INCARCERATED LIVES MATTER
The Pen is Mightier
Than the Sword

Collaborating with Prisoners
Armed with Zines

By. Anthony Rayson - ALA Conference June 23-26, Chicago 2023
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fotar Sxpress® 30 1 could relate to sntelligent people. Inatend of being grateful,
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I your bestc can't shutup trpe B, Avgst Spies all the way!

This zine is dedicated to Hybachi Lemar (seen on cover) a brilliant zinester
and organizer, author of two books and several zines available through my
distro. He was supposed fo able with me at this conference, but he has
been re-arrested and awaits his no doubt unjust fate at Cook County Jeil,
under his birth name of Free ALL the slaves!! @nthony
Table of Dlscontents

Initial “Wake Up" Rant .
Zine Collaboration With Prisoners p. 47
How Prisoner Zines Can Become Created 8-10
Zines Can Beat Back the New Censorship Regime

By, Jeremy Hammond p. 10-12
A Candid Travall Thru the Call Dungeons

By, Mr. King Gilliand p.13-27
Zineophobia p. 28-29
The Pen and the Sword

Both by, Hypachi Lemar p.30-31
Zine Machine p.32-34
Blown Smoke 35
Zines are Our Real Weapons p. 36-39
Educate to Liberate - Prison Strike! p. 39-41
The Pen is My Sword, The Zine is My Bomb p.41-43

All five by, Coyote Acabo
Submission By Corey Vonberg p. 44-46
Freedom & Anarchism / Freedom External Regulation

By, Sean Swain, prisoner in Ohio P 47
Your Mother - Thomas Marc Hoy p. 48-51
Remember the Prisoners - Scott Zirus 52

Zine Collaboration With Prisoners

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How does one start doing this? Well, for me, it started very
early in age when | decided | wanted to be a writer. | didn't want
to “be” anything - except a free-thinker. | never expected to be
paid as a writer, nor did | seek to be. However, | did want to
collaborate with other writers. Where and how was | supposed to
find these people?

This was back in the sixties, when everything seemed up for
grabs when | came of age. | immersed myseff in underground
publications, street protests, challenging books, the counterculture
of music and radio and of course, the mainstream media of TV
newspapers. elc. Al the age of twenty | exploded into writing ali
kinds of wild poetry and prose. slapped them into @ big pile and
made copies of them, which | showed to my friends

This was early in 1974, when things had calmed down, the
draft was ended and people seemed to forget about protest and
decided to shimmy and shake to disco. | just finished wo years of
hitch-hiking, after dropping out of school my freshman year of
college. My “zine” (I had no inkling such a thing existed) was
titled: Peoples’ Polar Express. My friends thought it was hilarious
and that | was crazy. | was so ready to join the revolution, but
when 1 looked behind me, everyone had vanished!

This was very depressing, so | abandoned my writing “career”
and knuckled under to being a working stiff and see what life
would bring me. | got married at twenty-three and divorced at
twenty-six. | got married again at age thirty-two and am still
married to my wenderful wife

It took a whife, but | was slowly able to crawl out of my shell. |
never stopped reading and writing but that's where it ended. She
persuaded me to go back to college and so | did. | became the
valedictorian by wiRning an essay contest. My paper was entided
“Learn to Think." Trealized | wasn't just a nobody and that | had
sorething positive to contribute to what | consider to be, a very
sick society. Everybady knows what | mean. All have to do is
say the name of a few countries - Vietam, Indonesia, Guatemala,
El Salvador, Chile, Irag, Afghanistan, AFRICA! “Get it?

Ifinally Hooked up with the zine underground and started
wriing my brains out, again. This was in the mid-nineties. |
shared my work with all kinds of people who were writing zines or
letters to zines and other radical publications. | decided to start
my zine distro (1998) to make available not only my work, but that
of others, | thought had something awesome to contribute. it soon
dawned on me that the most insightful and thoughtful responses to
my work were coming from Ameriklan's prisoners....

Then, | came upon a wonderful mentor named Sean Lambert,
1 self-described prison-abolitionist anarchist bi-sexual. He opened
up the world of prisoner zines with his intense and dense prisoner
Zines. Here is where | would find my collaborators! In the huge
poputation of twenty-first century American slaves, | would find
countless brilliant and talented writers and artists who would be
willing to work with me on countless and often spectacular writing
projects, which by then, | had self-taught myself to make.

| would write, | would edit, | would publish and | would distribute
like nobody’s business! | would leam from the source about the
biack hole of America - it's overfiowing prisons, from some of the
most courageous, dedicated and talented people in the country.
And! All the zines would be free because | already paid for
everything with time, money and effort and ideas have no price tag
on them. They are free* It would be my life-long contribution to
the “struggle.”

There is a world of stored power, energy and creativity in every
single one of us. Everyone possesses unique talents and
interests. Just like everything else, you have to cultivate it and
praciice it to bring it to full flowering. You must rely upon yourself
alone to make this all happen. Mentors and guides will cross your
path and if you are smart and sensitive, they will help you. You
have to “cross the fear line” and persevere in your efforts. Sure,
you'll run into blind alleys, receive scom and ridicule and languish
in negativity and srieering voices - even from your own mind.
Just take fife one day at a time and try to accomplish as much
s you possibly can - even though some projects may take many
lays, weeks, months or years. Be resoutceful and don't be afraid
0 ask for help. Everyone knows right from wrong and can b
\ccomplish incredible things. You have one person in your corner
vho will always be right there for you and that person is YOU!

| also got involved in co-founding grassfoots groups in my area.

helped start STAND (Shut This Airport Nightmare Down) an.
anti-Peatone Airport group down in Eastern ‘Will County. | was the
Secretary and did a lot of argument crafting (zines!) |even put
‘ogether several newspapers (Rural Life Standard) organized
actions, did crop circles - all kinds of cool-assed swiff - using zines
o help educate and organize people:

| helped start other groups, too! 1'd always have literature:
tables chock full of pertinent zines, whether we were fighting
racism, a pointless private tollway or a regional immigration
detention prison. For zines can be focused on anything and can
be cobbled together in a jifly, so the issues discussed are
up-to-date and relevant to ongoing, fluid developments.

Getting back to prisoners, they are the ones most in need of
our help. Even today, 2023, they are slaves according to the
horrible Constitution. The Thiteenth Amendment, which allegedly
~abolished” slavery, merely switched it over to prisoners. By this
reality alone, it is an absolutely terrible docurment, which is so
revered by the monsters that rule over planet Earth today.

They are tortured in many ways, every single day. Their story
is screaming to be heard, understood and championed by every
Jast one of us! They don't trust people on the “outs” because by
and large they are indifferent, gutiess, totally ignorant, they lack
refiability and usually want money, hide behind 5013 status of
don't really include them directly in their “support” activities. They
assume there must be a “catch” because everybody else is trying
to rip them off. Not only that, but the government and most
everybody else having any kind of dealings with them are preying
on them. For, “legally” they are considered as if they were dead!
Some “demacracy” huh? 2.3 milion peaple ase in prison, more
\han several states full of people! Tens of millions are on
probation o parole, where the system is set up to snaich them
fight back up for this despicable, guaranteed profit mass
punishmentindustry. The saps known as taxpayers foot the
endlessly inflated bills. Majority-rules “democracy” elected Hitler
and Trump. When people are dummy-downed on such a colossal
Scale, ulra billionaires, dozens of tilions in off-shore banks,
psychological pauperization and dally mass shootings is what you
get. Did | mention Mother Earth herself is in her death throes???
\Wake the hell up! Stop the steal - of ife on Earth!

