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* Chain Reaction (defined): A se-
auence of events, each of which,
results in, or has an effect on,
the following event.

* “Unshackling Captive Minds® is
our slogan. We believe that 35 the
truth 15 revealed and minds are
Tiberated, a "chain reaction® of
revolutionary change will trans-
forn our present capitalist soci-
ety of haves and have-nots into a
truly democratic and egalitarian
Soctety built upon meeting human
need instead of capitalist greed.

« Chatn Reaction is a revolution-
ary anarchist and libertarian so-
clalist collective. We are anti-
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Who We Are

reasons for its elimination. At the
same time, we aim to put forward
workable alternatives to capitalism
and show a becter way for society
to be organized that is egalitarian
in nature.

* e are ot refornists and do not
align ourselves with reformist or-
Ganizations. We are abolitionists
who believe reforns only legiti-
mize and perpetuate a brutal and
oppressive systen. While we must
fignt for better conditions, we
have to realize that reforns a-
chieved today may be taken away to-
morron.

* We are Internationalists who re-
cognize that the disease of nation-

their resolution are relevant to
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b o B | R el it A

of THE MOMENTUM!

This is not an insurmountasle problem though and
there is nothing we cannot do once we collectively
i1 ft including destroying the capitalist system
and its orisons. ¥e na longer have to plod along
Tike passive mincless sheep to the slaughter and so
1 hope our comraces upon release will drink ceeply
from their beer and figure seriously on what chey
can do t0 help build an anarchist sovenent of prisoner
solidarity to comsat this tyranical human warehousing
systen.

At Chain Reaction we envision ultisately bringing
3b0ut 2 system in which people own and operate
collectively 211 of the means of production and
cistribution on a voluntary or cooperative basis.

In such a system, goods witl be procuced for auman

use and enjoyment, not for profit as under capitalisa.
Such 3 system would abolish money 25 well as 2 lot

of useless jobs like polititians, cops , and judges.
Gone 2150 would be war, fanine, prisons,and sost crime.
1a chart 2 warld af Mcs meen o ik oot mab Aectpan

BASIC ANARCHISM

he following article is adapted from several diffarent sources and is

vided for the

benefit of our readecs who may Rot have a clear understanding of anarchist primciples.

After reading this article you will prodably be even more confused.

Anacchism is a political philosophy
that embraces democracy and freedom, and
seeks to destroy all forms of coercion
and oppression. The root of human oppras-
sion is seen as authorirarian power struc-
tures and social inequality. Individuals
must not be subject to outside interfer-
rce so long as they don't deny freedom
o otners. But freedom doesn't simply
consist of being left to do your own
»ing. For real freedom to exist, people
must have security, a safe and cating
eavironment, and the means to achieve full
human potential.

All oppressive systems such as classism,

D1

Collectives will be created fot avery
purpose humanly desired, of peopl
associated with equal power to determine
their future. This vision extends to all
forms of social arrangements. There will
be no place for laaders, bosses, politici-
ans and bureaucrats. Where certain tasks
may tequire people in positions of respon-
sibility, they will be chosen to
positions on a temporary basis to fulfill a
specific nead. These people will be subject
to instant recall by the people they secve.

freedom and justice. Sexism. ageism, racism,
nationalism, greed, and self-seeking are a1l
archal social structures that need to be
done away with, otherwise the revolution
will not be worthwhile. But we cannot more
than outline some of the developments which
may come about. Many things may arise which
we cannot foresee and so this outline of
anarchist society is in no way a "sacred’ and
unchangeable blueprint. @
("Principles of Anarchisn” is a 28-page
pamphlet available for $1 from South Chicago
ABC Zine Distro, P.0. Box 721, Homewood, IL
60430. It gives a more comprenensive look
at anarchist principles.]

ARk wkE kR R
ARARCHISH & AMERICAN TRADITION

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all
this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this
N30 BLACK BLOC COMMUNIQUE

On November 30, (1999], several varfous groups of
fndividuals In black bloc attacked varfous corporate
targets 10 downtown Seattle. Azong them were (to name
Just a few): Fidelity Investnent (major fnvestor fn
Gectdental Petroleun, the bane of the U'wa tribe fn
Columbia), Bank of America, US Bancorp, Key Bank and
Washington Mutual Bank (financial institutions key in
the expansion of carporate repression), 01d Navy,
nana Republic and the GAP (as Fisher fasily businesses,
rapers of Northwest forest lands and sweatshop labor-
ers), Niketown and Levi's (whose overpriced products
are made in sweatshops), McOonald's (slave-wage fast-
food peddlers responsible for destruction of tropical
ratnforests for grazing land and slaughter of anteals),
Starbucks (peddlers of addictive substance whose pro-
ducts are harvested at below-poverty wages by farmers

who are forced to destroy their own forests in the
oy e ml eliaas o anoon mel

property destruction).
Response to the Black Bloc

Response to the black bloc has hghlighted some of
the contradictions and internal oppressions of the
“nonviolent activist*community. Aside from the obvious
hypocrisy of those who engaged fn violence against
black-clad and masked people (many of whom were harass~
ed despite the fact that they never engaged In proper-
ty destruction), there 15 the racisn of privileged
activists who can afford to fgnore the violence per
petrated aganst the bulk of soclety and the natural
world in the name of private property rights. Window
smashing has engaged and fnspired many of the most
oppressed nesbers of Seattle's community more than any
glant puppets or sea turtle costumes ever could (not
to disparage the effectiveness of those tools in other
communities). (....]
On the Vielence of Preoerty

he Non-violent

eryone should only stt-down and let the cops Kick
thetr ass.

These actions created a great synbol, put the an-
archists 1nto the spotlight, and are making the elites
very nervous. But, sensatfonal actions 1ike these draw
attention to the nost radical parts of the anarchist
sovenent rather than the long-tern, mass organizing
that goes unacknowledged.

The Black Bloc wasn't only about property destruc-
tion. I saw then earlfer in the day blockading the
hotel and they were impressive. Wherever they vere
needed they vent. They held thefr line agafnst the po-
Tice, when others were pushed and fntisfdated.

Seattle Everyvhere - Butlding a Novement

To make our movement grow we need to educate fn or-
v to raise consclousness and spread our dea of a
free soctety through all means possible. We need to
show that anarchist principles of organizing from the
bottom-un and using direct action are the oSt Draetde

MAY DAY!

Many workers fn the U.S. consider Lahor Dav to
be the American worker's holidav. Labor Dav is nothing
but a sham holiday the bosses sold us in order to
confuse us about a very fmportant part of our rich
history. The real worker's day fs May Day, or May lrst.
May Day is celebrated the world over as worker's
solidarity day, yet ironically, even though May Day
originates to 2 great degree from the U.S., it is
unfortunately less observed here.

May irst, since olden times, has also been a
time at which many cultures celebrated spring renewal
and the regeneration of 1ife. That blends pretty well
with worker*s day as it's each generation of humanity
that creates what sustains 11fe and brings 1n a new
generation of 1ife - no thanks to the boss class.
On May Lrst we honor our fellow workers of yesteryear
many of whom gave their 1ives in the struggle for
worker's emancipation. May Day s also a day when we

scruttiny of the
Chicago business
class whose members
were looking for any
pretest to discredit
or make examples of
them.

0n Hay 3rd, police
Pinkertons, and a
vetran's organiza-
tion from the Civil
War known as The
Grand Aray of the
Republfc began
breaking up strikes.
At a sass deronstra-
tion fn front of
HeCormick Harvester

AUGUST SPIES
a dynamite tube in his mouth which his sweetheart had
sruggled 20 hia in his Jafl cell. Albert Parsons
declined comutation of his sentence to 11fe quoting
Patrick Henry, * Give me Tiberty or give me death! *

The next morning, Nov..11th, August Spies, Adolf
Fischer, George Engel and Albert Parsons were 211 hanged
in the Cook County Jail. ATl of the men had some choice
words to say before their judicial murders were carried
out. Ado1f Fischer, *This is the happlest moment of my
1ifel* George Engels, "Long 1ive anarchy!® Albert Parson:
“Let the voice of the people be heard.” Then August Spie:
already roped and hooded eloguently spoke, “There will
cone a tine when our silence will be aore powerful than
the voices you strangle today.”

