SATURDAY, JANUARY 11TH - SACRAMENTO
Introduction

Well,since | claim to be a writer, and I've been accorded the chance
tospeak, I like to make a zine of my remarks, as wellas include the
contributions of other thinkers, past and present, who I feel articulate
their ideas, memorably. The "Idea" Is, of course, the brutal truth. It's 3
‘world of suffering, done for the vilest of motives - power and greed,
but it's stillthe reality we are faced with and has to be dealt with,
lucidly. Our task Is nothing short of developing a humanistic alternative
and an exhaustive analysis of this endless, systematic Injustice. We've
to overcome our fear and ignorance and maximize our effectiveness,
utilizing our talents and interests- just for our own sakes - yours, too!

0, for those not used to reading my rants and who may not know
why 1 am the way | am, 1l give a little Clifs Notes. Mostly, It is about
these brilliant and courageous prisoner writers and artists, who like me,
have had the privilege to "stand on the shoulders of glants!"

| was lucky to have grown up surrounded by hundreds of books,
which I tried to read the best of. | detested public school, but wanted to
fearn the real truth about this world, espectally how things are run, why
people do what they do, how they're manipulated, etc. | wanted to
become a writer, but mostly, | wanted to be a "Free Thinker.” |
considered myself, a "Child of Vietnam." So, I loathed the government
which was busy murdering 1,000 people per day for my whole
childhood and adolescence. But, | was under no IMusions that | could
make a "career” out of writing about how horrible the government is.

! dropped out of college my second semester and proceeded to hitch-
hike around the country for a couple of years. When | came back, I

time Nixon was going down over Watergate. People were amused, but
still thought | was crazy. And, who couldn't be crazy?

! knuckled under and did what | was told. | got a crappy job, a wife
and a little house. After three years, | divorced and felt allenated, ke
everybody else. | was just atomized, no matter how | tried to seek out
{ike-minded individuals. Then, | saw an Interview with Noel gnaties In
Progressive magazine. Finally: Here was 2 guy talking reat | thought, |
can do this, too! | wrote furiously, went all over hell to meet people
and involve myself in things, and read every underground rag | could

find. But nothing seemed to continue on, I could do better... | thought.
Table of Contentions

1. Introduction P 206l
2. The Literature of Revolt, By Anthony Rayson 4-28
3. Famous Quotes - Interspersed throughout my presentation
4. 3 Brown'’s Privilege Card s
5. Express Your Creativity - Frederick Fisher .
6. US. Training New Iraqi Miitants - James M. Scott 1
7. Self-Liberation: Join the Resistance - Scott Zirus 15
8. Asthma Prisoner Doused With Pepper Spray - Rashid 1820
9. Jall Our Corrupt Officlals - Corey Vonberg 24
10. New Prisons & Community Colleges, 1960 - 1950 & 1980 - 2000 29
11, Missouri DOC Rejection Letter 30
12. My Response 31
13, ABOLISH SOLITARY CONFINEMENT - Letters and Statement to
the Art Show - Jose Heladio Villarreal 30-35
Educate to Liberate - T. Marc Hoy
. The Artwork of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson 3841
. The Artwork of Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarcelli 243
Letter and The Artwork of Ms. Richard G. Hall, Jr. 4449
The Artwork of Marcus A. Bedford, Jr. 50
The Artwork of Jose Heladio Villarreal 51
. The Artwork of Jocy Torrey 5253
. PAPYRUS Collective - San Quentin, CA 54
. Michelle Alexander Writes to Call Hunger Strikers 55
. Matope Duguma - Hunger Strike Leader / Torture Defier 5659
. Solidarity - The Artwork of Mark A. Reid Bey 0
. Prisoner Support - Anonymous 61
. The U. 5. “Health Care Plan” for the People of Earth 62
. the dissenter - By, Patrick Owens o

This zine was prepared as part of my presentation ac
the sacramento arc Show, held at Exhibit s, from Jamuary
12tk - 28th. 1 would 17ke to thank Marty Conlisk, for
pitching this Show, working on it tirelessly, hosting us at
his house and for baing 4 terrific quy. Also, Colin swirt
of Lilac Neuron Media made this whole thing happen, put out
the kickstarter video and creatively promoted the show,
while putting up with me. s mell, MacC Grown, who runs
Exhibit s showed nis chops by readily agreeing (0 allow us
t0 present chis incredible array of artwork and prisoncr
publications at his gallery. Thanks to a1] you voluntoers!

Last buc certainly not least, I want (o' thank my
friend, brother and comrade, Mike P10SKi, who has worked
with me on a daily basis for over 9 straight years.
Without you, Grother, we wouldn't have been dble to do
anywhere near the Fantascic work that we have done, are
Going and will corcinue to do. Lec's o ger ‘em!

and, OF course, we are 411 extrenely grateful for che
many wondderfu] prisoner writers and artists who continue to
educate us - and each other - through this distro and other
outlets that they so courageously and unanbiguously cry out
to. This is nutual aid and solidarity at its most needed.
~enthony Rayson ~ @nticopyrioht ~ published I - 4 - 14

The Literature of Revolt

I appraciate this opportunity to have
your attention tonight. Some of you may be
new to this type of stuff, prisoner zines
and prisoner artwork. But, to many, it is a
crucisl lifeline to the outside world. I
liken it to the samizdat press of America.
It's the real underground, where the slaves
themselves get their chance to express what
is important to them. It's the brutal truth!

“Anarchists and Anarchism have historicaily been misrepresente o the
world. The popular impression of an Amarchist as an uncontrollably emtional,
violent persom who is only interested in destruction for its own sake, and who s
opposed to all forms of ergamization, still persists to this day...his fulse
impression primarily is still widely believed because people from across the
political spectrum have consciously been promoting this lie for years. All who
strive t0 oppress and exploit the working class, and gain power for themseloes,
whether they come from the right or left, will always be threatened by
Anarchism... Anarchists want to get rid of the greatest perpetrator of violence

throughout history: govermment!”
- Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

Prisoners don't really have access to
the intermet. TIf they have email, it is
heavily monitored and not much worth using.
Their phone privileges are few and far
between and even a hug or kiss is pretty
much forbidden. Of course, they can stare
At the idiot box and get dummy-downed!

“Government never leads: they follow progress. When the prison, stake
or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority,
Progress moves on a step, but not until then,

~ Lucy Parsons

~ Howard Zinn
The hand-written letter is the 5%
lifeblood of communication with those on th
"outs." But, this is even ifty. HMail i

read by the gulag censor trolls, whether it
goes out or cemes in. Many have "jobs® but
they get paid very little or nothing. The
can only "buy" the intlated garbage
available through the commissary and that
only if they have these "privileges.”

