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Five@slrpnk.netM to Abolition of police and prisons@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Andry Romero, a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador, sobbing and praying as guards shave his head.

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Andry Romero, a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador, sobbing and praying as guards shave his head.

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    Well at least MAGA saved us from this guy, right? I feel so much safer and freer knowing this guy’s job is now open for some young woman who didn’t like school.

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      Putting down people who want to be hair stylists makeup artists isn’t the answer here.

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        The guy’s a makeup artist, but you have a point.

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          There is no way my brain is firing on all cylinders today… Going to fix that, thanks

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      Is he someone Trump deported? All the title says is that he’s in an El Salvador prison and even that isn’t cited.

      Edit: Found an article. Yes, Trump deported him.

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-deportations-el-salvador-prison-60-minutes/

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        Good question, and +1 for looking up the answer yourself. Just googling his name clears it up.

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Abolish is to flourish! Against the prison industrial complex and for transformative justice.

See Critical Resistance’s definitions below:

The Prison Industrial Complex

The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems.

Through its reach and impact, the PIC helps and maintains the authority of people who get their power through racial, economic and other privileges. There are many ways this power is collected and maintained through the PIC, including creating mass media images that keep alive stereotypes of people of color, poor people, queer people, immigrants, youth, and other oppressed communities as criminal, delinquent, or deviant. This power is also maintained by earning huge profits for private companies that deal with prisons and police forces; helping earn political gains for “tough on crime” politicians; increasing the influence of prison guard and police unions; and eliminating social and political dissent by oppressed communities that make demands for self-determination and reorganization of power in the US.

Abolition

PIC abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment.

From where we are now, sometimes we can’t really imagine what abolition is going to look like. Abolition isn’t just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It’s also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.

Abolition is both a practical organizing tool and a long-term goal.

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