Prison Lives Matter (PLM)–a united front for political prisoners, prisoners of war, politicized individuals behind enemy lines and their organizations as well as any outside formations in unison to abolish legalized slavery–is igniting its Indiana Regional Organization Committee!
PLM was founded in Indiana state prisons and is the home and hub of this revolutionary formation and the important work that it continues. However, Indiana is not one of the many states with a PLM Regional Organizing Committee (ROC). We’re going to change that and we invite you to be a part of it!
At this meeting, join PLM Co-Founder, National Director, and Indiana captive Kwame Beans Shakur and members of the national coordinating committee to establish an operational ROC for organizers aligned with PLM’s mission in Indiana. Everyone who wants to tear down the mass incarceration system that upholds U.S. capitalism and national oppression is invited to join.
The meeting will be held in-person at the Indy Liberation Center, although a zoom option is available for those outside of Indianapolis or who are unable to travel to the Center. Please fill out the form below and we will send you a zoom link the day of the meeting. If you need transportation, contact info@indyliberationcenter.org.
About PLM
PLM works to establish a national infrastructure within the overall Prison Movement that will allow us to implement a national strategy geared toward creating Regional Organizing Committees (ROCs) on both sides of the wall.
As Kwame Shakur wrote in a 2014 article for the San Francisco Bay View:
“The political education of captives, comrades and the masses is what is needed to build resistance and sustain a movement for liberation. Prison Lives Matter is not about “reforming” the existing system. Through this united front, which operates on an anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist line, we will strive to expose the prison industrial slave complex’s hidden political and economic hierarchy within the United States empire.
Therefore, we call to raise consciousness to the contradictions that exist around how class, “race” and national oppression lead to the rise of mass incarceration – legalized slavery – and the building of more state and privatized prisons. The higher calling for the “In the Spirit of Nelson Mandela” campaign is one demanding an international investigation into the human rights violations of prisoners that exist within the United States.
However, in order to garner the recognition and support of the international community, we must establish this infrastructure and national strategy on these shores. We are our own liberators!”