An estinated 15 o 25,000 radicals followed the
executed men out to Waldheim Cenetary. It is said that
the streets of the procession were 1ined with another
250,000. The Haymarket Martyrs were laid to rest at
Halchein where Tater a monuement was dedicated to them

inscribed with August Spies'lasi*wards.In the 1960s,
the City of Chicago tried to ¢isplay 2 statue commen-
orating the cops slain at Haymarket. [t was blown up!

EDUCATION and REHABILITATION

by Gulf Coast Red

Educational programs in prisons

@ a good thing

The expression I11usion as defined by Webster 15 a

fn that they can help prisoners gain a broader knovledge “misleading fmage presented to the vision® but todays'

of the world, and acquire the technical skills needed
to survive in capitalist society once, 1f ever, rel
A few years back,Texas Republican Senator Kay Baily
Hutchinson tagged a clause onto Clinton's Oanfsbus
Crime 8111, effectively eliminating college grants
for prisoners and totally decimating prison college
prograss all across the U.S.. Texas has remained
an anomaly in this respect, still retaining a
college program for prisoners through agreements at
the state Tevel.

Yet the purpose of college,in or out of prison,
has alvays been to cultivate cogs for the capitalist
machine through fmparting values and a world view
amenable to elites. College is good 1f a person can
read between the 1ines and sift out the capitalist
eran. Mark Twain said * never let school get in the

Iluston operates 1 a much larger area. 11lusions are
used in the media to disguise fts Intended purpose.|
must prepare ourselves mentally for the fmages placed
before us, that appear to be one thing, but fn reality
are sonething else.

For example, in Texas, more than S0 of the overall
prison population are noneviolent prisoners who are
Victins of an 11legal criminal conspiracy. Now most of
these offenders were sentenced to Tong harsh sentences
then Just a few siwple weeks aftervard, Texas Tawnakers
sneaked back to the State Capitol to repeal, reclassify
the seme crine that many people were Just given 1ife
sentences for,to a petty nonprison offense (State Jaf)
Felony). To the ignorant, unconsclous individual the
people being held are hardened criminals, but to the
conscious citizens who have finally come to realize that

In Tecent years there’s been a wve of

touted “volunteer’ projects using prisc-labor
such as construction for fiabitat For menity, and
cleaning roadsides of trash and underbrush. Rhat 45
never menticned 1s wat cptions these 'Volunteers®
have; when the opticns ara batween doing what you're
told with no questicns asked, and Tetatning wat
privileges, status or good-tine you might have, or
else refusing to 'volunteer® to do the wezk in
question and at best losing status and good-tins, and
at wrst being made an example of through harassment
and pertaps being beaten by guards, and then charged
with ‘assault cn an officer* and locked . TIAT'S
TOT VOLINTEERISY, BUT RATVER SLAVERY!

Tecently T heard cn a local Tadio station bow
imates fron area prisan units were being used to
clean trash and underbrush from undermeath local
bridges. Mention vas made of finds being paid by
the city for this project; were the fnds went to
is anyones guess, but rest assured, the slaves din't
see any of it, all they recelved was a little water
to drirk while vorking, and a neal back cn the unit.

This 15 reminescent of the 01 South practice of
2 sleunmaster Ml st e B o e
{Mocern Slave-Labor Continued from page 11)

legalized slavery, ot at best, indentured servitude.
For convicted felons to be *fammed-out’ to these
private, for-profit prisons is abhovant, though handly
2 new concept; many ancient cultures did the same;
notably the Ronans, who eventually became 5o dependant
wpon slavery and slave-labor that mumercus draconian
laus were passed to insure that there was never a
shortage of slaves.

“ALL of us should be alarmed at this trend towards
institutional slavery and ve should do all we can to
protect our few remaining rishts, 2s wll as to strue
sale to regain those Tights we have already lost.
There are many things % can do such as writing to
menbers of the media and Other 'free-sorld entities
informing them of qur problens, and seeking shatever
assistance they can provide; helping to ehucate other
prisoners; and last, but not lesst, wrking through
the courts. The most inportant thing 1o that we must
ot sit back and vatch things g0 from bad to worse
without at least trying to stop the system and courts
from stripping us of cur Tights, and seeking to Te-

could not shut down the engines without the wardenst
permission because they were used to keep the bounded
areas 11t through the night.

Paluer had dressed for day work in the feilds and
wore only a short-sleeved shirt. Throughout the night
he was dented a Jacket, blanket, or other means of
keeping warm. Palmer and the mesbers of his squad tried
to stay warm by huddling together and digging holes in
the dirt 1n a vatn attenpt to construct earthen walls
to block the wind. Meanwhile, prison guards stayed
warm by wearing jackets, 1ighting & fire, and retreating
to vehicles with running heaters, Hartnett and Mendoza
were aware of the conditions and observed the prisoners
during the night.

At 5:30 A4 on October 30th, each prisoner was
provided with milk, cereal, and a peanut butter sandwich.
Soon after Hartnett inforned the squad that 1f they
refused to go to work, they would be forced to remain out-
s1de and *freeze again,” Palmer and 46 members of his
squad returned to work unti11 11:30 A when they returned
to prison for Tunch.
alner subsequently filed suit in U.

District

that person’s Tace/ettmicity. avoidance—whether
refusing to Tespond to a person, or merely going cut
of the way to avoid being around a person because of
their race/ethnicity.

SEXUAL

Treating a person differently solely based upon
thatr sex or senal orfentation. This is quite
camen 1n prison, especially against hamosexuals.
Although many of us were raised to velw hamosexuality
s wrong—for whatever reascn—there's absolutely no
difference between sexual or Tactal prejudice—the
other perscn 1s being discriminated against solely
for being themselves, and that is the problem being
addressed here, T grew up thinking hanosewality
vas wrong (an understatenent!), and only Tecently
realized that this prejutice cn my part was uat vas
truly wrong.
RELIGIOUS

‘Another comon fomm of prejudics, and coe vhich
often—though not always—bas racial overtones. A
certain pattem is alnost always folloved: when
pecple or grows cane into coutact with other people
ot grows with differing religious veivs, one or
(Presudice Continued from page 13)

1ittle things; at least in aur own opinicns. Fhich is
what makes them s0 difficult to detect. Unfortunately
other people usually do not think they are so little—
espectally 1f they're directly affected.

Personal prejudices can be such things as dislike
£or certain ramerisns; modes of dress, speech or
dialect; hatr color/style; msical/art foms, or
anything else.

Rether or not we have these types of prejutices
ism't the polnt—especially since e all have many of
then—rather, we need to determine 1f any of aur per-
scnal prejudices are offensive to others; or, whether
ot not how ve express our prejulices is offensive. for
exanple, there's nothing wrong with belelving that
sports are 'mnly’; but, actually egressing this
could very well be wrong since it would certainly
offend both wanen athletes by insimating that they
are less feminine, and men who dislike sports by
insimuating that they're less msculine.

So, what can we do to Teduce prejutice in curselves
and our envirorment? First of all, we must reduce it
ALL tan beings have many different

(Texas Prison uardens... Continued from page 12)
of confinenent ensuring that prisoners recefve adequate
food, clothing, shelter, and medical care.

Jidge Benavides ruled that the totality of the
spectfic circumstances presented by Palner's clatns
—-his overnight confinement with no shelter, Jacket,
blanket, or source of heat as the temperature dropped
and the wind blew along with the total lack of bath-
roon facilities for 49 prisoners sharing a seall
bounded area--constituted a denfal of the minimal civ-
f1ized measures of 1ife's necessities. Palmer thus
satisfied the first part of the two part test.

Hopealing the dental of their motion for sumary
Judgnent, Hartnett and Mendoza argued thateven if their
conduct violated plaitiff's constitutional rights, they
4id not act unreasonably. Fifth Clrcuit Disagreed.

At the tice when the fncident occurred, animmate's
Fight to hunane conditions of confinement and the prison
offictal's duty to ensure that prisoners raceive
adequate food, shelter, and medical care are well
established under prevatling norms, sald Fifth Cleult.

Ve are confident, wrote Judge Benavides, that given

ont srtathorpsbtt-Bepsibitby

ainst Tyranny:

the individual right for all the people to
bear arms that was the crucial factor in
the American colonists' victory over the
British arny in the Revolutionary War.