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Coremnent s o cloquence. 1 loree!” ~ George Washion

“Frecdom without socialisun is prici,

Irecdom is slavery, brutality,"

justice. Suciulism withot

Mikhait Wik
Zines are like a Langible miracle.
Fead over and over, they are then "kited."
A mail service is improvised zs cheap towels
are meticulously de-threaded and made into a

moving clothes line of zines from one cell
Lo another. VA

Remember, the whole idea of the
fascists running these concrete tombs is to
break you, drive you insane and fill your
every second into an endless agony of
feeling abandoned by your loved ones and the
whole world, really. Zines, especially
written by fellow prisoners & those who have
proven they are hip to this vile charade,
mean the world because they are unafraid of
the Lrutht Prisoner artwork is the most
teal kind in existence! Blend these two
togzether and you have an empow=ring cocktail
of Jiberating, humanizing ideas - and useful

nbacts,

Color is important, Loo. Prison walls
are drab and stark. Send pictures of

nature, people and animals, whenever you
can. Did you know that leaves are
considered “contraband?" Tax Jdol lars at 7
work. Their only “argument® is cruelty.

To be govemed is to be, at every operation, every transaction, noted,
registered, enrolled taxed, stamped, measured. numbered, assessed.
licensed, authorized, acimonished, forbidden, reformed, comected.
punishad. 1t i under pretext of public utilty, andin the name of the
general intarest, to be placed under contribution. trained, ransacked,
exploitod. monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbect then, at
the slightest resitance. the first word of complaint, to be repressed. finod,
despised, haraused, tracked, abused clubbed disarmed, choked.
imprioned, judged, condemned, shot. deported sacrificed, sold, betrayect
and. to crown il mocked ridiculed, outroged, dishonored. That is
‘govemment; that i its justice: that s its morailty.”

= Pherre-Joseph Proudhon

So, even though the prisons are on high
alert to make sure their captives stay
ignorant, these zines (usually) fly under
their radar. After all, they can't tell the
religious folks that they can't send their
little brochures, how can they deny
prisoners their zines? The First Amendment
hasn't been totally ripped up and most
thoughts are not quite a crime - yet!

"Every human being who is not devoid of fecling and common
sense is inclined to Anarchism. Everyone who suffers from wrvng
and injustice, from the evil, corruption, and filth of our prescut
day life, is instinctively sympathetic to anarchy. Everyone whose
heart is not dead to compassion and fellow sympathy must be
interested in furthering it. Everyone who hus o cudure poverty
and misery, tyranny and oppression, should welcome the consing
of anarchy. Every liberty and justice-loving man nd woman
should help realize it...”

~ Alexander Berkman
©f conrse, Lhe 13th Amendment, which
allows for slavery, is the cornerstone of
the whole, racist, sexist, classist,
genocidal and lie-based system, even though
it is claimed to have "ended” slavery. 5

‘The Thirteenth Amendment

Section 1.

Nelther slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. shall
exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
Jurisdiction.

Section 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.

The truth is, government can never
“arant” anybody any rights - they can only
take them away. The Constitution isn't
worth the parchment it was written on
because you can use parchment Lo cook with.

“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 thene
wars the appearance of humanity and right? Aliways the same
economic phenomenon: the tendency on the part of some to live and
prosper at the expense of others. All the reat is mere Aumbug. The
ignorant and naive, and the fools are entrapped by it, by the strong
men who direct the destinien of the atate, know only oo well that

ferlving all those wars there s only one motive: pillage, the
keizinz of someone elae’s teealth and the enalavement of someone
else’s labor...”

~ Milthail Bakunin
1 wanted Lo Eind writers who were
willing to write hard about Lhis demento.
soclety that is America. 1 wanted real 4
answers. Why is everybody so alicnated
Why are the wirst bastards among us the ores
who get to make all the docisions? Why ar
ue forever At “war? Why 18 it, we Consume ¢
times our share of the world's resources,
Yet still have tens of millions in dire

poverty? Why are people so ignorant an
unable to function, much less think
Properly, even though they've undergone
several years of expen
is there a garbage dump of plastic in th.
middle of the Pacific Ocean as big as a
continent? Wy does our government insist
on incarcerating 25% of the world
prisoners, with only 5% of her populati

sive "educat ion

Wiy

T Liws made by e ule he s s well s e b o w1
e cate w0 conducts s schools o he s of wommen e
rapped to hideous shupes. Governments and schocls engendes s st 4
it public opinion that makes war ey possible. Mamowriien b,
etion and pocty ority war. Love of oty b turved fopotvsason monch
SUEEES druims, g, young men cager 16 ive hes ves 10 e s
e ation. There wil coutine 1 b wa s ong s o s hoots st
deas preva,

~ Helen Keller, 1915

"Strike yginst 4l ordininces and Lws and institutions that continve the
slaugbtcr of peace and the butcheries of war. Strike against war, for withoot
J0U B0 batles can be fought. Strike against manuficturing shrapoel and gas
bombs and all other t0ols of murder. Strike against preparcdness that e
death und misery (0 millions of humuun beings. B not dumb, obedicas stases in
an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of conseruction. *

~ Helen Keller

1 st at ihe tresiment of the brave patient women... uas tillcd
with anguish when 1 think ofthe degiradation, the ensta cment aid the
dustrialtyranny which crushes millions and drags down women and helpless
chidren...”

~ Helen Keller
I didn't come to the realization that I
was an anarchist until T was around forty.
And, T read voraciously since 1 was a child
and sought to find answers. The government
holds people in a sort of life-long stupor.
They control our education and regulate our
lives and if they don't like what we're /p
doing, they will make sure you are sent to
heir prisons. 1 have a saying. “The world
gets bombs and we get bars." They claim to
be "exceptional.” Yeah, exceptionally evil!

“If a person should be guilty of the things the government is doing
all the time, you brand him a murderer, thicf, and scoundrel. But as
long as the violence committed is “latwful” you approve of it and
submit 1o it. So it's not really violence that you object to, but to
people using violence “unlawfully.”

= Alexander Berkman

“A government which has come to value its own secreta
more than it does the lives of its citizens has become a
tyranny.”

~ IL G. Wells, 1927

Violence, in itself'is an evil, it s justifiable only when it Is
necessary to defend oneself and others from violence...a slave is
always in a state of legitimate defense and consequently, his violence

against the boss, against the oppressor, is always morally
Justiffable..."

~ Errico Malatesta

“By making rebels wherever we can, by ourselves living our
belicfs...wve are revolutionaries. And we shall use Propaganda by
speech, deed and most of all, life - being what we teach..no tyrant
cver renownced his tyranny until he had to. if history ever teaches us
anything, it teaches this. Therefore my hope lies in creating rebellion

in the breast of women.

