The Prisons are the Front Lines, LERSEAN i in the Struggle Here at Home Law & Disorder Conference May 9 - 11, Portland, Oregon Presentation By Anthony Rayson & 'Rads INTRODUCTION Here's a collection of statements and articles Io or for the conference, written by myself and several prisoners. Also included are some letters. Prisoncrs are human beings who think and fecl just like we do. Many have ‘mastered the age-old crat of letcr writing. Paper and print, typed or hand-written, is the very lifeblood of personal and intellectual communication. Ifs one mind 1o another, talking very for real. More and more people are free from the intellectual stupor the ‘government expects us to be timidly self-policed into. We all know they are nothing but liars and killers. More scek real truth and have a sensc of urgency, seeing as their young lifc - and its unhindered flowering - is threatened from every anglel Examples abound of people standing up to this voracious regime, and more happen every day. People have an extraordinary opportunity o spread mutual aid and solidarity and free school education in a non-coercive, anti-authoritarian way - and it really helps deal with whatever the project happens to be. Prisoners can't undo their past activity. They may not be guilty of the specific crime they were convicted (forced plea bargains, if poor) of, but like everybody else, more likely than not, led a self-centered and rather unconscious lifestyle. But they ca come 10 a sort of epiphany, and begin the regeneration of their mind, body & soul. I call it ‘gaining consciousness- I's a watershed point, where you atiain an unquenchable resolve 1o learn as much as you can and live as much as you can and share ‘what you know to as many people as you can. This doesn't mean all a persons bad habits disappear. Far from it 1f ‘addicted, still addicted. Self-destructive behavior is & complicated problem that takes a lot of effort to positively modify. But, with the love and support of others, both inside & ou, t becomes a 800d goal o strive for everyday, as you are daily learning many things about yourself and the world. We've 0110 get 10 8 point, where writing a leter 1o a prisoner Sister or Brother is as common s fexting something fo somebody. People have a lot of catching up 1o do. Luckily, conscious prisoners arc there fo hip them. Table of contents 1. Introduction - By Anthony Rayson b 1 2. solidarity, mutual Aid & Respect - By, Anthony Rayson p.4 - 7 3. Clash is in session - T. Marc Hoy 0.8 - 12 4. Revolutionary visions wide Open - khalfani Khaldun p.12 - 13 5. ™o Letters From dereny Hammond - [EUES 6. Letter from Eric D. smith - b 16 7. Letter from Terrance €. white - [ 8. Law and Disorder - By, Richard Henry .18 - 19 9. Letter & Appeal - By, Zolo Agona Azania .20 - 23 10. Dear Friends of Portland - By, Just Another Number p. 24 11. virginia's New Afrikan STave Revolutionaries: A Blueprint to Achieving Liberation By Any Means Necessary - 8y, Srian Lee Rowe .25 - 40 12, Lercer from arian 3acob Church & WATO 3 Tnfo D41 - 46 13, Leecer from Josua carcrette b7 - 51 14, T Supports the Free Alabasa ovesent (FAY) T 15, Educate to Liberate & A Testizonial of e Forgocen = Bys A11 Knal1a aban P53 - 58 e T R e - bt -6 This zine was edited by Anthony Rayson and published on may 6th, 2014 as part of a presentation for the Law & Disorder Conference, held in portland, oregon, May 9 -11, 2014. Like al] other zines put our by South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, it Ts nticopyright and people are encouraged to reprint any and all of 1t for edicational purposes: If people are interested in learning more about this_ project, "they can google Anthony Rayson Zine Collection, Which 15 housed at Depaul university, in Chicago. Or, you can write to me at: South Chicago ABC Zine bistro 0. Box 721 / Homewood, I117nos 60430 anthonyrayson@hotmail. com I would like to thank all of the prisoners who contributed to this zine as well as all the others T have worked wich or will work with. "I appreciate your patience and solidarity. I want to thank the artists and poets and rappers, jailhouse lawyers, hunger strikers and activists, who must Fight in the very'face of oppression. @nchony Solidarity, Mutual Aid & Respect By, Anthony Rayson 4 Everyone always talks about how important “education” is for personal and communal growth. People have phenomenal minds, but need careful attention, education and love to have a chance at flowering as conscious, humanist people, with the self-realized ability to delve deeply into their interests and to develop their talents, The goal is to live a thrilling lfe of discovery while being a positive force for the community. This is next to impossible in this highly propagandized (with endless lies & government-directed violence glorying, saturated by the commercial morass of hyper-capitalism.) It's a thick nolse of confusion, nonsense and escapes from a “reality” that frankly, deliberately avoids golng anywhere near the real