The Rochester chapter of IWOC is having a general interest meeting where you can find out more about the national movement to organize prisoners, the recent strikes and prisoner uprisings nation wide, as well as what we are doing here in Rochester to help organize prisoners and call for an abolition of all jails and prisons. *The meeting will be ASL interpreted* "Members of the IWW have created the IWOC, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, which functions as a liaison for prisoners to organize each other, unionize, and build solid bridges between prisoners on the inside and fellow workers on the outside. Prison is a setup, a big business, there to make money off the People. Neither the setup, nor the slavery inside of prisons can be combated without the conscious participation of prisoners and the working class on the outside through mutual aid, solidarity, and the building of working relationships that transcend prison walls and the politics of mass incarceration. The IWOC has been actively reaching out to prisoners while at the same time prisoners have been reaching out to the IWW for representation and assistance in building a prisoners union. The IWOC has taken up the cause and is helping prisoners in every facility organize and build a union branch for themselves, which will together form a powerful IWW Industrial Union"-IWOC.noblogs.org

[source: Facebook, 2016-Sep-19]