The great Leo Tolstoi said that the purpose of education is
freedom. Nothing else really matiers! Today's reality is
unfreedom! Who would know more about all this than conscious
prisoners? If you want to fearn the truth and not hide from the
truth but rather, deal with the truth, you have to go straight 1o the
hell o thy nation's dungeons! There you will find the ficker of
hope, the glow of enlightenment, the courage of a lion and the
Soul of a warior. You'l marvel at modem-day politcized
Picasso's, the writing chops of soaring Shakespeares and the
humanity of a newborn baby.

{t's not easy and it’s getling harder. The devils running these
qulags have only one argument - repression. Theyre banning
books at a naziesque pace. They'e throwing whole prisons full of
people into perpetual solitary confinement and anything horricle
they can think of. Them now, us next, ight? its an endiess
emotional rollercoaster for us on the "outs” but it's daily ife and
death for them. Which side are you on, here?

‘A you can tell, just thinking about this drives me crawling up 2
wall, Especially, as | must five amongst such a smug and
sheepiized people. Well, as you can read, 'm sill the same angry
young man | was at age fifteen, only now Fm much more
experienced and have honed my craft the well-written rant) and
refuse to swallow the goddam kool-aidt And folx, this is just the
introduction. ‘So, strap it down, don your brai plugs and try ta
finish reading this muther-hubbin’ zine! Smile”

@rthony, over & out! Ps. White angrily &often. Bye bye.

How Prisoner Zines Can Become Created

Prisoners are deliberately warehoused and squirreled away in 7
rural areas far from their loved ones, usually culled from the inner
cities, to make what goes on there more anonymous and to punish
them more, as well as their families. Of course, there are so many
state and federal prisons, county jails, detention centers, etc. that
“house" people, located in cities and towns, as well. People
languish in these places, sometimes even for years before their
trials. Almost invariably a sentence is plea bargained. These are
lttle deals between prosecutors and judges. “Justice” is often
based on the ability of the accused to pay for a lawyer or not and
rarely has anything to do with what the accused may actually have
done that was “illegal.” The punishment industry is very profitable.

As well, the system makes it hard for people to find out where
inmates are, moves them around like chess pieces, if at all
“political” and makes visiting them, calling them or writing to them
an ordeal. Sometimes visitors are searched and degraded in
various ways. Sometimes they come a long way and are
disallowed. They may arrive after traveling several hundred miles,
only to be stuck a half a block from their loved one and forced to
skype with them in a crowded room with other people shouting, as
the communication link is so (deliberately) poor. They may get
“lucky" and see their relative or friend through a thick pane of
glass, while the prisoner is painfully shackled. Sometimes you
can even sit at a table with them, inside the prison, heavily
surveilled. This is all to discourage any kind of human warmth.

More and more they are restricting written comrespondence,
00. S0 how can you get through to these conscious prisoners -
and develop working relationships?

Like anything else that is accomplished, it takes resolve and
the willingness to get off the dime. Everyone nowadays has a
computer. Itis very easy to google pretty much anything. Use
your computer to find out where the prisoner support groups are in
your area. Contact them and ascertain what it is they actually do.

Books to prisoners groups send books (and zines) directly to
prisoners, so they have access to prisoner letters and their
addresses. Seek out prisoner support publications, resource
guides which list dozens or hundreds of prisoner support groups
with their contact information. Look for their newsletters, which
often have prisoner etters, with their addresses. Contact people P
who actually have collaborated with prisoners and seek their

advice on how to go forward with such a writing project.

1t may sotind like I'm coming from the Stone Ages, but the
hand-written letter s the perfect medium to make your
acquaintance with a prisoner. These letters are lie God sends to
them! They will write back to you! In fact, once you start
genuinely corresponding with them, you will find stronger human
relationships than even your own farmily, who more likely than not,
wil think something is wrang with you for wanting to have anything
positive to do with prisoners, 5o vilfied are they portrayed by
society. After all, they are Constitutional staves, to this day, and
subjects such as prison rape are big jokes to guys like Jay Lero.

How do you even make a zine? Well, that has to be learmed,
tool Like anything else in life, we have to take that first step ard
forge into the future. Rely upon yourself o self-teach yourseff how
to blend your talents and interests to create these marvelous
wracts. The prisoners themselves will help you! They'l provide the
written material as well as incredible graphics. Many prison artists
were former graffi artists or tattoo artists who became politicized,
while in prison, so their graphics are not only artistically excellent,
but potently political and hip as hell! Let them have their say.

'You may have to transcribe and edit (slightly, please) thelr
work. You may have to become a “publistier.” That, however, is
quite easy. You don't have to get a degree. You don't have to pay
afee. All you have to do is think up a name, get a p.o. box, have
astamp made, stamp the address on the envelope and the last
Page of the zine and bam - you're a publisher!” Be resourceful,

tis geting more and more-dificult to o this sart of work as the
scaredy-cat authorkies are ramping up the oppression afid
cerisorship. Like anything else, the more you da it and practice it
the mare knowledgeabie and capahle you wil become. Just do it

Prisaners, when found to have the courage and humanity to
partner with those on the “outs” on these publications, often pay a
horrific price. Their personal belongings are destroyed. They face
increased physical and psyehological torment. They can be set up
for assault by other prisoness. Their “privileges” are taken away.
They may be shuttied about to other prisons, shackled toabus /0
seat for weeks, even. They may even pay with their fives.

This is very serious business. The idea is to collaborate with
the conscious prisoners and miake their expertise avallable to
prisoners who sorely need this type of education. Just like in
chattel stavery days, they do not want their slaves to be mentally
liberated by the truth! For a slave who becomes aware and loses
his orher ignerance and fear, is no longer zombified and will stop
Kknueiding under to their regimen of daily humiliation and torment.

They want prisoners to feel hopeless and despaifirig. They not
only want to waste their bodies, but also want to crush their hopes.
and dreams. In short, they strive to drive prisoners insane and to
fose their humanity forever! We want them to know they are loved
and desperately needed by society, because they have enormous
contributions to make - to our well-being. Prisons solve nothing!

This type of endeavor is not just a walk in the park. ltis a
fe-long commitment that will define your fife’s worth! Onward!