truth. ‘The government has huge buildings and many people working to keep a lid on their vast, global criminality. When exposed by people like Chelsea Manning, Eric Snowden and Jeremy Hammond, its not the massive crimes they ve uncovered which is demonized, but rather, the ‘whistle-blowers with the courage to publish the govemment's own proof of their organized evil. So, many people succumb to depression, resignation and a sort of bitterness about lfe itself, and lead truncated, uneducated lives, often subject to abuse from other people and authoritarian institutions, such as schools, miserable workplaces, religious outfits, the military and the vast prison system. Kids are “supervised" and drumbeat like dogs trained for show. No wonder so many come careening out of adolescence, like a hell-bound train, set up for disaster, lengthy incarceration or some form of frustrating accommodation. s scary to not know why things are as they are and see people vaguely challenging authority get beat down and dragged off. Notice, that didnt happen to the Tea Party, just occupation. The reason is because occupation insisted on being “leaderless.” ‘The government is in charge of education, or a church or a company. They don't want peaple to know how to think, because once they do, they realize the enormity of the problem and are more likely to transcend the “fear line” and think and do in a positive, pro-active and creative way, which will spread like a free-thinking cancerl To them, slaves only need to know how to do whatever it is that feeds the profit-system. If people leam to think and live "off the grid" their sick, death machine loses its grip. (U also why they are so harsh in their genocidal repressions - they dont want examples of real, functioning altemative living arrangements - anywhere in the world! Portland; Oregon; May 9 - 11, 2014 “We had to destroy the village to save t.” Vietnam never really ended. They just keep destroying other parts of the globe. It's a holocaust situation with mass incarceration the norm at home and s endless war for the rest of the world. ‘The rapid degradation of Earth herself, should be enough to spur people to get of the dime and stop this thing! Opposition to the U.S. government is our over-riding task and there are many ways to battle. But the problem of education (or lack of it) is a constant hindrance. 1ts basically a precondition for sound and sane political, social and economic action. And, aithough many people have developed their various coping mechanisms and shields against the very thing they need the most (applicable understanding that taps into their innate humanity) thinkers and writers and artists and philosophers have provided ‘mentoring and examples of genuinely Lived lives. There are many ways to look at things, but for me, personally, the most useful and lucid are basic anarchist principles. Mutual aid, solidarity, prison abolition, voluntary association, free schooling, consensus decision-making, equality, freedom and liberty, are useful concepts while trying to figure out how to understand this complex mess and comport yourself. Since | fancy myself a writer, | focus a lot of my time and energy writing and collaborating with other worthy writers. This has evolved into a serious, anarchist-driven free school educational project. Great mentors, such as Malcolm X and Paulo Friere and Leo Tolstoi and Lucy Parsons, and many others, have insisted that real education must spring forth from society's most oppressed. They literally live in the “belly of the beast!" This means in today's world, the 2.4 million prisoners! Tens of millions are on probation or parole. These are the people who understand the true face of America and the strongest among them, have the most courage and insight. This is where the narrative of today’s reality s written and illustrated - even though they are locked down, shackled and deprived of almost all forms of expression and communication. These are the people, those who have experienced their epiphany and long to set to work, should get to know on a personal and working basis. Remember when Saddam Hussein freed the prisoners shortly before Bush-Cheney let loose the dogs of “Shock and Awe" mass warfare and brutal occupation, in 20032 Secretary of State, Colin Powell, said it was a “political move.” Damn right, it was! Those released prisoners formed the backbone of the resistance to U.S. occupation and most probably paid with their lives... S0, real education is the “brutal truth pouring out of the prisons! OK, 50 how do we deal with it? Well, like everything else, it mostly takes self-direction - resolve! Research the subject and connect with people doing such work. Accumulate various publications focusing on the prisons, especially by those who specialize in collaborating with and publishing the work of prisoners. Ask questions. Write letters. Decide how you want to involve yourself. And then begin to do it. Inertia is perhaps the biggest obstacle to