To get involved with this work, fill out our volunteer Help the Work Along form here or email us at iwoc.milwaukee@gmail.com Contact us if you want to talk with someone active in this work over email, by phone or in person about the best way to help.
In fighting against prison slavery, we have goals, strategy, and
tactics. Goals are specific things that we want to change, they are
situations that we want to make through our actions. Our strategy is
the way that we try to achieve these goals, it is the general and
large-scale side. Our tactics are specific things we do to advance our
strategy and achieve our goals, smaller scale things that we day-to-day. It’s
important that we have alignment between our strategy and tactics,
that our day-to-day actions connect with and the changes that we want
to see.
There are many different tactics that we use to advance specific goals
involved in our work, and the long-term goals of ending prisons and
abolishing capitalism. These tactics provide a lot of different ways
for people to help out. People can help the work along by doing
research, mass mailings, responding to prisoner letters, typing up
letters, doing mass pressure phone and email zaps, visiting people in
prison, showing up at DOC meetings and events, helping with media
contacts and doing outreach.
guides and training resources on how to do different specific tasks,
go here. To see victories that have come from some of the tactics we’ve
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