~ Tugenia C. Delamotte
Neighborhood fluaded: ragichildren try (o make their way down a
flooded sireet in the Baghdad shum of Sadr City on Wedesday

THESE CHILDREN SAW WHO KILLED THEIR
FATHERS; THEIR GRANDFATHERS; THEIR
BROTHERS; THEIR UNCLES AND THEIR
COUSINS.

THESE CHILDREN KNOW WHO DESTROYED

THEIR HOUSES; THEIR COMMUNITIES AND
THEIR HOMELAND.
AND WHEN THEY GROW UP....
THESE CHILDREN REMEMBER!

“Apology’ doesn't work

LEST WE NOT FORGET THE WAR
ON THE PEOPLE IN IRAQ.

NOTE: WHAT U. $. FASCISM DEEMS ANTI-
AMERIKANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS ONLY A

MANIFESTATION OF THE DEEP-SEATED
TRAUMATIZATION BORNE BY THE VICTIMS OF

U.$. EVIL, SINCE CHILDHOOD.
- TruE ~
L wanted to be a writer - a e
nker.” I never aspired to "be” anything.
knew 1 would have Lo procure an income
somchow, but T didn't feel compelled to 12
drink the fucking kool-aid and abandon all
hepe that I could ever find people also
looking to speak the truth. And, 1 didn't
really find them until I looked inside the
Those closest to me live in cage.
a womens' prison in Tallahassee
a converted horse stables! Mass
incarceration is modern-day slavery with a
Henaelesque clinical vengeance!

ally means liberty; it means
freedom from being forced or coerved, a chance to lead the life that
5 you beat...government i the greatest invader, more than that.
the worst criminal man has ever known of. It filla the world with
th fraud and deceit, with oppression and misersy...”
Alexander Berkman

without compulsion nats

vialence,

‘ve always hated bullies and people
uho force people to do things they don't
wanl to do. That's all government really is
coercive authority. Do what we say, give
us your money, cough up your children for
ur Haliburton wars or we will torture you
for lite! T hate criminal behavior and
ttainly don't condone whatever prisoners
bt have done to hurt themselves and
hers. But the crimes of government dwarf
the erimes of Lhose who are puni
rimes of government aren't evan considared
"o crimes. They're instead glorified!

ed. The

“Anarchist analysis therefore starts from the fact that all of our
major institutions are in the form of hierarchizs. L.e., organizations
that concentrate power at the top of a pyramidal structure, sweh 2¢
corporations, government bureaucracies, armies, political parties,
religious organizations, universities, efc...the authoritarian relations
inherent in such hierarchies negatively affect individuals, their
society and culture.”

~ lain McXay
Thos
Lhis uniquely sadistic regime are its most
repressed. They've been 50 brulally 3
treated, ther='s nothing they haven't /
already been subjected to, cxcepl aclua
wurder, which is also used constantly
ick way, it makes sense. After all, tn
school system is based on the German modc
and the best nazis were quickly hustled out
of Europe after WWIL so they could teach
their American collecagues how it's dor

with the courage to stand up

“Rulers have always taken care to control the education of the
people. They know better than anyone else that cheir power is base
almost entirely on ihe school, and they therefore insist on retu
their monopoly on it. The true function of u teacher is (0 encourage
self learning to allow each child to develop in his or her own way,
rather than force a predetermined program of study on then:

~ Francisco Fery

No barmier whalover o human progression, 1o thought, or
investigation are placed by anarchism, nothing is considered so ue
or so certain, thal fulure discoveries may not piove it fase; therelore
ithas but one infallible, unchangeable motto, Treedom.
~ Lucy Parsons

1 was Lrnstrated and atomized, like so
sthers, coming up. Every day, the
gevernment was murdering an average of 1,000
peorle a day, in Vietnam, laos and Cambodia.
Mot of my old friends are already dead -
and have been that way for decades! Many
thers are living dead. They eat, work, 14
wateh Tv, drink and sleep. This isn't qood
cnough! People need their fresdom. They
nead to discover their humanity and their
real heritage. They need to overcoms self-
Loathing and cross that fear line and become
their real selv Is it any wonder that
the freest people in this country are the
most locked down and shackled? Down is up!

“Literty
conditions of intermational solid

i all, and a watural

et for that liberty; such are the essential
it
~ Mikhail Bakunin

“An education for freedom, not for subservience. The real purpose
of education is to produce not ‘useful citizens’ but ‘free men’-
autonomous, independent & self-aufficient.”

~ Max Stirner

I want to learn and 1 wani to live -
euperience actual life. 1 want people with
pulses! These types of people are the ones
willing to die to be alive. They're the
cnes who organize and go out on hunger
strikes. They're the ones who analyze this
beast and face the gruesome consequences and
they aren't afraid of their shadow, either!

Molcolm X:

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been frying fo
organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to
wake the people up first o thelr humanlty, fo thelr own worth
ond thelr heritage, then you'll get action."
Tou look around and what dy oyoy
We have a pre
he won the nc

tdent whose cliip
Peace prj

b
nurdering people overy week, "
aferroristarive are. supphgid | st v 1S
brave people who are warning about
ovil the real Lerrorists (Lhe . it
Rig4asbY using government created’ (am th
hidden) documentationt 1yt king g
people like Chelsea Manning, e remy mme |

and Eric Snowden

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Join the Resistance

By~ Seat 2urus

@nticopyriass
“Arnchiss knows ths long perid of education s precede any greu

fundamental change inseciety, hnce hey do ot beleve i vote-bging o

political campaigns, bus rather in the development ofslf-thinking imifivs!

Lucy Parsons,

Ihese prisoner artists and writers that

s tonight have resolved to
forn this public service - educating us
§ illustraling these truths. They oft

Lrutal price for their humanitarian

the authorities find out they
| in this educational project, I
st often, beaten, gassed, tasered,
ped, sent to isolation, set up for
. nt to supermax, control
Wt prisons, have all their possessions
1

ind other forms of punishments, such
sory deprivation, loss of canteen,
ne calls, visits, you nam

it. Someti
n stop letters and zines.

Pz\pyrusMCollective

Dent Rom

They come up with all kinds of reas

why these enlightening, life-giving zines
are not allowzd. Well, think about it. )‘/
During chattel slavery, it was a crime ¢
teach a slave to read. Since slavery nev
really ended, but morphed into the prison
it's OK if they read, they just can't leacn
how to think! T got a letter From the
Missouri DOC head sensor. He said they wer:
going to deny my catalog from all the
prisons in the state. The catalog merely
lists the titles of these zincs. They are
afraid of simple titles! That's telling me
that we are onto something very important!

“There is not a country on Earth, not an epoch in history, where
any great social evil was eliminated without a bitter struggle with
the powers that be...government and cupital will fight to retain
power. They do it even today at the least menace (o their privileges.
They will fight to the death for their exister must come to
decisive struggle between the masters of 1ife and the dispossessed
classes...it will require a revolution to get rid of them.”