This country, the United States of
America, was established by revolutionaries
—outlaus in the eyes of the governing
authorities—not blindly-obedient patriots.
Unfortunately, they dropped the ball of
freedon and democracy soon after that, em-
bracing authoritarian class divisions in-
stead of egalitarianism.

One of the NRA's favorite slogans is
“Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have
guns!" 1t is a historical fact that all
revolutionary freedom fighters through the
ages have been labeled "outlaws" by the
dictators they fought to overthrow. Yet the
NRA has an active lobby that supports the

thank the YRA and other like groups for
that. They support white suptemacist mili-
tias and their Tight to bear arms, but at
the same time work to disarm imnec-city
dwellers. \pparently there aren't as many
card-carrying NRA members in poor urban
working class neighborhoods as there are
in the Montana backcountry.

As millions of Americans are prohibited
€rom owning or possessing guns, the deck
becomes increasingly stacked in favor of
the tyrannical police state. All you have
to do is look around and see this unfold-
ing before your very eyes. We live in a
so-called democracy where only 30 percent
of eligible voters even bother to cast a
ballot. And 3.9 million American adults
are prohibited from voting, even if they
wanted to, due to criminal convictions.
The majority of those citizens who still
can vote are so disillusioned by elections
e el wun a skt Lo R Bt S “aa i e

and stripped of their constitutional rights
that are supposed to be so sacted and invio-
lable. Another example of how the Constitu-
tion doesn't really protect anybody's
rights. What better way to safeguard a dic-
tatorship than to take away the two main
avenues to political power—the ballot and
the gun.

What society is left with is supporters
of the police state, such as the NRA, hold-
ing all the political power. They pose as
defenders of liberty and freedom when they
are in fact the helping hands of tyrants.
It's time for the true freedom fighters to
rise up against tyranny. Revolution is as
American as apple pie. Onward to the
revolution! @

Ak E kR h

MILITARY INCREASES POLICING ROLE
What would hadpen if the working majority of slaves
decided to, in this day and age, hold our betters to
the sane stringent and rigorous laws and punishments
that they hold us to?

Those in the higher eschelons ho made cecisions
which rosulted in starvation, war,ecocide and death
could expect to be tried ( legally or extra-legally )
and recefve the same treatment as say, someone who
comits a murder during the commission of an armed
robbery. We can hear the world's Pinochets, at hone
and abroad quaking in their boots at the prospect
of getting a dose of their own medicine.

In a1l Tikelihood, if this scenario ever becane
eminent on the horizon, those in power would use all
of their clout to abalish capital punishment as an
inhunane and barbaric practice in order to save their
own necks. Let the peoples assemblies begin!

®
SLEEPING BEYOND HATRED—THE FINAL SAGA OF JOE FAULDER
By Christopher Dye #805217
HC 67, Box 115, Kenedy, Texas, USA 78119

Joe opened his eyes to a setting straignt out of a
B-rated horror film. Unfortunately, he knew instead
this scene was that of his final nosents of 1ife. He
anxfously glanced about the archaic chamber, hoping
only to assimilate details.

From his position bound atop the table in the cen-
ter, even the strakness of the room retained a gro-
tesque quality. He could not avoid a lingering view
of the assorted instrusents of terror arranged fn
precise fashion on the tray to his right. Images of
painful demise danced amidst their glistening chrome-
plated reflections. Publicity surrounding the serial
murders perpetrated by his captors already confirmed
the lethal contents of those syringes resting only
inches away. His muscles tensed involuntarily against
the leather straps securely fastened over his torso,
arms, and Tegs.

He gradually convinced his body to cease such fu-
wt1a raeictanca. He even managed to regain some mea-

3le, which spanned more than two decades, Joseph 1s
finally free froa the tribulations of this earthly ex-
istence. The friends that he left behind all rest as-
sured that he sti1) has that spectal smile in his
heart. Nuserous vigils and memortal services were con-
ducted {n both the United States and Canada to mark
Joseph’s ascension.

On Thursday, June 17, 1999, Joseph Stanley Faulder
was executed by the State of Texas. This act was in ov-
ert violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular R
Tations. Furthernore, it was protested by both Canadi-
an offictals, including Michael O'Shaughnessy, and US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Texas Governor
and Republican presidential candidate George . Bush
chose to ignore the protests, as well as fnternational
Taw and treaty agreenents, and allow the execution to
proceed. At 61, Mr. Faslder becane the oldest of 178
people killed by the state since 1982 when capital
punishaent was refnstated. His original conviction was

Death Houses

1y becomes gart and partial to the state
¥illing machine. T this is civilized,
let us everyone pick up the weagon of his
or her choice and take the law into our
own hands! We lmow better. As it i
current system is merely legalized vig:
lantism acministered by the HAVES on the
HAVE NOTS.

Morality dictates that mirder is wrong
and thus it is axiomatic that this holds
true vhether it “e bty a citizen of the
state, or by the represenatives of that
state. Society's mad dash to bring about
a forced peace through this brutal law is
backfiring in all of our faces. We shake
our heads in perplexed woncerment when
tabies are discarded like garkage in our
cities, ané then clamor for revenge cn
those who violate the law. Tt's a kill

cur

aglov with a surreal light that amplifies
an¢ {1luminates - cven seeks to sugarcoat
the foul tasting darkness surrounding mur-
der vy state. And Rome is efficient! Do
not mistake this, for the killing machine
rumbles on, oblivious to the thunderous
veice of grace ané the spirit of reconcil-
iation. In fact, in 1999, nearly three
dozen men were murdered by Texas alone.
Mere violence. Yore victims. More inanity.
More revenge. And for what?

We must abolish the Death Penalty. But
more than just an emotional appeal and res-
ponse, let's briefly consider scme of the
thought provoking reasons why these coliseuns
of the vorle must te dismantled, why the
sacrificial altars of revenge torn down ané
ade into ash heaps.

First of all, it is immoral. Every
Western cemocracy has abolished it save for
the United States. Secondly, the Death Pen-

alty is racist in nature. More of our min-
A T 2111 the +imre rerartdanally ta the

“ut they, more than any of us, 'now full
well that justice in Texas is but a rela-
tive vord and that it hinges on cne's
social and econcmic status; furthemore
that justice is oft-spelled Just Us by
vigilate groups like Justice For All who
hide hehind a repressive Victim's Rights
label. ¥on't you join us and fight for
the avolishment of this mirderous practice?
Today is the cay to decide. Join now!

Contacts:

American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad St.
New York, NY 10004
or
wwv.aclu.org

Amnesty International USA
222 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
LS
by Gulf Coast Red

paid vell wrained fascist is 3311 a fascist. With anl
their clout, California guards have successfully lobbied
the Califonia Tegilature to enact draconian anti-
worker laws 1ike 3 Strikes legislation, making possible
steady prison expansion and plenty of job security.
To the question of a pay raise, we give an emphatic

HolRight 15 right, and wrong 15 wrong! How long can

. the systen continue expanding feeding off of the
workingelass? Ex Director Andy Collins currently facing
multiple Federal charges, acmitted the cold eyed
prisoncrats in Stetsons bilched tax payers out of
bi1lions of dollars to build and operate prisons they
( the prisoncrats ) knew the public didn't need!
unat 15 in order is not a raise enabling the megamachine
%o continue ripping up the social fabric. What needs
0 happen 15 a massive layoff of these people, and
for about three quarters of these joints to be shut
down, for starters! These tax dollars could be better
spent on useful things like education. Even in 2
capitalist context, all of the real threats to hunan

o shastad oy Sut e b Mol msrsaiye vy 8

The Facists Attack Again

By Scott A, Mollette

On 16 March 2000, at the behest of Comnandant Herr
wayne Scott, the TOCJ-10 initiated a systemeide lock-
down. While TOC) spin doctors assert that this action
came fn the wake of an inmate on fnmate murder, we,
who see through their srokescreens, know all too well
thelr track record and continved propensity to *toot
their own horn" as regards their demands for a pay
raise. Sesides, anyone who really believes that a man
cut his way out of a cell on Cofffeld Unit with den-
tal floss, also no doubt believes that Larry Fitz-
cerald, Larry Todd and the other fuckwad spin doctors
are purveyors of pure unadulterated truth. Will these
greedy capitalist bastards continue to stoop 5o low
but for a few dimes? Or nust we, who pay taxes, o
whose families pay taxes, continue to support con-
certed effort on their part to do little but sit on
their widening asses and collect more money for doing

Sut what will you do? If you sit 1dly by, apathetic
35 most prisoners do, then don't cry to anyone when
these fascist bastards come sifting through your per-
sonal shit again and discard Momma's picture. Nor do
you whimper when a screw lusts over a pix of your
drean barbie fn the world! And don't say a damn thing
when they stosp all of your private goodies and
attenpt to convince you of how unworthy a piece of
shit you are. You nust resist these policies where you
are at. Now. Take legitimate, legal actfon and engage
thefr corrupt policies. If you don't, you suffer the
self-nposed penalty of non-action. It's always been
your chotce!