Zined up by Anthony Rayson, June 19th 2023 (Juneteenth®)

Zines Can Beat Back the New Censorship Regime
by Jeremy Hammond

Thinking about zines as a médium for iberation, we must consider
how the recent waves of censorship, both inside and outside of
prison, is tied to the rise of faiscism in the “United States". Police
are doubling down with bautality and murder: prison populations
on the fise as. programming is reduced-and.salitary. is the nom
m mgv:-:m culture ww:uiou -;’ esgalating attacks on public

ies schoole, whitewashing history glasses, imposing
books bans, going after pecple, tameting activists and
authors with dosding, vigllante violeride, énd criminal charges in
an effort to maintain systéms. of whité supferriacy and st

We're seeing the same sinister schemes in Jails and prisans: their
PR teams and counter-insurgency task forces feed copaganda to
the complicit corporate media, exerting ever-increasing force fo
shield the truth about police brutality and the abysmal conditions
behind bars. Mail room censors fight furiously to control the flow of
information, to keep the public and those they cage in the dark,
the cruetty of strangiing piants in thirst for water and suniight a
playbook of divide and conquer, silence and bury. ]

So 'm humbled and inspired every time | pick up a zine written by
someone in prison, because | know how difficult it is 1o put
together from behind bars, and the risks of retaliation they took to
publish it. That the most powerul carceral forces in the world work
o hard fo prevent these zines from even existing - as if they
contain some secret that threatens the entire system and their
precious "safety and security" - makes me want to read them even
more.

If police maintain authority through a monopoly on the use of
force, why are they so afraid of ideas on paper? We often say
“they can take our bodies but never our minds". The goons come
in to crush individual acts of rebellion with overwhelming violence,
but an idea is something they cannot so easily tame, bought or
sold, something that scares them more than anything is a free
mind that can read and write, and thinkl Zines are more than justa
tool of self education but of self liberation: it's not a spectator
sport. they want us deaf and dumb, dead in a box, but our

refusals, our defiance, our dreams and visions leap off the pages
and into the real world. No wonder they craft so many twisted
interpretations of law and court precedent to justify these petty
rules and prohibited acts: "unauthorized communication with the
public”, cant operate a business, can't form a uriion, can't vots,
can't correspond with other prisoners; can't file lawsuits without
exhausting administrative grievances, it's just deny deny deny.

Let's set the bar high for a change: Why is it accepted as a matter-
of-course that incarcerated people shouldn't have access to the
intemet, for example? So much for edueation and rehabilitation,
people being released after decades withowit, ever having used
email or a smariphone. Never mind Al assistants to do your
college essays for_you, have you tried writing without a proper
wrd processor or a search engine? fve.written articies using the
BOP's Corrlinks "email” system, doesnt even have basic copy-
and-paste functions, no pictures or text-formatting, and it charges
you five cents a minute to use, and this is the best it gets: those in
the hole with nothing but dirt, a stub of lead writing on tollet paper

or some scraps of garbage wish they could have even that. Land
of the freel 2

Censorship lays bare the lie'of rehabilitation and free speech, that
bourgeois concept of constitutional rights and the American dream
is all a fraud, and it's getting worse. In the past two or three years,
jails and prisons are escalating their war against the written word
through bosk banning and increased mail restrictions as a means
to advance political censorship under the false guise of war on
drugs thetoric. They're blaming books and the mail for the drug
problem they created, pushing restrictions and criminalization
instead of resources and treatment. Now privatized digitization
services deliver the mail on expensive tablets or poor quality
copies. Books are ofien only allowed through monopolies like
Amazon or Edward R. Hamilton, and groups such as Books to
Prisoners are seeing ridiculous increases of used books being
rejected for "stains”, “odors", or just being banned entirely. These
technical rejections are used as purportedly neutral disguise to
content-based political repression. Since it's almost impossible to
chalange legelly through the thousand hurdies of the Prison
Litigation R Act and a byzantine administrative grievance
process, we're left with fitle recourse for justioe through the proper
channels, as we always knew.

Its going to take hard work to beat back the new censorship
regime: fortunately, we can leam from the legends in prison
history, not found in their sanitized history bocks but in
photocopied zines passed through prison grapevines, we take to
heart the lessons from the legends of those that stood up and
fought back: whatever meager rights and reminders of our
humanity we got in here, people had to fight for, had to die for,
from throwing down at Lucasville and Attica, to the law fibraries
where jilliouse lawyers pushing pen to paper. Zines are the
underground chamel cornecting & decentraiized network of
incarceratéd freedom fighters, where contraband knowledge is
‘shared through the cracks and forbidden alliances are ‘forged in
the trenchies, hopping from person to person, prison 1o prison,
creating a guerrilia communicaion platform to share experiences
and develop stategies, and plariting seeds of rebellion that catch
like wildfire. We will free oursetves!
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No Escape.
“ZINEOPHOBIA"”

The prison industrial complex is fiving with  stifling gulp in its throat.
This “guip” is what can be termed as “zincophobia”: the fear of zines.
1t's a fear that the authorities have been unable to fix.

It's 2 flame that rehashes in the dark places of America,

‘and in aphotic lock-down units acress the globe. 2%

1n the 13% century, state institutions hismed books & used gablic’
torture as 2 way,of e of
instilling a religious fer, & meifttat 3
Contrary views were
ana faced other Sadist

While centuries have elapsed since the days of public scourging,
the methods of control enforced today are no less Barbaric.
They've only become maore sophisticated. More covart & confined

Today, in the name of Homeland Security, the State s banning zines
And uses torture - such as with the San Francisco § & waterboarding
In Guantanam, much like the thumbscrew - to extract information
To 2 greater (and less-publicized) degree, théy wark o instill a
socio-political fear to untoid milions of we wha they daily-appress;
tuming solitary corfinement into a living nightmare.,

Autherity Is maintained behind-jock-n-key with an iron fist!

Those of us who radically dar§ to dpen heads in a book instead of a

wall, quickly discover that thé assdciation between the body rack
and the book rack is a refative oie:

1 notice things about myself whén such literature is deprived me.
Tiick my lips from the dryness of an irrepressible want.
Ifeel my nose infiate. .., . :
Their hatred for us 8adidg them takes me lust afr them éven mare.

Moreover, the fact that the wak the (idirisoned) poor s losing
ideologicat ground m’!wmn medium reminds us
that what we value is Pricelest (and shoud b8 f al).

The cruel suppression of héde-brutal truth wflmnu to my
mind what chastity belts are to the amorousty &1

Tburn with every denial knowing my hands are tied & yet the most
malevolent grin rilled by the prison Security Team
s unable to mask their stink of fear.

1 appear unreadable to the prison librarian, but inconsolably ache
within these repressive confines to REBEL with every inch of libidic
frustration that nature endows me; knowing they always have &
aiways will - for a long a5 they have the power to repress - drip
buckets of sweat before the exercising muscle of an inexorable Idea.

For you who are reading this from the “other side,” ask yourself:

2]

What conclusion would you arrive atif, without
provocation or warning, the police routinely
confiscated your papers, booklets & publications?
Or tp have everything you write - from the most
intifmate to the mundane - violated by their
unyielding eyes at any time?

And would you give up on the idea of Freedom?
Would a fear of writing consume you?

Would the persistent threat of isolation deprive
Yyou of the notion of free-thinking & depth?

Liberatiog literature is a reflex of Nature birthed from the
contracting womb of Liberating ideas.

The fact that any authority can suppress it at any institution not
only confirms how dangerously alive repressian truly is,

but that ideas “themselves” may be taken from human beings as
contraband. Arid where ideas are confiscated as contraband

there too do we find the most confining & calloused crusaders against
Liberty.

