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Eric King

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231 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

They might not be nice people. Like they might not be cool, but we need to keep them alive. Like that's what abolition is. So visibility.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Black and Pink is an organization. I know it used to be an anarchist organization. It might be something else now, but it's an organization that's focused strictly on supporting trans and queer prisoners. That's all they do. Social prisoners, political prisoners, it doesn't matter. We're going to find you a pen pal and we're going to get people to write you. And they do a really amazing job.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Black and Pink is an organization. I know it used to be an anarchist organization. It might be something else now, but it's an organization that's focused strictly on supporting trans and queer prisoners. That's all they do. Social prisoners, political prisoners, it doesn't matter. We're going to find you a pen pal and we're going to get people to write you. And they do a really amazing job.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Black and Pink is an organization. I know it used to be an anarchist organization. It might be something else now, but it's an organization that's focused strictly on supporting trans and queer prisoners. That's all they do. Social prisoners, political prisoners, it doesn't matter. We're going to find you a pen pal and we're going to get people to write you. And they do a really amazing job.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Yeah. Even just like right now, someone Googled Black and Pink pen pal. Black and Pink prison pen pal. It'll pop up the website. You just click on find a pen pal. And you can find someone in your city, find someone in your state, find someone that you relate to, like they'll have a little biography and you can find someone like to connect with and potentially save their life or save your life.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Yeah. Even just like right now, someone Googled Black and Pink pen pal. Black and Pink prison pen pal. It'll pop up the website. You just click on find a pen pal. And you can find someone in your city, find someone in your state, find someone that you relate to, like they'll have a little biography and you can find someone like to connect with and potentially save their life or save your life.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Yeah. Even just like right now, someone Googled Black and Pink pen pal. Black and Pink prison pen pal. It'll pop up the website. You just click on find a pen pal. And you can find someone in your city, find someone in your state, find someone that you relate to, like they'll have a little biography and you can find someone like to connect with and potentially save their life or save your life.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Like it can make you better too.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Like it can make you better too.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

Like it can make you better too.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

So each prison's different, like state and federal, but to put money on someone's books, you can do that yourself. You go, you find out whatever prison that person's at and you can just go to the BOP website or that prison's website. BOP is Bureau of Prisons. It's for federal people. Mm-hmm.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

So each prison's different, like state and federal, but to put money on someone's books, you can do that yourself. You go, you find out whatever prison that person's at and you can just go to the BOP website or that prison's website. BOP is Bureau of Prisons. It's for federal people. Mm-hmm.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

So each prison's different, like state and federal, but to put money on someone's books, you can do that yourself. You go, you find out whatever prison that person's at and you can just go to the BOP website or that prison's website. BOP is Bureau of Prisons. It's for federal people. Mm-hmm.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

And it will just walk you through how to do it, how to send the money ground from Walmart or how to do the J-Pay and put it on through your credit card. And you can do it. Like if there's an ABC and Anarchist Black Cross community near you, you can fundraise with them.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

And it will just walk you through how to do it, how to send the money ground from Walmart or how to do the J-Pay and put it on through your credit card. And you can do it. Like if there's an ABC and Anarchist Black Cross community near you, you can fundraise with them.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

And it will just walk you through how to do it, how to send the money ground from Walmart or how to do the J-Pay and put it on through your credit card. And you can do it. Like if there's an ABC and Anarchist Black Cross community near you, you can fundraise with them.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

If there's any like books through bars or abolitionist groups near you, like you can and should fundraise with them to raise awareness. But you don't have to. Everyone can do this on your own. This is a single person job, but it's better if we do it as a community.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

If there's any like books through bars or abolitionist groups near you, like you can and should fundraise with them to raise awareness. But you don't have to. Everyone can do this on your own. This is a single person job, but it's better if we do it as a community.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

If there's any like books through bars or abolitionist groups near you, like you can and should fundraise with them to raise awareness. But you don't have to. Everyone can do this on your own. This is a single person job, but it's better if we do it as a community.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 167

I can't, like, speak for everybody. It should kill, like, a 10 out of 10. Yeah. Like, this is a carceral genocide. Yeah. For real. This is an erasure of an entire people. So, like, if you're not at a 10 for this, like, you either do not care or you're not understanding how serious the prison system is. I've talked to a couple homies inside.