Thread by @jaybeware

So given the number of reporters we've talked to about #PrisonStrike2018 who have never covered prisoner resistance before and in many cases have little to no experience writing about prisons, I'm making a list of writers I suggest editors try to commission for pieces (thread)

First is my mentor @bsonenstein who sets the bar in writing about prisoner resistance. He has years of experience including the most thorough reporting on the 2016 strike, where he broke many of the stories shadowproof.com/category/priso…

I think people should approach Mariame Kaba @prisonculture to write an essay or opinion piece on why the #PrisonStrike2018 presents an urgent call for a new form of (transformative) justice

Talk to @dnbrgr about writing a piece about the modern prisoner resistance movement and parallels or differences from the movements he's written about exstensively

Talk to @LVikkiml about how resistance looks different within women's prisons and possibly how that might relate to how prisoners are diversifying tactics this time

Reach out to @MayaSchenwar to talk about any number of angles whether it's having a family member in prison during a time of resistance or repression or something else

Commission @LoneberryWang to write about how #PrisonStrike2018's tactics including Bennu's Redistribute The Pain seek to combat the Carceral Capitalist economic machine in a variety of ways

Commission @HalfAtlanta about the connections between immigrant detainees and traditional prisoners within the carceral system and the solidarity and political education happening there

Commission @MsKellyMHayes write about the history of carcerality as it relates to Indigenous people in the US.

Have @phillyprof03 write about what's at stake with this #prisonstrike and why we can't just throw people away without a shot at redemption and expect a healthy society

Work with FOIA experts like @MuckRock to make sure we're targetting all prisons with reports of resistance to look for repression of strikers and proof of strike activity

Reach out to @fakerapper to talk about @Appolition and how the movement to end cash bail would reduce the number of non-guilty people who are forced to plea bargain from a position of fear, violence and coercion.

Reach out to @TheWayWithAnoa to write about the #PrisonStrike in relation to the plight of political prisoners from the New Afrikan people's movement.

Commission @roqchams to write about the strike in depth.

Commission @waazn1 to write about the evolution of the organizations involved in the #PrisonStrike2018 inside and out

Commission @kgosztola to write about why reporting state denials of prison strikes or any activity within prisons without deep investigation proves to be a fool's errand historically

Commission @adamjohnsonNYC to write about the coverage of the strike and differences between 2016 and 2018

I'll add more later.

.@naheitzeg and the people at @C_Resistance should be commissioned to contextualize this strike within the field of abolition, and reformist reforms vs abolitionist deconstruction of the PIC