NEW MILITARY UNIT FOR
DOMESTIC DEPLOYMENT
Submitted 8y Ned-3

e sy o ey

OME POEMS

OLIGARCHY of FOOLS

DEMOCREACY
1S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WORD
A CONCEPT UNSEEN

Cnildless Prisen YET T00 OFTEN HEARD.
POLITICIANS THEORIZE

morning | wake ON EGALITARIANISM

e my children ot here, LuiLE THE MAOORITY crokes

oices 5o loud ON REALITY'S J1s,

in my ear LEADERS WITH THEIR GOLD

ook out my window MAKE UP ALL THE RULES

ot ar:n there FOLLOWERS BEAR THE WEIGHT

ay 1111 feel sunshine LIKE MUTE MINDLESS FooLs,

reath the fresh air, CORPORATE DESIRES

k at the floor CREATE HORE BLOODY WaR

oncrete so bare CAN THIS REALLY BE

r the door shut

ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS REPORT

LOCAL

STANDING DEER WILSON

With six incurable oiseases, Standing Deer has enough
trouble on his hands.But compound that with T.0.C.J._I.D.
deliberate medical indifference and there is a sure
recipe for disaster. Standing Deer 15 a Native Aserican,
Choctaw by blood. He's a long time activist and advocate
for a1l prisoners and is in fact now a political
prisoner of thestate of Texas. Now he needs your help.
His present prodlen {s his fnability to receive his
neaded high blood pressure medicine, Clonidine. The T0CJ
doctor, Dr. Luke Scanaro, head veterinarian at the
Wallace Pack Usft , replaced Standing Deer's Clonidine
with an inexpensive substitute, Cardura. The Tatter is
ineffective in controlling his high blood pressure. You
may write support letters for Standing Deer and nead it
- RE: ROBERT WILSON # 640289. Tell them that you want
e neon vo receive his Clonidine and the proper

Walter. As well, Walter Bell has also passed 3 1fe
$ getector tests as well as extensive rape tests ( the
woman victin was also brutally raped) The cops beat a
confession of him, breaking 2 finger and knocking out
one of his gold teeth in the process. The cops also
threatened to turn Halter loose on the streets of Vidor
Tx. after dark-2 known K.K.K. enclave which not too
many years ago used to sport a sign on 1t's outskirts
reading,"—r don’t let the sun set on your ass in
Vidor. One can easily imagine the terror a young
retarded Black kid of 18 yrs. would experience at

Such a threat. The state has a flimsey case, but a5
we've all seen, the state never likes to adnit it's
Wrong-even when sonsone's 1ife is at stake-as ex-
erpified by the many innocents put to death here!

To boot, Walter has had three reversals on his case,
s.c
MMIA ABY JaAL
0n Decenber 9,1381 tne Philadelphia police tried to
4 surder prize-winning journalist, revolutionary, and
father Munia Abu Jamal. The Police shot and beat Mumia,
almost killing him. For the last 19 yrs. the police and
courts have been trying to finish the job, but this
time legally by claiming he killed officer Dan Faulkner.
Hunia earned the nare voice of the voiceless for his
tireless exposure of police violence and attacks on
working people, especially in the African American
community. He became Minister of Information for the
Black Panther Party for Self Defense at 15. He defended
activists in the Philadelphia group MOVE against Police
Chief Frank Rizzo's vicious racist attacks. The local
politicians and police hated Mumia because he never let
them off the hook. The ploice, the D.A. and Judge Sabo
worked to withhold witnesses and evidence helpful to
Mumia; racially pack the jury; provide phony witnesses;
force false testinony from witnesses; falsify evidence;
and deny Mumia his right to choose his own representation.
In Aoril of 1982, the court sentenced Muia to death.
Munfa has spent 19 years on death row fighting his

On The Plantation

Warsher Sentences Propel Prison Violence

After the December 17, 1999, stabbing death of Me-
Connel1 unit orison guard Danfel Nagle, the reaction-
ary Taxas media began a non-stop propaganda campaign
featuring whining guards decrying the “dangerous”
working conditions insice Texas prisons.

The guards blane low pay for 2 guard shortage that
they claim "creates dangerous situatfons for officers
on 2 daily basis.” A recent Scripps-Howard analysis of
assaults on prison guards in Texas claims that attacks
have more than doubled in the past five years from 720
in 1995, to 1,649 in 1999. What this so-called analy-
555 dossn't provide 15 a breakdown of what is consid-
ered an assault.

Most 1ikely the majority of these assaults are very
minor ncidents that are blown out of proportion when
reported. 1t's also a well-known fact that some dis-
gruntled guards fabricate assaults that never actual-
Ty Kipponed.

.

2 match to a can of gasoline.

The victins' rights groups and hard-ass politicians
have built this house of horrors. Now as thefr own
211 victin to it, they still don't get it.

Missour! Prisoners Win $2.2 millfon in Suft

U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey of Kansas City,
Y., approved a §2.2 million settlement in 3 class-
action lawsuft filed by Missourt prisoners. The judge
3150 fssued a 40-page ruling in January in which she
s2i¢ videotapes of the prisoners' treatnent in Srazor-
13 and Gregg counties (Texas) "dacument behavior which
the United States constitution forbids.”

Laughrey safd the settlement is fair because the 700
srisoners who filed clains alleging mistreataent would
have ¢ifficulty recovering monetary damages {f their
Tawsuits vent to trial.

“Shockingly, the Missouri jury was not as responsive
%o the videotapes as you would have thought,” safd

gle mothers to even greater hunger and hardship. The
mindless dash to criminalize childhood and fnvoke
cruelly extreme methods of punishment on our youth,
and even smal) children, has been accosplished with
the full blessing of 8111 *The Barbarian®.

But. *S1ick Mflly* Clinton didn't alone create the
avthoritarian quagaire in which we now find ourselves
subnerged. To borrow a phrase from the dictator's
wife Hillary, *It takes a village.* Those loveable,
huggable, radical rascals, known as the sixties gen-
eration, have grown up to become the authoritarian
nightaare of the 21st century. It is they who have
engineered the buflding of the largest prison systens
in the world. It is they who now advocate life sent~
ences for five-year-old children. It fs they who are
installing video cameras on every street corner to
spy on you and me. It is they who promote the increas-
ed militarization of society and the unleashing of
paranilitary goon squads upon the poor and working
class of America. It fs they who continue to foment
worldwide military adventurisn and foperialist expan-
sfonism against the working class. It is they who are

A LITTLE BIT OF THIS & THAT
Chatn Reaction has received many letters fron
readers interested in the Hep-C Tawsuft mentioned in
the last {ssue. Due to several factors the Tawsuit
has not fared too well. First, several of the origi-
nal plaintiffs Jumed ship when they were promised
parole in return for dropping the 11tigation (they
were close to mandatory release anyway). Second, two
attorneys fron Houston, operating as polftical saba-
teurs, expressed false interest fn jofning the 11t~
gation, walked off with important papers, and then
fatled to show up at any of the hearings. On top of
that, the complaint was filed fn state district
court fn Walker County (Huntsville) where the pre-
iding Judge was politically motivated to dismfss ft.
The remaning plaintiffs have appealed that dectsion.
We wi11 keep our readers updated on this. In the mean
tine please hold off from sending us any more Tetters
unti] 1t's reported to be proceeding. Sorry that we
don't have better news. That's how the sorry ass le-
gal system works and why we have no fafth in ft.

