Comments for black and pink http://www.blackandpink.org Queer/Trans liberation includes prisoner liberation! We are an organization working in solidarity with incarcerated queer and transgender people to abolish the prison industrial complex while advocating for individuals along the way. Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on Support Pelican Bay Prisoner’s Hunger Strike by bo brown http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/support-pelican-bay-prisoners-hunger-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-1415 bo brown Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:49:53 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=1712#comment-1415 nice work here my people...thanx...please update as often as you can as things are changing everyday now.... nice work here my people…thanx…please update as often as you can as things are changing everyday now….

]]> Comment on prison penpals by jason http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/prisonpenpals/comment-page-1/#comment-1341 jason Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:58:40 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?page_id=3#comment-1341 Hey Jef! Do you want a pen-pal? check out the pen-pal page! Then you can scroll through :) Hey Jef! Do you want a pen-pal? check out the pen-pal page! Then you can scroll through :)

]]> Comment on LGBTQ Youth and the Juvenile Justice System by Peggy Plews http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/lgbtq-youth-and-the-juvenile-justice-system/comment-page-1/#comment-1238 Peggy Plews Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:30:36 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=1517#comment-1238 I'm a blogger/prisoner rights activist in Phoenix, and have some friends working on building the same kind of network that you folks have. This is an absolutely AMAZING website - you folks ROCK!!! I'm going to set up some widgets with links so people can find you here from mine. In Solidarity from the Deep South of the New West: Please BOYCOTT this fascist state! Just say "NO!" to racism and hate! I’m a blogger/prisoner rights activist in Phoenix, and have some friends working on building the same kind of network that you folks have. This is an absolutely AMAZING website – you folks ROCK!!! I’m going to set up some widgets with links so people can find you here from mine.

In Solidarity from the Deep South of the New West: Please BOYCOTT this fascist state! Just say “NO!” to racism and hate!

]]> Comment on prison penpals by david bohn http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/prisonpenpals/comment-page-1/#comment-1212 david bohn Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:56:49 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?page_id=3#comment-1212 How current are your ads? I note one saying they were getting out in 08. Have a good one! How current are your ads? I note one saying they were getting out in 08. Have a good one!

]]> Comment on A Compilation of Critiques on Hate Crimes Legislation by G.W. Simmons http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/a-compilation-of-critiques-on-hate-crimes-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-798 G.W. Simmons Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:01:03 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=123#comment-798 That's Windham County VERMONT. The same state who told you all to come up and get married. Well let me tell you a little secret VT is not as tolerant as they want you to believe. I was assaulted AGAIN last Sunday IN MY OWN HOME by a member of "da white boy gang" and the police did fuck all out of sympathy for gallup. In the meantime I have asked every GLBT advocacy/Ativis group in the state for some form of support/aid. and they just shrug their collective shoulders and say they can't do anything... That’s Windham County VERMONT. The same state who told you all to come up and get married. Well let me tell you a little secret VT is not as tolerant as they want you to believe. I was assaulted AGAIN last Sunday IN MY OWN HOME by a member of “da white boy gang” and the police did fuck all out of sympathy for gallup.

In the meantime I have asked every GLBT advocacy/Ativis group in the state for some form of support/aid. and they just shrug their collective shoulders and say they can’t do anything…

]]> Comment on A Compilation of Critiques on Hate Crimes Legislation by G.W. Simmons http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/a-compilation-of-critiques-on-hate-crimes-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-797 G.W. Simmons Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:50:51 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=123#comment-797 I agree. I have been physically assaulted TWICE since I've moved here. te first time by a rown cop named Ian Nathaniel Gallup, and the second was just last week by a member of "da white boy gang". Gallup attacks me out of the blue & calls me a nigger, does he get punished? NO. he gets reassigned to a town 40 miles away because of his connections in the Windham County Sherriff Dept. I agree. I have been physically assaulted TWICE since I’ve moved here. te first time by a rown cop named Ian Nathaniel Gallup, and the second was just last week by a member of “da white boy gang”. Gallup attacks me out of the blue & calls me a nigger, does he get punished? NO. he gets reassigned to a town 40 miles away because of his connections in the Windham County Sherriff Dept.