~ Alexander Berkman

“How did ceonomics et instituted? As a weapon of class wartire.”
Nt Cliounsky

One of the brilliant artists you see
here tonight, Todd (Myung-Rae) Tarselli,
just recently came back to gencral
population, atter years on the hideous
control unit in Waynesburg, PA. where Mumis
Abu Jamal is also encaged. lis G
They claimed he was going to us
to make a "ninja" outfit! How insane is
that? He's Korean, $o they usc this tliws
racist idiocy, concerning mere fabric -
which had already been allowed into his
possession, to clumsily conjure up
"threat! This went on for several yo .. !

t gets much worse than that! Let me
read you part of a report that Kevin
"kachid" Johnson, another brilliant artist
and thinker, recently wrote about a fellow
captive. Rashid has paid a horrific price
himrelf, being beaten and tasered, having
his hair pulled out, etc. He's the Defense
Minister for the New Afrikan Black Panther
Farty - Prison Chapter - NABPP-PC. 1Y

Asthma Prisoner Doused with Pepper Spray,

Refused Medical Care, Dies

Just Another Day in the Texas Prison Sy

Outside suppont activiss have leamed of another Texas prisoner dead. duc tn'a
combination of guard brutality mnd medical neglect.

For three consccutive nights medical aff were summoned i the cellof Chrisiopher
Woolverion,at the Clements Unitin Amarilo, becaise he way lying on the floor barely
responsive. Finally, on the aflermoon of October 22, @ urse cane in nd,secing he was

‘ot moving. summoned serpeant Andrew Gratz and Lieuenant Matthew Seymour,
informin them that Woolverion wns schcrhule 10 see 8 docter

At this point, normally, things should have impeoved for Woolverton. Afler @ criminally
Tong delay of three days. during which time he was in clear distress. he should have:
finaly received medical tiention. Mot that' not wht happened.

Aeter from Kevin “Rashid” Johmson, Minisier o Defense of the New Afikn Diack
Pardher Pary (Prisom Chapter) bein. beld a1 the Clements Urit in Amailo, lays oot the
npic sequence of events. Remember, when resding his, that Wolveton had been

umresponsive, lying on the provnd scemingly unablc to move. for days at this point
Rehid recounts hov.

17 & notoriousty abusive puand, tokd Wooolverton 1 gt up nd come 1o the door and
submit 10 handculTs or he'd he OC-passed and forcibly removed by an extraction leam o
it armorcd guards. Woolverton wis not responsive, The nurse tld him they were going.
10,228 him and to ‘remember hows they gassed you the fast time and you couldn't
reathe?” She implore hirm 10 et up i come o the don, which he filed 10 do - in
ohvious medical distress.

*Ihe e and others lft and the warlen and several evher psople insret clohes came.
in.Jowked in a1 Wonlverion,taughed and leh

“oments ter Grat. Seymour an the e retamed wth eam o iot smored
guards with gas masks and OC gas. Gratz proceeded, s the nurse watched, o spray
Wonlverion several times | Aly in the head (drenching, his face and head) with OC gar
Afersbout 10 minute the tcam mushed i o estrain him by ore, e was then bodily
Tifted andt ot on & pamey and rolled out ofthe pod.

“He s several minutes et browght back in 30 made 10 stand by Gratz and e s

(dirllyin front of my cll)with i body and egs rembling ke a newborm colt e
distnctly staied, *I can'tbreathe * They also had a cup mask (like construction workers
wear) over hisnus and mauth, 1 coudnt walk, 5 ey bouily piehed i up by skl

and arms and caricd him into a cell where they I i ying completely naked with no
Property and without s usfina s, e was ot e
transpired a around 230pe.

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e ohes abowt i 1w,

“Several guans came into e unit sl weat 1 is el and
nude on the floor. He dida't move,

‘Woulverton was le fike this, ying on the flo o 1
24 hours.In this condition, he dicd

cell wable o bncatle,

Rl At 1:30 an Octobit 23, 2015, with s Raving stll ok avcd - several e
along wih & eutenans William Willasison and others tushed iuto Woolv
find hum dead on the floor 1 the same spot. They icd CPR w o avail. AS they picked
his oy up and placed it cato a gurmey his lower extrenities claarly uppeared sull and

unbending - Aot mortis i ving apparcatly set in. He was Obviosly seversl hours dead
despite guards supposedly making routing rounds in the wit.”

bined with medical neglect, has led 10 a futal outco

Take the e of Larry Lous Cox: i 2007, Cox dicd fiom injuries sustsined a
confrontation with guasds during cell extracti elle Unit. Aldhough bis 1o
were culled behind his bace at the time, he was throw 10 e ground, bis had hiting i
metal bunk and fracturing s spine. Duc 10 the severity of ths injury he was unstlc
stand 1 his et - a3 tesul,prison medical tal reported hirm s "clusing” trcumer
On Junuary 26 - aflr lying; on the ground in agony for two days - Cox was finally
ransfered 0 an outsde huspital, where he died ten days latce. A medical exam
ind that Cox’s death con

ruume,” and yet despie recommendations o the contrary
Iispecior General, no chares were lid 1

The tspunity st which ards and medical stall were e

puarantced tha such 3 eagedy would happen again. As it now b, o Chisiopher
Woolsetor

Rashid explains tht,

“ln every priscnfprison 55 4¢tn Ive been, ther is
prvsoners with asthina un) spiratory condiions, because i is known 0 b &
Inix. Not nly did they g a known asthinatic, but they put a sk on
o ensure he breathed nothiny but the gas fumes that saturaicd s face. s head wis s0
et from gas Uhat his hai- wiss wet and plastered 0 his forchead and scalp. He was then
Tett without his asthaa puaps, nabed i bare cell n the floor where he died, witu
decontumination”

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otwitisanding, unless there s outside mubilizaion
atound thiscase, i is unbiely that anythung will be done 0 preveat foture

lag dah
he Texas Department of Caminal Justce (TDIC) is ot worricd
ugh the motions of pretending to investigalc why Woolverton
ended up dead. Rashid explains that despite the fact that many prisoners in the pod are
willing (0 estify as to what happencd, “None of us many witnesses to

e questioned or intrviewed about his blatant medical

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Clements Unit

9601 Spur 591

Amarillo, TX 79107

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1 just aid a zine wilh a quy in a Hew
York prison about PSV - Prison Sexual
Violence - i.e. RAPE! Yeah, I know Jay Len:
makes jokes wbout it and millions snicker,
but 200,000 people are raped in prison every
year and fully 50% of them are committed by
guards! Guards set up other rapes and 2|
assaults, too! That is to say, that 1 out
of 11 inmates is raped every single year!

