No Justice, No Peace - City of Inmates (feat. Nick Austin)

Comprised of broken locks
Secret codes
Handbills
Scribbled manifestos
And songs
The rebel archive found refuge
In far-flung boxes
And obscure remnants
But it also thrives in plain sight
It tells the story of the tools of settler colonialism
Mass incarceration as mass elimination
Turning angels into inmates
Kicking hobos out of heaven
And caging the birds which sing
The corridos
The shouts
All that stuff
But rebellion stories
Written on the streets of the city
Talk of land
Refuse removal
Resist deportation
Reject erasure
And rebellion is far from over in the City of Inmates

Written by:
Rebekah Gordon

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