What we struggle for is not merely to emphasize "the Struggle”

we perpetually live in, but to S3Otage the cogs in this industrial
machine by monkeywrenching its stronghold over imprisoned minds.
It's to inspire a very necessary & logical resistance against oppression
among the disempowered & allits coercive and draconian vices.

Til Abolition, may every imprisoned writing hand

continug to free the next.

May every ABC and distro publishing the brutal truth knaw that
through these steel bars my fist of solidarity is raised & feel my
love and my fervor.

And may every devoted warden of life be haunted with the unhushed
whisper of a pencil moved in the silence of a hallow cell.

~ Mybachi Lemar,
anarchist
From: Hybseh Lewar iybachil@gmalcom
Sent: Sturday, May 27, 2023 5:49 P 20
To:Anthony Rayson <anthonven@hitmalcon

Sublect: R *"The Pen & The Swor, B Hybachi LeMarfor ALA Conference Zine”

Please use tis edited version, I you do. (Thanks )

‘The Pen and the Sword
by HybachiLetar

“The pen and the sword: two weapons the revolutonist has
1 onets disposal. 3

‘One, ready o iip with ink; the othes ready 1o dip with

blood.

‘Gne. sble to penetrate the ind: the othe, abl 10 plerce thiough flesh

“The revolutionary understands the necessity in keepiig them both prepared & ready for war
againstthe Oppressor.

Theres 2 common saying in prison tha the pen is mightier than the sword.

While both can be used defensively as well a in anoffensive aiack - the unlearned may ask how
the pen can be used as a weapon, while the ained revolutionary recognizes
the sigrifcance in honing bath for combat against the state; i paruicula, the Caphalist Empire!

The Pen as & Weapon.

Just as it important for a Warior 1 keep sharp the blade of a sword: it also vial for the
Tevolutionary 1o not leave dul the bisde of the mind.The pen - a5 on extension of the mind
more flexible i use than the sword.

‘Whereas the sword is primarily used 1o ariack within close combat - the pen can also defend,
Inspire and reach distances which the sword canno.

The revolutonaryrecognizesthe pen 35 a1 Instrument ot ony o rganize whtybut 1 sso use.
Inousing the fiomes of cissen Witin the hear of the shums & witin the alls.

tcan poison as wel as appeal
The penin motion i a soenario-maker and the mind is s immaterial canvas

Wihile i s e that actions speak loudes than words, he writien word i also @ motive force, and

the revosutionary can ustrate with the point of  pen what they cannat ariculate with the tp of
sword.

The energy of fove s an indestruciible force, as wel the pen - which s able o express t in
‘Words - is by io means impotent and the cevolutonary comes o Inimatel understand s
powers.

‘The revolutionary realizes that the pen (55 the Sword) comes wih responsibiles and Discipine.
The Purpose (whatever It mey be) is the responsibiy, and leaming the ways f couid be wielded
s ts lsciplne; s craft.

Sothcome with thei consequances. The revoltonary srstgiet prepares for then bfore using
both, and canefectivly sty thelr uses by vade.
“The revolutionary s moved 1 invoke the Spit of Uiberation no the.minds of the marginalized
it the pen and uses 1 85 device for plfting the suppressed of the worid. 3)
Once the Oppressed recogrize theirpersonl worth & elevance in the Struggle against
Oppression,they consthute »collective thet against he oppiessor & the oppressor class, s &
whole!

The oppressor closs - with s standing army & pison guards - bites s il n fear of the.
witian word more than blood crpping from the swords of s slaves! The pen n moion is an
et of purging for the oppressed - one which can release ligh from the darkness of
Prisoners innemost being - and i able 1 unie the divided and divide the united!

“The pen that encourages Liberation s ever a1 0dds withinstlutions that sruggle o werden the
thoughts of ther prisoners & which stands guiy of systemic oppression.

And likewse  ineutlons which struggle to warden the thoughts of therprisoners are ever 3t
diametrical odds with the pen that encourages Liberation!

‘With the pen, the revolutionaryis ale 1o raw a chessboard repiete with numbers in the cormers
of its squares and antiipate the moves of the Sate, camly detoched

1 can difect as wel s misiead, and s abl to inferindrectly as well s sow cofusion among
enemy forces, while culivating  level of understanding among the misunderstood.

‘With the pen, the revoluionaryis abe 10 bread chaos 33 wel s brng sbouta sense of
togetherness in the intr-communal atmosphere of idess.

" serves a2 3 weapon which s able 0 offend a5 well 25 i

To defend a5 wehl 2 atack.

To bulld with a5 well as destroy”

On Th, May 25, 2023 1 3:49 PM Anthony Rayson <anthonyayson@hotmallcom> wrote:
m pting  ine together enited: The Pen s Mightier Than the Sword - Collborating with
Prisoners, Armed With Zines. Please come up with a contribution for this zine. [\ already
written 3 kil inro. See you soon. @nthony

ZINE MACHINE 3z

In this unwavering struggle called Life, as we reside
amongst the imprisoned and the confined, in a suffocating
world where darkness permeates our lives, perpetually, as
the lights get turned out in our minds, long before they get
turned out in our cells, as we become turned out to a
degenerate culture of death and stagnation...

It is the hungry one, the thirsty one, the strong, the
rebellious, the brave one, who seeks to pick up a zine'and
learn new knowledge that can and will change and save
their lives, while the other prisoners around them continue
to absentmindedly tread down the zombied-out path of
conformity and confusion.

Zines have the power and ability to transcend a
prisoner's mind beyond the depths of the dark pits they
reside in, taking our minds to greater heights than was
described in The Flight of Icarus, beyond the sun, where a
brave, bright new world lies. A world of self-sufficiency and
autonomy, where the trees are the greenest you've ever
seen, and the seas the bluest.

Many a prisoner has stumbled and fallen, tripped over
their own confusion and ignorance, and haven't been able
to prop themselves back up again. But put a zine in.a
prisoner's hands, and watch and see how all of their
aspirations and ambitions come alive! Put a zine in a
prisoner’s hand and open their hearts to a new world of
freedom, open their minds to the courageous and beautiful
idea of resistance and revolt, and watch how easily the
chains begin to slip and fall off.

Once we have been wakened to the Truth, we have no
more excuses, and no more can we continue to aimlessly
dwell in a world of robats. Our brains become re-activated
and alive again as we begin to reconnect with our own
humanity, seeing that there are other people going through
the same things we've gone through, and are stifl going
through, and as we see how they are taking action, and
taking steps to take control over their own lives, we begin
to realize that they are awake, they are alive, and when we
read their zines, and become invigorated and inspired by

the realness and the depths of their words, while their 33
reality becomes our reality, as we realize that by all means
we can do and be the same. A bridge is built, then

crossed, and the rest is history.

This is the real power of zines. In the dark confines of
these gulags, nothing can be more powerful, more
galvanizing than the radical and revolutionary truths that
have been printed on the pages of these prisoners' zines!
If you don't befieve me, all you have to o is read Tray
Way's "Deliberately, I Defy!" zine, or Russell Maroon
Shoatz' "Black Fighting Formations" zine or Hybachi

. Lemar's "Resist, Rebel, Defy* zine, or all three of Sean
Swain & Travis Washington's "Last Act of the Circus
Animals” zine, or the Papyrus Collective’s “"Write or Die"
Zine, or Anthony Rayson's “Brutal Truth” zine or my
"Thrown to the Wolves” zine, and you'll see what I mean.

We are only but a few of the zinesters, churning out
these zines like a Zine Machine, and we are here to free
your mind, as we bring new culture, new thought, and a
new world of revolution to your cell! We are the zinesters,
the liberators, we are the ones who pour our hearts out on
these pages. These words aren't just written with ink, but
with the blood of our own hearts, mixed with the tears
from our eyes as we shed them for the oppressed captives
in this world. That's how we make our ink In these gulags,
with our blood, our sweat and our tears. We have even
gone as far as ripping our own hearts out and placing them
in these zines, just for you!

We are the réason you have become conscious, and you
are the reason we keep putting these zines out, as we try
to make th fiext one better than the last one. This has
become a part of our culture, our life, our world. While
other prisoners concentrate on the mind-nurhbing T.V.
shows that are coming on tonight, or who they're going to
get their next shot of coffee from, or while they're selling
all thelr food to buy a freak book to look at, we are In our
cells producing, manifesting and creating revolution! This
has become an integral part of our lives, and once you read
our zines, it'll become an integral part of yours. 29
The more zines you read, the more enlightened you

become, and the more enlightened you become, the more

you resist the everyday stagnation and ignorance around

You, and the more you resist, the stronger you become,

and with that newly acquired strength, it is only natural

that you seek and strive to liberate yourself.

Through the last zine of mine, you've already leagned -

that stagnation is death. Now pick up another one of my
zines, and learn how to bring death to stagnation!

Rebeflion
~ Coyote ~
October 7th, 2012

Anarchist Black Cross
Nevada Prison Chapter

Coyote can always use your letters of love and light.

Please write to: Coyote Acabo was rleased
after 12 years of imprisonment.

Coyote Sheff #55671 He now lives (and is active)

P.O. Box 1989 ‘somewhere in Washington

Ely, Nevada 89301-1989  swte. | belleve he and his
partner, have two children.
Also, you can view his articles, poems, essays and other
writings at:

1) Coyote-caliing.blogspot.com

2) nevadaprisonwatch.blogspot.com
3) Facebook

4) solitarywatch.wordpress.com

5) SFBayview.com

His zihes are available at either of these addresses:

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro Chicago ABC.
P.0. Box 721 1321 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Homewood, IL 60430 P.M.B. 460

Chicago, 1L 60622
Smoke Blown 35

Her watery words were larded with lies.
The cold and calculated diffidence in her
persona was to fool only fools, but never the
wise. We've been down ‘that well-trodden road
many times before, enough times to know when
smoke_is being blown.

The things that at first glance seem
alluring, can oftentimes be quite dreadful upon
loser examination... Though she may be unduly
revered by the unseeing and the unknowing, she
has become abominated by ‘those who have already
felt the ice-cold tactility of her suffocating
embrace.

One slight glance upon her uncaring,
opaque eyes would be a definite result in one’s
shtimely demise. High and mightily, she sits
of her peremptory throne, looking down on her
civilized society with a subtle hint of
unhinged brutality. More's the pity for those
who do not obey, 1'd say. They'd be lucky to
be thrown into a prison, never again to see
another sunshiny day.

Dishonest, dishonorable, despicable,
manipulative, cruel and vindictive
Conniving, condescending and carnivorous, is
She. What is her name you ask? Well, surely
my friend, you've heard of her before... her
name is Authority.

Rise Against The System
Coyote
South Chicago ABC
é Zine Distro
P.0.Box 721

‘Homewood, IL 60430
es Are Our Real Weapons

From the cold confines of this pitiful place called prison, 1
bring this message to you. They may have us sitting between
these wals, but please belleve me when I tell you that these 3,
walls ain't nothing but stabs of stone that we will use to
sharpen ourselves on, as our minds become like steel. Take it
from me comrades, I'm a veteran at surviving and defying this
dally stagnation, and as unfortunate as it is, 1 can sadly say
that I truly understand what it's fike to be bogged down in
these sordid conditions, living in a box for years on end, going
through all of the motions, spitting irjto the face of madness as
it stares its strange, fifeless eyes at me, knowing in my heart
that 1 have to be strong no matter what, and not allow my mind
to slip into that lingering darkness that calls my name late at
night. No, none of this can break me or take me under, and if
you're strong like I've had to be, comrades, then you will find
ways to take all of that shit you've been served and tum it into
sugar, while always keeping fortitude and resistance in your
hearts.

Imprisoned comrades, I encourage you to pick up a zine or
to write the address stamped on the back of this zine, send
some stamps and request some Zines yourself. 1 encourage
Yyou to learn about history, struggle, anarchism, revolution and
about the struggles taking place all over the world. Use your
time wisely, and find ways to be more productive. You can
build up your vocabulary, you can work on developing your
writing skills, you can practice your hand at making
revolutionary art (art that makes a statement abaut what's
going on in your life, environment and the social conditions you
live under), you can do all kinds of things that Wil enable you
to build your mind into an explosive weapon.

Get yourself some zines, raise awareness, organize your.
fellow prisoners afound real causes. Pass out literature, write
your own and pass that around too, hold speeches, study
sessions, try toBuild up a solld support network with activists
and advocates; Sh the outs (jet them know that we can't get
anything going#h here on a serious level without thelr support
from the outside.) Start up your own prison chapter, organize
book drives; Stitp drives, organize other Brisonersaraund
solid cafisés (you-dart need everybody to join, jisst enpugh
people to'make. thiags happen), reach out to Gther prisoniers,
teach them, train them and be there for them to the fullest.
You can recrut, organize, start up collectives and even build up
a revolutionary, anarchist army. You can do anything you put
Jour mind to. Yes, you'l be up against great odds, but your
Gedication and your persistence will cut through those odds like
2 Samurai sword cuts through the body of an opponent.

Cormrades behind enermy lines, now Is the time for your 3/
underground education to begin. ‘Now is the time for you to
bacome aware and to develop a social consciousness. 1t all
starts here, it all starts now. If you're anything like me, then
Jou've probably been fighting and struggiing al of your ife,
fow is the time for you to take that struggle to another level,
nd to start struggling for a better cause, for real change and
for a better tomorrow.

Zines are our real weapons, this is how we get powerful,
dangerous, this is how we cut through the bars, tear down the
walls, and defend ourselves from our enemies, with the
knowledge we obtain from these zines.

Zines are like grenades, or bombs, because when you real
them your mind explodes, something goes off in your brain,
and once that fire has been it there’s no extinguishing it. It is
Through these zines that we get our real underground
revelutionary education. We see what's going on with other
imprisoned people and we find strength and example from what
they've got going on. Wit these zines we can write and record
our own history, buiid a movement, teach, leam, organize,
agitate and educate. Zines have become a major part of
Fatiical and revolutionary culture for all comrades under lock
and key.