getting started. You know, when social protest was at its strongest in the late ‘60’ - early 705, the prisoner support movement was at its peak. Domestically, it was then and most certainly i today, ground zero in the struggle, here at home. The whole of government is headed towards being one gigantic surveillance state. Alot of things are happening in a rapidly changing situation, throughout the gulag archipelago and throughout society on the “outs.” We need to lean the latest from those fighting on the front lines. Hunger strikes are spreading all over the country. Analysis, research and testimony about the perfidy of government is constantly being written and articulated through poetry and artwork. There's a huge need for help getting this work published and back into the hands of activists and prisoners, family members and other oppressed people in the ‘hoods, barrios and reservations. Young people yearn to learn the truthl It easier to get into the prisons to talk to inmates than it s to address high school students! When it comes down to it, everybody wants to be told the truth. Mail i read and censored coming and going to prison, but that shouldn't stop you from corresponding and working on zines and getting them back into the prisons. Their one big rule is publications must come from a publisher. OK, just become a publisher. Think up a name 2nd get a P.O. Box. Get a stamp from Office Max or something to stamp the return address on the envelop and the last page of the zine. Bam! Youre a “publisher.” Deal with issues of immediate importance to those being menaced the most. Keep the writing clear and easily understandable. You tearn as you go. Don't feel it inappropriate to ask assistance from prisoners. Youll be surprised at how accepting they are and how honest they are. They are in prison and are being subjected to torture on a daly basis. They need our help, like no other time in their lives. Be consistent and reliable. Give your best effort all the time, each & every day. There's a lot of “tricks to the trade" on how to make zines and how to run a zine distro. You want to maximize your space on the paper, but still make the publication easy to read and interesting. You need to be resourceful and seek opportunities for printing and accumulating books, magazines, zines, paper, ink and other supplies. This type of free school education medium (zines) is also very useful in any localized grassroots efforts you may be involved with. fve even put newspapers together, sometimes with serious anarchist content - that the conservative family farming community newspaper chain published for me! Simple, cut & paste "technology” can and is used by prisoners to craft their own zines, in their cells. Instead of glue, theyll use toothpaste. You don't have to rely upon a computer or digitalized graphics. Prisoners will hand draw you artwork that copies beautifully! These relationships you forge with certain prisoners may prove the ‘most important in your life. You will receive an unbelievably varied and detailed education, as you involve yourself in the day-to-day dealings with people, most of whom, you will never even meet. Even if you visit them, you may only get to skype with them from a few hundred feet away. But, it is a close relationship from one mind to the other. This is activism, where there s no doubt as to its effectiveness. Prisoners have no qualms about expressing their gratitude and appreciation for helping them see things more clearly. 1 had involved myself in many projects, demnstrations, grassroots fights, and | still do, but | could never tell if what | was doing really 'had any meaningful or sustained effect, until | began this distro and focused on the brilliant writers and artists in the prisons. s often difficult to find people to work with, who are on the same page as you. ‘The results, the satisfaction of a job well done, the thrill of the creative process, just didn't seem to happen, as you would hope. Being a pro-active conduit for powerfully written and otherwise ‘expressed information and literature is a really affirming activity. People learn valuable lessons from others and their example and by the process of collaboration. Each one, teach one is how we phrase it. We hear it all the time. Become the media. It's got to be from the ground up. Well, this is from the sub-basement of the underground upl As we ‘work shoulder-to-shoulder with those under the boot heel of our common oppressors, we are accepted as a comrade. We have blossomed into our true selves. Our actions are at the command of our own sense of morality, and nothing else, which makes it both the most authentic and the most important to us - and those we have deliberately reached out to in the spirit of solidarity and mutual aid. ‘The barriers of concertina wire, gun-wielding guards in towers, and fear-mongering that the government uses to keep us away from our locked up Sisters and Brothers has to be overcome. They are in there for us, reporting in the very teeth of brutality, so we'e got to be out here for them. One day, many of us will scramble, from behind a cell, trying to contact someone who knows what needs to be done. Thank you for your attention. Now, Il let the prisoners speak! - Anthony Rayson - South Chicago ABC Zine Distro P.0. 