Build the People, NOT the Jail

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press release: Link Madison, Black Umbrella Global, and Allies for Black Lives - Madison are teaming up to let Madison know we must divest from all systems of incarceration and oppression. As the fight to stop the building of a new county jail revs back up, activists all over Madison are joining forces to take a stand both to "Build the People Not the Jail" and to Defund Police. 

We will meet in front of the jail at 115 Doty at 5pm 9/10, at which point we will collectively register our opposition to the jail project and our support of the Doyle Resolution for the evening's county board meeting on whose agenda the resolution will be placed. 

We will send a message not only to our elected board supervisors but to the rest of the city, letting all within earshot know that investing $150 million plus interest into a jail at a time like this is racism beyond disguise, and also that we must act now to defund the police. Our most disenfranchised communities have let us know loud and clear that what they need is for us to be divesting - not investing - from systems of punishment. 

We know that our lives can only matter when Black lives matter and that we must keep up the pressure until all of our elected officials understand this, too.