For the young gangsta who looks to make the transition
from gangsta to guerrilla, these zines are for you:

1) Deliberately I Defy - Victor Trayway

2. Thrown To The Wolves - Coyote

3) Disposable Outcasts - Hybachi Lemar

4)  write or Die - Papyrus Collective

5) Aztlan Realism: Revolutionary Art of Jose Heladio Villareal
6) Defeating the Criminial Mentality - Lacinto Hamiiton

7) An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle -
‘Sundiata Acoli

B) Interviews With Russell Maroon Shoatz - Conducted by
Anthony Rayson .

9)  The Last Act of the Circus Animals 1, 2 & 3 - Sean Swain &
Travis Washington

10) Remembering the Real Dragon: Interview With George
Jackson - Karen Wald
There are many more zines, but these are just a few good
ones that will really help set you on your way in making the
transition from gangsta to guerrilla (or from criminal to radical).
These zines are Serlous zines, written by serious comrades who
have been very active in the struggle, and bring the strong- 3§
minded, deep thinking warriors that they are, they have really
taken the time to pack some explosives into these writings, so
please send some stamps to the address on the back of this
zine and check them out for yourself.

Before 1 close this, 1 just want to say these last words. As:
imprisoned guerrillas, anarchists, revolutionaries and as”. -
comrades in the struggle, we have learned to create our own
identity, 0 as not to be written off by those who try to crush us
under the weight of their boot. We've-had to leam to endure al
kinds of pain, torture, isolation and many other hardships,
while still standing strong and keeping a tight grip on our
sanity. Many of s could be walking on these lower yards right
now if only we chose to break, bend, conform, snitch, debrief,
and suck the master's dick! But that's what we won't 86, that's
What we can't do. Instead we find ways to fight back while
Sticking to what we stand for, as men. We find ways to stay
alive, to hold on, to stay healthy and strong, to keep pushing,
keep striving, keep resisting. We do not accept the legitimacy
of the prison industrial complex (PIC), and we do all we can to
fight this beast from within - when we look around, all we see is
destruction and death, but we do not allow ourselves to
Succumb to that. We choose to remain as symbols of
resistance amongst all of this misery. We are not the type to sit
back and do nothing as the conditions around us get worse and
worse, and as we see our fellow prisoners get crushed and
sometimes even die under these brutal conditions. Revolution
Tmeans change, S0 first we have to change ourselves, change
our thinking, our way of life. That's where it all begins.

1 wish to welcome you into this new way of life, comrades.
This isn't going to be easy, we have a huge battle in front of Us,
so be prepared for war, be prepared to die, be prepared to be
tortured, abused, despised, hated on, slandered and more. Be
prepared in your heart and in your mind. But know that we are
ot destined for fallurel. So be prepared to fight and to win! Be
Prepared to take power In your own haids, be prepared.to start
faking control over your own lives. Revoltittgn is here, and we
are the ones to bring It. Stand strong, comrades, I love you
and I'm prepared to die with you!

Viva La Revolucion!
ABC - Nevada Prison Chapter
ELY STATE PRISON
October 2012
39

For words of encouragement and support, please write to:
Coyote Sheff #55671

P.O. Box 1989

Ely, Nevada 89301-1989

For mare information about Coyote, or to read more of his
brilliant writings, visit any one of these sites:

www.coyote-calling.blogspot.org
www.nevadaprisonwatch.org
www.scribd.com/prisonwatch

A message to activists and comrades on the streets:

Please get involved in the prison struggle, today! Prisoners
cannot do anything on a serious, effective level without solid
‘Support from comrades on the outs. We need you to help us
type up our zines, help us acquire the zines and other reading
materials that we so much need to elevate our thoughts and to
free our minds, especially while under such stagnant
conditions. These zines are what keeps us strong, active and
alive. Our connection to comrades and activists on the outs is
‘our most viable asset to our survival, you are our lifeline and
we need you!

Educate to Liberate - Prison Strike!

OF all the gross injustices plaguing the U.S.
today, the "Mar on the Poor’ (the criminalization of
poverty), and the so-called ‘War on Drugs’ are surely

‘the most harmful. These ‘Wars’ effect every
aspect of daily life, and have oeen thé imeans by which
the U.S. elite has terrorized and corralled the
population into subservience. The agems gf oppression
~ the police and various related “law efforcenent”
entities, now have a virtual carte blafiche to attack
anyone they choose, using conspiracy Yaws and other
statutes validating 'anti-drug’ and ‘anti-terrdrist’
tactics to 'legally’ run amok. Mere suspicion of
criminal activity is sufficient to allow government L1
thugs to seize all your property and throw you into a
dungeon indefinitely - or even to kill you on sight (if
they're pissed off enough).

Unfortunately, those opposed to this system of
government domination have few effective ways to combat
it. This grotesque system has won the propaganda war,
convincing the upper and middle classes that without
police "protection” (though in reality, it's an almost
laughable myth - the police rarely do more than pick up
the pieces of tragedy) society will descend into a ‘Mad
Max' kind of chaos. Further, the overwhelming fire-
power of police government agents, coupled with mastery
of information gathering and processing; a high-tech
“surveillance state” in place, and the power of the
state is nearly impossible to challenge head-on.

Armed conflict simply cannot succeed without broad
public support - which is utterly lacking. Similarly,
popular strikes, boycotts, protests and other systemic
attacks are too difficult to target and are too diffuse
to be effective. Some clever efforts, like Cop Watch
(videotaping police brutality) are good, but are not
anywhere near enough to do more than create cosmetic
change, leaving fundamental problems and structures
unaltered.

So, what can be done?

Luckily, the system does have its Achilles Heel -
the prison system. prisons are incredibly vulnerable to
mass action of one kind - the labor strike. Without
prison labor, the system cannot operate. It is
therefore a relatively simple matter of education -
raising the political consciousness of prisoners, and
teaching them that if they refuse to support the prison
system by helping it to operate, it will collapse. It
isn‘t possible for the government to replace prisoners
with guards and employees; indeed, it is impossible for
the prison authorities to replace even a fraction of
prisoner labor, should prisoners strike.

Add in the enormous potential assistance that &x-
felons / ‘ex-prisoners (now numbering 4n the tens of.
millions in the U.S.) offer, and - should a way to
mobilize then be found, a recipe to destroy the. current
status quo is at hand, cheaply and easily available.
Without a prison system capable of locking up
millions of nonvielent offenders (i.e. dissenters) 1/
oppression by the system becomes far more difficult.

The apparatus of the state - courts, cops, etc. would be
thrown into chaos by the mass closure of prisons, as the
system itself would be forced to undergo fundamental
changes.

Educating prisoners so they understand the power
they hold and the desperate need for them to rise up and
demand change, should be the most important priority of
any group calling itself anarchist.

The intellectuals within the @ movement, rather
than bickering over esoteric - and largely meaningless -
theoretical differences of opinion MUST unite and devote
themselves to finding simple, effective actions ex-
felons can take to support and exacerbate a nation-wide
prison strike (along with devising 3 powerful,
emotionally moving media campaign to ignite such a
strike and gain it support among those sympathetic
within the general population - mainly ‘minority’
communities) .

It is our best, and most effective route to change
the status quo. Love & Rage, T. M. Hoy

The Pen is My Sword, The Zine is My Bomb...

