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Across the US, solidarity actions took place to mark the kick off of the August 21st national prison strike. In Brooklyn, anarchists, abolitionists, wobblies, and members of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) rallied and then took to the streets, leading to several arrests by police. Two rallies were held in the Los Angeles area, one outside of a women’s facility, and another a men’s prison. In Minneapolis, people wrote graffiti and set off fireworks, while in other cities, people dropped banners, painted slogans, and changed messaging on billboards to call attention to the strike. Other cities led protests against companies profiting off of prison slavery labor; in Seattle people disrupted a Starbucks, while in Des Moines, Iowa, people protested and disrupted a show room which sells prison made goods.

For more upcoming prison strike actions in solidarity, go here, and for a diary of action on both sides of the prison walls, go here.

Pacific Northwest

Portland, Oregon:

Comrades locked in the Multnomah jail in Portland, OR heard us make some noise for them yesterday. They must know that there are people out here waiting for them. !Solí a toda la gente en las jaulas! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, FREE ‘EM ALL!

Tacoma, Washington:

Solidarity rally is held outside of the Northwest Detention Center, where it is announced that 200 detainees inside will join the national prison strike.

Seattle, Washington:

We went to into a Starbucks on campus, who uses prison labor to pack their coffee, as a comrade from SeaSol laid it out #PrisonStrike pic.twitter.com/1IvlDpB88k — keaton (@birdEnjoyer) August 21, 2018

Southwest

Oakland, California:

San Jose, California:

Sacramento, Califronia:

Corona, California:

Los Angeles, California:

⁦@LosAngelesIWW⁩ and GDC called Noise Demo in solidarity with the #PrisonStrike at Twin Towers/Men’s Central Jail in LA! #August21 pic.twitter.com/7GQOiUh2JF — Decolonize Ⓐnarchism ? (@blkintellectual) August 22, 2018

Phoenix, Arizona:

Noise demonstration was small, but they heard us. As the sun set, we banged pots and pans along Van Buren, then pulled a Fellow Worker's car into the parking lot next to the exercise yard and blasted some Ice Cube. #August21 #PrisonStrike #PrisonStrike2018 pic.twitter.com/ka4pfDAZ7j — ⚒️IWW?Phoenix? (@IWWPhx) August 22, 2018

Central

Durango, Colorado:

The Dirty Hands Collective dropped a banner in solidarity with the #PrisonStrike rebels in our community of Durango, CO (occupied Ute and Diné territory). We send our love and rage to those resisting modern-day slavery inside the State’s incarceration apparatus. You are not forgotten. Abolish Prison Slavery! Abolish All Prisons!

Midwest

Des Moines, Iowa:

We are inside Iowa Prison Industries, presenting them with the list of demands from the nationwide #prisonstrike beginning today, #August21. pic.twitter.com/p97lKqTubR — Central IA DSA (@DSM_DSA) August 21, 2018

St. Paul, Minnesota:

Minneapolis, Minnesota:

A #NoiseDemo was held at the Juvenile Detention Center in #Minneapolis on the first day of the nationwide #PrisonStrike Fireworks were lit & chants were chanted alongside tunes from the anarchist marching band, Unlawful Assembly Further media from #PrisonStrike2018 coming soon pic.twitter.com/ITtsMfImz2 — Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) August 22, 2018

Chicago, Illinois:

Last night dozens of ppl gathered for an #August21 #PrisonStrike noise demo & march around Cook County Jail & Little Village in #Chicago. Folks blew off fireworks, blared + music, banged drums, held banners & blocked traffic outside rec yards & cell blocks of cheering inmates. pic.twitter.com/vzPhC3zjOk — B r e a k a w a y (@Breakaway_chi) August 22, 2018

https://twitter.com/erinacorbett/status/1032082542357372928

Evansville, Indiana:

Northeast

Hartford, Connecticut:

Hour 5:

Hunger strike outside the Hartford federal courthouse demanding that Salma Sikandar, a Bangladeshi mother & 19-year resident of New Haven, be granted stay of deportation. #KeepSalmaHome #NatTurnerDay #nooneisillegal #NoBorders#FireToThePrisons #FireToTheDetentionCenters pic.twitter.com/qpW6GyVB91 — RAM – ElmCity (@RevAbolitionEC) August 21, 2018

Brooklyn, New York:

#NYC banner drop in solidarity with the #PrisonStrike . All power to the prison rebels. In memory of George Jackson, Nat Turner, & all the fallen black liberation fighters! We will continue the legacy of the struggle!#BurnThePrisons #BlackAugust #PrisonStrike2018 #NatTurnerDay pic.twitter.com/A1mVvKZvB6 — RevAbolitionNYC (@RevAbolitionNYC) August 21, 2018

https://twitter.com/SoellerPower/status/1032046950269509632

After the #PrisonStrike/#NatTurnerDay noise demo outside of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), protesters took to the streets chanting “Cops & the Klan go hand in hand.” NYPD quickly began following them. #FireToThePrisons pic.twitter.com/6sQvdZd07z — Ash J (@AshAgony) August 22, 2018

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

https://twitter.com/ciccmaher/status/1032072314744188928

Southeast

Gainesville, Florida:

Fort Lauderdale, Florida:

Solidarity with Strikes at prisons in 17 states today @ Broward County jail #ftlauderdale #PrisonStrike2018 "Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings." -Angela Davis pic.twitter.com/i51p0NybGc — Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward (@BLM_Broward) August 22, 2018

Washington DC:

Knoxville, Tennessee:

Kicking off the #PrisonStrike on UTK campus. Folx flyered and talked with students about the strike. #Solidarity with all those those incarcerated! #AbolishPrison #EndSlaveryNow pic.twitter.com/Ywt3aYQMiq — Knoxville Radical Alliance (@knoxradical) August 21, 2018

Atlanta, Georgia: