New Year's Eve Noise Demo outside of Escambia County Jail in Pensacola, Fl.

In response to a call for noise demos outside of prisons and jails worldwide on New Year's, some of us have decided to heed that call.

Remember those held captive by the State this New Year's. Prisons are meant to isolate and break down individuals. Prisons are places of death and mind-numbing repetition. We must not forget that in America, there are 2.5 MILLION imprisoned, that is the highest incarceration rate on the planet, in the history of the planet. Of these almost 3 million people, only 1% are in prison for horrendous crimes.

Locking people up for drug addiction and poverty is not the answer to the problem(s). The system that needs prisons has created the very same conditions that give rise to poverty, poor on poor violence, and drug addiction. Instead of addressing the problem of social decay and inequality, the State would rather imprison us. Instead of investing billions of dollars into improving the lives of the poor, the State funds the construction of prisons.

Prison is used not only as an institution, but a whole apparatus, constructed externally from outside of the prison walls. Which our enemies by way of defining our everyday life as a prison, manifest themselves in many places, with banks that finance prison development (like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Bank of the West, and Barclays), companies that are contracted for the development of prisons (like Bergelectric Corporation, SASCO Electric, Engineered Control Systems, MacDonald Miller Facility SLTNS and Kane MFG Corp.), investors in prison development (like Barclays Intl. and Merrlin Lynch) to the police and guards who hide behind their badges and the power of the state.

Solidarity is the key to transforming this society into one that can meet the needs of all it's members, where prisons are unnecessary. Where poverty does not exist and everyone has a home and no one goes hungry.

We want to make it very clear to those locked up in the prisons that we have not forgotten them, and that we are out here, fighting for the liberation of the human community that they too are a part of. We must remember that EVERY PRISONER IS A POLITICAL PRISONER.

We must confront the prison world and seek ways to break free from it.
Breaking the wall of isolation that prisons construct is just one of thousands of ways we can do this.

Until every cage is empty,
Until every prison closes,
Until every person is free.

-Some indignants.

(BRING POTS, PANS, WOODEN SPOONS,MEGAPHONES, BOOMBOXES, SIGNS, BANNERS, ETC, WE WANT TO MAKE SOME NOISE!)

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