Our monthly letter-writing event is this coming Monday due to the holiday and local actions in support of the 2018 Nationwide Prison Strike . Philly ABC stands in solidarity with all of those striking to demand humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the end of modern day slavery. Join us at 6:30pm at LAVA where we will be writing letters to the Vaughn 17, the individuals charged with involvement in the February 2017 uprising at the Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware. [Read More]

Our Black August letter-writing event will be held this Monday the 27th, at 6:30 pm. This Monday’s event will feature Black Liberation prisoners, Sundiata Acoli and Joe-Joe Bowen. A New York Black Panther, Sundiata Acoli endured two years of prison awaiting trial for the Panther 21 Conspiracy Case. He and his comrades were eventually acquitted on all the bogus charges. The case was historic and a classic example of police and government attempting to neutralize organizations by incarcerating their leadership. [Read More]

On August 5, 2018, around 90 people ran, jogged or walked 5K to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the incarceration of the Move 9. The route chosen for this event started in Fairmount Park and went past the zoo that members of the Move organization protested in 1973 and 1974 in support of animal rights. The route continued down 33rd street to the intersection of 33rd and Pearl, where the former Move headquarters was before it was bulldozed by the city within 24 hours of the arrest of the Move 9. [Read More]

July 30th, 6:30pm at Lava (4134 Lancaster Avenue) - Due to Running Down the Walls on August 5th and in honor of the International Day of Solidarity with Antifa Prisoners that just passed on July 25th, we are diverting from our normal 1st Monday of the month schedule. Join Philly ABC on Monday, July 30th at LAVA to mail cards to antifa prisoners worldwide . As usual, refreshments will be provided by North Philly Food Not Bombs! [Read More]