]]> Comment on A Compilation of Critiques on Hate Crimes Legislation by Nick http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/a-compilation-of-critiques-on-hate-crimes-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-728 Nick Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:19:39 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=123#comment-728 Let's see if my second attempt at replying to you will even be published. Been waiting quite a while for the first one to be. Harsher sentencing doesn't reduce crime? So if someone bashes a queer person, and is in prison for a longer time, that person isn't off the street for a longer time which would probably indicate that queers would be safer from that person? You're defending hundreds of people that, presumably, bashed people. All so that you can stay in lock step with your anarchist politics of being anti-state, disregarding the damage that discrimination has done to people of your own community. Then again, from the sounds of it, you care more about the anarchist community than the "queer" community at large. As if you can't fight against a law and order budget and at the same time support justice for people who get bashed. And as if being anti-state and being against a law and order budget is going to do a goddamn thing to stop conservative neonazi types that do bash people. You're clueless. Let’s see if my second attempt at replying to you will even be published. Been waiting quite a while for the first one to be.

Harsher sentencing doesn’t reduce crime? So if someone bashes a queer person, and is in prison for a longer time, that person isn’t off the street for a longer time which would probably indicate that queers would be safer from that person?

You’re defending hundreds of people that, presumably, bashed people. All so that you can stay in lock step with your anarchist politics of being anti-state, disregarding the damage that discrimination has done to people of your own community. Then again, from the sounds of it, you care more about the anarchist community than the “queer” community at large. As if you can’t fight against a law and order budget and at the same time support justice for people who get bashed. And as if being anti-state and being against a law and order budget is going to do a goddamn thing to stop conservative neonazi types that do bash people. You’re clueless.

]]> Comment on A Compilation of Critiques on Hate Crimes Legislation by Nora http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/a-compilation-of-critiques-on-hate-crimes-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Nora Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:24:48 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=123#comment-699 I forgot to mention I am not part of the white, class privileged, gay and lesbian agenda. I am a bisexual woman of color. I am working class, low-income. I believe in women empowering ourselves and our communities to heal from colonization. I also work with prisoners human rights. I know the prison system needs to come to and end as it exists. Yet, I still believe that we cannot take away the right of rape victims to denounce the hate crime and file charges. I do not see how going against this legislation helps us to heal. It may only protect perpetrators who may already have the system on their side. BP decision makers should also be convicted of hate crimes against humanity. They do deserve to do some long and much deserved prison time. More so than just a "regular" crime such as person who steals food from a rich corporation just to get by in this failing economy. To do anything less than take a stand against "real" hate crimes makes us implicit in the very structure we say we work against by silencing the vicims once again. But I agree that our energy must also be focused on the victims healing. Resources must devoted for that. there are already so few and very little support. But resources must also be in correcting the behavior of the perpetrator who probably also needs counseling and will not seek it voluntarily. This must also be an alternative model but for now victims must be allowed to work with what is available to them. I forgot to mention I am not part of the white, class privileged, gay and lesbian agenda. I am a bisexual woman of color. I am working class, low-income. I believe in women empowering ourselves and our communities to heal from colonization. I also work with prisoners human rights. I know the prison system needs to come to and end as it exists. Yet, I still believe that we cannot take away the right of rape victims to denounce the hate crime and file charges. I do not see how going against this legislation helps us to heal. It may only protect perpetrators who may already have the system on their side.

BP decision makers should also be convicted of hate crimes against humanity. They do deserve to do some long and much deserved prison time. More so than just a “regular” crime such as person who steals food from a rich corporation just to get by in this failing economy. To do anything less than take a stand against “real” hate crimes makes us implicit in the very structure we say we work against by silencing the vicims once again.