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A thre were acquitted of the terorism charges in February, but were found guily of two much lesser mob action charges and one count each for possessing an incendiary device to commit arson. ‘The men each foced a maximum sentence of three decades behind bars during Friday’s trial, and the prosecution had urged the court 1o put them away for a minimum of 14 years. After defense attomey: failed 1o have the case e-tried o thrown-out ealy Friday, Judge Thaddeus Wilson announced his punishment ust before 3 pm.local time. Church was sentenced to 5 years, Chase 10 8 years and Bettery to 6, according o a Chicago Tribune dispatch published moments afte Friday’s hearing concluded. According to Tibune reporter Steve Schmadeke. 2 lawyer for one of the man accused the prosecution during Fridaystrialoffailing 1o give up their fauly terrorism case leading up to this week' sentencing despite February's acquittals Prosecutors attorey Thomas Anthony Durkin sad, were trying to “salvoge lousy rotten case” with stif prison sentences, Schmadike reported. They stll don't get thot the whole worid i loughing at them Durkin — Chase's attomey —told Judge Wilson, according to the Tribune. Federalprosecutors also argued at trial that the men displayed “defiant refusal to toke: responsibilty for their conduct” Their alleged part n the plot has been questioned at length by onlookers of the case throughout the ordeal, however,due 1o allegations of entrapment that have been made because of the fole that undercover police offices played in coercing the men 10 plot the filed attacks In February.the Tribune reported that one of the offcers was the frst 10 5uggest the men consider making Molotovs, and even offered his clothing as a makeshift wick during construction of the crude explosives. “We weren serious about what we said,” Beterly said Frday, according t0. local NBC affifate. “They were just words. Because ofthose tronsgressions, I've losttwo years of my fe" “Tm not a perfect person. the afiiate quoted Church s saying. “and lik other human beings. 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Box 721,/ Homewood, IL 60430 EDUCATE TO LIBERATE: RAISE THE CONSCIOUSNESS s3 By, Ali Khalid Abdullah “Taxpayers, who have a sizable chunk of their wage-slave earnings extorted by the counties, the states, and federal government, are forced to pay for the ill-treatment that is meted out to prisoners. It is a criminal justice system, run by trained criminals!”~ Anthony Rayson Ali Khalid Abdullah's: Letter From Inside the Burlington County Jail Sitting inside the Burlington County Jail, in Mount Holly, New Jersey, there is an atmosphere of systemic indifference and humanitarian disregard for those housed within its walls. Abuse, arrogance, open violations of the law means nothing because within the walls of the jail there is a strict enforcement of being able to silence someone who dares seek to verbally protest the state and federal constitutional violations that abound. Itis because of this in-built culture of abuse that things continue to take place in the jail that are fundamentally wrong. That and a strange mix of perverting the mindset of the inmates to passively accept their condition like sheep lead to the slaughter. ina stranger twist, you have inmates identifying with their captors so deeply that they have come to believe that the treatment they receive, such as cold food, mold in the shower, the failure to be given a grievance without having to beg for one, and / or explain the entire reason for wanting one, not being given a copy of their grievance or its findings (which violates the 14th Amendment's. "Due Process™ procedures) and more, is acceptable. However, | refuse o lay down and allow my humanity to be taken by the state or stooges of the state. | refuse to encourage my captors to deny my humanity and civil rights. 1 refuse o lay down and allow the centuries of sufferings, lynchings and the brutal animalistic beatings of my ancestors to be forgotten on the fact that “they” endured all of these humiliations and cruelties because they wanted to see a better tomorrow for their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren - on down to the very end of time. Tolay down and give up nos sy To lay down and accept this inhumanity... Tolay down and rejoice the mastah's whip of abuse... To lay down and smile at the hideous face of social discord... Tolay down and fraternize with the atrocities that abound in a culture of indifference, is to surrender all that my aneestors have gone through, and in so doing, negate the sacrifices they've made would be unconscionable to me. 1 am not attempting