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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders

@ninosindex.bsky.social

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Yeah, same Nino from twittXr. Working to keep people out of cages. Volunteer with Massachusetts Bail Fund in so-called boston. Supporter of Free The 350 Bail Fund. https://www.massbailfund.org/donate

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 4d

for those who want to learn more, this is a good essay. you can access with most public library or college/university credentials

www.jstor.org/stable/27088...

Black Migrants and Border Regulation in the Early United States on JSTOR

MICHAEL A. SCHOEPPNER, Black Migrants and Border Regulation in the Early United States, Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 11, No. 3, Immigration in the Civil War Era: A SPECIAL ISSUE (SEPTEMBER 2021)...

www.jstor.org

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 4d

i learned about it here, which has a video map showing how anti-Black migration laws spread from 1790 to 1865

mappingdeportations.com/2025/09/15/t...

Map showing US states and territories in 1865 that had at least one law to prevent Black migration before the civil war

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 4d

here's the answer:

do people know about Black border laws in the US before the civil war? border laws prohibited *free* Black people from crossing state borders or federal territory borders. US been trying to prevent *free* Black people moving from the get go. just learned about this yesterday.

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 4d

so apparently ma$$achu$ett$ has a law that prohibits "promotion of anarchy" including speech, writing, or pictures related to a$$ault of public officials, kiIIing people, destruction of property, or the 0verthr0w of the government

malegislature.gov/Laws/General...

General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 264, Section 11

Use MyLegislature to follow bills, hearings, and legislators that interest you.

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 5d

Pop quiz! What is this a map of?

I'll post the answer tomorrow.

Map of the USA with many areas in the northwest, southwest, south, midwest, and east coast shaded dark gray for "Jurisdictions with restrictions at some point"

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Andrey X @theandreyx.bsky.social · 12d

We broke into Gaza today:

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Andrey X @theandreyx.bsky.social · 11d

Three of my friends are now in jail for resisting genocide

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 14d

flotilla tracker looking like a comet or meteor shower

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 15d

the global sumud flotilla livestream is so satisfying to listen to, it's ASMR water sounds for Palestine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 16d

feeling more and more like "human" is a useless framework

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 16d

z1on1sm fucked up

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𑁍 @luuucas1k.bsky.social · Nov 14

I’m looking 4 the hoessssss (my twitter oomfs)

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 19d

so when is the flotilla gonna leave greece?

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 26d

the #GlobalSumudFlotilla has a green-hat legal support boat!

👀 @nlgnews.bsky.social

screenshot of the flotilla tracker showing the legal support boat as a green arrow

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 28d

they wanna do a PALESTINE ACTION to ANTIFA

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 29d

Please sign this petition letter to Tarek’s judge to mitigate his sentence to time served. Tarek is a 20 year old Palestinian political prisoner from our movement. His sentencing is in 15 days 🚨🚨🚨 www.change.org/p/free-tarek...

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 28d

shame should not be used as a gatekeeper

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · 28d

the #GlobalSumudFlotilla has grown to 46 boats! more boats have joined from Greece!

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 16

"…Blackness… continues to be restricted by the antagonisms reproduced by slavery, as a structure of violence made possible by the psychic and material operationalization of sexual force wagered against and upon the slave."

from Engendering Blackness
by Patrice Douglass

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Sexuality for the Human exists because the slave is void of the capacity to claim sexual injury or to possess sexual choice."

from Engendering Blackness
by Patrice Douglass

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 16

"…sexual violence and resistance against it are not the necessary content to make slaves into Human. Rather, Human beings are oriented as distinct from slaves because the scale and types of sexual openness preserved for Blackness makes slaves categorically non-Human."

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 16

"…to comprehend… the daily terror of Black life today, we must contend with the pervasiveness of how sexualized terror was woven into every making, unmaking, and remaking of the slave, such that it became no longer remarkable but understood as a necessity for… world-making."

Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 15

"…the sexual terror of slavery is not adequately accounted for in any of the political languages presently available. Not the logics of abolition, Marxism, feminism, or progressive Black politics."

from Engendering Blackness
by Patrice Douglass

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 15

"How do we displace the reliance on thinking bodily reproductive capacities as central to slave-making or the conferring of slave status?"

from Engendering Blackness
by Patrice Douglass

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Abolition Strategies: police, bail, cages, borders @ninosindex.bsky.social · Sep 15

"…the violation of the Black belly makes the modern world possible."

from Engendering Blackness
by Patrice Douglass

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