Powertul messages of resistance and revolution are conveyed
when an Anarchist picks up a pen and wields it the way Miyomoto
Musashi taught his Bushis to wield the Kitana (samurai sword). With
one swit stroke, we slice off the ugly head of the oppressive beast,
the enemy, the one we've been fighting and fighting for years. The
pen is our sword.

If you listen closely, you can still hear the thunderous sound that
reverberates through our hearts, and the explosions in our minds,
after we've been exposed to a new way of thinking, a radical way of
Iife, where lessons of seff-sufficiency, sofidarity, and mutual ald are
leamed, and where strategies of guerrila warfare and survival are
taught and carried out everyday. Every time we read, an explosive
Zine, we, ourselves, become explosive, alive, a dangerous threat,
Zines are our bombs. Yz

Sometimes we read zines about resistance. Prisoners love to
7634 these zines, as many of us have infimately come 10 learn that
another day in these gulags is another day to resist, and resistance
has become a way of life, a way to stay strong. 10 stay sane and o
stay alive. Whenever we become thirsty for this knowledge that has
become so essential 1o us in these situations, we can pick up a zine
09 diink from the fountain of resistance. Refreshing, quenching,
Sustaining. zines keep our minds hydrated.

Pick up a zine. my fellow prisoners, and there you will find the
ruth you've been seeking all along. Revolutionary wiitings to teach
You. nsiruct you, inform you, and to awaken your sieeping, stifled
mind. Thiough these zines we have become strong. through ihis
strength. we have become explosive. With this strength ang
explosiveness, we have learned to be dangerous, and when you're
dangerous: there's nothing you can't do!

With the simple stroke of a Zinester's pen, these ‘manifestations
nave been drafted, redrafied, read, memorized and etched into the
eaders’ minds. These manifestations carry on, from cell fo cell, unit
o unit,prison to prison. uniting an oppressed ciass around a similar
deology. We need no Bible, no laws, no master o fellus how 1o ive,
o how not 0. Our hearts carry the very truths we live by. These
ame hearts that pump and thump with vibrant joy as they\ve been
oused and warmed by the fire of revolutionary love.

Many the prisoner 've inspired and educated through my writings
nd words, only to have them write something, say something, or do

‘©omething very deep, profound and touching enough to come back
and inspire me, even more than | inspired them. With these zines 3
cutture is being raised, a movement being buill and revolutionaries
are being borh. 43

These prisons have been built 0 serve as wastelands of
\gnorance and confusion, where the oppressor deliberately places
heit jailhouse rats and pet prisoners within our midst, while creatg 3
level/ reward systom designated to encourage snilching and other
cowardly behaviors that eat away at the basic characteristcs of
manhood and humanity. Thus, keeping us disorganized, divided and
acking the social consciousness and activism necessary for
prisoners to take hold and control the destiny of our own fves. But
{hese zines are here 1o educate us about these things. to bring urity.
build character and to help prisoners develop a social CONSCIOUSNESS.
giving us amongst the poor, imprisoned and oppressed classes the
opportunity to gain the sirength we nesd to fise up on our feet and
start organizing ourseives accordingly.

With these zines, we find our voice and we use that voice (o say
something real, someting good. | find it necessary 1o be someone
{hat has something good to say, because when you're speaking tnth
and intelligence, and saying something good, there will ahways be
people who will come around just 10 fisten to what you have 10 say.
This is how we leam, and this is how we teach. By writing these
zines, by talking, itering, sharing. This is how we grow, and hoi
we evoive. This is how we empower ourselves and become strong.
wise, sharp. 1 don't have a T.V. only because I dontwanta T.V. I'd
rather sead books and zines and write and engage others in serious
alogue, than to sit back and watch the bosses'propaganda that's
constantly being displayed on these "idiot boxes.” 1d rather use this.
ime to create revolution. The pen is my sword, the zine is my bomb.

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“Apres mo, le deluge.” 8
Louis XIV

‘Sofme monstérs have kidnapped you Mother. She's bound and
gagged, ying naked on 2 cold, concrete floor. They are taking tums
raping her. They laugh at her moans, at the blood dripping from the
wounds they've inflicted by beating her.

Eventuall they tire of trying 1o outdo each other in sexual perversily.
They decide to get down to business. L i

First, they strap her down to a gumey and cut out valuable organs,
being careful to keep her alive. They strip off some of her skin, cut off
her ears, gouge out her eyes, leaving her bleeding and mutiiated. They
ignore her screams as just so much meaningless noise.

Having taken everything of value they wanted, they're stil not done
torturing her. They inject poisons that cause agony in her veins, force
open her mouth and pour in pesticides.

As a final insut, they bury here alive in 1oxic waste and garbage, and
walk away nonchalantly, pleased with their day’s work

This is what we've done fo our mother - the biosphere, that intricate,
tightly interconnected web of beings that sustains us and gives us life.

Through greed, viciousness, and uncaring stupidity we have
murdered the great family of living things of which we are one small part.

And we have forgotten, or purposely ignore the fact that what affects one
of us affects us all

Between catastrophic climate change and human toxicity and
destruction of the environment, ecological collapse is imminent — no
‘more than 15 to 20 years away. A

‘Worse stil, it is inevitable. Unless human sources of pollution are
radically ourtailed immediately (which we know will not happen) nature's
living systems will simply dissolve; they are already well on their way.

This is not a ‘wake-up call” or strident demand for action. s far too
tate for that. The scale, the enormity of what we've done is scarcaly.
imaginable. The earth is in her death thoes — at least, a world that will
‘support us. Consider for a moment the desolation we've inflicted uppn
nature, and what this folly has produced.

Take industrial agricutture, for instance. Tens of bilions of tons of
pesticides. herbicides and other lethal chemicals are poured into the land
‘around ihe globd every year, an invisible holocaust. Hundreds of billions
of tons more of petrochemicals (mainly fertiizers) add their deadly oad
1o the soi, with terrible effects. Few people realize or care that soil is a
living thing; aerated by worms, enlivened by microcrganisms, fertle only
‘because of the contrihution of these tiny beings. Pestcides:and
fertiizers destroy soll and humans are unable to replace it at anywhere
near the scale with which its being destroyed. Thus; sl erosion has
beconte a tenifying problem — hundreds of thousands of square miles of
farmiand are lost each year 10 it, resulting in massive desertification
Scarcity o fertle farmiand creates famines, food riots and wars. 4y

vt chemes ves o e soops o aquiters, 1]
poisoning groundwater, and then pours out into rvers, and thence into
ihe seas, kiling everything t encounters along the way. There are now
over 400 “dead zones’ (where fothing can ive) in the 0ceans, some as
large as confinents, caused by pesticide nunoff.

“And indusisial agriculture produces dozens of such homors; from
animal cruefty and disease in factory farming 1o the wipeout of 3” Worid
farmers and economies due to 1* World agribusiness dumping of
subsidized commodities, like com and wheat

Or consider the effects of industrial manufacturing and its related
activities of mining, ol and petrochemical production and energy
generation. In every industy, the extraction process is aimost aways
toxic (andlor horificall destructive 1o nature), produces toxic wastes,
and the end product itself is most often poisonous as el

There are the grotesque effects of plastics, siowly kiling us with
PCB's, phenyls, phihalates, endocrine disruptors and carcinogens Vel
ts most destructive aspect is the way it's choking the lfe out of ocean
creatures and birds consuming plastc garbage. On land, plastcs leach
Gioxn (among the most deadly chemicals known to man and that's
saying something) into the soil via dumps, and info water supplies

Then there are the effects of mining operations and metal processing
wastes, such as the unspeakable practice of ‘mountain-top removal
ining for coal that is laying waste to parts of the South Eastem U.S.
Mercury poisoning and pollution, are the result of the burning of that coal
for electricity.