MEXICAN POLICE ARREST STUDENT STRIKERS

The Mexican government ended a nearly 10-sonth stu-
dent strike at the country's largest university before
dawn on Sunday February 7, 2000, when about 2500 fed-
eral police sefzed the campus and arrested about 600
strikers. There were no reports of injurfes.

Phalanxes of horse-nounted metropolitan police
Closed off the main streets leading to the sprawling
canpus of the National Autonosous University 1n Mexico
City, while federal officers armed with truncheons
scoured the school grounds for strikers.

Soon after the arrests, 3 fow hundred student pro-
testers marched from the campus on the city's south
S1de to the federal prosecutor's offices dowtoun,
where they desanded the release of the detafned stu-
dents. About 300 strike syspathizers oined them in
front of the federal offices.

*The government has the force. They have the guns,”
satd Rosarfo Cortez, 46, as she stood out-side the
attorney general's building waiting for news of her ne-
Shew, one of the strikers detained fnside. *It's the
people who are unarmed. But we have F1ght on our side

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MEXICAN POLICE ARREST STUDENT STRIKERS

The Mexican government ended a nearly 10-sonth stu-
gent strike at the country's largest university before
dawn on Sunday February 7, 2000, when about 2500 feq
eral police sefzed the campus and arrested about 600
strikers. There were no reports of fnjuries.

Phalanxes of horse-nounted metropolitan police
closed off the main streets leading to the sprawling
campus of the Natfonal Autonomous University fn Mexico
City, while federal officers araed vith truncheons
Scoured the school grounds for strikers.

Soon after the arrests, a few hundred student pro-
testers marched from the caspus on the city's south
side to the federal prosecutor's offices downtown,
where they demanded the release of the detafned stu-
dents. About 300 strike sympathizers joined them in
front of the federal offices.

“The govermment has the force. They have the guns,
satd Rosarto Cortez, 46, as she stood out-side the
attorney general's building waiting for news of her ne-
phew, one of the strikers detained inside. *It's the
people who are unarmed. But we have Tight on our side.*

THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T
By West Texas Slim

“The sixties!® Never before have two words con-
Jured up more diverse inages of Anerican society.
Civil rights, presidential assassination, Vietnan
var, rebellion in the streets, universities under
setge. S0S, Black Panthers, Chicago 7, Weathermen.
Kent State, sexual freedom, women's 1iberation.
Revolutior

Revolution? The myth of the sixties is that it
was a social revolution, but was it really? There
certafnly was a major social upheaval that led to a
sort of Tiberalization of American culture. However,
after all is safd and done, the sixties "revolution”
was bust. “Comnon wisdon now has 1t that the Right
energed fron the sixties triusphantly fn control of
politics and social policy, while the Left, Targely
relegated to the universities (those former beach-
heads), the museuns and the arts, grabbed the cul-
ture* [The Nation, Dec. 13, 1999].

Today the “establishment” is more entrenched

gle mothers to even greater hunger and hardship. The
mindless dash to criminalize childhood and fvoke
cruelly extreme methods of punishrent on our youth,
and even smal) children, has been accomplished with
the full blessing of 8411 “The Sarbarian‘.

But. *S1ick Hflly" Clinton didn't alone create the
avthoritarian quagnire in which we now find ourselves
submerged. To borrow a phrase froa the dictator's
wife Hillary, *It takes a village.* Those loveable,
huggable, radical rascals, known 25 the sixties gen-
eration, have grown up to becose the authoritarian
nightsare of the 21st century. It is they who have
engineered the butlding of the largest prison systems
in the world. It 15 they who now advocate life sent~
ences for five-year-old children.. It is they who are
installing video cameras on every street corner to
Py on you and me. It fs they who promote the increas-
ed militarization of society and the unleashing of
paranilitary goon squads upon the poor and working
class of America. It 15 they who continue to foment
worldwide military adventurism and imperialist expan-
sfonism against the working class. It is they who are

antation.

3 match to a can of gasoline.

The victins' rights groups and hard-2ss politicans
have built this house of horrors. Now as their own
fall victi to it, they still don't get it.

Missour! Prisoners Win $2.2 millfon fn Sutt

U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey of Kansas City,

approved a 52.2 million settlement in 3 class-
action lawsuft filed by Missourt prisoners. The juige
3150 fssued a 40-page ruling fn January in which she
52i¢ videotapes of the prisoners' treatsent in Grazor-
12 and Gregg counties (Texas) "document behavior which
the United States constitution forbids.

Laughrey safd the settlement fs fair because the 700
srisoners who filed clains alleging mistreatnent would
have ¢ifficulty recovering monetary damages {f their
Tawsuits vent to trial.

“Shockingly, the Missouri jury was not ss responsive
to the videotapes as you would have thought,” said

(stemy Pemberton cont.)
beaten by solice during interrogations, often while
handcuffed in a chair. Finally, growing weary from food
deprivation and having his head slamed against metal
filing cabinets, Jimy agreed to sign 4 statenent
carefully concocted by sembers of Dallas’ Finest, if
anly they would cease beating him and allow him access
£ a telephane 5o he could find out the whereabouts

of his step daughter. This police statenent vas
entirely fabrication and was later held to be fn-
acmissable fn appeals court, due to police abuse. The
Gourt however, rubber stasped his conviction due to
the fact that the couple had been seen arquing &2 days
prior to her deatn-even though they had been separated
for almost 3 ranths.

Jiamy has lost his fanily, hose and carrer. He's
been numi 1ated fn the worst way, and subjected to yrs.
of wrongful inprisonsent despite overvhelming proof
thit someone other than he committed the crine.

To find out more about his wrongful imprisonment
write to: Jinmy Penberton 4415018, Jimes V. Allred
Unit 2101 FH 369 North Towa Park, Tx. 76367-6568

A

HUNIA ABY JaAL

On Decenber 9,1381 tre Philadelphia police triad to
murder prize-winning journalist, revolutionary, and
father Mumia Abu Jamal. The Police shot and beat Humia,
alrost killing hi. For the Tast 19 yrs. the police and
courts have been trying to finish the job, but this
tine legally by claiming he killed officer Dan Faulkner.

Hunia earned the name voice of the voiceless for his
tireless exposure of police violence and attacks on
working people, especially in the African Aserican
comunity. He becane Minister of Information for the
Black Panther Party for Self Defense at 15. He defended
activists in the Philadelphia group MOVE against Police
Chief Frank Rizzo's vicious racist attacks. The local
politicians and police hated Mumia because he never let
then off the hook. The ploice, the D.A. and Judge Sabo
worked to withhold witnesses and evidence helpful to
Mumia; racially pack the jury; provide phony witnesses;
force false testinony from witnesses; falsify evidence;
and deny Munia his right to choose his own representation.

In April of 1982, the court sentenced Musia to death.
Munfa has spent 19 years on death row fighting his

REPORT

, alter. As vell, ualter Bell has also passed 3 1ie
S detector tests as well as extensive rape tests ( the
woman victin was also brutally raped) The cops beat a
confession of him, breaking a finger and knocking out
one of his gold teetn in the process. The cops also
threatened to turn Walter loose on the streets of Vidor
Tx. after dark-a known K.K.K. enclave which not too
many years ago used to sport a sign on it's outskirts
reading,"—r don’t let the sun set on your ass in
Vidor. One can easily imagine the terror 3 young
retarced 8lack kid of 18 yrs. would experience at
Such 2 threat. The state has a flimsey case, but as
we've all seen, the state never likes to adnit it's
Wrong-even when someone's 1ife is at stake-3s ex-
erplified by the many ianocents put to death here!