to paint a false picture as to suggest that 1 am some saint, or have no flaws, or haven't done an act that is considered a violation of the social code ( and even this standard of social code must be re-examined based on the fact that it was the established wealthy elite who developed these so-called 'social codes' or 'laws', if you will)... but 1 am saying that regardiess of the matter, I do not deserve to be ill-treated, not to mention that I haven't even been found "guilty” of anything, and even if guilty, I deserve to right to be humanely treated. Thus, if need be, I will languish and endure these abominations, and fight tooth 'n nail with my rebellious spirit, and with my words like a sword's edge, until the depth of nay words seeps through the crowded streets of movement and reach into the eyes, ears and minds of a people willing to hear alowly voice within a concrete wilderness... a wilderness embedded with all types of traps and surprises that are designed to stamp out the positive nature of the human spirit. Atsome point in a man's life he must look inside himself and declare that enough is enough. That he can no longer carry the burden of ignorance and folly and make the change for social justice - even though he may be a crook. THEREFORE, I have an obligation to wage war against the gross injustices plaguing the U.S. today, the "War on the Poor” (the criminalization of poverty), and the so-called "War on Drugs,” which attack the poor but not the government- sanctioned and controlled pharmaceutical drug peddlers of the world. While we have the agents of oppression - the police and various related attack dog "law enforcement” entities, who now have Presidential carte blanche to attack anyone they choose, using all kinds of draconian conspiratorial laws and other statutes validating 'terroristic' tactics to ‘legally’ run amok on all who refuse to bow their heads to the mark of the beast, S0... from sitting inside a jail or prison what can an inmate do to be heard? Go on a massive labor strike! Without the labor of the incarcerated, no jail or prison could operate. The hard part is educating the incarcerated to believe in their collective power and stop allowing their captors to have them think in an individualistic way. The captors DO NOT think or act on an individualistic level or the functioning of juils and prisons would not operable. They think collectively - so should the incarcerated! 5 1f we refuse to help these places operate, it would collapse overnight. It isn't possible for government to replace prisoners with guards and employees. Indeed, it is impossible for the prison authorities to replace even a fraction of prison Iabor, should we massively strike. Adding to this, is the enormous potential assistance that ex- felons / ex-prisoners (now numbering in the tens of millions in the U.S. alone) offers, and -should a viable way to mobilize them be found (and I know of such a way), a recipe to destroy the current status quo is at hand, cheaply and easily available. Without a jail * prison system capable of locking up millions of non-violent offenders (i. c. 'dissenters') oppression by the system becomes far more difficult. The apparatus of the state - courts, cops, ete., would be thrown into chaos by the mass closure of jails / prisons, as the system itself would be forced 10 undergo radical fundamental changes. Educating the incarcerated is a must so that they will innerstand the power they hold and the desperate need for them to rise up and demand change! "We find wars of extermination, wars among races and nations; wars of conquest, wars to maintain equilibrium, political and religious wars, wars waged in the name of ‘great ideas'... patriotic wars for greater national unity... and what do we find beneath all that, beneath all the hypocritical phrases used in order to give these wars the appearance of humanity and right? Always the same economi phenomenon: the tendency on the part of some to live and prosper at the expense of others.” ~ Ali Khalid Abdullah, quoting Mikhail Bakunin ~ Al Khalid Abdullah #103392 / 43 Grant Street Mount Holly, New Jersey 08060 A Testimonial of the Forgotten by, Al Khalid Abduliah st Many of today's most important thinkers, theorists, political analyzers and futuristic pioneers are those men and women who are languishing inside some state or federal prison. Men and women who aren' afraid to speak out and expose the horror's of brutality and real terrorism that exists - ight here, within the walls of Amerika. ‘These men and women, who risk their possible freedom, having their mail destroyed, visits denied, denied needed medical treatment, endure vicious. beatings and assaults, do 5o by testifing the TRUTH! Testifying to a prison culture of sadistic abuse and overt comuption at the expense of taxpayers because it is the taxpayer who pays for Amerika’s prisons and the sadists who work in them, as they diligently work to keep the voices of the incarcerated shut up and deny them the