----- Original Message ----- From: "aren aizura" <aren.aizura at gmail.com>
"Why an emphasis on people with no social power?"
Uh yeah, because it's only the people with social power who should be out in the streets? Good luck with that. I love to see some white middle-class men rioting, I do.
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Although I understand Doug's point, I also believe that solidarity between people in and out of jail is absolutely crucial to the revolutionary core of this movement.
Occupy Oakland flies a giant banner as you come in and their first demand concerns prisons. I did not memorize it, I'll go back soon and report.
The current prison industrial complex regime not only criminalizes the poor, it is one of the pillars of this police state and a bottomless hole to pour in public funds. I don't think it is either sentimental or foolish to make it part of the occupy cause.
Joanna