To boot. Walter has had three reversals on his case,
SOME POEMS

Solttude

X
Solftude 1s the tormented soul... SLISICHY of FooLS
dnelling on spirits haunting the lackened hole,

of hopes Tost,
and dreams tossed... 1S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WORD
A CONCEPT UNSEEN

to fates' hungry devouring maw, #y Childless Prison
and realitys' slashing, tearing claw. YET T00 OFTEN HEARD,
POLITICIANS THEORIZE

o
Every morning I wake
Solitude 15 the wasted 1ife. To'tee my enitdren not. hare, ON EGALITARIANISH
tortured by patn, hurt and strife " WILE THE MARITY Coxes
The votces 5o loud
O REALITY'S J1sh,

of loves dead,
Ring fn ay ear
and words satd... 114 Took out my windox LEADERS WITH THEIR GOLO
WAKE UP ALL THE RULES

DEMOCRCACY

By bittersweet muths of people missed, Bt mot one
and the sweetly poisoned 14ps once kissed. pod ::y e ©unshine FOLLOWERS BEAR THE WEIGHT
- o o egaant LIKE WUTE MINDLESS FooLs,
Solftude 15 the dark and Tonely cell e aeh e tresh airy CORPORATE DESTRES
the torture- chasber of an endless hell... e e oo CREATE HORE 8L00DY WA
full of evi) deeds, 1 hear the door shut CAN THIS REALLY BE

\ttack Again

Sut what will you do? If you sit 1dly by, spathetic
a5 most prisoners do, then don't cry to anyone when
these fascist bastards come sifting through your per-
sonal shit again and discard Momma's picture. Nor do
you whimper when a screw Tusts over a pix of your
drean barbie fn the world! And don't s3y 2 dam thing
when they stosp a1l of your private goodies and
attempt to convince you of how unworthy a plece of
shit you are. You nust resist these policies where you
are at. Now. Take legitimate, legal action and engage
thefr corrupt policies. If you don't, you suffer the
se1f-imposed penalty of non-action. [t's always been
your chotce!

NEW MILITARY UNIT FOR
DOMESTIC DEPLOYMENT
Submitted 8y Ned-3

i
RAISE THESE WALLS

There has been a 1ot of hoopla on the part of Texss
prison guards about getting a pay raise lately. They
clain thit the malfunctions in the system recently
are due to low pay which results in staff shortages
and Tack of qualified personnel. Guards complain that
they're in the pay range eligibility for food stamps
( welcome to the real world of capitalism ) and that
their jobs are so hazardous, their pay is an injustice.
8ut what does it mean to be employed as a prison
quard, especially in Tx.? A fat cat tycoon named
Jay Gould once said, *1 could hire one half of the
workingclass to to shaot the other half." To become
a prison guard is to become like any sort of cop,
a defender of the system of coercion and inequality-
capitalism, which creates crime and then uses it as 2
part of the cesent which holds the system together.
Guards are not mesbers of the workingclass but are
sellouts to those in power! As in the 19705 film
Soylent Green, with Charlton Heston, and Edward G.
Robinson the prison industry and it's minfons really

by Gulf Coast Red

7216 well watned fascist is s2ill a fascist. With anl
their clout, Californfa guards have successfully lobbied
the Califonia Tegilature to enact draconian anti-
worker Taws ke 3 Strikes legislation, making possisle
steady prison expansion and plenty of Job security.

To the question of 2 pay raise, we give an emphatic
TolRight is right, and wrong 15 wrang! How long can
the systen continue expanding feeding off of the
workingelass? Ex Director Andy Collins currently facing
multiple Federal charges, admitted the cold eyed
prisoncrats in Stetsons bilched tax payers out of
biTlons of dollars to build and operate prisons they
( the prisoncrats ) knew the public didn't need!
wnat 15 in order fs not a raise enabling the meganachine
to continue ripping up the social fabric. What needs
to happen 15 2 massive 1ayoff of these people, and
for about three cuarters of these joints to be shut
down, for starters! These tax dollars could be better
spent on useful things like education. Even in a
capitalist context, all of the real threats to human

oo NPty (a0 o W s < 28
but they, more than any of us, mow full
well that justice in Texas is but a rela-
tive vord and that it hinges on ome's
social and economic status; furthemore
that justice is oft-spelle¢ Just Us by
vigilate groups like Justice For All who
hide hehind a repressive Victim's Rights
latel. ¥on't you join us and fight for
the abolishment of this murderous practice?
Today is the fay to decide. Join now!

Contact:

American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad St.
New York, NY 10004
or
v, aclu.org

Amesty International USA
222 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Dismantling Death Houses

by: Rick Mogan

The Death Penalty hasn't worked, isn't
vorting, and never will work hecause it is
wreng. The next time somecne is caught
turglarizing a home, let's propose that
Gecrge the Tess, or one of his puppet
morons, hurglarize the perps home so that
we, as a society, can teach pecsle not to
turjlarize. Sound crazy? Better yet, the
fnext time a man rapes a woman, let's pub-
lically rape him anally so as to instruct
other's ot to rape. Moreover, tre next
time a erunk driver runs over a chilé, let's
et a designated drunt tc run over the off-
ending ériver's child so we can teach cur
society not to drink and drive! Now T ask
you again, does any of this sound crazy?
Does it sound sensible? Of course not!

1y ecomes gart and partial to the state
¥illing machine. Tf this is civilized,
let us everyone pick up the weagon of his
or her choice an¢ take the law into our
own hands! We know better. As it
current system is merely legalized vigi
lantism acministered by the HAVES on the
HAVE NOTS.

Morality dictatec that murder is wrong
and thus it is axiomatic that this holds
true whether it ke by a citizen of the
state, or by the represenatives of that
state. Society's mad dash to bring about
a forced peace through this brutal law is
tackfiring in all of our faces. We shake
cur heads in perplexed woncerment vhen
tabies are ¢iscarded like garkage in our
cities, and then clamor for revenge cn
those who violate the law. Tt's a kill

cur

FINAL SAGA OF JOE FAULDER
- Dye #805217
ly, Texas, USA 78119

91e, which spanned more than two decades, Joseph fs
Finally free fron the tribulations of this earthly ex-
Istence. The friends that he left behind all rest as-
sured that he still has that spectal smile fn his
heart. Humerous vigils and mesoral services were con-
ducted in both the United States and Canada to mark
Joseph’s ascension.

Gn Thursday, June 17, 1999, Joseph Stanley Faulder
was executed by the State of Texas. This act was in ov-
ert violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Re
Tations. Furthersore, it was protested by both Canadi-
an offictals, including Michael O'Shaughnessy, and US
Secratary of State Madeleine Albright. Texas Governor
and Republfcan presidential candidate George . Bush
chose to ignore the protests, as well s international
Taw and treaty agreements, and allow the execution to
proceed. At 61, Mr. Faulder became the oldest of 178
people killed by the state since 1982 when capital
punishaent was refnstated. His original conviction was

Turn the Tables,
YGu1f coast Red

"A11 are equal under the eyes of the Taw.
Bullshit! Law is class biased in favor of the

rich parasites and against the poor. Capital
punishment is no different in this respect as those
those on the side of capital punish lethally those
without capital.

The crines which workingelass people get prosecuted
for ( often mistakenly ) are no doubt heinous. Sut
what about the much ore voluminous horrors, often
approaching genocide, perpetrated with total impunity
by corporate capitalists, politician scum, and their
state minions? For instance, how about the U.S.
governments' backing and. sales of arms to Indonesia
throughout its systematic infliction of genocice
on the people of Timor? hat about members of the
U.S. government who have intentionally done exp-
erinents on unsuspecting workers with radioactive
substances wnich have resulted cancers and deaths
%o numerous to speci fy?

In Texas a person can receive the death penalty

sl S E - SRR e 2

What would habpen if the working majority of slayes
decided to, in this day and age, hold our betters to
the sane stringent and rigorous laws and punishments
that they hold us to?

Those in the higher eschelons who made cecisions
which rosulted fn starvation, war,ecoctde and death
could expect to be tried ( legally or extra-legally )
and recefve the same trestment as say, sonecne who
comits a murder during the comnission of an armed
robbery. e can hear the world's Pinochets, at home
and abroad quaking in their boots at the prospect
of getting a dose of their own medicine.

In 211 likelihood, if this scenario ever becane
eninent on the horizon, those in power would use all
of their clout to abolish capital punishment as an
inhunane and barbaric practice in order to save their
own necks. Let the peoples assesblies begin!

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and stripped of their constitutional rights
that are supposed to be so sacred and invio-
lable. Another example of how the Constitu-
tion doesn't really protect anybody's
ctights. What becter way to safeguard a dic-
tatorship than to take away the two main
avenues to political power—the ballot and
the gun.