outside light of hope to shine inside these concrete tombs, by denying zines to prisoners, like comrade Anthony Rayson fearlessly, and out of his own expense, tries to send out to help inspire and give hope to many who need such inspiration, hope and a guiding direction to obtain liberty and freedom - which first must start from within before being transformed outwardly. Therefore, the testimonials of the incarcerated are vital and a must. Often those on the outside cannot flly see what is before them because they are in the middle of the drama. Bt those who've been removed from the hustle and bustle of saclety are able to see with an undisturbed lens. That is why their voices are so badly needed. -And not just when they are incarcerated, but also those who survive the prison mind-control, physical and spiritual abuse and have retumed to society. ~ They need to be immediately snatched up and embraced 5o they aren't left to wander without support. They need to be given an audience so that they can share, fist hand, what is going on and tell us what we need to do to make things change. If we don't do this, we allow our most valuable of revolutionary resources to wither away into forgottenness. - We can't afford history to be forgotten without being recorded. If we, the politically conscious - the socially aware - do not act, who. will? Let me share something | read in the April, 18 - 19, 2014 edition of the Burtington County Times, section A", entitled: Ex-NBA Payer: Re-entry Tougher than Serving Time." In brie,the article spoke of Jayson Williams, an allstar professional basketball player who served prison time for fatally shooting a chauffeur, in 2002. He spoke of how hard he had it upon re-entering society. He said: “When /ot out, & was more diffcult than any of my days in prison, "Willams told an audience attending an inmate re-entry conference in Jersey City, New Jersey. He went on to say, Peaple who once paid a magnificent amount of money to watch me play didn’t want me liing next door to them." Wiliams said he lived in a hotel or seven months, even though he had a good credit score and New Jersey's former Secretary of State was vouching for him. < 7 “This is significant. it shows how society continues to 00k down on someone who has been to prison, and for the most par, refuses to give them a chance. But this is not 50 in all cases, because there i another side to this hypocrisy. George Soros was convicted for insider trading on Wall Street. But,George Sorus is a super bllionaire who doesn't feel the chiling effects as most other convicted felons. The same applies for convicted felon, Martha Stewart, who came right out of prison and back into her television program. Not a word did Martha utter about the conditions of prison or what she saw in how other, non-wealthy prisoners were treated. ‘The mainstream media is not going to address this unless it happens o be some celebrity or super wealthy person who brings up the subject. But we should not rely on what the government-censored news media has to say... We, the People, should make our own voices loudly heard and push for the man and woman coming out of prison, or even stil n prison, voices to be heard via speaking engagements and zines, or other forms of print material. We ought not have silence as an option because it is not an option. Silence allows abuse to continue. Silence allows the human rights and digpities of mankind to be trampled over. Silence is a passive acceptance of wrong being committed by the bully, the powerful the goverment. So we ‘cannot be silent, nor can we allow the testimonials of the incarcerated to be: forgotten or unheard. “The government has a way of intimidating people into silencing people. For instance, groups organized against the Amerikan imperial empire agenda or, as Anthony Rayson has stated in Pseudo Reality ™ that of their vicious underting allies (such as Iszael) are deemed temonist” Ifyou don't accede (or ‘succumb) to Amerikan imperial objctives, you'l face demonization and assaul, up to and including nuclear war.” Mikhail Bakunin has stated: A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts fiom his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in he always kniows what he must say and do. He may fail. but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes_." How truthful these words are. We are strong, as a people and as a collective, only when we stand up and upon truth. - My truth, your truth, everyone’s truth because truth leaves no room for darkness and thus comuption cannot thrive, because the comuption of concealment only survives in dark places. S0 the voices of the man / woman in or freshly out of prison are vital for the sake of all society. Why? Because these voices expose what s being kept from the general population. HG. Wells, in 1927, stated: A government which has come to value its Mmmmani‘dosmefiwsalbmhfimal}flm' This is a testimonial of the forgotten. April 18, 2014 Al Khalid Abdullah #103392