up to... and ways you can get involved.

1. Building relationships with penpals. All of RedBird's work is based on communication, requests and ideas of Ohio prisoners. We have a list of prisoners seeking penpals. If you'd like to write to someone, let us know and we'll help you make a connection. 

2. Working with Ohio prisoners who have been targeted for greater repression because of their political affiliations or actions. We have connected with a number of these prisoners, who are ready and waiting for a larger movement in Ohio to join forces in struggle.

Ohio Prison System Maps.

A map showing prison locations in Ohio and county population size. Download a full-size version of this map here.

Georgia Prison Strike Summary

I wrote this article for Street Speech, condensing the reading I've done on the subject into a single document. It's written for a newspaper, so there's minimum editorializing.  

On the morning of Thursday Dec 9th, thousands of inmates in six prisons in Georgia refused to leave their cells or go their work assignments. This non-violent sit-down protest lasted 6 days and has been recognized as the largest prison strike in US history. The organizing effort continues to this day. According to one inmate interviewed by Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the prisoners only called off the strike because officials couldn't respond to the striker's demands while they were on strike. Officials were faced with hiring outside workers to maintain the prison, which normally depends on unpaid inmate labor to function.

CONSPIRATORS ZINE

This is a list of some instances where the government has tried (often successfully) to gain convictions, disrupt organizations, and persecute people through the use of conspiracy charges and other dirty tricks.

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Security Culture Puppet Show.

Here's the script for the puppet show we performed at our workshop back on September 28th. It's a light and entertaining introduction to the basics of security culture, with lots of stupid sock-based puns.

If you like it, feel free to make your own performance of it!

SECURITY CULTURE: An Interactive Sock Puppet Farce