The Tacoma Anarchist Network

Anti-Prison Demo
Saturday, May 15th at 2:00pm

At the Pierce County Jail,Tacoma, Washington
Meet at South 9th St. and South Yakima Ave

“So prison is the ideal kind of death, because it eliminates en masse those whom society could only physically kill in very small numbers.”
- Against Prisons Catherine Baker

This noise demo is to show solidarity with all those on the inside. We see that the 36 supposed CRIPS charged under criminal conspiracy can be anyone of us. We see our struggle connected to the many types of actions that the state and capital take against people by imprisoning them.

The experts of these institutions say prison “fixes” the delinquent, the illegal, the undesired, the very idea it created to place them behind these walls. With rehabilitation programs, fines, electric collars, road side crews, work release and piss tests. They say these processes will help cure this “plagued victim” or some how be able to turn them into a better citizen, through a process of discipline, for capital and states use for their prison on the outside. When in actuality this fuels our rage and hatred of an entire prison society that kills us.

From the routine of school and work on the outside, to a routine of imprisonment on the inside, where life is regulated by meals and the opening of a cell for recreation. The times and routines they make for us.

There is an innate connection between prison and the prison world on the outside. We trade this false idea of freedom for a life of a mere human cog in a machine. We give up our happiness for a wage. Paying rent after spending long hours at a shit job that pays minimum wage, having food stamps or stealing while not having enough at the end of the month and the looming fear of imprisonment. This prison society requires many to live a life of illegality, for its ability to maintain prisons and the whole social system of domination and control.

The police, the prisons guard and the politicians are all part of the same system of domination and control on over bodies and lives. The media will try to claim prisoners are a threat to society, when society is a threat to the individual freedom of each and everyone of us.

A prison sentence is hell in itself, locked up and away from friends and family. Living for months, years, at a time in a box the size of a large closet. The confinement throws many people into an emotional spiral. Its time we take our lives back into our own hands and fight back.

We desire no reform of laws. No compromises with a prison society that has imprisoned everyone of us. Nor the idea that if we take one portion of this society away, for example prison. That this world will be any better.

For the Destruction of all prisons and the prison world that maintains them!

For freedom and anarchy!

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