Editorial Note
The statement from which this post draws was first published on the website of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Minister of Defense of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party. It initiated a new name for an organization, United Prisoners & Relatives Organizing Against Repression (UPROAR) whose name and acronym more accurately adheres to its mission statement.
A Change of Name to Emphasize Our Mission
We believe this newest name captures the spirit of a movement based on empowering prisoners and their loved ones and standing in firm resistance against prison abuses. We want to capture four core purposes of UPROAR. They being:
- Direct confrontation: we don’t just advocate, we organize, resist and apply pressure.
- Families as a force: this is a movement led by prisoners and their loved ones, not by detached NGOs, not-for-profits, or career activists.
- Inside-Outside-Unity: we connect the struggle inside to generate pressure outside, breaking the isolation prisons depend on.
- Material Resistance: we expose repression, mobilize communities, and dismantle systemic abuse not just describe it.
With this new name change we want to build UPROAR into an inside/outside prisoner support movement that will genuinely bring change to conditions within Amerika’s razor wire plantations. Join us and help make a powerful and loud UPROAR!
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