The Rikers is A Death Camp Week of Action from Monday, January 23rd to Friday, January 27th to demand the closure of all jails on Rikers Island, the immediate release of folks inside, and a stop to the construction of four more jails in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
You can also find this info at rikers.info/ridc-week-of-action-1.
Text says “Shut Down Rikers Week of Action January 23 to January 27” in all capitals. Text below says “Mon, Jan 23: Rikers.info Social Media Zap”; “Tue, Jan 24: Pickup, Print, and Flyer”; “Wed, Jan 25: End the Letter Ban Phone Zap”; “Thu, Jan 26: Fund the Inside”; “Fri, Jan 27: Day of Rage & Remembrance 5 PM.” Text at bottom says “JOIN: bit.ly/ridcweekofaction.”
The schedule for the Week of Action is as follows:
💻Monday: Social Media Storm & Public Launch of rikersisadeath.camp Website 💻
We are publicly launching rikersisadeath.camp, an online memorial created to help ensure that those whose lives were taken by the state, and more specifically by the New York Department of Corrections, are never forgotten and that we continue and amplify demands for the closure of Rikers and mass releases.
Link to materials:Rikers Is A Death Camp Social Zap - Jan 23
📜Tuesday: Fliers for Everyone 📜
Flyers will be available at Our House Info Shop and to print or distribute in your neighborhood, or even to take a picture of and flyer. Alternatively, get a marker and draw! Some examples here.
Using the graphics on the rikersisadeath.camp website, we are going to flier and knock doors wherever we are!
Organizing for Prison Industrial Complex abolition can start anywhere - at home, work, school, you name it!
Talk to your neighbors or coworkers about what is going on, why this is important, and how they can help shut down this deathmaking institution.
Not yet ready to engage people so directly? You can just slip the one-pager under their door, put one on their desk, hand them out in the campus quad, tape it on electric boxes or lamp posts, etc.!
💌Wednesday: Fuck the Letter Ban – Phone / Email / Social Media Zap 💌
Please join us on Wednesday, January 25th from 11 am to 12 p.m. EST for a phone / email / social media zap targeting Commissioner Louis Molina and the Board of Corrections over the Department of Correction’s decision last fall to request that physical mail be eliminated on Rikers and replaced with scanned texts to prisoners. If you can’t join, here are images + script.
We refute their bogus claim that the request was made as part of an effort to address overdose deaths on Rikers. What is driving overdose deaths on Rikers is not inside-outside communication but rather the violence of incarceration.
💵 Thursday: Fund the Inside 💵
Send commissary funds, and fund the inside, or share the fundraiser of someone who is incarcerated. Here are some ongoing commissary funds:
Black and white photo shows a guard standing outside a sign for Rikers Island Correctional Facility. The text on the right says “To close NY’s death camps.” And text below says “Shut down Rikers. No New Jails. Free Them All” ...followed by a black-and-white photo of a gate to the Dachau concentration camp, which reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Will Set You Free)." On the bottom right is a logo for Outlive Them NYC and Rikers.Info.
In the rest of the RIDC Week of Action folder are 5 sub-folders, one for each day. Within each of those folders is material related to the respective action that will take place that day and instructions on how to participate.