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Standing next to the bust of Martin Luther King Jr., local activist and organizer Jamil Davis warned a crowd of protestors that the proposed “anti-riot” state bill would affect gatherings such as the one he planned for Saturday afternoon.
“This bill is an infringement on our first amendment right,” he said. “This bill causes for black and brown organizers to have to rethink and possibly fear coming here to do these demonstrations.”
“But today, this bill is not a law.”
Walking two by two through South Palafox down to Plaza Ferdinand, Davis and about 100 others chanted such phrases as “Black Lives Matter” and “DeSantis has got to go.” There were some confused faces from diners sitting outside, but there were also a few raised fists and honking horns praising the demonstration.
Building an Inside-led prison abolition movement:
An interview with Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun
By Devin Cole posted on January 12, 2021
On Jan. 5, Devin Cole spoke with Free Alabama Movement co-founder and freedom fighter Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun about the economic side of the ongoing 30-day Economic Blackout and Alabama prison strike in January, the growth of social media and prison abolition, and what it will take to build a truly structured prison and slavery abolition organization.
Devin Cole
: Members of the Free Alabama Movement and other prison abolitionists are saying that Securus Technologies’ implementation of video visitation equipment is a front for permanently removing all in-person visitation and replacing it with video visitations only. Can you talk about these concerns and why they want to do away with in-person visitation?