“The government resists; it is savage in its repressions. But,
though formerly persecution killed the energy of the oppressed,
now, in periods of excitement, it produces the opposite result. It
provokes new acts of revolt, individual and collective; it drives
the rebels to heroism; and in rapid succession these acts spread,
become general, develop.”

- Peter Kropotkin

Who is the criminal, here? The
majority of prisoners are nonviolent druy
offenders. More and more, marijuana is seen
as a unique medicine that helps patients
when nothing else can. Are these pot
prisoners being let go? Hell, no! They're
afraid you won't be their little, chicken-
hearted coward, anymore, if you smoke that
shit. Die from alcohol, nicotine and your
fanny pack of pills, instead! They're
"legal!"™ Set the sheeple up for slaughter.

“The whole vaiue of education consists in respect for the
Pphysical, intellectual & moral faculties of the child.”
~ Francisco Ferrer

“By becoming Anarchists we declare war against ail this wave of deceit, cunning,
explaitation, depraving,vce - in a word, inequality - which they hve poured ito our
hearts. We declare war against thei way of actig, against therway of thirking. *

~ peter Kmpotkin
I think they blame weed for having to

slink out of Vietnam. G.1.'s weuld rather
aive each other stinger hits cf weed through
their M=16's than murder people and get shot
up, themselves. For survival, they turned
to fragaina the real enemies - their z2-
fricers! In the mid-to-late seventies,

wer half of the prisoners were Vietnam

ots. “"Welcome Home!™ Of course, the

qovernment blames those clamoring for peace
for their rough re-entry into this sick
cocicty. Mass incarceration was on the way.

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“Crime is as natural to our kind of cocreive society as cirrhosis of the
siver is to an alcoholic. Western civillzation has for thousands of years
inflicted on its children 1 morality that torments the mind with fear of
punishment, frustration. sclf-loathing. mse. Morality doesn make people
Iehave themselves it crvates the inner conflicts and repressed rags that
provoke crime. Socinlly snctioned violence provides a model and often a

intification for criminal violence.*

~ 1980 Anarchist Prison Alolition Famphiet
Notice, Lhey stopped drafting peopic
and made surc the fear and brainwash would
stick - at least while on the foreign
killing fields. Once you got home with
PTSD, suicidal nightmares and depleted
uranium poisoning, they didn't know you,
anymore. So much for "money for college!™

Ustarted my social activity with the school and teaching and ujier 10
years, 1 am more convinced that only by education, free education, can we
ever manage 10 rid ourselves of the existing horrible order of things and to
repluce it with a rational organization."” 23
~ Leo Tolsioi
“Education must e founded wholly upon the scientific development of
reasan and not upen faith - upon the development of persenal dignty
‘and independence, not upon piety and obedience: upon the cult of trurh
and justice at any cost and above all, upon respect for hunanity.
~ Mikhail Bakunin

It has absolutely nothing to do with
"justice" and everything to do wilh
guaranteed profits for a massive punishment
industry. Taxpayers, who have a sizable
chunk of their wage-slave nys extoric
by the countiss, the states and the feder.l
government, are forced to pay for the ill-
treatment that is meted out to prisoner
If you're rich you don't get messed with.
If you're poor, you're done for. For, it

a Criminal Justice System run by trained
criminals

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and symputhy and above ol decp wndersianding for the needs of the child-these wnsld
destrog the cruelund unjsst und criminal sigma impesed om the ignorant child.”

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~ Emma

fman an Francisco Ferrer
Prizon anard unions are the most
peserful unions left In the U.S. Hitler ha
the werkers in Germany on a stranglehold
leach, too! Governor Brown has been told by
the California Supreme Court to release
prisoners because the Cali prisons are so 7
avercrowded. s he doing it? Hell, no! HNe
farms them to other state prisons, which
are often privately run by corporate bottom
feeders like CCA & GEO Group. After all,
the prison quard union bankrolls his
"literal” campaigns! Moonbeam's gone
fascist! But then, haven't thay alll?

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It's even more about social control,

too! Just like these endless slaughterings
the U.S. inflicts on various countries, sucl
as Nicaragua, El Salvador, Vietnam, Chil
East Tiwor, Libya, lraq, Afghanistan - yo
could probably name damn near every countr
and many of them, multiple times. We ruir
those people and poison their countric
that others won't want to lmprove their
country, lest the U.S. destroys it z

A person i stroug ouly wheu be stands upon his ows truth, whew i
speuks wud acts from bis decpest convictions. The, whalever the
Situation he muy be ia, be wlways knows what he must say und do. He

it e cannot bring shame upon himscll or his causes...”
e g p~ Mik hail Bakunin
It's outrageous Lo know the government
has zero moral scruples. It's "worth it" to
Madelaine Albright to slowly torture and
nurder hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's
little children! Wasn't that cute, when she
made a guest appearance on Gillmore Girls?
How about Henry Kissinger's crimes? He's
right up there with Herman Goering and ;.
Lavrenti Beria! Yet, we allow the
government, by our shameful squeamishness,
to punish guys like Leonard Peltier, Russell
“Marcon” Shoatz and Marie Mason!

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“We are all egotist, we all seck out our own satisfaction. The
Awarchists greatest satisfaction is struggling for the good of all, for

the achicvement of a society in which he could be a brother among
trothers, and among healthy, intelligent, educated and happy people.
But he who is adaptable, who is satisfied to live among slaves and

drare profit from the labor of slaves, is not, and cannot be an
Amarchist...”

=~ Frrice Malatesta
Well, 1 could go on and on about tnis
most evil of authoritarian systems. 1|
consider the prisons "ground zero" in the
struggle here at home. But, those most
affected, the prisoncrs and their famili
aren't really ever given the floor.
want to turn the mike over
themselves.

So, T
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Jeremy Hammond #18729-424

Metropolitan Correctional Center
150 Park Row|

New York, NY 10007

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Lacey, WA 98509-8176

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Soledad, CA 93960-0689

Kaptan Kirk / Despondent Times
4407 San Jacinto 4104

Dallas, TX 75204
cockerillkirk@gmail.com

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But, since they can't come here, 1'11
read what they have written for you, here
tonight. And, of course, 1'm making a zine
of all this, so that prisoners and others
interested in learning about this can do so
at their own convenience in a tangible, hard
copy way. Zines are cheap, crash-proof, do
not require electricity and easy to make
pies of. They're the weapons of mass
instruction.

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“INO CREATURE IN HUMAN FORM WILL BE EXPECTED TO LEARN ANYTHING

BUT BECAUSE HE DESIRES IT AND HAS SOME CONCEPTION OF ITS UTLITY
AND VALUE "

- Rousseau

“Let it be established that there Is only one criterfon in
teaching - freedom!*

~ Leo Tolstol

“Children belong neither to their parents nor to

society. They belong to themselves and their future
Liberty.

