Saturday, August 27, 4:45pm, Ohio Statehouse

This is a rally and march to support the September 9 Prison Workers Strike!

We plan to take to the streets to show our solidarity with all prisoners who will be taking action on September 9. We’ll meet up at the Ohio Statehouse where we’ll hear live from prisoners on the inside about why support from us on the outside is so important for the success and safety of prisoners during the strike. Then, we’ll march to the Franklin County Jail [370 S. Front St.], and from there to the state headquarters of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) [770 W. Broad St.], where we will stage a mass call-in to express our unwavering support for the September 9 strike and those organizing it.

During the past several years, thousands of convicts across the country have already been putting their lives on the line to end prison slavery by leading work stoppages and hunger strikes inside of their institutions. Meanwhile, most Americans are blissfully unaware that prison laborers produce food, furniture, pharmaceuticals, lingerie, ships, baby formula, uniforms, and military aircraft for free or for pennies per hour. The phenomenon referred to as “mass incarceration” is not a mistake or accident produced by a misguided criminal justice system but rather is a relatively conscious injection of capital into the infrastructure of forced labor as a means of production as well as a relatively conscious commodification of the bodies of disproportionately black and brown convicts.

For additional information about nationwide prisoner resistance: https://supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org/