It goes on and on

There's the collapse of food chains in the ocean. Fish popuiations
have crashed from over-fishing, made worse by the massive pianidon
die-off of over 90% in the tast 50 years from the heating of the seas from
Industrial wastes, ol spills and pollution. Planklon is the foundation of
the entire oceanic food chain. The Deepwater Horzon spill, which
basically kifled off sea e in much-of the Gulf of Mexico, was merely one
of thousands of oil spills that occur every year (though less dramatcally)
In short, the seas are being rendered lifeless.

There's the (quietly ignored) crisis of urban and suburban sprawi, the
buiying of the landscape under concrete and asphalt, paving vast
regions for auto and truck raffic. And all of the side effects of this
“development fiatural habitat destiuction, deforestation, the staggenng
load of pollutants and dangerous wastes produced by cars, Gies and
“average consumers.” Hall the world (3.5 bilion peopile) live in cites,
and the numbers are rising, The garbage dumps alone prodaced by this
urbanization pose.a health crisis of monstrous proportions.

Then there are the effects of nuclear waste from thousands of nuciear
reactors (impossible to safely store for the 100,000-year haifives of their
radioactive elements), and that far more dangerous waste from nucleat
‘weapon production and storage. There are the wastes from biological
and chemical weapon stockpiles.  There are the wastes from
sharmaceutical manufacturing and the toxicity of the "products’ Sz
‘hemselves.

‘Consider the entre process of producing chemicals for thousands of
ndustries — paints, “cleansers,” electronics, technology in all its guises,
spewing countiess tons of foxins onto earth,

‘mention the toxic impact of those indusiries’ use of these chemicais.

‘Can the sudden. catastrophic increase in cancer and imrmune System
siseases over the last 40 years, be atributed 1o any other source? We
2at, drink and breathe these poisons every single day.

There is the specter of “Peak Oi haunting induistrial Givilization.
Officially passed in 2006, as announced by ol and enesgy
spokespersons 3t the Intemational Energy Agency, “peak oif” means thal
just as our demand for oil continues to skyrocket, supplies are rapidly
being depleted. The cheap, easy 1o get, high-quality oiis gone. From
here on ou, oil extraction gets dirtier, more destrucive of nature, more
expensive, difficult and dangerous. And, we depend on it utterly.
Petsoleum-based nitrates and chemicals for farming; as fuel for land, sea
and air transport, in milions of consumer products — ke the endiess
uses of plastics, in medicines, in cosmetics, even in food itself. It will be
‘gone within 25 years, it lasts that long. There are no adequate
Substitutes, and we will ravage the earth further in pursuit of the last
precious drops.

‘Dwarfing the impact of the cnises in this far-100 brief list, we must face
the catastrophes that are accompanying ciimate change. Forget the
hetoric and the poliical screaming matches, whether man-made of not.
o one is arguing about the fact that the cimate IS changing the oceans.
and earth ARE heating up, 2nd the consequences are too dreadful for
aimost anyone 10 bear 10 examine closely

Like the simple, hideous faci that in less than 30 years, over 80% of
the Himalayan glaciers wil be gone. These glaciers are responsibie for
the monsoon Gycle that waters Asia, and are the source of all the great
fivers — the Yangtze, the Ganges, the Mekong (just to name three out of
millions), that Asia depends on for drinking and agricultural water. Wil
Asia be without water in a generation? Yes. Lack of dlean water causes.
wars, hundreds of milions of iinesses and needless deaths. The
atrocious confiict in Darfur, Sudan, is a drought-induced war. Imagine,
that sort of vicious fighting spread across the world’s largest land mass!

And, there’s worse. Islands sinking beneath the rising seas and
‘coastal ciies inundated (over 30% of major urban areas will suffer
severe damage from rising sea levels. New York, London, Tokyo, Los
Angeles — these and thousands more will siowly drown aver the next two
decades. This will be accompanied by increasingly violent, extreme
‘weather, harsher droughits and floods, more intense and frequent
hurricanes, tomadoes and 50 on, driving human, animal and plant
populations further over the brink into mortal Crises.

Everywhere you care to look, the ecological systems we rely on for
survival are dying.

The species vital to human health and life, and that are indicators of
the health of the air. water and soil are dying off in massive numbers

Bats, which keep insect populations in check, are threatened by S /
extinction from an exotic fungus of unknown ongin. Bird species, crucial
for keeping down crop pests and for keeping plant populations healthy
are being wiped out by polution and climate change. Half of the bee
‘populations studied, vital for agriculture and plant poliination in nature.
have decreased by 9% in the last three years! Snake species, which
keep rodent populations (and thus diseases) down, are vanishing. Frog
Species — who are the “canaries in the mine” for earth, are disappearing,
wiped out by contaminated water and habitat loss. These are the plants
and animals we depend on for our survival and we are massacring them

The end of the whole, evil mess is clearly in sight. But no one is
slowing down. In fact, the process is speeding up as the 3 World
industrializes. As difficult as it is 10 believe and as insane as it obviously
15, the socio-economic system controlling the planet is racing to murder
every last Iiving thing in fts absurd quest for *profi” (as if money was.
anything other than a man-made symbol, of no value beyond human
exchanges), and worshipping its Cult of growth/development at any cost
It is 3 System that seeks fo exploit every existing bit of nature, were it
possible, every inch of arable land pianted with bio-engineered crops,
every habitable acre covered by buildings and subdivisions, every
mountain containing metals reduced to ore and siag, every forest
reduced to timber, every able-bodies person in bondage to corporations
(excepting corporate shareholders, of course), their tabor churning out
“goods and services’ unfi there is nothing left but a barren, poisonous
©isstetand, dead rvers and oceans and emply. lethal skies.

Those that oppose this evil design become targets of miltary force or
policelsecurty attacks. To try and impede the machine from devounng
nature and enslaving the masses is to eam the ftie “terrorist, an
Orwellian mutiiation of language, as the corporations and govemments
‘who crush life and create terror, falsely accuse their opponents — using
fear as a weapon

“The machine will die, but t wil not die quietly. Industrial civiization is
about to be swept away, and it wil take the natural wortd along with it

We were the fast generation that was able to do anything about it and
we just sat there and played with our fucking toys. And to think we
fancied ourselves as “environmentalists!” Hal

Iwish I could change t. | wish that with all my heart. But | can't No
one can

So teribly, terribly sad; to witness the death of a planet, indeed. be
the cause of its demise.

So getangry. Fight the good fight,in spite of it all. Pick your targets
‘and make every shot count

Al can do is do my best, regardiess.

You o the same.

Thomas Marc Hoy is now “free" and publishing in Tucson, AZ
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