~ Wikhail Bakunin

Tlove children above everything. I think I understand them. I'want
my contribution to the cause of iberty to be 2 young generation resdy to

ment # new ers.”
~ Francisco Ferrer

“The exsence of ll moral education i thix: inculcate children with
respect for humanity and you will make good men. *

~ Mikhait Bakunin

“The black flag in aleo heautiful. it in @ color of determination, of
oltve, of atrength, a color by which all others are clarified and
defined. Black is the mysterious surrounding of germination, of
fortility. the breeding ground of new life which aliways evolves,
renews, refreshes. and reproduces itself in darkness...”

~ Moward Bhriich

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I have currently been incarcerated nine
years, four of which have been in solitary
confinement.

| have six more years, all of which will be in
solitary confinement. 1am a political prisoner
who was taken off the general prison
population for jailhouse lawyer activity and
being labeled a prison leader who because of
political organizing and struggles in the prison
system, | was placed in the SHU.

I'm kept here not for physical acts but for
what amounts to thought crimes. | am further
dehumanized by being kept in solitary.

This treatment has led me to seek the
origin of this treatment and why the
repression. | have devoted my time to study
and my political art. Though my beliefs are
still evolving, things are much clearer to me on
the use of control units and I resist its purpose!

In solidarity!

Jose Heladio Villarreal #H84098
PB.S.P. - SHU- C112 - 106
P. 0. Box 7500

Crescent City, CA 95532
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Educate to Liberate - Prison Strike!

Of all the gross injustices plaguing the U.S. 3¢
today, the ‘War on the Poor’ (the criminalization of
poverty), and the so-called 'War on Drugs’ are surely
among the most harmful. These ‘Wars’ effect every
aspect of daily life, and have been the means by which
the U.S. elite has terrorized and corralled the
population into subservience. The agents of oppression
- the police and various related "law enforcement®
entities, now have a virtual carte blanche to attack
anyone they choose, using conspiracy laws and other
statutes validating ‘anti-drug’ and ‘anti-terrorist’
tactics to 'legally’ run amok. Mere suspicion of
criminal activity is sufficient to allow government
thugs to seize all your property and throw you into a
dungeon indefinitely - or even to kill you on sight (1f
they're pissed off enough).

Unfortunately, those opposed to this system of
government donination have few effective ways to cosbat
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 37
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 strik
Add in the enormous potential assistance that ex-
felons / ex-prisoners (now numbering in the tens of
millions in the U.S.) offer, and - should a way to
mobilize them 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
nillions of non-violent offenders (i.e. dissenters)
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 a powerful,
enotionally 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

T. Marc Hoy - Google his Wistory of Religjon
First off, Id like to say a ittle ubout Rashid. I've worked with him a
dozen years of so - ever since he was at Wallens Ridge in Virginia. We
got a remarkable amount of productive work done, before he was sent
10 Red Onion. a Virginia supermax. He's always struck me as the
modern day George Jackson. He's a biliant thinker, analyst and 55
tactician, and he's probably even more well known as the world's best
political artist. He's bewn brutally treated, constantly assaulted,
tasered, beat, had his hair pulled out, bones broken, etc. Yet, he
<ontinues to draw and report to whoever wil listen and stillfinds time
t0 write warm, comradely letters. He's a true Amerikan revolutionary.
He was sent to Oregon, and most recently, Texas. Here's what he said
upon his arrival in Texas.

evin " Rushid " Johnson-
Setf Portruit 2003
When I got to Texas they 39
Shavcd my head, cut off my
dreadlocks, despite my protests.
[ was taken to the Estelle Unit
where Major David Forrest,
James A. McKeen and Assistant
Warden James Brewer
threatened me. Forrest said
“Shut up nigger you in Texas
now”, while punching my face
and choking me. Brewer says
“we will break your ass, and we
will kill you.” After beating me
they take me to a filthy cell, and
every two hours after that | was

strip searched.”
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Capitalism + AIDS
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By, Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarcellis another brilliant artist, stuck in the PA
system, which provided the naziesque expertise that ran Abu Ghraib,
The wonderful happened. Russell Maroon Shoatz, the brilliant thinker,
+4as able to mentor him and encourage him in his artistic development
He gave Hyung-Rae some real political chops and the gruesome
conditions forced upon him provided the riveting reality that haunts
his artwork. Yet, he still maintains his humanity and delightful humor.

Hyung-Rae s a very important, revolutionary artist.
He combines terrific natural talent with stark, brutal
prisan reality to make a searing and powerful political
statement. His drawings have graced many lucky zines,
journals and prison publications. His sensitivity for the
cry of repressed humanity lingers in your heart forever!
He’s one of a courageous few with the ability and
courage to produce such explosive artwork and somehow
get them out of the gulags for comrades to spread
around the world. Like writers, poets, organizers and
jailhouse lawyers, insightful artists - especially ones with
such talent and ability to expase the system for the
hideous torture chamber that It is - are unmercifully

harassed and punished by the authorities.
Another dear Brother is Mr. Richard G. Hall, Jr. He's a Cali original
and his long running cartoon series, Vern, has graced many
publications. He's done other interesting series, as well, as i finally
getting some recognition as a powerful vaice in this movement to go
along with his beyond poignant artwork. Here's a recent letter.

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One of Richard's friends at Soledad, is also an excellent artist,
named Marcus Bedford. We did his series, titled, Calicarceration.

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My name is Marcus A. Bedford, Jr. I've been in
prison for over sixteen years and during that time I
have educated myself, become a writer and turned
my experiences In prison, into the art form of
comics. While doing time, it is easy to lose yourself
in the pools of hopelessness or you can go the other
route and re-invent yourself. The fight for freedom
is ongoing and will continue upon release. This is
the battle that I look forward to. so

Most Lifers that understand the wrongs they
have committed, do not look for sympathy, but
rather, a chance to prove that people change.

Marcus A. Bedford, Jr. K-00220
Y-Wing 204L Central Facility
P.0. Box 689

Soledad, California 93960
till another important artist s, Jose Heladio Villarreal. He ¢
documents the struggle of the Aztlan people - those native to
Southwest America, but are of Mexican heritage. Let's remember, the
Southwest was the northern half of Mexico un!
taken and made a part of the US. Jose writes
struggle, here in the U.S. and also about the hunger strike of 2012. Hi-
is an important voice and his artwork give life to his message.

