Background

On January 15th, 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Florida incarcerated workers began a work stoppage around three primary demands:

Payment for our labor, rather than the current slave arrangement An end to outrageous canteen prices Reintroduction of parole incentives to lifers and those with Buck Rogers dates

In addition to the three primary demands, we are also fighting to:

• Stop the overcrowding and acts of brutality committed by officers throughout FDOC which have resulted in the highest death rates in prison history.

• Expose the environmental conditions we face, including extreme temperatures, mold, contaminated water, and being placed next to toxic sites such as landfills, military bases and phosphate mines (including a proposed mine which would surround the Reception and Medical Center prison in Lake Butler).

• Honor the moratorium on state executions, as a court-ordered the state to do, without the legal loophole now being used to kill prisoners on death row.

• Restore voting rights as a basic human right to all, not a privilege, regardless of criminal convictions.

For more information, read the original call to action - Operation PUSH: Prison Work Stoppage Called for MLK Jr Day

Endorsers

We have over 70 total endorsers. Email fighttoxicprisons@gmail.com to add your organization to the list.

Supporting Prisoner and Real Change (SPARC) Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) Campaign to Fight Toxic Prison Dream Defenders Black Lives Matter Alliance, Broward National Lawyers Guild (NLG) South Florida Prison Books DSA (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami/Dade, Tampa, Central FL) South Florida Activism New African Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter

Full List of Endorsers

How to Support the Strike