Meet the Freedom Bus

December 23, 2021

As part of the Vigil for Freedom and Racial Justice, the Freedom Bus leads prison solidarity drives - events where community members caravan to prisons and encircle them with messages and sounds of love and support. The events let people know that they are not forgotten about during their captivity.

The Freedom Bus is an old prison transport bus purchased at auction and is at the Vigil site most days. Decorated by community members with signs of solidarity, the Vigil re-appropriated the bus, which initially built to remove people from their community. It now is a tool used to recreate those connections. The Freedom Bus rides in direct defiance of the many ways the carceral state seeks to control and separate people from their communities.