Lcan'tleave out my Brother, Joey Torrey. His s an amazing story
tHe was a rising boxing star, whose Career was short-circuited by his
ctime - killing his manager - and the perfidy of the system. He saved a
ennale guard’ lie, ran a huge memorabilia charity out of his cell, got
many big time athlete's involved, even won his freedom, only to be
double-crossed by the government, forgotten by his friends and Sz
sucked back into the gulags without the where with al to buy an
torney, who could get the state of Cali to rightfully, by their own
rules, let him go. Its time people ot in his corner - and carry him out
on their shouders! Endless & purposeless incarceration is the rea/
crimet How many more lives will we let the gavernment waste?

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Michelle Alexander Writes to California Hunger Strikers

Micholl Alexander s the author of The Now Jim Crow Mass Incovcoration i the Aqe of
‘Colorbindness, an essential work exposing the whie suprcmacis cors o the hert of - 17
drug war and 2s system of mass incarceration

To he Hunger Sikers in Gaikorni's Prisons | know that soma fime has now passed s
your courageous hunger ke was ofically suspended. but | want you 1 know hat the
memory f what you isked and whal you accomplahed contiues 1 nmpire me and s
of thers in the United Sites and around the world

‘Someday major break might be possitie and somelring brave and beautul ight have
‘chance 10 burst orh. Peogle who dared 1o imagine hat all uman beings have basic danity
‘and vaiue, and ought {0 b lrested 35 such. People who were wiing o stand up and speak u!
1 ot sk o themaolves, even whan nearly everyone sise warned: be auset 3t down
Peopie who did more than tak abou freedom and juslic, but were willng (o sacrice e it
Peopie whose names never made tho news, and yelIhe whaia movement dependad on then
10 step out o danger and clear out the brush. making 3 way oul of i way. & pal others
wousd soon ravel

[ —— ss

1 don't know whether any o your names wil be recorded In history books s the eary leaders of
8 bold, coursgeous movement that ot oy ended soktary confirement 28 o forn oftorkure, bt
also ended the oo sysiom of mass Incarcerafion in this county. But | know tha the el
‘movementfor reedom and justice i the Unfied States i indebled 10 you. You have made a

‘Contibuton o Inestmable value, and you've inspied me, personaly, o be more fearess inmy
own work.

This wholo system of mass incarceraton s based on a be — the e that zome human beings
have o value, o herent worth _They can be abused or disposed ol I seems o serve he
interestsof others. This e sustained slavery. Jim Crow, and every form of oppression and
Cruehy this worid has ever k. By standing up ko tha e, and speaking 1ne nah about your
‘own dignty, value and basic huanity — by insisting on basic human rghtsfo yourse and
others — you have challenged the very foundation f hs systam. You have st o mation &
‘series of everts that, | beieve, wiltake on a e of ther own

1 know that your personal siruggte i fas from over, and thal many of you have paid a e
foryour paricipationinthe hungor siike.Please accept this nole a5 3 very smal token ofmy
profound grafuda. | Know tha | speak forthousnds of cthers whan | say sy Thark your
Toryour leadership,stengih and courage. You arm Irue heroes or o 1mes

Sincerely,
Michetle Alexander, November 15, 2013

Mutope Duguma Kijana Tashiri Askari

3/n James Crawford #D05996 s/n Marcus Harrison #H5.4077
Pelican Bay State Prison SHU - Secured Housing Unit
P. 0. Box 7500 P. 0. Box 7500

Crescent City, CA 95532-7500 Crescent City, CA 95531.7500

Two of tens of thousands of hunger strikers defying their torture in Calit
Support
Mutope’s
Right to Be
Treated as

Mutope has been held in
solitary confinement for
over 13 years !!

Lam Mutope Dugum,

A my pecson for no just
an slaves who was brought 1o the
'3 tree labor human resource (1 chatiel
d oot today,

hat has led 10 the mass is
bans Ge Black:) and d

long with the dez
who was forced 1o work their

End Torture - NOW
California Families to Abolish S

(CFASC)

olitary Confinement

1137 E. Redondo Boulevard
Inglewood, CA 90302
(714) 290-9077 or (310) 677-7445
The five core demands of the prisoncrs 57

1. Eliminate group punishments. When an individual prisoner
breaks a rule, thic prison often punishes a whole group of pri
of the same race. This policy has been applicd to keep priso
the SIIU indefinitcly and to make conditions increasingly

oner
v in

2. Abolish the debricfing policy and modify active/inactive gans
status criteria. Prisoners are accused of being participanis of prison
gangs based on flimsy/aulty/fabricated evidence then sent 1o fong
term isolation (SHU). To be removed from fhese tortuous condition
they must *debrief," thal is, provide information on gang activity
Debricfing produces false nformation (wrongly kuiding other
prisoners in SHU, in an endless cycle) and can cudlangzer the lives i
debricfing prisoners and their famifics.

3. Comply with the recommendations of the US Commission on
Safety and Abuse in Prisons (2006) regarding an end to long lerm
solitary confinement. This bipartisin commission specifically
recommended (o “make segregation a last resort” anid “cnd
conditions of isolation.* Yet Californin kept 3,259 prisoners in Si1l'=
or in Administative Scgregation. Some prisoncrs have. been kept in
solation for more tha thirty years.

4. Provide adequate food. Frisoncrs report wnsanitary con
small quantities of food that do nol conform 1o prison regulat

ons i

trikers are pressing for
ment, education, r

California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement Mission is 10 stojs
the inhumane treatment of prisoners within the California enal
System, especially those held in solitary confinement, by providin,

information to the public about the present existing conditions within
the system. This includes supporting the prisoners and their familics in
the prisoners” endeavors to obtain better treatment for themselves

Long Term Goal - End the use of Solitary Confinement,

Short term goal - The Implementation of the Five Core Deman: o
forth by Pelican Ray Hunger Strikers,
Pelican Bay Stute Prison — Secure Housing Units

In 1983 California opened Pelican Bay Stale Prison, equipped with 1,056
cells explicitly designed to keep Californis's alleged “worst of the worst®
prisoners in long.term solitury confinement, under conditions of extreme
sensory deprivation. The 8 x 10 foot cells of the Pelican Bay SHU, or
Secure Housing Unit, are made of smooth, poured concrete. They have no
windows. Instead, there are fluorescent lights. For a least 22 hours every
lay, prisoners remain in their cells, looking out through & perforated sicel
door at solid concrete wall. Food is delivered twice a day through a slot
i the cell door. <g

A guard in a central control booth controls these doors; he can press a
button and allow one prisonier at a time to 30 out to & shower, or Lo his
court-nundated five hours per week of ouldoor exercise. This exercise
akes place in i ceunent yard, ofien called a “dog run,” which extends the
length of three cells, and has a roof partally open to the sky. The guard in
the control booth is always armed; from his central vantage point in the
¢ontrol booth, he cun shoot onto any one of six pods, exch containing eight

