I always get some pushback if I write “Free Them All” on any posts about prison, especially on instagram. I welcome the comments because it is good that people are thinking critically and questioning both prison and ideas of abolition. I felt inspired to write what “Free Them All” means to me though…
Free Them All as in no more humans in cages
Free Them All as in imprisonment will never solve complex social problems that create harm
Free Them All as in ending patriarchy that enables abuse and violence
Free Them All as in no more rape culture
Free Them All as in end white supremacy
Free Them All as in no more poverty
Free Them All as in empty the detention centres
Free Them All as in open the borders, migration is life
Free Them All as in LAND BACK
Free Them All as in freedom from occupying forces and colonial violence
Free Them All as in no more animals in cages
Free Them All as in whales and sea life return to the oceans
Free Them All as in no more waged labour, servitude or slavery
Free Them All as in liberate learning, no more exclusions
Free Them All as in plants and ecosystems are able to thrive
Free Them All as in the soil food web is free from capitalist agriculture
Free Them All as in queer bodies live free from violence
Free Them All as in rivers run free to the sea
Free Them All as in building collective life
Free Them All as in free our bodies from the traumatic stress of living in this world