But I agree that our energy must also be focused on the victims healing. Resources must devoted for that. there are already so few and very little support. But resources must also be in correcting the behavior of the perpetrator who probably also needs counseling and will not seek it voluntarily. This must also be an alternative model but for now victims must be allowed to work with what is available to them.

]]> Comment on A Compilation of Critiques on Hate Crimes Legislation by Nora http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/a-compilation-of-critiques-on-hate-crimes-legislation/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Nora Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:04:31 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=123#comment-698 I am a survivor of rape. I believe that in a patriarchy when a man rapes a woman that is also a hate crime against women. Rape victims have very little resources left to them and often even progressive communities turn on them when they report the rapist if he is a member of their community. In my case he was a friend and supposedly my comrade in the struggle for social justice. In my friends' case (also a rape survivor) the rapist was also a friend and supposed "femenist". Reporting her rape was also seen as going against the community and supporting the "state". Or at least that was the manipulative language that was used to protect the rapists. When the man who raped me, raped again, I decided I needed to report him and file charges. We can't be afraid to use the law to send a message to serial rapists who parade around in sheeps clothing that our community and survivors of these hate crimes will not go unpunished. Yes, I want believe that rapists are sick and need counseling and help but that did not happen by his own will. Too many women gave him too many chances and were not supported. There was not enough evidence to go through with the trial as is often the case. And he is free. But I hope that I sent him a clear message. Since the majority of the progressive community I was a part of chose to remain silent and not hold him accountable for his hate crimes towards women, or even find him help for his sickness. When we say rape is a hate crime it means it is institutionally sanctioned by patriachy in the dominant system and even in progessive communities. I found that most progressive communities do not have the capacity to deal with the rapists, sometimes inadvertantly supporting them by supposedly remaining "neutral" and often alienate the survivor (both men and women). If I could have I would have pressed charges against him and my rape as a hate crime. And I don't think anyone should ever take that option away from a victim of a hate crime because it is just as traumatizing as the crime itself. I am a survivor of rape. I believe that in a patriarchy when a man rapes a woman that is also a hate crime against women. Rape victims have very little resources left to them and often even progressive communities turn on them when they report the rapist if he is a member of their community. In my case he was a friend and supposedly my comrade in the struggle for social justice. In my friends’ case (also a rape survivor) the rapist was also a friend and supposed “femenist”. Reporting her rape was also seen as going against the community and supporting the “state”. Or at least that was the manipulative language that was used to protect the rapists. When the man who raped me, raped again, I decided I needed to report him and file charges. We can’t be afraid to use the law to send a message to serial rapists who parade around in sheeps clothing that our community and survivors of these hate crimes will not go unpunished. Yes, I want believe that rapists are sick and need counseling and help but that did not happen by his own will. Too many women gave him too many chances and were not supported. There was not enough evidence to go through with the trial as is often the case. And he is free. But I hope that I sent him a clear message. Since the majority of the progressive community I was a part of chose to remain silent and not hold him accountable for his hate crimes towards women, or even find him help for his sickness. When we say rape is a hate crime it means it is institutionally sanctioned by patriachy in the dominant system and even in progessive communities. I found that most progressive communities do not have the capacity to deal with the rapists, sometimes inadvertantly supporting them by supposedly remaining “neutral” and often alienate the survivor (both men and women). If I could have I would have pressed charges against him and my rape as a hate crime. And I don’t think anyone should ever take that option away from a victim of a hate crime because it is just as traumatizing as the crime itself.

]]> Comment on July Black and Pink Newsletter by Summerspeaker http://www.blackandpink.org/revolt/july-black-and-pink-newsletter/comment-page-1/#comment-668 Summerspeaker Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:58:32 +0000 http://www.blackandpink.org/?p=923#comment-668 Y'all are wonderful. Best wishes in the struggle. Y’all are wonderful. Best wishes in the struggle.

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