I Adrid . Gomez, a federal court case evaluating the constitutionality of
the conditions at Pelican Bay, Judge Thelton Henderson recorded tnyrisd
staff ubuses of prisoners at the institution. The most memorable: Vaughn
Dortch, a mentally ill African-American prisoner, whom gusrds forced to
tuke a “buth” in near-boiling water. One guard sid, as he was liolding
Dertch down in the water: “Looks like we're g0ing to have a white boy
beiore this is through.” Dortch sustained third-degree burns over half of
his body; guards waited more than an hour sfier the conclusion of the bath
before Laking Dortch to a hospital for burn treatment. Judge Henderson
ordered numerous reforms to the policies and practices at the institution,
including better st training and diversion of mentall il prisoners from
e SHU. However, Judge Henderson siopped short of declaring the.
physial structure of long-term solitary Confinement unconstitutional,

Write & Call Governor Jerry Brown and
your clected officials and urge thew to
pressure the CDCR to negotiate with the
prisoners and honor their demandsl:
Governor Jerry Brown
State Caj l, Suite 1173
Sacramenio, CA 95814
Thone: (916) 4-45-2841

Solitary Confinement Should be Banned in Most

Cases, UN expert says Special Rapporteur Juan
Méndez 8 October 2011 -

A United Nations expert on torture today called on all countries to
ban the solitary confinement of prisoners except in very excep-
tional circumstances and for as short a time as possible, with an
absolute prohibition in the case of juveniles and people with
mental disabilities. 57

tion, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax,
the hole, Secure Housing Unit... whatever the name, solitary con-
finement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion
technique,” UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez. fold
the General Assembly’s third committee, which deals with social,
humanitarian and cultural affairs, saying the practice could
amount to torture.

Two oo roported | “solitary confinement is a harsh

1o have been heta ino°® | measure which is contrary to rehabil-
confinement in itation, the aim of the penitentiary
Lovisiana, US, for 40 years | system.” he stressed in presenting his
after attermpts for a judicial | first interim report on the practice,
appeal of their conditions | calling it global in nature and subject
fal owike spread abuse.

“Considering the severe mental pain ot suffering solitary confine
ment may cause, it can amount to torture or cruel, inhumane or
degrading treatment or punishment when used as a punishment,
during pre-trial detention, indefinitely or for a prolonged period.
for persons with mental disabilitis o juveniles” he warncd.
“Indefinite and prolonged solitary confinement in excess of 15
days should also be subject to an absolute prohibition,” he added,
citing scientific studies that have established that some lasting
mental damage is caused after a few days of social isolation.

In his report he noted that in the United States an estimated
20,000 to 25,000 individuals are being held in isolation, while in

Argentina a prevention of violent behavior program consists of isc-
Iation for at least nine months and, according to prison monitors. i~
frequently extended.

He warned of an increased risk of torture in these cases because of
the absence of witnesses and said some detainees have been held in
solitary confinement facilities for years, without any charge and
without trial, as well as in secrct detention centers
Prisoner Support

Senseless, sick and twisted mind games.
Unnecessary calling of names,

We're not to have a name, just a number,
Shuflling through our days in n mental shimber
Subjected to daily psychological tortures,

Real soul scorchers,

Inhumane treatments,

All done without sentiment,

Donc, just to show who's boss,

And what lines not to cross,

When you start making accusations,

Demanding justice for their inhumane actions.
‘They put you in shackles and handcuffs,

And demand they've had enough,

‘Then march with body armor & weapons six deep.
And on your back they leap,

Screaming *Stop Resiatingl”

While you're on the ground -

restrained, unconscious, bleeding and twitching,
Then throw you back in your ccll,

Brutally beaten, damaged and bloody -
Expecting you to get well
Immediate medical attention denicd,

Because your medical gricvance is not justificd.
Being diplomatic and filling grievance reports,
Resuits in retaliation via disciplinary reports,

‘Then not only will you have bruises,

cuts and possibly broken bones,

But fines imposed, loss of property and good time -
And no access to phones.

Your segregation placement prolonged indefinitely.
Exploitation, inhumanity and profiting off,
Others’ miseries, is their speciality.

This is the reality for the majority behind bars,
Hurt, abandonment, misery shame & all thos
If you're reading this and feel any compansion,
You can do something for us who suffer repercussions.
Your compassion v. hatred can make differences,

To those who now serve such long sentences.

Contrary to belief, we can change for the better,

Please reach out to those who suffer w/ a simple lotter,

I’s mever too carly to get involved in prisoner support

£l
Fhe LS. "Health Care Plan” for the People of Earth

As 1 sent my essays to people, | saw how some people would go the
next step with their writing and would run distros of their work. along
With other peoples’. Mostly, they were into punk music, but there were
afew that had more inteflectual meat to them. But, it wasn't real enuf.

So, I realized 1 would have to be 2 lot more proactive, If | was going to
find these brilliant writers to think and do with and hopefully, retain mv
own sanity. I was a big word guy. 1 didn't have a healthy appreciation
of artwork, yet. More and more, it became obvious to me that the
deepest thinkers and best writers were squirreled away in the vast
prison system. So, my distro took on a distinct focus on the prisons,
‘which continues to this day. | was mentored by a terrific anarchist
Pprisoner supporter, named Sean Lambert, out of New York state.

By this time, | had another wife for a good while, we had two
children, we both worked and I could afford to build my distro. 1 did a
ot of local grassroots organizing 0o, and stil do, like your everyday
responsible anarchist s wont to do, fike drinking when you're thirsty.

By staying real, consistent,respectful and reliable, prisoners began
totrust me and have my back. Of course, they wrote a lot of this
Incredible materta, did al the artwork and educated me thoroughly
about seemingly everything! 1 can tum a phrase here and there as well,
and | self-taught my way to be a pretty hip litle zine crafter. 1t's a blast
working with such high-octane material from those suffering the
forced enslavement by this slave system, in their clincal torture
chambers of mass warehousing of the Afrikans and other poor.

1's also a roller coaster, emotionally, as so many of them are targeted
for having courage of convictions and the willingness to put their name
on their material. For, eventually, the gulag censor trols,lieutenants,
‘guards, wardens, etc. will discover that - "Hey! This bastard has refused
toswallow the kool-aid and is giving hope, education and the thril of
knowing fearless, briliant, funny and revolutionary people do exist,
and in fact, even life In these tombs!" For, guess what, Amerika? After
youarrest, shoot, taser, beat, handcuff, incarcerate, set-up, cell extract,
fl'wmfitdhi(nld,hflmmy,birt(d, tear gas half to death, gang
beat, polson, force feed, rape, spy on, insult, force In dangerous.
situations, deny face-to-face visits, refuse them to go to thelr Mother's
funeral, murder inmates within hearing distance and laugh about it set
up rapes, force prisoners to lose their sanity and leave them in their
own feces, guess what? There's nothing left to lose or fear from YOU!
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