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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8067">We in the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) have been approached by a group
of hundreds of prisoners in Alabama who are launching a second prison
strike this year demanding an end to prisoners as slave labor, the
massive overcrowding and horrifying health and human rights violations
found in Alabama Prisons, and have put forward legislation for
successful rehabilitation and a clear path for earning parole. </span>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8069">These brave
men and women of the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) are building on the
recent Hunger Strikes in Pelican Bay and the Georgia Prison Strike in
2010, with the aim of building a mass nonviolent movement inside and
outside of prisons to earn their freedom, and to end the racist,
capitalist system of mass incarceration called The New Jim Crow by
Michelle Alexander and others. </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8071">The conditions
in Alabama prisons are horrendous, packing twice as many people as are
meant to be there, with everything from black mold, brown water, cancer
causing foods, and general disrepair. They are also run by free, slave
labor, with 10,000 people working to maintain the prisons daily, adding
up to $600,000 dollars a day or $219,000,000 a year of slave labor if
inmates were paid federal minimum wage, and tens of thousands more
receiving mere dollars a day making products sold by the state or to
private corporations. </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8073">While unique
in some ways, the struggle of these brave human beings is the same as
prisoners around the country, and the millions of black, brown, and
working class women and men struggling to survive a system they are not
meant to succeed within. These prisoners need your support, and for you
to help spread the struggle. </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8075">To do so the
Free Alabama Movement along with the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers
Organizing Committee is asking for the following: </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8077">1) For the
creation of Prisoner Solidarity Committees in their local areas to
raise money, attract media attention, and spread the word of this
struggle to local prisons </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8078">2) Amplify the
voices of prisoners by posting this and future updates to your website,
facebook, sharing it to your email list, or with your contacts in
prison </span></div>
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email list so as to be kept up to date and amplify future updates </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8080">4) Donate
money to the Free Alabama Movement and the Incarcerated Workers
Organizing Committee at </span></div>
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class="ecxyiv1969623912yui_3_13_0_1_1397624042633_8083">The IWW is a
grassroots revolutionary union open to all working people, including
the incarcerated and the unemployed. Founded in 1905, we have gained
reputation in recent years for struggles at Starbucks, Jimmy Johns, and
the General Strike call during the Wisconsin Uprising. We are committed
to amplifying the voices of prisoners, ending an economic system based
on exploitation and racial caste systems like mass incarceration, and
adding our contribution to the global movements for a just, free, and
sustainable world. </span></div>
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