Stevie Wilson

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Rest in power Assata.

A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:

“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."

I was grateful to be a part of Critical Resistance’s Cross-wall & Power Building Retreat during Black August. Check out recordings from the retreat, including my remarks on censorship, repression, and accountability to inside organizers criticalresistance.org/prisoner-spe...

"T. Hoxha, Casey Goonan, & Defending Direct Action for Palestine with Dylan Rodríguez"; images of T. Hoxha (of the Filton 24) and Casey Goonan, and Dylan Rodríguez; background is a stock image of a pro-Palestine march. MAKC logo in the bottom left

Tuesday at noon ET (US), 9 AM PT we'll be live again with
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more!
www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...

screenshot of @CallaWalsh post Pro-Palestine Political Prisoners on Hunger strike from the US to the UK Casey and Hoxha are actually freer than us all, because they are resisting. CALLA.SUBSTACK.COM white letters on green background

T. Hoxha enters day 18 of her hunger strike.

Calla Walsh has written about it, how fellow captive Casey Goonan joined in solitary, and how we must honor the slogan, "Our prisoners are our compass."

Read: calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha

Demand Hoxha's hospitalization: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

The BPP held an entire anti-fascist conference in Oakland in the late 60s. People are over half a century behind on the realities of what they were saying about fascism in the USA, but it also speaks to how severely their politics were suppressed.

Haymarket Presents pilsen community books Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby September 11th at 6:30 pm CT Haymarket House 800 W. Buena

Chicago!

Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby

Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Why do you carry a gun? How a simple question is transforming lives in a Pennsylvania prison In prison, Stevie Wilson leads talks with inmates on why they carry guns — and how to find real solutions to Philadelphia’s gun violence.

I am really proud of the work these young men have been doing through our gun violence roundtable. Thanks to Amsterdam News for writing about this project and lifting up the perspectives of imprisoned people on the drivers of gun violence amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/08...

Flyer for a zine launch titled "Abolition, Organizing, and Collective Futures" on August 29, 6-8 PM, at 629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY; purple text and silhouettes of people at the bottom.

Join us for the launch of 3 zines on Aug 29 in Brooklyn - 6 to 8 pm. You can check out the *Another World* space which exists to support political education, mutual aid and organizing.

For people who may not understand the importance of political education and relationship building behind the wall, here is an anecdote about the self activity of imprisoned people during Black August.

Organizing the Already Mobilized - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

"The actual process of organizing" involves getting people to "realize that prisons [are] an obstacle, rather than part of a solution, to the things they [are] trying to accomplish." @craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ on real-life strategy in abolitionist organizing inquest.org/organizi...

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books Letters to Activists in Crisis

This book is a care package for organizers and activists. I wrote the first and last letters in the book and edited letters from beloved friends and co-strugglers like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @shaneburley.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, and many more.

Illustrated flyer for a Summer Book Drive asking for gently used social justice books on topics like race, gender, class, and more. Donations accepted at 116 Suffolk St, NY, Tues-Sun 1-6pm, by 9/1.

Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.

We are doing groups inside on toxic masculinity and could use suggestions for readings, exercises, or curriculum that can help ground our discussions. Thank you in advance!

I'm excited to share that I received some grant funding to bring back the Stevie Wilson DIY Arts Youth Residency in 2026 and 2027. You can learn more about the project here: bit.ly/diyresidencyreport - I had hoped to offer it again and now I have the opportunity to do so.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

quote from an article on prison labor https://inquest.org/why-incarcerated-people-work/

There's a lot of posts today because of #Juneteenth reducing the comparisons between enslavement and incarceration to the issue of forced prison labor. While coerced labor is a through line, it is certainly not the only or most significant one. From an article I coauthored in @inquest.bsky.social:

Donate to Support 9971's Work Behind the Walls, organized by Danielle Squillante 9971 engages imprisoned people through study and discussion. We provide mutua… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support 9971's Work Behind the Walls

You can support our work here www.gofundme.com/f/support-99...

We are continuing to raise funds to support political education and mutual aid in PA prisons. Why is it important?

How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.

We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights.

Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️

YouTube video by Haymarket Books Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance

This conversation hosted by @haymarketbooks.org has important insights for how we got to where we are re this current regime and how we need to organize against it. And yes, that includes solidarity with those targeted by the various systems of state violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...

It surprises me when people on the outside are shocked by police brutality. They are always performing some version of state violence - through acts of violence or the threat of violence.

The thorough new @prisonpolicy.org report on prison transfers cites Inquest's powerful article from @alwaysstevie.bsky.social about his personal experiences with transfers being used as retribution. Read here: inquest.org/unsettled-pe...

The newest edition of The Abolitionist from Critical Resistance is dropping soon. They previewed my 9971 column about the retaliation I've experienced as an imprisoned organizer - including my recent parole denial. Check it out and become a subscriber!
criticalresistance.org/abolitionist...

Thank you for articulating this so well, Kelly Hayes and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social !

"_You struggle with the people who are there and who are willing to lock arms._ "

How Should We Remember Attica? Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons.

reviewed Orisanmi Burton's "Tip of the Spear" for @thenation.com, which is as generative and clarifying as everyone says it is: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Donate to Support 9971's Work Behind the Walls, organized by Danielle Squillante 9971 engages imprisoned people through study and discussion. We provide mutua… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support 9971's Work Behind the Walls

I am still raising funds to support the various activities and participants of our 9971 study groups. We engage in collective study behind the wall and provide mutual aid so people can engage in this work. Donate here www.gofundme.com/f/support-99...

If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure — Community Justice Exchange If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure is a resource from Community Justice Exchange for generating abolitionist struggles against the construction and ...

Check out this new resource from Community Justice Exchange! It is designed for any group, campaign, coalition, or organizer who is trying to prevent a new cage from being constructed or stop an old one.
www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/resources...