What society is left with is supporters
of the police state, such as the NRA, hold-
ing all the political power. They pose as
defenders of liberty and freedom when they
are in fact the helping hands of tyrants.
It's time for the true freedom fighters to
rise up against tyranny. Revolution is as
American as apple pie. Onvard to the
revolution! @

Ak h kR ek K

MILITARY INCREASES POLICING ROLE
Defending Against Tyranny

8y Ron

Supporters of the Second Amendment's
Tight to keep and bear arms often say that
an armed citizency is a defense against
tyranny. As long as the people are armed,
the conventional wisdom goes, no tyranni-
cal government shall dare arise on these
shores. And even if a government of oppres-
sion should appear, the armed populace
would quickly Tise up against it. Right?

Not necessarily so. It's possidle that
an entirely different scenario could de-
velop. Instead of the gun-toting citizens
rising up to overthrow such a dictatorship,
it's entirely credible that many of them,
being blindly obedient to authority, would
consider it their patriotic duty to support
such a government

the individual right for all the people to
bear arms that was the crucial factor in
the American colonists' victory over the
British arny in the Revolutionary War.

This country, the United States of
America, was established by revolutionaries
—outlaws in the eyes of the governing
authorities—not blindly-obedient patriots.
Unfortunately, they dropped the ball of
freedom and democracy soon after that, em-
bracing authoritarian class divisions in-
stead of egalitarianisa.

One of the NRA's favorite slogans is
“Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have
suns!" It is a historical fact that all
revolutionary freedon fighters through the
ages have been labeled "outlaws" by the
dictators they fought to overthrow. Yet the
NRA has an active lobby that supports the
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of confinement ensuring that prisoners recefve adequate
food, clothing, shelter, and medical care.

Judge Benavides ruled that the totality of the
spectfic circumstances presented by Palmer's clains
—-his overnight confinement with no shelter, Jacket,
blanket, or source of heat as the tesperature drogped
and the wind blew along with the total lack of bath-
room facilitfes for 49 prisoners sharing a seall
bounded area--constituted a dental of the minimal civ-
flized measures of 1ife’s necessities. Palner thus
satisfled the first part of the two part test.

Hopealing the dental of their sotion for summary
Judgnent, Hartnett and Mendoza argued thateven if their
conduct violated plaitiff's constitutional rights, they
614 not act unreasonably. Fifth Circuft Disagreed.

At the tine when the incident occurred, animmate's

Fight to husane conditions of confinement and the prison
offictal's duty to ensure that prisoners recstve
adequate food, shelter, and medical care are well
established under prevatling norms, said Fifth Cleult.

Ve are confident, wrote Judge Benavides, that given

We are con™’ e

PRETUDICE

By: Carl Horne; Texas prison

T Assune that those reading this will agree that
prejudice is one of the major problems we face ‘today—
espectally for those of us locked within the prismn
system, where guards and prison administrators contin-
uously fan the flames of prejudice amongst priscners
in order to keep us at each others throats tather
than allow us to unite against the many injustices we
endire. So, what can ve do to cabat prejutice?
First, we must know what prejudice is; the dictionary
glves the following definitions:

pre”judge— 1.to julge beforehand. 2.to pass julge-
ment en prematurely or without sufficient reflect-

ion or investigation.
prej*udice— 2.an unfavorable opinion or feeling

that perscn’s race/ethnicity. avoidance—whether
‘Tefusing to Tespond to a person, or merely going out
of the way to avoid being arcund a person because of
thetr race/etimicity.

SEXUAL

‘Treating a perscn differently solely besed upon
their sex or sewal orfentaticn. This is quite
camon 1n priscn, especially against bomosexuals.
Although many of us were raised to veis hamsexuality
s wrong—for whatever reasca—there's absolutely 0o
difference between sexual or racial prejudice—the
other person is being discrininated against solely
for being themselves, and that is the problem being
addressad here. T grew wp thinking hanosexuality
was wrong (an understatenent!), and cnly recently
realized that this prejutice a my part was wat was
truly wrong.
RELIGIOUS

Another comxcn form of prejudice, and cne which
often—though not always—has racial overtones. A
certain pattern is almst always followd: when
pecple ot groups cane into contact with other pecple
o grows with differing religious veiws, cne or
could not shut down the engines without the wardens®
permission because they were used to keep the bounded
5 1t through the night.

Palser had dressed for day work in the feilds and
wore only a short-sleeved shirt. Throughout the night
he was denfed a Jacket, blanket, or other seans of
keeping warm. Palmer and the members of his squad tried
to stay varm by huddling together and ¢igging holes in
the dirt fn a vafn attenpt to construct earthen walls
to block the wind. Meanwhile, prison guards stayed
warm by wearing jackets, 1ighting a fire, and retreating
to vehicles with running heaters. Hartnett and Mendoza
were aware of the conditions and observed the prisoners
during the night.

At 5130 A on October 30th, each prisoner vas
provided with milk, cereal, and a peanut butter sandwich.
Soon after Hartnett inforsed the squad that if they
Fefused to go to work, they would be forced to remain out-
$1de and *freeze again,” Palmer and 46 memders of his
squad returned to work unti11 11:30 A when they returned
o prison for lunch.

suft fn U.S. District

MODERN SLAVE-LABOR

By: Carl lorne; Texas prison

Since the early '90s a disturbing trend
bas arisen—here in Texas, as vell as in other States—
touards what can caly be called mdemday slavery; not
enslavenent according to Tace—thaugh there are indicat=
ions that Tace factors into the equatin—this mdem~day
slavery is transtacial, effecting pecple of all races.
The camon—denandrator i incarceration. More and more
often prisn labor is being used to produce consumer
goods, do heavy/dangerous Labor, or merely do the day-to-
day maintainance and janitorial jobs necessary to the
daily operation of thetr prison unit/systen. Texas
prisoners are paid nothing at all, nor are priscuers in
many other systens; those prismers in systems that do
pay for priscner labor receive sere pemies per bour.

T remenber not too long ago that the US goverment
seened appalled at China's use of prisam slave-labor.
Perhaps the US government was sppalled at the fact that

In Tecent years there's been a wave of

touted ‘volunteer* projects using priscn-labor
such a8 construction for fabitat For Ihmenity, and
cleaning roadsides of trash and underbrush, What 1s
never menticoed is what cptims these ‘volunteers*
have; when the options are between doing what you're
told with no questions asked, and Tetaining wat
privilegts, status or good-tine you might have, or
elsa refusing to ‘volunteer' to do the work in
questicn and at best losing status and good-tins, and
at worst being made an example of through harassment
and perhaps being beaten by guards, and then charged
with ‘assault n an officer’ and locked p. TIAT'S
FOT VOLUNTEERISY, BUT RATVER SLAVERY!

Recently T heard cn a Tocal radio station how
Aimates from area prison units were being used to
clean trash and underbrush from undermeath local
bridges. Mention was made of funds being paid by
the city for this project; where the funds went to
is anyones guess, but rest assured, the slaves didn't
see any of it, all they received was a little water
to drink while working, and a meal back cn the unit.

This 15 remtnescent of the 01 South practice of
2 sleuneanhar Mrales st She P e e
The expression T1luston as defined by Webster is a
“misleading frage presented to the vision® but todays'
Iuston operates in a mich larger area. ITlusions are
used in the media to disquise its intended purpose.le
must prepare ourselves centally for the imges placed
before us, that appear to be one thing, but in reality
are sosething else.

For example, in Texas, more than 50% of the overall
prison population are noneviolent prisoners who are
victins of an 11legal crimtnal conspiracy. Now most of
these of fenders were sentenced to long harsh sentences
then Just a few simple weeks aftenard, Texas Tawmakers
sneaked back to the State Capitol to repeal, reclassify
the same crine that many people were Just given life
sentencos for,to a petty nonprison offense (State Jatl
Felony). To the fgnorant, unconscious individual the
people being held are hardened criminals, but to the
conscious citizens who have finally come to realize that

A1 were convicted of murder and sentenced to
ang except Oscar Nesbe who received 2 15 yr,
sentence. the men were convicted of their political
beliefs in a trial which was described as ludicrous
a4 was later ruled i1legal by the state.

A

a dynamite tube in his mouth which his sueetheart ha
sauggled o hin in his jail cell. Albert Parsons

declined comutation of his sentence to 11fe quoting
Patrick Henry, " Give me liberty or give me death! »

The next morning, Hov..llth, August Spies, Adolf
Fischer, George Engel and Albert Parsons were 11 hanged
in the Cook County Jail. ATl of the men had some chofce
words to say before their judicial murders were carried
out. Adolf Fischer, *This is the happiest nosent of my
Tifel" George Engels, "Long 1ive anarchy!® Albert Parson:
“Let the voice of the people be heard.” Then August Spiet
already roped and hooded eloquently spoke,"There will
cone a time when our silence will be sore poverful than
the voices you strangle today.®

An estimated 15 to 25,000 radicals folloved the
executed men out to Waldhefm Cemetary. It 15 said that
the streets of the procession were lined with another
250,000. The Haymarket Martyrs were laid to rest at
Haldhein where later a monuenent was dedicated to them
inscrided with August Spies*lasswards.In the 19605,
the City of Chicago tried to display 2 statue comen-
orating the cops slain at Haymarket. It was blown up!

AUGUST SPIES

scrufting of the
Chicago business
class whose members
were looking for any
pretest to discredit
or make examples of
then.

0n Hay 3rd, police
Pinkertons, and a
vetran's organiza-
tion from the Civil
var known as The
Grand Aray of the
Republic began
breaking up strikes.
At a mass demonstra-
tion in front of
MeCormick Harvester

No Merey To The Non-violent

By Adam Velen
History has been made. The mainstrean press has
satd that the debate over global economic system will
never be the same and that the allfance of movements
15 unprecedented. Using direct action and mobiltzing
tens of thousands of people on the strests, the Horld

Trade Organization (WTO) conference was cospletely
disrupted. The NTO, representing the pinnacle of cap-
ftalfsm and the domination of our socfety by elite
economic Interests, suffered a deafentng blow.

So, after this fnspiring victory created by thou-
sands of people organizing, what kinds of lessons can
e learn?

Non-Vielence and Police Repressfon

The organizing by the Direct Action Network was
great. The affinfty group structure, of 5-20 people
perforning actions together and coordinating through
mass meeting of representatives was highly effective
1n organizing thousands of pecole in a decentralized

eryone should only sit-down and let the cops Kick
thetr ass.

These actions created a great symbol, put the an-
archists 1nto the spotlfght, and are naking the elftes
very nervous. But, sensational actions like these draw
attention to the most radical parts of the amarchist
sovenent rather than the long-tern, mass organizing
that goes unacknowledged.

The Black Bloc wasn't only about property destruc-
thon. 1 saw then earlfer fn the day blockading the
Rotel and they were fmpressive. Wherever they were
needed they went. They held their line agafnst the po-
Mce, when others were pushed and fntinidated.

Seattle Everywhere - Butlding a Movement

To make our novement grow we need to educate n or-
der to raise consclousness and spread our dea of a
free soctety through all means possidle. We need to
show that anarchist principles of organizing from the
bottomeun and usina direct aetion Are the mott Drarede

C COMMUNIQUE

property destruction).
Response to the Black Bloc

Response to the black bloc has highlighted some of
the contradictions and internal oppressions of the
"nonviolent activist community. Aside from the obvious
hypocrisy of thase who engaged in violence against
black-clad and masked people (sany of whom were harass-
ed despite the fact that they never engaged n proper-
ty destruction), there s the racism of privileged
activists who can afford to ignore the violence per-
petrated agatnst the bulk of sacfety and the natural
World in the name of private property rights. Window-
smashing has engaged and fnspired many of the most
oppressed members of Seattle's comunity more than any
glant puppets or sea turtle costuses ever could (not
to disparage the effectiveness of those tools 1n other
commnities). [veo.]
On the Vielence of Prenerty

ty disappears, so will most crime. Thers
may still be persons who exhibit socio-
pathic behavior against others, but these
people will be dealt with by communities
themselves on a just and humane basis.
Capitalism has distorted and porverted
every human relationship. Anarchist-soci-
alism will abolish capitalism and place
the means of production and the running
of society in the hands of the people.
The public buildings, shops, offices, fac-
tories, warchouse, and land will all be
held by the communities to develop for the
benefit of all. This will not, however,
mean the ending of pursomnal possessions.
At present, for many people, work is
something to be avoided as far as possi
ble but which is necessary to provide a
tolerable living standard. In an anarchist-
socialist society, unnecessary work will be
abolished and necessary work reduced to an
absolute minimum to fall in line with

Ereedom and justice. Sexism. ageism, racism,
nationalism, greed, and self-seeking are all
hierarchal social structures that need to be
done away with, otherwise the revolution
will not be worthwhile. But we cannot more
than outline some of the developments which
may come about. Many things may arise which
we cannot foresee and so this outline of
anarchist society is in no way a "sacred’ and
unchangeable blueprint. R

("Principles of Anarchisa” is a 28-page
pamphlet available for $1 from South Chicago
ABC Zine Distro, P.0. Box 721, Homewood, IL
60430. It gives a more comprehensive look

at anarchist principles.]

EEw o kw kR
ARARCHISH & AMERICAN TRADITION

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all
this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this
[ARCHISM

ral diffevent sources and is provided
lear understanding of anarchist principles.
v be even more confused. :) ]

Collectives will be created for every
pucpose humanly desited, of people freely
associated with equal power to determine
their future. This vision extends to all
forms of social arrangements. There will
be no place for leaders, bosses, politici-
ans and bureaucrats. Where certain tasks
may cequire paople in positions of respon-
sibility, they will be chosen to fill those
positions on a temporary basis to fulfill a
Specific need. These people will be subject
to instant recall by the people they secve.

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BECOME PART Of THE MOMENTUM!

Howdy conrades! Revolutionary May Day greetings
and anarchist salutations to you all from the Chain
Reaction camps. Great to hear from so many of you ind
we really acpreciate a1l of the positive comments 25
well as constructive criticism. We also appraciate
all of the contributions, literary, artisic, and
ronetary. Thats what'1] keep us goin. We try to keep
U0 with answering all letters sut we have received
4 7ountain. So 1f you havn't heard from us, rast assu
we will get to you before the end of the decace.

Gne letter however, and there is always one, case
from 2 fellow prisoner who unfortunately is all too
reoresentative of many prisoners and workers fn general.
ven Though he'd personally writen to me and reauested
2 subscristion, he could'nt figure out hov ve'd gotten
ais address. Then he sentions vaguely remembering
soae newsletter arriving in the matl, but since ne
Couldn't resember too much about i3, it must not have
“iapressed” him much. Further, that we needn't bother
o write nim back because he'd be going home in ten

This is not an insurmountable problem though and
there is nothing we cannot do ance we collectively

Wil it including destroying the capitalise system

and its orisons. We no longer have %o plod along

1ike passive mindless sheep to the slaughter and so

I hope our comrades upon release will drink deeply
fron their beer and figure serfously on what they

<an o to help build an anarchist movesent of orisoner
solidarity to combat this tyranical husan warshousing
systen.

At Chain Reaction we envision ultimately bringing
about 3 system in which people own and operate
collectively all of the means of production and
distridution on & voluntary or cooperative basis.

In such 2 system, goods witl be procuced for numan
use and enjoyment, not for profit as under capitalisa.
Such & systen would abolish money s well s 2 lot
of useless jobs 1ike polititians, cops , and judges.
Gone 2150 would be war, fanine, prisons,and most crime.
In shart 8 merld af fros mrroc ihieh oot oab Atchmms

%0 put forward
ves to capitalism
way for society

at is eqalitarian

mists and do not.
ith refornist or-
re abolitionists
rs only legiti-

te a brutal and

. nile we aust
conditions, we
nat reforns a-

be taken away to-

fonalists who re-
disease of nation=

their resolution are relevant to
a1 prisoners and workers worléwide.

* e encourage you to submit arti
cles, art, cliopings, and other fn-
Formation concerning prisoner and
worker issues. All suomissions be-
come permanent contributions to
Chain Reaction collective and can-
not be returned. Ve reserve the
rignt to reject any material con-
trary to the goals and purposes of
Chain Reaction collective.

+ Articles not so designated do not
represent the official position of
Chain Reaction collective.

* Chatn Reaction is published four
tines a year. Send all articles,

Aty R NP Vi